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Michael Laver

Michael Laver

Professor of Politics; Chair of Politics
Ph.D. 1981, Liverpool; M.A. 1972, Essex; BA (Hons) 1970, Essex.

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Phone:  (212) 998-8534
Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
Office Room Number:  409

For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: Analytical, computational and empirical accounts of political competition and decision-making.

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Working Papers:

  • Party competition: an agent-based model (with Ernest Sergenti). A book-length manuscript that develops a dynamic agent based spatial model of multi-party competition. This deals, among other things, with: interactions between party leaders using different decision rules; endogenous birth and death of political parties; satisficing behavior by party leaders; evolutionary stability of combinations of decision rules; effects of party leaders’ non-policy valence; effects of party leaders who value personal policy preferences as well as increased party vote share; empirical patterns of dynamic party competition; rigorous characterization of the output of computational models.

Recent and Forthcoming Articles