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    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

    • American Government: Power & Purpose

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

      Eighteenth Edition, Paperback, 2025

      The gold standard analytical approach, reimagined for today’s students

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