George W. Downs

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With George W. Downs

George W. Downs is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Shimer Great Books School, University of Michigan, University of California, San Diego, Princeton University, University of California, Davis, New York University

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George W. Downs

Political Science

#2612

World Rank

#3072

Historical Rank

#1139

USA Rank

Public Policy

#426

World Rank

#446

Historical Rank

#212

USA Rank

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Political Science

George W. Downs 's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

Why Is George W. Downs Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, George Woodrow Downs, Jr. was an American political scientist and pioneer of the application of noncooperative game theory to international politics. He was a professor of politics at New York University, where he served as chair of the political science department , Dean of Social Science , and later as the Bernhardt Denmark Professor of International Affairs. Before that, he had served as Boswell Professor of Peace and War at Princeton University from 1987 to 1998. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. His books included The Search for Government Efficiency and Optimal Imperfection.

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George W. Downs 's Published Works

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Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation? (1996) (1280)
Conceptual issues in the study of innovation (1976) (1036)
Conflict, Agency, and Gambling for Resurrection: The Principal-Agent Problem Goes to War (1994) (400)
Thinking Inside the Box: A Closer Look at Democracy and Human Rights (2005) (357)
Development and democracy (2005) (276)
The Empire's New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law (2007) (268)
Reputation, Compliance, and International Law (2002) (244)
Optimal Imperfection? Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in International Relations (1995) (231)
Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism (1998) (187)
Intervention and Democracy (2006) (187)
Toward a Theory of Innovation (1979) (113)
Tacit bargaining, arms races, and arms control (1990) (93)
Bureaucracy, innovation, and public policy (1976) (83)
Arms Races and Cooperation (1985) (74)
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law (2009) (73)
The Rational Deterrence Debate (1989) (72)
Enforcement and the Evolution of Cooperation (1998) (62)
ARE ROBUST ESTIMATORS REALLY NECESSARY (1982) (56)
Collective security beyond the Cold War (1995) (47)
Theories of budgetary decisionmaking and revenue decline (1984) (46)
Constructing Effective Environmental Regimes (2000) (41)
Tacit Bargaining and Arms Control (1987) (34)
Estimating the variances of robust estimators of location: influence curve, jackknife and bootstrap (1981) (24)
Municipal budget forecasting with multivariate ARMA models (1983) (18)
The premises, assumptions, and implications of Van Gend en Loos: viewed from the perspectives of democracy and legitimacy of international institutions (2014) (16)
A Political Economy of Income Tax Policies* (2015) (13)
Theorizing about public expenditure decision-making: (as) if wishes were horses ... (1979) (12)
Prospects for the Increased Independence of International Tribunals (2011) (11)
Self-avoiding random walks : Some exactly soluble cases (2002) (10)
Toward global checks and balances (2009) (10)
Distributive Politics and International Institutions: The Case of Drugs (2005) (10)
Court Cooperation, Executive Accountability and Global Governance (2009) (9)
Between Fragmentation and Democracy: The Role of National and International Courts (2017) (8)
Complexity, interaction, and policy research (1981) (8)
Fiscal reform and governmental efficiency: Hanging tough (1981) (7)
The Democratizing Effects of Transjudicial Coordination (2012) (7)
National Courts Review of Transnational Private Regulation (2011) (5)
Bureaucracy and Juvenile Corrections in the States (1979) (5)
Reputation, compliance and development (2004) (5)
Evaluating the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act: learning from experience? (1982) (4)
International Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law (2017) (4)
Gun-Barrel Democracy Has Failed Time and Again (2004) (4)
Going Global to Preserve Domestic Accountability: The New Role of National Courts (2010) (4)
Budgetary research in transition (1984) (3)
National Courts and Transnational Private Regulation (2012) (3)
Organized Social Complexity: Challenge to Politics and Policy . Edited by Todd R. La Porte. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. ix + 356. $16.50.) (1977) (2)
Designed Experiments for Classification Problems (1983) (2)
Private Service Lateral Rehabilitation Design Challenges: Johnson County Wastewater Nelson Pilot I/I Project (2014) (1)
Democratizing Courts: How National and International Courts are Promoting Democracy in an Era of Global Governance (2013) (1)
The adventures of Chunky (1958) (0)
The Emergence of Interjudicial Cooperation among National Courts (2017) (0)
INO volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
Optimal Imperfection? (2021) (0)
Interjudicial Cooperation and the Potential for Democratization of the Global Regulatory Sphere (2017) (0)
Remarks by George Downs: Compliance and Enforcement in Regime Management (1997) (0)
An Open Economy, a Closed Society (2005) (0)
Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution.Kenneth E. Boulding (1980) (0)
Comment on Nico Krisch, “The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods” (2014) (0)
A Recording Quartz Spectrophotometer (1948) (0)
The Impact of Domestic Politics on Global Fragmentation (2017) (0)
The future of international intellectual property : international relations in information products (tape 1 of 3) (2004) (0)
How Global Judicial “Countermajoritarianism” Can Enhance Democracy and Inclusion (2017) (0)
The Brittle Independence of International Tribunals and Its Effects on Fragmentation (2017) (0)
Preventing Future Enrons (2002) (0)
The premises, assumptions, and implications of Van Gend en Loos: Viewed from the perspectives of democracy and legitimacy of international institutions (Abstract only) (2014) (0)

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