Peter Ordeshook

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Peter Ordeshook is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Rochester

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Carl Ordeshook is an American political scientist. He is the Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Texas at Austin , where he served as the Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Chair in Government. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1975 to 1976, and he was the president of the Public Choice Society from 1986 to 1988. He has been a professor at Caltech since 1987. He has authored influential papers and books, such as "A Theory of the Calculus of Voting" and "Game Theory and Political Theory". He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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A Theory of the Calculus of Voting (1968) (2411)
An Introduction To Positive Political Theory (1973) (810)
An Expository Development of a Mathematical Model of the Electoral Process (1970) (645)
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties (1994) (633)
Game Theory And Political Theory (1987) (412)
Elections with limited information: A fulfilled expectations model using contemporaneous poll and endorsement data as information sources (1985) (256)
Models of strategic choice in politics (1989) (246)
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions (2004) (196)
Game theory and political theory: Contents (1986) (185)
Nonvoting and the existence of equilibrium under majority rule (1972) (170)
The Competitive Solution for N-Person Games Without Transferable Utility, With an Application to Committee Games (1978) (147)
Information, Electoral Equilibria, and the Democratic Ideal (1986) (147)
Plurality Maximization vs Vote Maximization: A Spatial Analysis with Variable Participation (1970) (144)
Universalism in Congress (1985) (143)
Benford's Law and the Detection of Election Fraud (2011) (137)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia and Ukraine (2009) (135)
Campaign Resource Allocations Under the Electoral College (1975) (121)
Agendas and the Control of Political Outcomes (1987) (117)
A Decade of Experimental Research on Spatial Models of Elections and Committees (1990) (115)
Federalism and Constitutional Design (1997) (110)
Constitutional stability (1992) (109)
Sequential elections with limited information (1985) (101)
A Theory of Electoral Equilibrium: A Spatial Analysis Based on the Theory of Games (1973) (99)
Abstentions and equilibrium in the electoral process (1969) (98)
Russia's Party System: Is Russian Federalism Viable? (1996) (93)
Election Goals and Strategies: Equivalent and Nonequivalent Candidate Objectives (1974) (93)
Game theory and political science (1978) (92)
Agendas, Strategic Voting, and Signaling with Incomplete Information (1988) (92)
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Procedural Rules on Committee Behavior (1984) (69)
Party Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies (1999) (65)
A Political Theory Primer (1992) (64)
Stability in Anarchic International Systems (1990) (63)
Symmetric Spatial Games Without Majority Rule Equilibria (1976) (59)
Perspectives on Positive Political Economy: The emerging discipline of political economy (1990) (58)
Rational expectations in elections: some experimental results based on a multidimensional model (1984) (58)
Fraud or Fairytales: Russia and Ukraine's Electoral Experience (2005) (57)
The Spatial Analysis of Elections and Committees: Four Decades of Research (1993) (55)
A STATISTICAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING METHOD BASED ON THE SPATIAL THEORY OF VOTING (1978) (55)
An Experimental Test of the Core in a Simple N-Person Cooperative Nonsidepayment Game (1976) (55)
Crime and Punishment: Are One-Shot, Two-Person Games Enough? (1990) (53)
A Theory of the Balance of Power in International Systems (1986) (52)
The Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems (2007) (51)
Vote trading: An experimental study (1980) (49)
Regulation, redistribution, and public choice (1981) (44)
Rational Voters and Strategic Voting (1997) (44)
Constitutional secession clauses (1994) (43)
Retrospective voting: An experimental study (1987) (41)
“Less Filling, Tastes Great”: The Realist-Neoliberal Debate (1994) (40)
Ukraine's 1998 Parliamentary Elections: A Spatial Analysis (1999) (40)
II. Institutions and Incentives (1995) (40)
Designing Federalism: Subject Index (2004) (37)
Elections with limited information: A multidimensional model (1987) (35)
Return of the Luddites (2011) (34)
Conditions for Voting Equilibria in Continuous Voter Distributions (1980) (33)
Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context: An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela (2009) (33)
Russian Elections: An Oxymoron of Democracy (2008) (33)
Realism Versus Neoliberalism: A Formulation (1989) (31)
Does Federalism Really Matter (2006) (30)
The Russian Electorate, 1991-1996 (1997) (29)
The trail of votes in Russia's 1999 Duma and 2000 presidential elections (2001) (29)
