Professor Bernard Grofman will lecture on the subject of "Electoral Systems and the Promotion of Effective Power-Sharing."

His lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at 12:00PM in PPEC Conference Room, Suite 305 St. Leonard's Court, 3rd Floor (map - 3819-31 Chestnut Street).

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Selected Publications

"A neo-Downsian model of the alternative vote as a mechanism for mitigating ethnic conflict in plural societies" Public Choice 121: 487–506, 2004

"Does the Alternative Vote Foster Moderation in Ethnically Divided Societies? The Case of Fiji" Comparative Political Studies 39(5) June 2006: 623-651

"If you like the alternative vote (a.k.a. the instant runoff), then you ought to know about the Coombs rule" Electoral Studies 23 (2004) 641–659

Professor Grofman  received his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has been teaching at the University of California, Irvine since 1976 and a Full Professor since 1980.  He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, visiting professor at the University of Michigan and at the University of Washington, and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Mannheim (Germany) at Kansai University, Osaka (Japan), at the University of Bologna (Italy), at the Berlin Science Center (Germany), at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), and a short term scholar-in-residence at the University of Tilburg (Netherlands) and at the University of Victoria (Canada).   His past research has dealt with mathematical models of group decision making, legislative representation, electoral rules, and redistricting. He has also been involved in modeling individual and group information processing and decision heuristics, and he has written on the intersection of law and social science, especially the role of expert witness testimony and the uses of statistical evidence. Currently he is working on comparative politics and political economy, with an emphasis on viewing the United States in comparative perspective. He is co-author of 4 books, published or soon to be published  by Cambridge University Press, and co-editor of 15 other books; he has published over 200 research articles and book chapters, including work in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Social Choice and Welfare, and Public Choice.  He was the 2001-2002 president of the Public Choice Society and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001.