Kenneth Shepsle | |
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Born | September 10, 1945 |
Citizenship | United States |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Rochester University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Thesis | Essays on risky choice in electoral competition (1970) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
School or tradition | Rochester school [1] |
Institutions | Harvard University Washington University in St. Louis |
Kenneth Shepsle (born September 10,1945) is an American political scientist who is influential for rational choice scholarship. [2] He is George D. Markham professor of government at Harvard University,and a research associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science there. [3] He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. [4] [5] [2]
As an undergraduate,he majored in mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2] His doctorate is from University of Rochester. [2]
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