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Director of International Institute
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, Political Science

• Affiliation(s)

  • Director, Center for International and Comparative Studies
  • Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
  • Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, Political Science

• Fields of Study

  • Political Parties
  • Elections
  • Formal Modeling

• About

  Ken Kollman is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.  He is also Director of the International Institute and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies (Institute for Social Research) at the university.

  He has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, Perils of Centralization, on centralization in federated institutions, which includes research on the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, General Motors Corporation, and the United States government.  Along with Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer, he has created CLEA, the Constituency-Level Election Archive, which is the largest collection of returns for parliamentary elections from around the world.

• Education

  • Northwestern University, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Northwestern University, M.S. (Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences)
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A. magna cum laude

• Awards

  • The Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (2012)
  • Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2006-2007)
  • Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (2005)

• Grants

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (2012-2014)
  • National Science Foundation Grants (2006-2008, 2010-2013)
  • European Commission Grants (2004-2008)

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2011) The American Political System
  • (2004) The Formation of National Party Systems
  • (1998) Outside Lobbying

• Articles

  • (2012) Modeling, Measuring and Distinguishing Path Dependence, Outcome Dependence and Outcome Independence, Political Analysis