Courses
Politics and the Theory of Games; Constitutional Politics in the United States

Research Interests
Game theory, constitutional politics, legislative politics, positive political theory, American politics. In the past decade, Professor Calvert's published research has concentrated especially on game-theoretic general models of leadership and social institutions. His current research focus is on processes of political communication and argument, and on American and comparative constitutional politics.

Selected Publications:

"Rationality, Identity, and Expression." In Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 3rd edition. W.W. Norton and American Political Science Association, 2002.

"Interpretation and Coordination in Constitutional Politics," with James Johnson. In Ewa Hauser and Jacek Wasilewski, eds., Lessons in Democracy. Jagiellonian University Press and University of Rochester Press, 1999.

"Explaining Social Order: Internalization, External Enforcement, or Equilibrium?" In Karol Soltan, Eric Uslaner, and Virginia Haufler, eds., Institutions and Social Order. University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Editor, with John Mueller and Rick K. Wilson, of William H. Riker, The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Models of Imperfect Information in Politics. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1986.