Keith Dougherty, Associate Professor of Political Science, specializes in the institutional design of U.S. politics. Part of his research examines the implications of various institutions from a formal theoretic and empirical perspective. For example, he has studied the probability that various voting rules, assembly sizes, and quorum requirements adhere to a normative criterion, or sets of criteria, when individual preferences are unknown. Another part of his research examines why particular institutions are adopted. For example, he has studied the framers' motivation for adopting the U.S. Constitution and has created the Constitutional Convention Research Group (CCRG) to recover delegate positions on all substantive votes at the convention. The results have been published by Cambridge University Press, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Economic Inquiry, to name a few.

Mailing Address
Department of Political Science
Baldwin Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602

Phone (706) 542-2989
Fax  (706) 542-4421
E-mail: dougherk@uga.edu

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