November 2002

CURRICULUM VITAE

GARY J MILLER

PERSONAL:

Born: January 2, 1949 in Urbana Illinois

Married: January 29, 1971 to Anne Colberg

Address: 528 Woodleaf, Kirkwood, Missouri 63122

Phone: (314) 935-5874

EDUCATION:

B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana 1971

with Bronze Tablet (Highest University Honors)

and Highest Honors in Political Science

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1976

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

1976-1979

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

1979-1981

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

1981-1986

Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies, Michigan State Univ.

1983-1986

Graduate Adviser, Michigan State University Political Science Dept.

1982-1986

Fellow of the Center in Political Economy, Washington Univ.

1986-

Reuben C. and Anne Taylor Professor of Political Economy, Washington University

1988-1997

Acting Director of the Business, Law, and Economics Center,

Washington University, 1993-94

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Olin School of Business,

1995-96.

Professor of Political Science, Washington University

1997-

Director of Graduate Studies, Washington University Department

of Political Science, 1999-2001

Chairman of Executive Committee, Center for New Institutional Social Sciences.

2000.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Social choice and institutions: legislative decision-making, formation of institutions, experimental research on committee decision-making.

Hierarchical decision-making: political economy of the firm, organization theory, public bureaucracy.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

President of the Public Administration Caucus of the

Midwest Political Science Association 2002-3.

Chester Barnard Award for the the best paper at the

Scientific Study of Bureaucracy conference 2001.

(with Andrew Whitford)

Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University, 1994.

Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper

at the 1983 APSA Convention (with Terry Moe).

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper at the 1987 Midwest

Political Science Association Convention.

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Kappa Phi

Who's Who in America 46th ed., 47th ed.

Who's Who in American Education 3rd ed.

Who's Who in the World 11th ed.

TEACHING AWARDS:

John W. Bowyer Teacher of the Year 1989, 1992

Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Excellence in

Undergraduate Education 1990

Freshman and Sophomore Teacher of the Year, Olin School of Business, 1993

Reid Teaching Award, Olin School of Business 1994

Special Recognition for Mentoring Graduate Students 2000, 2001,2002

COURSES TAUGHT:

Ph.D. Undergraduate

state and local government soc. sci. aspects of tech.

Congress and the executive non-market decision-making

theories of administrative org. politics and the Progressives

public administration public bureaucracy

positive (formal) theory public policy analysis

community decision-making intro. to political science

political groups and movements American national government

U.S. Congress interest groups

policy analysis business and public policy

experimental methods the managerial environment

American political parties org. behavior in the firm

politics of American bureaucracy competitive strategy

mathematical modeling legislative process political economy of pub. policy

MBA and Exec. MBA courses

business and public policy

human behavior and management

design and management of orgs.

management and strategy

strategy formulation and implementation

SHORT COURSES

Harvard University, Department of Government, May 1993, "Managerial Dilemmas".

U.S. Business School in Prague, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 "Political Economy".

RESEARCH SUPPORT

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. "The Politics of Collective Consumption and Bureaucratic Supply." September 1983 to September 1984.

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. "Stabilizing Constraints Operating on Majority Rule Committees". September 1981 to August 1982.

Principal Investigator with Cheryl Eavey, Smith-Richardson Foundation Grant. "Constitutional Conflict in State and Nation". September 1987 to August 1988.

Principal Investigator, Smith-Richardson Foundation Grant. "Managerial Dilemmas". September 1989 to August 1990.

Principal Investigator with Cheryl Eavey and William Bottom.

National Science Foundation Grant. "Getting to the Core". September 1992 to May 1994.

Principal Investigator with William Bottom and Andrew Whitford.

Russell Sage Foundation Grant. “Negotiating Trust”. Jan. 2002 to Dec. 2002.

Principal Investigator with William Bottom. Weidenbaum Center Grant.

"Trust in Principal-Agent Negotiations". Jan-August 2002.

Principal Investigator with Todd Zenger. Weidenbaum Center Grant.

"Strategic Interation Between Firms and their Suppliers." Jan – August 2002.

BOOKS:

Cities by Contract: The Politics of Municipal Incorporation. MIT Press, 1981.

American National Government: People, Institutions, and Policies. With John Aldrich, Charles Ostrom, and David Rohde. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. 2nd ed., with Paul Johnson, 1990. 3rd ed., with Paul Johnson, 1993.

Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice, with Jack Knott. Prentice-Hall, 1987.

Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

PUBLISHED PAPERS:

"Bureaucratic Compliance as a Game on the Unit Square". 1977. Public Choice 29: 37-51.

"Relief and Regret for the Expected Value Maximizer" with Norman Frohlich and Terry Sullivan. 1978. Political Methodology 5: 109-122.

