NICHOLAS R. MILLER
Department of Political Science
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Voice: 410- 455-2187
Fax: 410- 455-1021
Email: nmiller@umbc.edu
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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
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).
Papers on the Electoral College
Papers on A Priori Voting
Power
Papers
on Spatial Voting Games
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 a past President
(2008-2010) of the latter. From 1997 through 2001, I served
as UMBC's Official Representative to the Interuniversity
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Resources
for Political Science Research on Voting and Elections
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