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Professor (by courtesy)

• Affiliation(s)

  • Professor, Ford School
  • Director, Center for Ethics in Public Life

• Fields of Study

  • Ethics and politics, ethics and public policy

• About

  Professor Chamberlin's primary research interests are in ethics and public policy and social choice theory (representation, voting systems for multi-candidate elections). He is the Director of the Center for Ethics in Public Life.

  Selected Publications

  • "Provision of Collective Goods as a Function of Group Size,"American Political Science Review, 1974 
  • "Toward Applicable Social Choice Theory: A Comparison of Social Choice Functions under Spatial Model Assumptions,"American Political Science Review, 1978 (With Michael Cohen)
  • "Representative Deliberations and Representative Decisions: Proportional Representation and the Borda Rule," American Political Science Review, 1983 (With Paul Courant).
  • "Privatization as Institutional Choice," with John E. Jackson, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1987.
  • "Ethics and Game Theory," Ethics and International Affairs, 1989.
  • "Formal Political Theory and the Design and Evaluation of Institutions," in Institutions in American Society, ed. John E. Jackson (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990).
  • "Fairness and Secrecy: A Contractarian Approach," with Kim Lane Scheppele, Rationality and Society, 1991.

• Education

  • Stanford University, Ph.D. (Business Administration)
  • Lehigh University, B.S. (Industrial Engineering)