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Curriculum
Vitae
Dr. Lichbach is Professor of Government and Politics at the University
of Maryland. He received a B.A. (1973) from Brooklyn College of the City University
of New York, an M.A. (1975) from Brown University, and a Ph.D. (1978) in political
science from Northwestern University.
A theorist interested in social choice and a comparativist interested in globalization,
Lichbach explores the connections between collective action theories and political
conflict as well as the connections between collective choice theories and democratic
institutions. He is the author or editor of many books, including the award-winning
The
Rebel’s Dilemma, and of numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly
journals in political science, economics, and sociology. His work has been supported
by NSF and private foundations.
Lichbach, who was Book Review Editor of the American Political Science Review
(1994-2001), served as chair of two other political science departments: the
University of Colorado (1995-1998) and the University of California-Riverside
(1998-2001).
The
Rebel’s Dilemma (1998).
Winner of APSA’s Conflict Processes Book Award for the Best Book on Conflict
and Peace Studies Published in 1995-97.
Ann Arbor, Mi.: University of Michigan Press.
A Noble Prize in Practical Politics: Elinor Ostrom.
(2010) Public
Choice.
Identity
Versus Identity: Israel and Evangelicals and the Two Front War for Jewish Votes (2009)
(With Eric Uslaner) Politics
and Religion 2 (December): 395-419.
Charles Tilly's Problem Situations: From Class and
Revolution to Mechanisms and Contentious Politics (2010)
Perspectives on Politics
Modeling
Mechanisms of Contention: MTT's Positivist Constructivism (2008).
Qualitative Sociology 31 (December): 345-54.
Information,
Trust, and Power: The Impact of Conflict Histories, Policy Regimes, and Political
Institutions on Terrorism International
Studies Review 7 (2005): 162-65.
To
The Internet, From the Internet: Comparative Media Coverage of Transnational
Protests(with Paul D. Almeida). Mobilization 8 (October,
2003): 249-272.
Contending
Theories of Contentious Politics and the Structure-Action Problem of Social Order Annual
Review of Political Science 1 (1998): 401-24.
Contentious Maps of Contentious Politics Mobilization
2 (March, 1997): 87-98.
The 5% Percent Rule Rationality and
Society 7 (January, 1995): 126-28.
What Makes
Rational Peasants Revolutionary? Dilemma, Paradox and Irony in Peasant Collective
Action World Politics
46 (April, 1994): 382-417.
Rethinking
Rationality and Rebellion: Theories of Collective Action and Problems of Collective
Dissent Rationality and Society 6 (January, 1994): 8-39.
The
Repeated Public Goods Game: A Solution Using Tit-For-Tat and the Lindahl Point Theory
and Decision 32 (March, 1992): 133-146.
Nobody
Cites Nobody Else: Mathematical Models of Domestic Political Conflict Defence
Economics 3 (No. 4, 1992): 341-357.
Will Rational
People Rebel Against Inequality? Samson’s Choice American
Journal of Political Science 34 (November, 1990): 1049-1075.
When Is
An Arms Rivalry a Prisoner’s Dilemma? Richardson’s Models and 2x2
Games Journal
of Conflict Resolution 34 (March, 1990): 29-56.
Stability
in Richardson’s Arms Races and Cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma
Arms Rivalries American
Journal of Political Science 33 (November, 1989): 1016-1047.
An Evaluation
of ‘Does Economic Inequality Breed Political Conflict’ Studies World
Politics (July, 1989): 431-470.
Deterrence
or Escalation? The Puzzle of Aggregate Studies of Repression and Dissent Journal
of Conflict Resolution 31 (June, 1987): 266-297.
Forecasting
Internal Conflict: A Competitive Evaluation of Empirical Theories (With
Ted Gurr) Comparative Political Studies 19 (April, 1986): 3-38.
Protest
in America: Univariate ARIMA Models of the Postwar Era Western
Political Quarterly 38 (September, 1985): 388-412.
Protest:
Random or Contagious? The Postwar United Kingdom Armed Forces and
Society 11 (Summer, 1985): 581-608.
An Economic
Theory of Governability: Choosing Policy and Optimizing Performance Public
Choice 44 (No. 2, 1984): 307-337.
Optimal
Electoral Strategies for Socialist Parties: Does Social Class Matter to Party
Fortunes? Comparative Political Studies 16 (January, 1984): 419-455.
The
International News About Governability: A Comparison of the New York Times and
Six News Wires International Interactions 10 (Nos. 3-4, 1984): 311-340.
Governability
in Interwar Europe: A Formal Model of Authority and Performance Quality
and Quantity (1982): 197-216.
Alternative
Measures of Crime: A Statistical
Evaluation (With Larry J. Cohen)
Sociological Quarterly 23 (Spring, 1982): 253-266.
Regime
Change: A Test of Structuralist and Functionalist Explanations Comparative
Political Studies 14 (April, 1981): 49-73.
The Conflict
Process: A Formal Model (With
Ted Robert Gurr) Journal of Conflict Resolution 25 (March, 1981): 3-29.