Alliances in Anarchic International Systems (1994) (28)
Some Rules of Constitutional Design (1993) (26)
Political Disequilibrium and Scientific Inquiry: A Comment on William Riker's “Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions” (1980) (26)
The Urban-Rural Divide in the Russian Electorate and the Effect of Distance from Urban Centers (1999) (25)
Extensions to a Model of the Electoral Process and Implications for the Theory of Responsible Parties (1970) (24)
Preventive War and the Balance of Power (1987) (24)
A Game-Theoretic Interpretation of Sun Tzu's (1994) (24)
Pareto Optimality in Electoral Competition (1971) (23)
Metastasised Fraud in Russia's 2008 Presidential Election (2011) (23)
Social welfare and electoral competition in democratic societies (1971) (22)
The electoral college vs. a direct vote: Policy bias, reversals, and indeterminate outcomes† (1975) (20)
Are ‘Western’ Constitutions Relevant to Anything Other than the Countries they Serve? (2002) (20)
If Hamilton and Madison were merely lucky, what hope is there for Russian federalism? (1995) (20)
The rationally uninformed electorate: Some experimental evidence (1989) (20)
Rational choice, light guessing and the gambler's fallacy (1975) (18)
Coalitions and Spatial Policy Outcomes in Parliamentary Systems: Some Experimental Results (1980) (18)
A Theory of the Calculus of Voting (1968) (18)
The Development of Contemporary Political Theory (1991) (18)
Two-Candidate Elections without Majority Rule Equilibria (1982) (17)
The spatial character of Russia's new democracy (1998) (16)
Some experimental results that fail to support the competitive solution (1983) (16)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: Index (2009) (16)
The Disappearance of Fraud: The Forensics of Ukraine's 2006 Parliamentary Elections (2007) (16)
The Trail of Votes in Ukraine's 1998, 1999, and 2002 Elections (2005) (15)
Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks (2005) (14)
Corruption, Cooperation and Endogenous Time Discount Rates (2003) (14)
Engineering or Science: What Is the Study of Politics? (2017) (14)
An Experimental Test of Several Theories of Committee Decision Making Under Majority Rule (1979) (13)
Some properties of Hare voting with strategic voters (1994) (13)
Location and Political Influence: A Further Elaboration of Their Effects on Voting in Recent Russian Elections (2003) (13)
Rational Voters and Strategic Voting: Evidence from the 1968, 1980, and 1992 Elections (2010) (13)
Experiments on the Core: Some Disconcerting Results for Majority Rule Voting Games (1979) (12)
Ukraine 2010: Were Tymoshenko's Cries of Fraud Anything More Than Smoke? (2011) (12)
Fraud or Fiction: Who Stole What in Russia's December 1993 Elections (1996) (11)
Property tax consciousness (1979) (10)
Veto games: Spatial committees under unanimity rule (1998) (10)
Constitutions for new democracies: Reflections of turmoil or agents of stability? (1997) (9)
Ukraine's 2007 Parliamentary Elections: Free and Fair, or Fraud Once Again? (2008) (9)
Reexamining Russia: Institutions and Incentives (1995) (9)
A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Republic of China's Emerging Electoral System (1992) (9)
Alliances versus Federations: An Extension of Riker's Analysis of Federal Formation (1998) (9)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia (2009) (9)
Rejoinder to “Comment” by S. J. Brams and M. D. Davis (1975) (8)
Political Disequilibrium and Scientific Inquiry (1982) (8)
Ensuring a Stable Federal State: Economics or Political Institutional Design (2001) (8)
11. William H. Riker and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1968. American Political Science Review 62 (March): 25 42 Cited 377 times. (2006) (8)
11. William H. Riker and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1968. “A Theory of the Calculus of Voting.” American Political Science Review 62 (March): 25–42 Cited 377 times. (2006) (6)
Ukraine's 1999 Presidential Election: A Spatial Analysis (2002) (6)
Alliances Versus Federations: An Analysis with Military and Economic Capabilities Distinguished (1994) (6)
Game theory and political theory: The core (1986) (5)
An Experimental Test of Solution Theories for Cooperative Games in Normal Form (1982) (5)
Designing Federalism: Federations and the Theoretical Problem (2004) (5)
A Coalition Lost, Then Found: A Spatial Analysis of Ukraine's 2006 and 2007 Parliamentary Elections (2008) (5)
Designing Federalism: Designing Federalism (2004) (5)
The Reintegration of Political Science and Economics and the Presumed Imperialism of Economic Theory (1987) (5)
Institutions and Incentives: The Prospects for Russian Democracy (1994) (5)
Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory (2015) (4)
A Theory of the Balance of Power (1988) (4)
Lessons for citizens of a new democracy (1997) (3)
The geographical imperatives of the balance of power in 3-country systems (1989) (3)
Designing Federalism: List of Figures (2004) (3)
Changing Russia's Electoral System: Assessing Alternative Forms of Representation and Elections (1999) (2)
