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Donald A. Wittman Home  Directory Donald A. Wittman
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
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ECON-115-01 - Intr Management Sci
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Economic theory, politics, law. |
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BOOKS
Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Co-edited with Barry Weingast, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Economic Foundations of Law and Organization, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
"How pressure groups activate voters and move candidates closer to the median" Economic Journal Forthcoming.
"Bargaining in the shadow of war: when is a peaceful resolution most likely?" American Journal of Political Science 53:588-602, 2009.
"Is Status-quo bias consistent with downward sloping demand curves?" Economic Inquiry 46: 283-288, 2008.
"Targeted information and strategic behavior by uninformed voters" Economics of Governance 9:87-100. 2008.
"Candidate quality, pressure group endorsements and the nature of political advertising" European Journal of Political Economy, 23: 360-378, 2007.
"Litigation with two-sided incomplete information and symmetric bargaining" Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 23: 98-126, 2007.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"What is so special about special interest politics" in Balleisen and Moss (eds.) Toward a New Theory of Regulation, 2009
"Theocracy and the evolution of morals" in Wintrobe and Ferrero (eds.) The Political Economy of Theocracy, 2008.
The power to propose versus the power to oppose." In Braham and Steffan (eds) Power, Freedom and Voting, 2008.
"Hobbes and the Political Economy of Power." In Josselin and Marciano (eds.) Democracy, Freedom and Coercion, 2007. |
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