Die Strukturelle
Umwandlung Von Politischen Systemen: Verknüpfungen Zwischen Herrschaftsbeziehungen
Und Dimensionen Der Performanz Politische
Vierteljahresschrift 19 (Jahrgang, 1978): 461-496.
Stability
and Change in European Electorates (With
Alan S. Zuckerman) World Politics 29 (July, 1977): 523-551.
L’Elettorato
Dei Paritit Europei (With Alan S. Zuckerman) Rivista Italiana Di
Scienza Politica 6 (No. 1, 1976): 111-138.
Rational Choice Theory (Forthcoming).
International Encyclopedia of Political Science.
Conflict Studies (Forthcoming). Encyclopedia
of Political Science.
Internal Wars Over the State: Rational Choice Institutionalism
and Contentious Politics (2009). In Manus I. Midlarsky, Ed. Handbook
of War Studies III: The Intrastate Dimension. pp. 100-154. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press.
What is Comparative Politics? (2009).
With Jeffrey Kopstein. In Mark Lichbach and Jeffrey Kopstein, Eds. Comparative
Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions In A Changing Global Order,
pp. 1-15. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
The Framework of Analysis (2009).
With Jeffrey Kopstein. In Mark Lichbach and Jeffrey Kopstein, Eds. Comparative
Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions In A Changing Global Order,
pp. 16-36. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Politics and Pragmatism: Comparative Politics During
the Past Decade (2009). In Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman,
Eds. Comparative
Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Thinking and Working in the Midst of Things: Discovery,
Explanation, and Evidence in Comparative Politics (2009). In Mark
Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, Eds. Comparative
Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Theory and Evidence (2007). In Mark
Irving Lichbach and Richard Ned Lebow, Eds.
Theory
and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations, pp. 261-284
In N.Y.: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements (2007).
With Helma DeVries. In Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, Eds. The
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, pp. 461-496. Oxford University Press.
How to Organize Your Mechanisms: Research Programs,
Stylized Facts, and Historical Narratives (2005). In
Christian
Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller, Eds. Repression
and Mobilization, pp. 227-43. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Beer
and Quiche in the Fast Lane: Signaler’s
Dilemma, Democratic Debate, and the Gulf War (2001). With
Frank A. Beer and Barry J. Baleck. In Frank A. Beer, Ed. Meanings
of War and Peace, pp. 139-49. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M
Press.
Rational Revolutionary Action In
Jack Goldstone, Ed. (1998). Encyclopedia
of Political Revolutions. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly
Books.
Competing Theories of Contentious Politics: The
Case of the Civil Rights Movement (1998). In Anne Costain
and Andrew McFarland, Eds. Social
Movements and American Political Institutions, pp. 268-84. Boston:
Rowman and Littlefield.
Social Theory and Comparative Politics In Comparative
Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (1997). Ed. With Alan
Zuckerman, pp. 239-76. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics:
An Introduction (With Alan Zuckerman) In Comparative
Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (1997). Ed. With Alan
Zuckerman, pp. 3-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The
Rebel’s Dilemma: An Evaluation of Collective
Action In Susan Flood, Ed. (1991). International Terrorism:
Policy Implications, pp. 177-89. Chicago, Il.: Office of International
Criminal Justice, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Forecasting Domestic Political Conflict (With
Ted Robert Gurr) In J. David Singer and Michael D. Wallace, Eds. (1979). To
Augur Well: Forecasting in the Social Sciences, pp. 153-93. Beverly
Hills, Ca.: Sage Publications.
An
Economic Theory of Governability: Choosing Policy and Optimizing Performance (1981).
Monograph. Wissenschaftszentrum, West Berlin, No. 81-123, 40pp.
How Does Contention Among States Causally Connect
with Contention Within States? (2008) APSA-CP
Newsletter 19 (Winter): 7-8.
The Anti-Globalization Movement In
Monty G. Marshall and Ted Robert Gurr, Eds. (2003). Peace
and Conflict. University of Maryland: Center for International Development
and Conflict Management, pp. 39-42.
An Economic Theory of Governability: Choosing Policy and
Optimizing Performance Paper Delivered at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International
Society of Political Psychology, Oxford University, England, July 19-22, 1983.
The Conflict Process: A Formal Model (With Ted
Robert Gurr)
Paper Delivered at the Berlin Conference on Large-Scale Global Modelling, Wissenschaftszentrum,
West Berlin, July, 1980.
Polity Change: Sequential and Structural Transformations
of Authority Relations in Europe, 1800-1970 Northwestern University, August, 1978.
Why the GOP can't convert the Jewish
vote (With Eric Uslaner). Forward. February 24, 2006.
Mobilizing For Peace: Majority Credibility, Minority
Power, and Ethnic Politics (With Chalinda Weerasinghe)
The Two Front War: Jews, Identity,
Liberalism, and Voting (With
Ric Uslaner)
Democracy at Stake: Strategies and Frames as Wedge
Issues Dividing Globalized Protesters (With Helma de Vries)
Contingency,
Inherency, and the Onset of Civil War (With Christian
Davenport and David A. Armstrong II)
