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二零零五至零六年度聯合書院「到訪傑出學人」歐德修教授
香港中文大學聯合書院二零零五至二零零六年第二位「到訪傑出學人」為美國加州理工大學政治學講座教授歐德修(Peter C Ordeshook)，他將於三月十九日至卅一日到訪香港。
歐德修教授先後於麻省理工學院(Massachusetts Institute
of Technology)及羅徹斯特大學(University
of Rochester)取得工程學學士及政治學博士學位。一九六八年，他在卡內基美隆大學(Carnegie Mellon
University)開展事業，研究在選舉機構、法案決策及談判分析中應用「博弈理論」(Game
Theory)的不同方法。其後，歐德修教授於一九八三年及一九八七年分別轉到德州大學及加州理工大學，從事國際政治理論分析及新興民主國家憲制設計原則的研究工作。
歐德修教授為美國國家科學院(American
Academy of Sciences)成員及公共選擇學會(Public
Choice
Society)前任主席。他的著作甚豐，計有八本書及過百篇學術文章，其中包括《博奕理論與政治理論》、《新民主政體公民必讀課》、《投票、選舉和政黨》、《社會網絡蘊含的時間參數》、《設計聯邦主義》、《國際體系的權力平衡》及《啟蒙政治理論》。其他著作涉獵的範疇包括如何應用政治分析的實驗方法、法案投票的交易、替補選舉法律的影響、國際體系穩定與動盪的原由、民主進程中資訊的角色及理性期望的含義、孫子兵法的博奕理論支架、合作性博奕理論及政黨與投票的空間分析等。
歐德修教授近期專注在個別時間參數中，研究建立革命性的博奕理論模型，這個模型在個人選擇中至為重要，有助理解社會合作的可能性及合約的持久性。除此之外，歐德修教授亦致力進行一項以計量經濟學方法測試及量度選舉舞弊程度的延續性研究。
歐德修教授是次訪問期間將主持兩次公開講座，講題及詳情如下：
第一講：新興民主國家憲制設計的理論基(Theoretical
Underpinnings of Constitutiona Design for New Democracies)三月廿三日(星期四)下午四時卅分
第二講：博奕理論在政治學上的應用及誤用(The
Uses and Misuses of Game Theory in Political Science)
三月廿八日(星期二)下午四時卅分
以上講座均以英文主講，地點為香港中文大學聯合書院鄭棟材樓地下C1講室。歡迎各界人士踴躍出席。查詢請電香港中文大學聯合書院林偉源先生2609
7598。
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2005-06 United
College Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Professor Peter C Ordeshook
Professor Peter C
Ordeshook, Professor of Political Science, California Institute of
Technology (CalTech), will visit United College, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, between 19 to 31 March 2006 as the College’s second
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2005-2006.
Professor Ordeshook received his BS in
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and PhD in
Political Science from the University of Rochester. He began his career
in 1968 at Carnegie Mellon University studying the different ways in
which formal analysis – most notably, game theory – could be applied to
such issues as the analysis of electoral institutions, legislative
decision making, and bargaining. Upon moving to the University of Texas
in 1983 and CalTech in 1987, his attention shifted somewhat to modeling
the dynamics of international processes and to attempting to discover
whether one can set forth any basic principles of constitutional design
for new democracies.
As a member of the American Academy of
Sciences and past president of the Public Choice Society, Professor
Ordeshook is the author of eight books and over a hundred scholarly
papers, including “Game
Theory and Political Theory”, “Lessons
for Citizens of a New Democracy”,
“Voting,
Elections and Parties”, “Endogenous
Time Preferences in Social Networks”,
“Designing
Federalism”, “The
Balance of Power in International Systems”,
and “A
Political Theory Primer”. His
published essays cover such subjects as the application of experimental
methods to political analysis, legislative vote trading, the impact of
alternative election laws, the sources of stability and instability in
international systems, the role of information and the implication of
rational expectations in democratic processes, the game-theoretic
underpinnings of Sun Tzu’s
Art of War,
cooperative game theory, and the
spatial analysis of parties and voting.
Professor Ordeshook’s recent research
includes developing an evolutionary game theoretic model of individual
time preferences, which is a critical parameter of individual choice in
understanding the likelihood of social cooperation and the durability of
contracts, as well as an ongoing study of econometric methods for
detecting and measuring the extent of electoral fraud.
During his visit to United College,
Professor Ordeshook will deliver two public lectures. The details are
as follows:
Lecture One:
Theoretical
Underpinnings of Constitutional Design for New Democracies
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 4:30pm
Lecture Two:
The Uses and
Misuses of Game Theory in Political Science
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 4:30pm
The lectures will be in English and
held at Lecture Theatre C1, T C Cheng Building, United College, CUHK.
For further information, please contact Mr George Lam of United College
on 2609 7598.
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