Research

social-choice-coverBan the Box? Information, Incentives, and Statistical Discrimination, with John Patty (2022)

Stealing an Election: Violence or Fraud?, with Dawn Brancati (2022) (online appendix)

Algorithmic Fairness and Statistical Discrimination, with John Patty (2022)

Identity and Information in Organizations, with John Patty (2020)

Are Moderates Better Representatives than Extremists? A Theory of Indirect Representation, with John Patty (2019)

A Defense of Arrow’s Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, with John Patty (2018)

Valence, Elections, & Legislative Institutions, with Connie Schibber, John Patty, and Brian Crisp (2018)

Inequality, Social Context, and Value Divergence (2017)

Uncertainty, Polarization, and Proposal Incentives under Quadratic Voting, with John Patty (2017)

Engagement, Disengagement, or Exit: A Theory of Intergroup Communication and Association (2016)

Aggregation, Evaluation, and Social Choice Theory, with John Patty (2015)

Analyzing Big Data: Social Choice and Measurement, with John Patty (2014)

Sequential Decision-Making and Information Aggregation in Small Networks, with John Patty (2014)

Scoring from Contests, with Keith Schnakenberg (2014)

Arrow’s Theorem and its Descendants (2014)

Measuring the Latent Quality of Precedent: Scoring Vertices in a Network, with John Patty and Keith Schnakenberg (2013)

Impossibility Theorems and Paradoxes in Collective Choice Theory (2011)

Manipulation and Single-Peakedness: A General Result, with Sean Gailmard & John Patty (2011)

A Social Choice Theory of Legitimacy, with John Patty (2011)

From Many, One: State Representation and the Construction of an American Identity (2009)

The Structure of Heresthetical Power, with Scott Moser & John Patty (2009)

A Model of Farsighted Voting (2009)

Arrow’s Theorem on Single-Peaked Domains, with Sean Gailmard and John Patty (2009)

Citizenship versus Ethnicity: The Role of Institutions in Shaping Identity Choice (2008)

The Legislative Calendar, with John Patty (2008)

A Distributive N-Amendment Game with Endogenous Agenda Formation (2008)

What McKelvey Taught Us, with John Patty (2007)

The Banks Set in Infinite Spaces (2006)

Alternate Definitions of the Uncovered Set, and Their Implications (2006)

Institutions and Sorting in a Model of Metropolitan Fragmentation (2004)

Amendments, Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules, with John Patty (in progress)


Obituary for Norman Schofield, with Donald Saari (2020)