Core Faculty

Email: sashwort@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Ashworth uses game-theoretic models to study a variety of issues in political science, with a special emphasis on campaigns and elections. His current research uses ideas from contract theory to explore foundational and applied questions in the theory of political accountability.

Email: crberry@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Berry’s research interests include metropolitan governance, the politics of public finance, and intergovernmental fiscal relations.

Email: bdm@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Bueno de Mesquita’s research focuses on applications of game theoretic models to a variety of political phenomena, including conflict, political violence, and electoral accountability. He has also written extensively on methodological issues concerning the relationship between theory and empirics in the social sciences.

Email: tomclark@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Clark’s research focuses on the political economy of legal and judicial institutions. He studies American political institutions, the judicial system, criminal justice and policing. He also has research interests in applied formal theory and methodology.

Email: wdziuda@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Dziuda’s main interests lie in applied game theory, political economy, and the economics of information. Her current research focuses on analyzing how legislative bargaining affects the nature and the efficiency of policies. Dziuda is also interested in the strategic underpinnings of political scandals and their consequences for accountability.

Email: aeggers@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Eggers is a political scientist whose research focuses on electoral systems, corruption/accountability, the relationship between money and politics, and political development in the U.S., Britain, and France. He also has an interest in research methodology.

Email: anthony.fowler@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Fowler’s research applies econometric methods for causal inference to questions in political science, with particular emphasis on elections and political representation. Specific interests include the causes and consequences of unequal voter turnout, explanations for incumbent success, the politics of policymaking in legislatures, and the credibility of empirical research.

Email: gehlbach@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Motivated by the contemporary and historical experience of Russia and neighboring states, Professor Gehlbach has made numerous contributions to the study of autocracy, economic reform, political connections, and other important topics in political economy. 
 

Email: whowell@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Howell is currently working on research projects on separation of powers issues, the origins of political authority, and the normative foundations of executive power. He has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. 

Email: rmyerson@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Professor Myerson has made seminal contributions to the fields of economics and political science. In game theory, he introduced refinements of Nash’s equilibrium concept, and he developed techniques to characterize the effects of communication among rational agents who have different information. His analysis of incentive constraints in economic communication introduced several fundamental concepts that are now widely used in economic analysis, including the revelation principle and the revenue-equivalence theorem in auctions and bargaining.

Email: mnalepa@uchicago.edu  |  Website

With a focus on post-communist Europe, Professor Nalepa’s research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics.

Email: ksonin@uchicago.edu  |  Website 

Professor Sonin’s interests include political economics, development, and economic theory. His papers have been published in leading academic journals in economics and political science.