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Working Papers

2025

1. Interactions across multiple games: cooperation, corruption, and organizational design
   Papers, arXiv.org

2021

2. Endogenous Organizational Restructuring: Status, Productivity, & Meritocratic Dynamics
   ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany

2002

3. The Empirical Content of Adaptive Models
   Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (1)

2000

4. A Behavioral Model of Turnout
   Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (27)
   See also Journal Article A Behavioral Model of Turnout, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press (2003) View citations (36) (2003)
5. Theories of Delegation in Political Science
   Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, California Irvine - School of Social Sciences (2000) View citations (8)

1994

6. Aspirations, Adaptive Learning and Cooperation in Reapeted Games
   Working Papers, Boston University - Department of Economics View citations (15)
   Also in Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research (1994) View citations (10)

Journal Articles

2025

1. On Accountability and Hierarchy
   American Political Science Review, 2025, 119, (1), 368-383

2024

2. Endogenous reorganization: Status, productivity & meritocratic dynamics
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, (C)

2019

3. Optimal team composition for tool‐based problem solving
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2019, 28, (4), 734-764 View citations (2)

2016

4. Inequality, Aspirations, and Social Comparisons*
   Political Science Research and Methods, 2016, 4, (3), 451-476 View citations (1)

2010

5. Adaptively Rational Retrospective Voting
   Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2010, 22, (1), 26-63 View citations (4)

2009

6. Management fads, pedagogies, and other soft technologies
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 72, (1), 290-304
7. Satisficing: A 'Pretty Good' Heuristic
   The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9, (1), 38 View citations (7)

2008

8. Communitarian versus Universalistic Norms
   Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008, 3, (1), 33-61

2006

9. Satisficing and Selection in Electoral Competition
   Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2006, 1, (2), 171-200 View citations (10)

2005

10. The Perfect is the Enemy of the Best
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2005, 17, (1), 5-39

2004

11. Spatial Models of Delegation
    American Political Science Review, 2004, 98, (2), 293-310 View citations (53)

2003

12. A Behavioral Model of Turnout
    American Political Science Review, 2003, 97, (2), 261-280 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper A Behavioral Model of Turnout, Research Papers (2000) View citations (27) (2000)

2001

13. ASPIRATION-BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN REPEATED INTERACTION GAMES: AN OVERVIEW
    International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2001, 03, (02n03), 159-174 View citations (26)
14. Recycling the Garbage Can: An Assessment of the Research Program
    American Political Science Review, 2001, 95, (1), 169-190 View citations (14)
15. Reinforcement Learning in Repeated Interaction Games
    The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2001, 1, (1), 44 View citations (39)

1998

16. Evolutionary Equilibria: Characterization Theorems and Their Implications
    Theory and Decision, 1998, 45, (2), 99-159 View citations (10)

1997

17. Comparing Centralized and Decentralized Institutions: A Reply to Schwartz and Tomz
    American Political Science Review, 1997, 91, (3), 695-697
18. The Evolutionary Stability of Cooperation
    American Political Science Review, 1997, 91, (2), 290-307 View citations (32)

1995

19. A Model of Muddling Through
    American Political Science Review, 1995, 89, (4), 819-840 View citations (9)
20. Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources. By Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 392p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper
    American Political Science Review, 1995, 89, (1), 188-189

1993

21. Uncertainty and the Evolution of Cooperation
    Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1993, 37, (4), 709-734 View citations (23)

1992

22. Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy. By Gary J. Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 254p. $47.95
    American Political Science Review, 1992, 86, (4), 1047-1048
23. Rethinking Allison's Models
    American Political Science Review, 1992, 86, (2), 301-322 View citations (11)

1991

24. When in Doubt
    Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1991, 35, (4), 691-719 View citations (31)

1990

25. Norms, Third-Party Sanctions, and Cooperation
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1990, 6, (1), 33-63 View citations (28)

1988

26. Formal Models of Bureaucracy
    British Journal of Political Science, 1988, 18, (3), 353-395 View citations (9)
27. The Possibility of Cooperation. By Michael Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 205p. $39.50 doth, $12.75 paper
    American Political Science Review, 1988, 82, (4), 1363-1364

1987

28. Institutional Structure and the Logic of Ongoing Collective Action
    American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, (1), 129-154 View citations (43)
29. Stacking the Deck: Bureaucratic Missions and Policy Design
    American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, (3), 873-896 View citations (3)
30. Time, Chance, and Organizations: Natural Selection in a Perilous Environment. By Herbert Kaufman (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1985. xii, 180 p. $20.00, cloth; $11.95, paper)
    American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, (2), 689-691

1986

31. Agenda Control, Committee Capture, and the Dynamics of Institutional Politics
    American Political Science Review, 1986, 80, (4), 1187-1207 View citations (6)

1985

32. An Adaptive Model of Bureaucratic Politics
    American Political Science Review, 1985, 79, (3), 755-774 View citations (20)
33. Bureaucratic Expertise versus Legislative Authority: A Model of Deception and Monitoring in Budgeting
    American Political Science Review, 1985, 79, (4), 1041-1060 View citations (38)

Chapters

2024

1. Intelligence versus rationality: Simon’s dueling reference points
   Chapter 9 in Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon, 2024, pp 177-194

2007

2. Rational Parties and Retrospective Voters
   A chapter in Topics in Analytical Political Economy, 2007, pp 1-28