Paul E. "PJ" Johnson

Professor

Department of Political Science

Contact Information

Office phone number(s): (785)864-9086
Office: 518 Blake
Personal Web Page: http://pj.freefaculty.org
Vita: http://www.ku.edu/~kups/people/vitae/Johnson_Paul.pdf
Email Address: pauljohn@ku.edu

Mailing Address:	1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
	Lawrence, KS 66044-3177
	USA

Background

Educational Background
Graduated from:

Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., Political Science, 1988
University of Iowa, M.A., Political Science, 1983
University of Kansas, B.A., Communication Studies and Political Science, 1981

First Appointed at KU: 1987

Previous Positions:

Taught for one year in the School of Management at Yale and one (incredibly long) summer at Michigan’s ICPSR summer program.

Areas of Interest

Brief list of research and teaching interests:

American government, research methodology, computer simulation, interest group politics, formal theory.

Research Statement:

I’m currently working with the Swarm toolkit to do agent-based models of politics. I recently finished work on the Artificial Stock Market and the page for that is here http://ArtStkMkt.sourceforge.net
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I’m increasingly well entertained by the idea that aggregate outcomes don’t necessarily reflect the intention of any particular actor or group, but rather they emerge.

References:

I’ve recently coalesced many of my online offerings here: http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn. That includes the Perl scripts. Other class related stuff and Swarm RPMS are on the lark account.

References Retrieved from Departmental Database
(Search found 8 references)

Brichoux, David; Johnson, Paul E. 2002.The Power of Commitment in Cooperative Social Action. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 9(9): 1.1-5.4
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/3/1.html
Huckfeldt, Robert; Johnson, Paul E.; Sprague, John D. 2002.Political Environments, Political Dynamics, and the Survival of Disagreement. Journal of Politics. 64(0): 1-21
Huckfeldt, Robert; Johnson, Paul E.; Sprague, John D. 2004. Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Johnson, Paul E. 1988. The By-Product Hypothesis and its Ramifications. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Johnson, Paul E. 1994. American Government: People, Institutions, and Policies, 3rd ed.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Johnson, Paul E. 1996.Unraveling in a Variety of Institutional Settings. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 8(0): 299-331
Johnson, Paul E. 1998. Social Choice: Theory and Research. Beverly Hills: Sage
Johnson, Paul E. 1999.Simulation modeling in political science. American Behavioral Scientist. 42(10): 1509-1530

Closing Message

So long, and thanks for all the fish! Go Broncos.