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Economics and Finance

D-Index
39
Citations
7294
World Ranking
2415
National Ranking
1364

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - William H. Riker Prize for Political Science For advancing the scientific study of politics through research on positive political theory and its implications for the analysis of democratic institutions.

Overview

Norman Schofield was affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, including Social Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Computer Science. Schofield's contributions intersected various subfields such as Geography, Planning and Development; Geochemistry and Petrology; and Information Systems.

Their scholarly work focused on topics that included Geography Education and Pedagogy, Geological Modeling and Analysis, and Expert Finding and Question & Answer systems. These areas reflect a diverse and interdisciplinary academic profile.

Among their recent scholarly output was the paper titled Quantifying Virtual Field Trip Efficiency, published in 2024 in the PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science. This publication reflects their interests in geoinformation science and remote sensing technologies.

Throughout their career, Schofield collaborated with several researchers. Frequent co-authors listed were:

  • Jessica H. Pugsley
  • John Howell
  • Adrian J. Hartley
  • Simon J. Buckley
  • Magda Chmielewska

The primary venue for Schofield's recent publication was the PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science.

Norman Schofield received notable awards recognizing their scholarly contributions. These included being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Additionally, they received the William H. Riker Prize for Political Science in 2002 for advancing the scientific study of politics through research on positive political theory and its implications for the analysis of democratic institutions.

Best Publications

  • Instability of Simple Dynamic Games

    Norman Schofield

  • Activists and Partisan Realignment in the United States

    Gary Miller;Norman Schofield

  • Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics

    Norman Schofield;Itai Sened

  • Bargaining Theory and Portfolio Payoffs in European Coalition Governments 1945–83

    Norman Schofield;Michael Laver

  • Generalized Symmetry Conditions at a Core Point

    Richard D. McKelvey;Norman Schofield

  • The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the U.S.

    Gary Miller;Norman Schofield

  • Valence Competition in the Spatial Stochastic Model

    Norman Schofield

  • Political competitition and multiparty coalition governments

    Norman Schofield

  • Generic Instability of Majority Rule

    Norman Schofield

  • The Mean Voter Theorem: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Convergent Equilibrium

    Norman Schofield

  • Structural instability of the core

    Richard D. McKelvey;Norman Schofield

  • Multiparty electoral competition in the Netherlands and Germany: A model based on multinomial probit

    Norman J. Schofield;Andrew D. Martin;Kevin M. Quinn;Andrew B. Whitford

  • Social choice and democracy

    Norman James Schofield

  • Modeling the interaction of parties, activists and voters: Why is the political center so empty?

    Norman Schofield;Itai Sened

  • Equilibrium in the Spatial ‘Valence’ Model of Politics

    Norman Schofield

  • Social Choice, Welfare, and Ethics

    William Barnett;Herve Moulin;Maurice Salles;Norman J. Schofield

  • Political Economy: Institutions, Competition and Representation

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  • THE CORE AND THE STABILITY OF GROUP CHOICE IN SPATIAL VOTING GAMES

    Norman Schofield;Bernard Grofman;Scott L. Feld

  • Critical Elections and Political Realignments in the USA: 1860–2000:

    Norman Schofield;Gary Miller;Andrew Martin

  • Social equilibrium and cycles on compact sets

    Norman Schofield

  • The Geometry of Voting

    Norman Schofield

  • Institutions and Development

    Norman Schofield;Maria Gallego

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Barnett
William A. Barnett University of Kansas
Richard D. McKelvey
Richard D. McKelvey California Institute of Technology
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastian Galiani
Sebastian Galiani University of Maryland, College Park
James E. Alt
James E. Alt Harvard University
Craig A. Tovey
Craig A. Tovey Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott L. Feld
Scott L. Feld Purdue University West Lafayette
D. Marc Kilgour
D. Marc Kilgour Wilfrid Laurier University
Hervé Moulin
Hervé Moulin University of Glasgow

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