Nicholas R. Miller (2008-2010)

Nicholas R. Miller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His principal research lies in the area of formal political theory dealing with collective decision making and, in particular, formal theories of voting (including the concept of the uncovered set).

Prof. Miller’s research on logrolling, majority voting, power, social choice, information pooling, agenda control, and spatial-voting models has appeared in such journals as American Political Science Re­view, American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Public Choice, Mathe­matical and Computer Modelling, Theory and Decision, and Journal of Theoretical Politics; a number of edited books; and a monograph on Committees, Agendas, and Voting. His current research focuses on the properties of the U.S. Electoral College as a vote-counting mechanism. He is a former editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics and has most recently signed on as editor of the “eJournal” Games and Political Behavior (which includes public choice topics) in the new PSN (Political Science Network) division of SSRN (Social Science Research Network).