Kenneth A. Shepsle

Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government and founding member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: Democratic Committee Assignments in the Modern House, Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition, Making and Breaking Governments, and Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1990, and he is the recipient of fellowships by the Hoover Institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Shepsle’s research focuses on formal political theory, congressional politics, public policy, and political economy.

Kenneth A. Shepsle

Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government and founding member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: Democratic Committee Assignments in the Modern House, Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition, Making and Breaking Governments, and Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1990, and he is the recipient of fellowships by the Hoover Institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Shepsle’s research focuses on formal political theory, congressional politics, public policy, and political economy.

Books by Kenneth A. Shepsle

  • Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions

    Kenneth A. Shepsle

    Second Edition, Paperback, 2010

    Analyzing Politics makes the fundamentals of rational-choice theory accessible to undergraduates in clear, nontechnical language.
  • American Government: A Brief Introduction

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere

    Sixteenth Edition, Paperback, 2021

    Think critically about American politics
  • American Government, Core: Power and Purpose

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Seventeenth Core Edition, Paperback, 2023

    The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated
  • American Government: A Brief Introduction

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Brief Seventeenth Edition, Paperback, 2022

    Think critically about American government
  • American Government: Power and Purpose

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Seventeenth Edition, E Book, 2022

    The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated
  • American Government, Core: Power and Purpose

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Seventeenth Core Edition, E Book, 2022

    The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated
  • American Government: A Brief Introduction

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Brief Seventeenth Edition, E Book, 2022

    Think critically about American government
  • American Government: A Brief Introduction

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Brief Seventeenth Edition, Paperback, 2020

    Think critically about American government
  • American Government: Power and Purpose

    Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

    Seventeenth Edition, Paperback, 2023

    The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated