I am Professor of Political Science at UMBC. I have been a member of the UMBC
faculty since 1971 and served as
Chairman of the Political
Science Department from 1985 to 1991.
Education
I graduated in government from Harvard
in 1963 and did my graduate work in political science at the University
of California at Berkeley,
receiving my Ph.D. in 1973.
Teaching and Courses
Fall 2009
Research
My principal research, some of which has been supported by the National
Science
Foundation, lies in the area of formal political theory and public
choice; it deals with collective decision making and, in particular,
formal theories of voting processes. I have written articles on
logrolling and vote trading, majority voting, coalition formation,
power, social choice, information pooling, agenda control, and spatial
voting models, which have appeared in such journals as American
Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,
Public Choice, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Theory
and Decision, and Journal of Theoretical Politics, as well
as in a number of edited books. I have written a monograph on Committees,
Agendas, and Voting (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995).
Current
work on the Electoral College
Current
Work on A Priori Voting
Power
Papers on Spatial Voting Games
Other Working Papers, Notes, and Unpublished Research
Principal UMBC Service
I was Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee from 1980 to 1983,
Chair
of the Political Science
Department from 1985 to 1991, Chair of the Undergraduate
Council from 1994
to 1997, and Chair of the University Faculty Review Committee in 2003.
Professional Activities
I was a member of the Editorial Board of The
Journal of Politics
from 1976 through 1981. From December 1995 through January 2002,
I served as the receiving editor for the Journal
of
Theoretical
Politics and I remain on the journal's Editorial
Board. I am now the editor of the “eJournal” Games
and
Political Behavior (which includes public choice topics) in
the new PSN
(Political Science Network) division of SSRN
(Social Science Research
Network).
I am a member of the American
Political
Science
Association and of the Public
Choice
Society, and I am the current President of the
latter. From 1997 through 2001, I served as UMBC's Official
Representative to the Interuniversity
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Information
on 2009 Public Choice Society Meeting
Resources
for Political Science Research on Voting and Elections
Diana Miller's
website (School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University)
Scottish MUD
(Diana Miller's Blog from the University of Edinburgh)
Information concerning my grandfather, Alec Miller (click on Decorative Carvings - Thomas Library to see second page, then click on the photo on the top of the second page) Also see this and this
Tour the entire
California coast