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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 1
PS 2704 Formal Political Theory 2

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 70:1 (2008).

"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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