John W. Patty

John W. Patty
AwardsHerbert Simon Award (APSA), William H. Riker Book Prize
Academic background
Education
ThesisVoting Games of Incomplete Information (2001)
Doctoral advisorThomas Palfrey
Other advisorsRichard McKelvey, Jeffrey Scot Banks, Kim Border
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Institutions
Websitehttps://www.johnwpatty.net/

John W. Patty is an American political scientist and Professor[1] of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.[2][3]

A graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Economics and Mathematics, and earned a Masters and PhD in Economics and Social Science from California Institute of Technology.

He is a winner of the William H. Riker Book Prize and the Herbert Simon Award (APSA) for his book Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch with Sean Gailmard.[4] Patty is a Co-editor with Torun Dewan of the Journal of Theoretical Politics.[5]

Books

  • Learning While Governing: Information, Accountability, and Executive Branch Institutions, with Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago Press 2012
  • Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility, with Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Cambridge University Press 2014

References

  1. ^ "John Patty". researchgate.net. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  2. ^ "John W. Patty". Emory.
  3. ^ "John Patty". WPR.
  4. ^ "Organized Section 6: Herbert A. Simon Book Award". American Political Science Association (APSA).
  5. ^ "Journal of Theoretical Politics". SAGE Publications Inc. 27 October 2015.