An undiscovered von Neumann-Morgenstern solution for the (5, 3) majority rule game (1977) (2)
Notes on Constitutional Change in the ROC: Presidential versus Parliamentary Government (1993) (2)
In memoriam: Melvin J. Hinich, 1939–2010 (2011) (2)
A note on Murningham's coalition experiments and the competitive solution† (1980) (2)
Repeated Sampling in the Presence of Publication Effects: Comment: Public Opinion Polls and Democratic Processes (1987) (1)
The Calculus of Consent: reforming political science (2012) (1)
Game theory and political theory: Preface (1986) (1)
Constitutions, Elections, and Election Law (2009) (1)
EXDET III : a student-level experimental simulation on problems of deterrence (1964) (1)
Resource stability and the balance of power (1989) (1)
Game theory and political theory: Solution theory (1986) (1)
A Draft Constitution for the Russian Federation (1993) (1)
Constitutional Secession Clauses* I. Constitutional Commitment (1993) (1)
The balance of power: Preventive war (1989) (0)
Liberalism and the Economic Order: Some Rules of Constitutional Design (1993) (0)
Some Special Political Games (2020) (0)
Rejoinder to Hoyer and Mayer (1976) (0)
The balance of power: Geography, balancers, and central powers (1989) (0)
The balance of power: System stability and the balance of power (1989) (0)
Two Cases of Uninstitutionalized Bargaining (2004) (0)
Representation of Political Processes (2020) (0)
El diseño de un estado democrático federal viable (2018) (0)
The Balance of Power: References and selected bibliography on European great-power relations, 1871–1914 (1989) (0)
The Fingerprints of Fraud (2009) (0)
Conflict and Stability in Anarchic International Systems (1989) (0)
Forthcoming conferences (1978) (0)
Mancur Olson, collective action and the design of a federal state: The case of Ukraine (2015) (0)
Lessons for citizens of a New Democracy, reseñado por Jorge Buendía Laredo (1999) (0)
Designing Federalism: Federal Bargaining (2004) (0)
Russia's Transition to Democracy: Essays 11-18 (1993) (0)
The balance of power: European conflict resolution, 1875–1914 (1989) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Cooperative games and the characteristic function (1986) (0)
In memoriam: 1939–2010 (2010) (0)
Rejoinder to Shubik's “Comment” (1971) (0)
Individual preference and social choice (1986) (0)
Comment: Public Opinion Polls and Democratic Processes (1987) (0)
Electoral patterns in Ukraine from 1998 to 2002 (2004) (0)
Editors' Note (1980) (0)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: References (2009) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Elections and two-person zero-sum games (1986) (0)
Game Theory with Applications to Economics.@@@Game Theory and Political Theory. (1989) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Repeated games and information: some research frontiers (1986) (0)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: The United States (2009) (0)
Designing Federalism: Political Parties in a Federal State (2004) (0)
The Calculus of Consent: reforming political science (2012) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Individual preference and individual choice (1986) (0)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: A Forensics Approach to Detecting Election Fraud (2009) (0)
Designing Federalism: Institutional Sources of Federal Stability II (2004) (0)
The Disappearance of Fraud and Development of Political Parties: Ukraine’s 2006 Parliamentary Elections (2007) (0)
Endogenous Time Preferences, Social Networks and Complexity (2007) (0)
Balance of power in international systems: a game-theoretic analysis (1989) (0)
CENTER FOR INSTITUTIONAL REFORlh AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR (0)
The balance of power: Basic elements of a model and definitions of stability (1989) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Basic theory of noncooperative games (1986) (0)
Russian Federalism and the Drafting of Regional Charter s (2002) (0)
Brief introduction (1994) (0)
The Forensics of Election Fraud: Introduction (2009) (0)
A Theory of Political Exchange: Economic Reasoning in Political Analysis. By Curry R. L. Jr., and Wadf L. L.. (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Pp. 130.) (1969) (0)
Analysis of Strategie Form Games (2020) (0)
Balance of Power Versus Collective Security: A Game-Theoretic Analysis (1995) (0)
Return of the Luddites Emerson (2011) (0)
Game theory and political theory: References and a guide to the literature (1986) (0)
Cooperation and Coalitions (2020) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Institutions, strategic voting, and agendas (1986) (0)
Ukraine 2006 and 2007 (2009) (0)
Analysis of Extensive Form Games (2020) (0)
The balance of power: Great-power alliance formation, 1871–1914 (1989) (0)
Editorial Announcement (2008) (0)
Game theory and political theory: Nonzero-sum games: political economy, public goods, and the prisoners' dilemma (1986) (0)

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