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Jonathan Woon, PhD
Stanford University, 2005

Assistant Professor of Political Science

E-mail: woon+@pitt.edu
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Curriculum Vitae


COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 1283 Business, Politics, and Public Policy
PS 1710 Formal Political Analysis
PS 2703 Formal Political Theory

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Formal theory, American politics, Congress, political parties, political economy, experiments, quantitative methods

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Bill Sponsorship in Congress: The Moderating Effect of Agenda Positions on Legislative Proposals," Journal of Politics 70 (2008). Forthcoming.

"Direct Democracy and the Selection of Representative Institutions: Voter Support for Apportionment Initiatives, 1924-1962," State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7:167-186 (2007).

"Testing Theories of Lawmaking," (with Keith Krehbiel and Adam Meirowitz) in David Austen-Smith and John Duggan (eds.) Social Choice and Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks (2005).



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