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VITA

Randall L. Calvert

July 2004

Address

Department of Political Science
Campus Box 1063
Washington
University
St. Louis MO 63130
phone (314) 935-5846
fax
(314)935-5856
mailto:[email-masked]

Positions Held

Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Political Science,
1999-present:

Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political
Science, 2003-present

Professor, 1999-2003

University of Rochester, Department of Political Science, 1987-1999:

Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science, 1998-99

Professor, 1992-99; Associate Professor, 1987-92

Chairman, 1991-96

Washington University, St. Louis, 1979-1987:

Associate Professor of Political Science, 1985-87; Assistant Professor,
1979-85

Associate Professor of Political Economy (by courtesy), Graduate School of
Business, 1987

Resident Fellow, Center in Political Economy, 1983-87

Education

B.S. (Mathematical Analysis in the Social Sciences), University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky, 1975.

Ph.D. (Social Science), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
California, 1980.

Teaching and Research Interests

American politics and institutions; legislative politics.
Game theoretic
foundations of institutions and political order.
Constitutional
politics
Formal political theory, including game theory, social choice
theory, spatial models of voting.
Modern political economy, including
theories of institutions, organization and public goods.

Honors, Awards, Grants

Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy grant
($8,000) for "Conflicting Findings on Cooperation in Laboratory Experiments"
laboratory experiments and conference, July-Dec. 2002.

NSF Graduate Research Traineeship Program grant ($540,000) to Wallis
Institute of Political Economy, with Jeffrey Banks and Eric A. Hanushek. July
1993 to June 1998.

Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford CA, 1990-91.

NSF Research grant SES-8908226 ($48,922) for "Coordination Problems and the
Design of Institutions," with Jeffrey S. Banks. July 1989 to December 1991.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Political Economy, Graduate School of Industrial
Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1984-85.

NSF Local Course Improvement Grant SER 8161106 ($25,246) for "An Early
Invitation to Quantitative Methods in Political Science," with James E. Alt and
John T. Woolley. July 1981 to July 1984.

Monograph

Models of Imperfect Information in Politics. Chur, Switzerland:
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1986.

Other Publications

"Legislative Coalitions in a Bargaining Model with Externalities," with
Nathan Dietz. In David Austen-Smith and John Duggan, eds., Social Choice and
Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks, Springer,
2005.

"Rationality, Identity, and Expression." In Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner,
eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 3rd edition. W.W.
Norton and American Political Science Association, 2002.

"Interpretation and Coordination in Constitutional Politics," with James
Johnson. In Ewa Hauser and Jacek Wasilewski, eds., Lessons in
Democracy. Jagiellonian University Press and University of Rochester Press,
1999.

"Explaining Social Order: Internalization, External Enforcement, or
Equilibrium?" In Karol Soltan, Eric Uslaner, and Virginia Haufler, eds.,
Institutions and Social Order. University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Editor, with John Mueller and Rick K. Wilson, of William H. Riker, The
Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1996.

"Rational Actors, Equilibrium, and Social Institutions." In Jack Knight and
Itai Sened, Explaining Social Institutions. University of Michigan
Press, 1995.

"The Rational Choice Theory of Social Institutions: Cooperation,
Coordination, and Communication." In J. Banks and E. Hanushek, eds., Modern
Political Economy: Old Topics, New Directions. Cambridge University Press,
1995.

"The Rational Choice Theory of Institutions: Implications for Design." In
David L. Weimer, ed., Institutional Design. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1995.

"Strategy and Sophisticated Voting in the Senate," with Richard F. Fenno.
Journal of Politics 56 (1994): 349-76.

"Communication in Institutions: Efficiency in a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
with Hidden Information." In W. Barnett, M. Hinich, and N. Schofield, eds.,
Political Economy: Institutions, Information, Competition, and
Representation. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

"Lowi's Critique of Political Science: A Response." PS: Political Science
and Politics 26 (1993): 196-98.

"A Battle of the Sexes Game with Incomplete Information," with Jeffrey S.
Banks. Games and Economic Behavior 4 (1992), pp. 347-72.

"Leadership and Its Basis in Problems of Social Coordination."
International Political Science Review 13 (1992), pp. 7-24.

Review of J. Mansbridge, ed., Beyond Self-Interest. American Political
Science Review 85 (1991), pp. 272-73.

"Reciprocity among Self-Interested Actors: Uncertainty, Asymmetry, and
Distribution." In Peter C. Ordeshook, ed., Models of Strategic Choice in
Politics. University of Michigan Press, 1989.

