I engage in comparative political science and economic research. In general, my research approaches the question of how things work - or don't work - and why. Along those lines, my research takes three main themes: I explore how we make decisions - using tools from social choice theory and game theory. I engage in policy analysis, with a focus on issues such as criminal policy and health care. I also use experimental methods to explore how well our theories work.

Decision Making:

Social Choice:

"Probability and Plausibility of Cycles in Three-party Systems: A Mathematical Formulation and Application," With Michael D. McDonald, British Journal of Political Science, 41 (03): 681-692

Linkki:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8286038 

Game Theory:

William Heller and I have a series of papers that using evolutionary game theory to understand the evolution of norms.

"Functional Unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment," Public Choice, 135: 399-413. 2008.

Linkki FU Factor1 

Honor among thieves: Cooperation as a strategic response to functional unpleasantness," European Journal of Political Economy, 2009.

Linkki FU Factor 2

Policy Analysis:

Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime, 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag, 1995.

Health Care Policy

"Kustannustehokuuden ja kattavuuden ongelmat Yhdysvaltain terveydenhuolossa," with Olga Shvestosva, Binghamton University

Linkki PDF:ään

The same paper in English

"Cost efficiency and coverage problems in US healthcare," with Olga Shvetsova

Linkki Cost efficiency paper

Paper

"Deciding How to Choose the US Healthcare System," in Norman Schofield, Gonzalo Caballero and Daniel Kselman eds. Advances in Political Economy: Institutions, Modelling and Empirical Analysis, Springer Verlag, 2013.

http://polisci.wustl.edu/files/polisci/0...BOOK12julyspringer.intro_.pdf