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 Street, 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:

• "Law and Mechanism Design: Procedures to Induce Honest Bargaining" (with Joshua R. Mitts)
• "Voting Power under a Modified Popular Vote Plan in US Presidential Elections" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
  
• "Inducible Games: Using Tit-for-Tat to Stabilize Outcomes" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
• "Narrowing the Field in Elections: The Next-Two Rule" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
  
• "Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009" (with Gustavo Camilo and Alexandra D. Franz)
  
• "A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices" (with Todd R. Kaplan and D. Marc Kilgour)
  
• "Satisfaction Approval Voting" (With D. Marc Kilgour)
• "Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation" (With D. Marc Kilgour)
• "The Undercut Procedure:An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items" (ith D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
• "When Does Approval Voting Make the 'Right Choices'"? (with D. Marc Kilgour)
• "Two-Person Cake-Cutting: The Optimal Number of Cuts" (with Julius B. Barbanel)
• "N-Person Cake-Cutting: There May Be No Perfect Division" (with Michael A. Jones and Christian Klamler)
• "Why You Shouldn't Use a Toss for Overtime" (with Zeve N. Sanderson)
• "Mechanism Design in M&A Auctions" (with Joshua R. Mitts)
• "Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
  

Fellowships/Honors: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992; President, Peace Science Society, 1990-1991; Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987; Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 1998-1999, President, Public Choice Society, 2004-2006 (Fellow, 1998).

External Affiliations: American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Peace Science Society, Public Choice Society, Social Choice and Welfare Society, American Association for Advancement of Science.