"Universalism in Experimental Committees" with Joe Oppenheimer. 1982. American Political Science Review 76: 561-574.

"Bureaucrats, Legislators, and the Size of Government" with Terry Moe. 1983. American Political Science Review 77: 297-322.

"Bureaucratic Agenda Control: Imposition or Bargaining" with Cheryl Eavey. 1984. American Political Science Review 78: 719-733.

Reprinted in Experimental Foundations of Political Science,

Donald Kinder and Thomas Palfrey, eds., University of Michigan Press, 435-460.

"Fairness in Majority Rule Games with a Core" with Cheryl Eavey. 1984. American Journal of Political Science 28: 570-586.

"Sources of Bureaucratic Influence: Expertise and Agenda Control" with Michael Altfeld. 1984. Journal of Conflict Resolution 28: 701-730.

"Revenue-Generating Properties of Sealed-Bid Auctions" with Charles R. Plott. 1985. In Research in Experimental Economics 3, Vernon Smith ed. JAI Press, 159-182.

"Dictatorship, Decentralization, and the Principles of Administration" with Thomas Hammond. 1985. American Journal of Political Science 29: 1-28.

"Progressive Reform as Induced Institutional Preferences". 1985. Public Choice 47: 163-181.

"A Positive Theory of Hierarchy" with Terry Moe. 1986. In Political Science: A Science of Politics. Agathon Press, 167-199.

"Distant Friends and Nearby Enemies: The Peculiar Politics of Legislative Coalition Formation" with Thomas Hammond. 1987. Public Choice 53: 277-284.

"Core of the Constitution" with Thomas Hammond. 1987. American Political Science Review 81: 1155-1174.

"Constitutional Conflict in State and Nation" with Cheryl Eavey. 1989. In The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism, Bernard Grofman and Donald Wittman, eds. New York: Agathon Press, 205-219.

"Stability and Efficiency in a Separation of Powers Constitutional System" with Thomas Hammond. 1989. In The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism, Bernard Grofman and Donald Wittman, eds. New York: Agathon Press, 85-99.

"Confiscation, Credible Commitment and Progressive Reform". 1989. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 145: 686-692.

"Individual Rationality in Hierarchies". 1990. In Limits of Rationality, Karen Cook and Margaret Levi, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

"Committees and the Core" with Thomas Hammond. 1990. Public Choice 66: 201-227.

"Ethics and the New Game Theory". 1992. In Ethics and Agency Theory, Norman Bowie and Edward Freeman, eds. Oxford University Press, 117-126.

"Formal Theory and the Presidency." 1992. In Researching the Presidency, George Edwards, John Kessel, and Burt Rockman eds. Pittsburgh University Press, 289-336.

"Anthony Downs". 1993. American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. Glenn Utter and Charles Lockhart, eds. Greenwood Press, 64-65.

"Why Politics is More Fundamental than Economics". 1993. Journal of Theoretical Politics 6: 5-26.

"ACPE: A Computerized System for Running Small Group Decision Making Experiments" with William Bottom and Cheryl Eavey. 1994. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 55(4) 1-5.

"Moral Hazard in Work Organizations" with Thomas Hammond. 1994. Public Choice 74:245-256.

"Subcommittee Agenda Control" with Cheryl Eavey. 1995.

Journal of Theoretical Politics 7(2):125-156.

"Bicameralism and the Core: An Experimental Test" with Thomas Hammond and Charles Kile. 1996. Legislative Studies Quarterly 21:83-103.

"Political Discourse, Factions, and the General Will" with Krishna Ladha. 1996. Collective Decision-Making: Social Choice and Political Economy. Ed. Norman Schofield. Boston: Kluwer Academic Pub., pp. 393-410.

"Getting to the Core: Coalitional Integrity as a Constraint on the Power of Agenda Setters" with William Bottom and Cheryl Eavey. 1996. Journal of Conflict Resolution 40(2): 298-319.

"The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Political Science". 1997. Journal of Economic Literature. 35 (Sept.): 1173-1204.

"Leveling and Leadership: Hierarchy and Social Order," with Kathleen Cook. 1998. In New Institutionalism: Institutions and Social Order. Ed. Eric Uslaner, Karol Soltan, and Virginia Haufler. University of Michigan Press, 67-100.

"Coalitional Instability and Institutional Transformation." 1998. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 154:764-773.

“Negotiating Coalitions: Risk Preferences, Coalition Composition, and Distribution” with William Bottom, James Holloway, and Scott McClurg. 2000. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 44 (April): 147-69.

“Above Politics: Credible Commitment and Efficiency in the Design of Public Agencies.” 2000. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 10 (April): 289-328.

