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Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Political Studies
  • International Institute
  • Center for International & Comparative Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Political Parties
  • Elections
  • Formal Modeling

• About

  Ken Kollman is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.  He is also Director of the International Institute and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies (Institute for Social Research) at the university.

  He has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, Perils of Centralization, on centralization in federated institutions, which includes research on the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, General Motors Corporation, and the United States government.  Along with Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer, he has created CLEA, the Constituency-Level Election Archive, which is the largest collection of returns for parliamentary elections from around the world.

• Education

  • Northwestern University, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Northwestern University, M.S. (Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences)
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A. magna cum laude