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Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: constitutional politics, legislative politics, political communication, electoral politics, game theory
Bio:
Calvert, a specialist in American politics and in positive political theory, joined the faculty as a professor of political science in October 1999. He also taught at WUSTL as assistant professor from 1979-1985 and as associate professor from 1985-87. In 1984-85, he was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Carnegie Mellon University, and he spent 1990-91 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Before returning to WUSTL, he was the Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, serving as department chair from 1991-96. Calvert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematical analysis in the social sciences from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and a doctorate in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He is the author of the 1986 monograph "Models of Imperfect Information in Politics." His articles on American legislative and electoral politics and on positive theory are published in a variety of leading journals, including The American Political Science Review and The American Journal of Political Science. Over the past decade, his research has concentrated on game-theoretic general models of leadership and social institutions. His current research and teaching focus is on game-theoretic models of deliberation based on the coordination of expectations; and on the politics of territorial acquisition in the United States. Calvert chaired the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Political Economy and served on the section's council from 1994-96; he now co-edits its newsletter, The Political Economist.
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Social Science at California Institute of Technology
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B.S. in Mathematical Analysis at University of Kentucky
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