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David Austen-Smith Ph.D.
Cambridge University Professor; courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics and in the Department of Management and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Teaching and research interests in positive political theory, social choice and game theory. Publications include "Elections, coalitions and legislative outcomes" (with Jeff Banks), "Campaign contributions and access", "Information aggregation, rationality and the Condorcet Jury Theorem" (with Jeff Banks), all in the American Political Science Review; "Explaining the vote: constituency constraints on sophisticated voting", "Information transmission in debate", "Information and influence: lobbying for agendas and votes", all in the American Journal of Political Science; "Restricted Pareto and rights" in the Journal of Economic Theory; and "Strategic transmission of costly information" in Econometrica.

He is currently working on a manuscript, "Positive Political Theory", with Jeff Banks for the University of Michigan Press. He is on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Public Economics.

[e-mail: dasm@northwestern.edu]