Michael S. Lynch

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science

Contact Information

Office phone number(s): 785-864-9039
Office: Blake 517
Office Hours: 10:00-11:30 WF
Email Address: mlynch@ku.edu
Personal Web Page: http://people.ku.edu/~mlynch/KU/
Vita: http://people.ku.edu/~mlynch/KU/Home_files/Lynch.vita.pdf

Background

Educational Background
Graduated from:

Washington University in St.Louis, Ph.D., 2007
Washington University in St.Louis, M.A., 2003
Baker University, B.S., Economics, 1998

First Appointed at KU: 2007

Areas of Interest

Brief list of research and teaching interests:

American Politics, Congressional Politics, Bureaucracy, Inter-branch Politics, Formal Theory, Spatial Voting Theory, Public Choice Theory, Quantitative Methods

Recent Publications :

"A Theory Waiting to be Discovered and Used: A Reanalysis of Canonical Experiments on Majority Rule Decisionmaking." with William T. Bianco, Gary J. Miller and Itai Sened. Journal of Politics. 68 (November 2006): 838-851.

"Constrained Instability of Majority Rule: Experiments on the Robustness of the Uncovered Set." with William T. Bianco, Gary J. Miller and Itai Sened. Forthcoming in Political Analysis.

"Adding Recess Appointments to the President's 'Tool Chest' of Unilateral Powers." with Ryan C. Black, Anthony J. Madonna and Ryan J. Owens. Forthcoming in Political Science Research Quarterly.