"Political Decision Making with Costly and Imperfect Information."
Mathematical and Computer Modelling 12 (1989), pp. 497-509. Reprinted
in Paul E. Johnson, ed., Formal Theories of Politics: Mathematical Modelling
in Political Science. Pergamon Press, 1989.

"A Theory of Political Control and Agency Discretion," with Mathew D.
McCubbins and Barry R. Weingast. American Journal of Political Science
33 (1989), pp. 588-611.

"Reputation and Hegemonic Stability: A Game-Theoretic Analysis," with James
E. Alt and Brian D. Humes. American Political Science Review 82 (1988),
pp. 445-66.

"Reputation and Legislative Leadership." Public Choice 55 (1987),
pp. 81-119.

"Congressional Influence over Policymaking: The Case of the FTC," with Mark
J. Moran and Barry R. Weingast. In M. McCubbins and T. Sullivan, eds.,
Congress: Structure and Policy. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

"The Value of Biased Information: A Rational Choice Model of Political
Advice." Journal of Politics 47 (May 1985), pp. 530-555.

"Robustness of the Multidimensional Voting Model: Candidate Motivations,
Uncertainty, and Convergence." American Journal of Political Science 29
(February 1985), pp. 69-95.

"Comment " (on A. Van De Kragt, J. Orbell, and R. Dawes, "The Minimal
Contributing Set as a Solution to the Public Goods Problem "), with Rick K.
Wilson. American Political Science Review 78 (June 1984), pp.
496-7.

"Presidential Coattails in Historical Perspective," with John A. Ferejohn.
American Journal of Political Science 28 (February 1984), pp.
127-46.

"Coattail Voting in Recent Presidential Elections," with John A. Ferejohn.
American Political Science Review 77 (June 1983), pp. 407-19.

"Runaway Bureaucracy and Congressional Oversight: Why Reforms Fail," with
Barry R. Weingast. Policy Studies Review 1 (February 1982), pp.
557-64.

Review of G. Edwards, Presidential Influence in Congress, and L.
Schwab, Changing Patterns of Congressional Politics. In Journal of
Politics 43 (May 1981), pp. 578-80.

"The Inherent Disadvantage of the Presidential Party in Midterm Congressional
Elections," with R. Mark Isaac. Public Choice 36 (1981), pp.
141-46.

Working Papers

"Coordination and Constitutional Change." Presented at Midwest Political
Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, April 15-17, 2004.

"Cooperation and Cooperation Failure." Presented at Interdisciplinary
Conference on Trust and Reciprocity in Experimental Economics, Washington
University in St. Louis, October 11-12, 2002.

"Effective Parties in a Model of Repeated Legislative Bargaining," with
Justin Fox. Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meetings,
Washington DC, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2000.

"Congressional Debate as Political Argument: What, If Anything, Does it
Do?" Ford Lecture, Department of Government, Harvard University, October,
1998.

"Rational Actors, Political Argument, and Democratic Deliberation," with
James Johnson. Presented at the American Political Science Association annual
meetings, Boston, September, 1998.

"Establishing Cooperation without Pre-Play Communication." Presented at the
Public Choice Society annual meetings, New Orleans, March 13-15, 1998.

"Party Coherence and Cooperation in a Legislature," with Barry R. Weingast.
Presented at American Political Science Association annual meeting, September
1993.

Professional Service

Editor (with Thráinn Eggertsson), Cambridge University Press series in "The
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions," 1998-present; Editorial Board,
1985-98.

Co-editor, Economics & Politics, 1997-present.

Current Editorial Board memberships: British Journal of Political
Science (2000-present), Journal of Theoretical Politics
(2002-2004).

Annual meeting program committee: American Political Science Association,
2000-2001, 1987-88; Midwest Political Science Association, 1990-91.

Council Member, American Political Science Association, 1999-2001 term.

Chair, Organized Section on Political Economy, American Political Science
Association, 1998-2000; Executive Committee, 1994-96.

Past Editorial Board memberships: Legislative Studies Quarterly
(2001-2003), Journal of Politics (1997-2001); American Journal of
Political Science, 1980-82, 1988-90; Political Analysis,
1988-89.

Nominating Committee, Midwest Political Science Association, 2000.

Member, Committee on Organized Sections, American Political Science
Association 1999-2000.

National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Political Science,
1998-1999.

Chairman, Dissertation Award Committee, Section on Political Economy,
American Political Science Association, 1993.

Member, Heinz Eulau Award (for best paper published in the Review) Committee,
American Political Science Association, 1993.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program evaluation panel,
1992-93.