Steven Brams Professor of Politics B.S. 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. 1966, Northwestern. Email: Phone:  (212) 998-8510 Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Stree, New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  309 For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: game theory and its applications, particularly in political science and international relations; social choice theory, particularly as applied to voting and elections.

Select Publications:

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures. Princeton University Press. 2008
The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody, with Alan D. Taylor. W.W. Norton. 1999.
Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution, with Alan D. Taylor. Cambridge University Press. 1996.
Theory of Moves. Cambridge University Press. 1994.

Papers

• Cutting A Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake (with Julius B. Barbanel and Walter Stromquist)
  

• "Divide-and-Conquer: A Proportional, Minimal-Envy Cake-Cutting
  Procedure"  (with Michael A. Jones and Christian Klamler)

• "Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election"

• "The Normative Turn in Public Choice"

• "Game Theory"

• "How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting" (with D. Marc Kilgour and M. Remzi Sanver)

• "The Instability of Power Sharing" (with D. Marc Kilgour)

• "Critical Strategies under Approval Voting: Who Gets Ruled in and Ruled out" (with M. Remzi Sanver)

• "Influence in Terrorist Networks: From Undirected to Directed Graphs" (with Hande Mutlu and Shawn Ling Ramirez)

• "A Minimax Procedure for Electing Committees" (with D. Marc Kilgour and M. Remzi Sanver)

• "Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting" (with Peter C. Fishburn)

• "A Minimax Procedure for Negotiating Multilateral Treaties" (with D. Marc Kilgour and M. Remzi Sanver)

• "Better Ways to Cut a Cake" (with Michael A. Jones and Christian Klamler)

• "Efficient Fair Division: Help the Worst Off or Avoid Envy?" (with Daniel L. King)

• "Fair Division"

• "Cake Division with Minimal Cuts: Envy-Free Procedures for Three Persons, Four Persons, and Beyond" (with Julius B. Barbanel)

• "Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters" (with D. Marc Kilgour and M. Remzi Sanver)

• "Proportional Pie-Cutting" (with Michael A. Jones and Christian Klamler)

• "Voting Systems That Combine Approval and Preference" (with M. Remzi Sanver)

Fellowships/Honors: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992; President, Peace Science Society, 1990-1991; Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987; Public Choice Society Fellow, 1998; Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 1998-1999.

External Affiliations: American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Peace Science Society, Public Choice Society, Policy Studies Organization, Society for Judgement and Decision Making, Social Choice and Welfare Society, American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).