Robert Hinrichs Bates is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government in the Departments of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. From 2000–2012,he served as Professeur associé,School of Economics,University of Toulouse.
Adam Przeworski is a Polish-American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics. He is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. He is a scholar of democratic societies,theory of democracy,social democracy and political economy,as well as an early proponent of rational choice theory in political science.
James Raymond Vreeland is Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He conducts research in the field of international political economy,specializing in international institutions.
Jan Švejnar is a United States-based,Czech-born economist. He was a candidate for the 2008 election of the President of the Czech Republic.
The Journal of Public Economic Theory is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal of public economic theory published by Wiley-Blackwell. It covers public economic theory and general economics,including public goods,local public goods,club economies,externalities,taxation,growth,public choice,social and public decision making,voting,market failure,regulation,project evaluation,equity,and political systems. The editors are Rabah Amir,Helmuth Cremer,and Myrna Holtz Wooders.
Melvin Jay "Mel" Hinich was a professor of government and economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Hinich was also a research professor at UT's Applied Research Laboratories. Known as an expert in political science with a long record of distinction in a number of fields,he wrote seven books and published more than 200 papers in statistics/statistical theory,signal processing,economics,political science,biomedical engineering,pharmacy,and library science.
Robert M. Stein is an American political scientist and Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of political science at Rice University. He is an expert in urban politics and public policy.
The Bush School of Government and Public Service is an undergraduate and graduate college of Texas A&M University founded in 1997 under former US President George H. W. Bush's philosophy that "public service is a noble calling." Since then,the Bush School has continued to reflect that notion in curriculum,research,and student experience and has become a leading international affairs,political science,and public affairs institution.
William A. Darity Jr. is an American economist and social sciences researcher. Darity's research spans economic history,development economics,economic psychology,and the history of economic thought,but most of his research is devoted to group-based inequality,especially with respect to race and ethnicity. His 2005 paper in the Journal of Economics and Finance established Darity as the 'founder of stratification economics.' His varied research interests have also included the trans-Atlantic slave trade,African American reparations and the economics of black reparations,and social and economic policies that affect inequities by race and ethnicity. For the latter,he has been described as "perhaps the country’s leading scholar on the economics of racial inequality."
Masahiko Aoki was a Japanese economist,Tomoye and Henri Takahashi Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies in the Economics Department,and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Aoki was known for his work in comparative institutional analysis,corporate governance,the theory of the firm,and comparative East Asian development.
Nolan Matthew McCarty is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. politics,democratic political institutions,and political methodology. He has made notable contributions to the study of partisan polarization,the politics of economic inequality,theories of policy-making,and the statistical analysis of legislative voting.
The Mannheim School of Social Sciences (MSSS) is the among the oldest of the five schools comprising the University of Mannheim,located in Mannheim,Baden-Württemberg,Germany. The School of Social Sciences,established in 1963,comprises the fields of political science,sociology and psychology with an academic staff of 36 professors and 150 additional scientists. The social sciences at the University of Mannheim have an excellent international reputation,reflected by rankings,awards and third-party funds.
Raymond M. Duch is an Official Fellow at Nuffield College,University of Oxford,and Director of the Nuffield Centre of Experimental Social Sciences (CESS),which has centres in Oxford,Santiago (Chile) and Pune (India). He is also currently the Long Term Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Toulouse School of Economics. Duch has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Experimental Political Science. In 2015,Duch was selected as a member of the UK Cabinet Office Cross-Whitehall Trial Advice Panel to offer Whitehall departments technical support in designing and implementing controlled experiments to assess policy effectiveness.
Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Boone is a specialist in property rights,political economy,and territorial politics in Africa.
Kathleen Thelen is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG),and a faculty associate at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University.
Alexander M. Hicks is a sociologist who principally studies the causes and consequences of social democracy,corporatism,the welfare state and the sociology of culture,literature and film. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Emory University,where he has been since 1986 following an instructorship and assistant professorship at Northwestern University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the NORC,University of Chicago.[1] Graduate students have included Kali-Ahset Amen,Desmond King,Joya Misra,2022-2023 President Elect of the American Sociological Association,Dan Slater and Duane Swank. He has delivered invited talks at the Juan Bosch Institute in Madrid,the Max Planck Institute in Cologne,and at universities including the University of Chicago,Columbia,Indiana University,Taiwan's National Chung Chung University,New York University,Stanford and Yale. He has been married to Nancy Ellen Traynor Hicks since 1970;they have a son,Ryan,working in New York City in the nonprofit promotion of affordable housing.
Antonio Merlo is an Italian-born American economist and academic. He currently serves as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University.
Pamela Johnston Conover is an American political scientist. In 2007 she was named the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill. She studies political behavior and political psychology,with particular focuses on women and politics as well as political media studies.
Franklin Chandler Davidson was a professor of public policy and expert on voting rights at Rice University.
