Norman James Schofield (January 30, 1944 – October 12, 2019) was a Scottish-American

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, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at the

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.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2012-03-03..

Early life and education

Schofield earned two bachelor's degrees from the

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; one in physics in 1965 and the other in mathematics in 1966. Later he obtained two PhDs from

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: the first in government in 1976 and the second in economics in 1985.

Career

From 1970 to 1976, he was a lecturer in government at Essex University. He became an associate professor of government at the

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1976 to 1979. He then became a reader in economics at Essex University from 1979 to 1986. He came to Washington University in 1986 as a fellow to the Center of Political Economy; became subsequently adjunct professor in 1989 and made full professor in 1996.

Books

Schofield is the author or co-author of the following books: *''Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice'' (New York University Press 1984, reprinted as Studies in Economic Theory 17, Springer, 2004, ) *''Social Choice and Democracy'' (Springer, 1985, ) *''Advanced Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences'' (with Whiteley, Satchell, and Chatterji; Praeger, 1986) *''Multiparty Government: the politics of coalition in Europe'' (with Michael Laver, Oxford University Press, 1990, reprinted by University of Michigan Press, 1998, ) *''Architects of Political Change: Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006, ) *''Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics'' (with Itai Sened, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ) *''The Spatial Model of Politics'' (Routledge Series of Political Economy 95, Psychology Press, 2008, ) *''The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny'' (Oldenbourg, 2009, ) *''Leadership Or Chaos: The Heart and Soul of Politics'' (with Maria Gallego, Springer, 2011, )

Awards and recognitions

Schofield has been awarded honorary doctorates from the

in 1986, and from the

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in 1992. In 2002, Schofield won the

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Prize in political science "for his path-breaking contributions to the theory of collective choice in multidimensional settings, the extension of those results to the analysis of coalition politics in parliamentary systems, and, subsequently, to the analysis of American constitutional politics."2002 William H. Riker Prize in Political Science
Univ. of Rochester, retrieved 2012-03-03. In 2005, he was elected as a fellow of the

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.Three faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gerry Everding, Washington Univ., April 27, 2005, retrieved 2012-03-03.

References

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