"The Institutional effect on Majority Rule Instability: Bicameralism in Spatial Policy Decisions" with William Bottom, Cheryl Eavey, and Jennifer Nicoll. 2000. American Journal of Political Science 44 (July): 523-540.

“Rational Choice and Dysfunctional Institutions.” 2000. Governance. 113 (October): 535-548.

"Why is Trust Necessary in Organizations?" 2001. Trust in Society, ed. Karen Cook. Russell Sage. 307-331.

“Constraining Leviathan: Moral Hazard and Credible Commitment in Institutional Design”, with Dino Falaschetti. 2001. Journal of Theoretical Politics. (October.)

“Trust and Incentives in Principal-Agent Negotiations: The Insurance-Incentive Trade-Off”. 2002. Journal of Theoretical Politics 14: 231-267.

"Anthony Downs". 2002. American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2^nd ed). Glenn Utter and Charles Lockhart, eds. Greenwood Press, 86-88.

"Do Individuals Process Information Well Enough to Support Effective Majority Rule Judgments?" Forthcoming 2002. With William Bottom and Krishna Ladha. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

"Adaptive Incrementalism and Complexity." Forthcoming 2003. With Jack Knott and Jay Verkuilen. Forthcoming in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

"Institutional Modifications of Majority Rule". Forthcoming 2003. With Bill Bottom, Larry Handlin, and Ron King. Handbook of Experimental Results, Vernon Smith and Charles Plott, eds.

“Partisan Realignment and Majority Rule Instability” With Norman Schofield. Forthcoming 2003. American Political Science Review.

"Critical Elections and Political Realignments in the United States: 1860-2000." With Norman Schofield and Andrew Martin. Forthcoming 2003. Political Studies.

Working Papers:

"Order with a Little Bit of Law". With Todd Zenger and Sergio Lazzarini. Revise and resubmit to Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

"Gift Exchange and Outcome Based Incentives in Principal-Agent Negotiations." With Bottom, Holloway, Mislin, and Whitford. Prepared for presentation to the Southern Political Science Association, October 2002.

"Constraining Rational Choice: Allocation vs. Efficiency and the Origin of Credible Commitment Problems". With Dino Falaschetti.

EDITORIAL AND REVIEW BOARDS

American Journal of Political Science. 1990-1991.

National Science Foundation, Political Science Program, 1991-1993.

American Political Science Review. 1992-1993.

Governance. 1998-

Rationality and Society. 1999-

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2000-

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Research Fellow, Research School for Social Sciences,

Australian National University, Canberra. June-July 1996.

RECENT INVITED SEMINARS

March 1989. Columbia University. School of Law.

"Constitutional Conflict in State and Nation".

Nov. 1989. Stanford University. Hoover Institute.

"Efficiency, Budget-Balancing and the Need for Credible Commitments".

Oct. 1990. University of Pittsburgh. Conference on the Presidency.

"Abnormal Politics: The Possibilities of Presidential Leadership."

Dec. 1991. University of Illinois. Economics Department.

"Managerial Dilemmas".

May 1993. University of Chicago. School of Business.

"Managerial Dilemmas".

May 1994. Princeton University. Department of Politics.

"Subcommittee Agenda Control" with Cheryl Eavey.

Oct 1994. University of Maryland. Conference on the New Institutionalism.

"Leveling and Leadership in States and Firm" with Kathleen Cook.

April 1995. Michigan State University.

"Information Aggregation by Majority Rule" with Krishna Ladha

and Joe Oppenheimer.

May 1995. University of Iowa. Shambaugh Conference.

"Information Aggregation by Majority Rule" with Krishna Ladha and Joe Oppenheimer.

April 1996. University of Kentucky.

"Information Aggregation by Majority Rule" with Krishna Ladha and Joe Oppenheimer.

Dec. 1997. University of Chicago. Political Science Department.

"Prospect Theory and Coalition Formation" with Bill Bottom.

May 1999. University of California at Los Angeles. Dept. of Political Science.

"Origins of Commitment Problems in Social Organization"

Nov. 1999. Stanford University School of Business.

“Leadership and Trust in Public Administration.”

Feb. 2000. Penn State University

“Above Politics: Bureaucracy and Credible Committment”

Feb. 2000. U. of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University.

“Above Politics: Bureaucracy and Credible Committment”

Mar. 2000. University of Arizona.

“Above Politics: Bureaucracy and Credible Commitment”

Feb. 2001. Texas A&M University.

“Trust and Reciprocity in Principal-Agent Negotiatons”

Mar. 2001. University of Maryland.

“Constraining Rational Choice: Allocation vs. Efficiency” with Dino Falaschetti.

Recently chaired dissertations.

David Nixon. 1995. Georgia State University.

Andrew Whitford. 1996. Rice University.