Distinguished Scholar of Political Science Visits United College

Prof. Peter C. Ordeshook, Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology, visited United College, from 20th to 31st March 2006 as the college's second Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2005-06.

During his visit, Prof. Ordeshook delivered two public lectures entitled 'Theoretical Underpinnings of Constitutional Design for New Democracies' and 'The Uses and Misuses of Game Theory in Political Science'.

As a member of the American Academy of Sciences and past president of the Public Choice Society, Prof. Ordeshook is the author of eight books and over a hundred scholarly papers. His published essays cover such subjects as the application of experimental methods to political analysis, legislative vote trading, the game-theoretic underpinnings of Sun Tzu's Art of War, cooperative game theory, and the spatial analysis of parties and voting. His recent research includes developing an evolutionary game theoretic model of individual time preferences, and an ongoing study of econometric methods for detecting and measuring the extent of electoral fraud.