John Patty
Office Contact Information
Campus Box 1063
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Research specialization
“Manipulation and Single-Peakedness: A General Result.” (with Elizabeth Maggie Penn and Sean Gailmard) American Journal of Political Science, 55(2): 436-449, 2011.
“A Social Choice Theory of Legitimacy.” (with Elizabeth Maggie Penn) Social Choice and Welfare, 36(3): 365-382, 2011.
John W. Patty, James Snyder, and Michael Ting. 2009. "Two's Company, Three's an Equilibrium: Strategic Voting and Multicandidate Elections." Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 4(3): 251-278.
Scott Moser, John W. Patty, and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. 2009. "The Structure of Heresthetical Power." Journal of Theoretical Politics, 21(2): 139-159.
John W. Patty. 2009. "The Politics of Biased Information." Journal of Politics, 71(2): 385-397.
John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. 2008. "The Legislative Calendar." Mathematical and Computer Modelling 48:1590-1601.
John W. Patty. 2008. "Equilibrium Party Government." American Journal of Political Science, 52(3): 636-655.
John W. Patty. 2008. "Arguments-Based Collective Choice." Journal of Theoretical Politics, 20(4): 379-414.
Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty. 2007. "Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Expertise." American Journal of Political Science 51(4): 873-889.
John W. Patty. 2007. "The House Discharge Procedure and Majoritarian Politics." Journal of Politics 69(3): 678-688.
Richard D. McKelvey and John W. Patty. 2006. "A Theory of Voting in Large Elections." Games and Economic Behavior 57(1): 155-180.
Best Paper Published in American Journal of Political Science, 2008: "Equilibrium Party Government"
The Legislative Process, Politics of Bureaucracies, Game Theory, Development of the US Federal Government