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
“The 2016 and 2020 Presidential
Elections in Historical and Theoretical Perspective”,
presented at the Wake Forest Virtual Conference on Social Choice
Theory and Applications, February 5-6, 2021
“The 2016 Election
Inversion (And the 2020 Near-inversion) in Historical and
Theoretical Perspective”, prepared for
presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice
Society,
Savannah, Georgia, March 12-13, 2021 [session cancelled due to
pandemic]
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I am Professor Emeritus of Political Science at UMBC. I
was a regular member of the UMBC Political Science faculty from Fall
1971 to Summer 2011 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
I now have no regular teaching duties. I previously taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of formal political
theory, game theory and politics, parties and elections, political
participation, research methods, and American politics. You
can also find webpages for courses I taught here.
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 papers on tournaments and majority voting, social choice,
voting power, information pooling, voting agendas, spatial voting
models, electoral systems, and the U.S. Electoral College. They
have appeared in such journals as American Political Science Review, American
Journal of Political Science, Public Choice,
Mathematical
and Computer Modelling, Theory and
Decision, Journal of Theoretical
Politics, Political
Analysis, Homo Oeconomicus,
Electoral
Studies, Scandinavian
Political Studies, and Representation,
as well as in a number of edited books. I have written a monograph
on Committees,
Agendas, and Voting (Harwood Academic Publishers,
1995) and am co-editor with Jac C. Heckelman of Wake Forest
University of the recently published Handbook of Social Choice and
Voting (Edward
Elgar, 2015); see the Table
of Contents and the Introduction
with chapter summaries. I am now engaged in the VoteDemocracy
project of the Voting
Power and Procedures Program in the Centre for
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the
London School of
Economics, in which connection I am a Research Associate
of the Centre.
"In Memoriam: Dan S. Felsenthal"
(with Rudolf Fara), PS: Politics & Political
Science, April 2020
"Reflections on Arrow's Theorem
and Voting Rules", Public Choice (special issue in
honor of Kenneth Arrow), 179/1-2 (April 2019)
"Executive Veto Power and
Constitutional Design", in Roger Congleton, Bernard
Grofman, and Stefan Voigt, eds., The Oxford Handbook
of Public Choice, Volume 2. Oxford University
Press, 2018.
Papers on
the Electoral College
Papers on A Priori Voting
Power
Papers
on Electoral Systems
Papers
on Spatial Voting Games
Papers on Covering and the
Uncovered Set
Papers on Tournaments and Majority
Voting
Papers on Agendas and Voting
Procedures
Papers on Power, Pluralism, and
Social Choice
Papers on the Condorcet Jury Theorem
and Information Pooling
Papers
on Logrolling
Papers on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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 also a member of the Editorial
Board of Public
Choice and from 2008-18 was editor of the
“eJournal” Games
and Political Behavior in the 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).
Complete CV
Google
Scholar Citations
Scottish MUD
(Diana Miller's Blog from the University of Edinburgh)
Things You May Not Know About Nick Miller,
by Nancy Miller (on occasion of my retirement event on May 13,
2011)
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.
Alec Miller on film.
Graham Peel, Alec Miller: Carver, Guildsman, Sculptor
Review
in The Scotsman
Tour the entire
California coast