Norman Schofield is Taussig Professor in Political Economy at Washington University in St Louis. He has served as Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin in 2003-04, and held a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1988-89. Professor Schofield is the author of Architects of Political Change (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (2003), Multiparty Government (coauthored with Michael Laver, 1990), and Social Choice and Democracy (1985). He received the William Riker Prize in 2002 for contributions to political theory and is corecipient with Gary Miller of the Jack L. Walker Prize for the best article on political organizations and parties in the American Political Science Review for 2002-04.
1. Multiparty democracy
2. Elections and democracy
3. A theory of political competition
4. Elections in Israel 1988-1996
5. Elections in Italy: 1992-1996
6. Elections in the Netherlands: 1979-1981
7. Elections in Britain: 1979-2005
8. Political realignments in the U.S.
9. Concluding remarks
10. References
11. Tables and figures.
