University of Maryland

The Department of Government and Politics

The Department of Government & Politics
University
of Maryland  
3140 Tydings Hall
College Park, MD 20742

 


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  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987  (sociology)
  • M.A., University of Chicago, 1985  (statistics)
  • M.A., University of Warsaw, 1979  (sociology)
  • M.S., University of Warsaw, 1978  (mathematics)

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  • Associate Professor

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  • Mathematical Models In Social Science, Formal Theory, Behavioral Decision Theory, Methodology and Philosophy of Social Sciences.

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      Selected

  • (with Jonathan Bendor) Types of Evolutionary Stability and the Problem of Cooperation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 1995, Vol. 92, pp. 3596-3600.
  • (with Grzegorz Lissowski) Choosing the Best Social Order: New Principles of Justice and Normative Dimensions of Choice, American Political Science Review, 1995, Vol. 89, No.1, pp. 74-96.
  • (with Jonathan Bendor and Rod Kramer) Cooperation under Uncertainty, American Sociological Review, 1996, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 333-338.
  • (with Jonathan Bendor) The Evolutionary Stability of Cooperation, American Political Science Review, 1997, Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 290-307.
  • (with Jonathan Bendor) Evolutionary Equilibria: Characterization Theorems and Their Implications, Theory and Decision, 1998, Vol. 45, No.2, pp.99-159.
  • (with Marek Kaminski and Grzegorz Lissowski) The "Revival of Communism" or the Effect of Institutions? The 1993 Polish Parliamentary Elections, Public Choice, 1998, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp.429-449.
  • (with Jonathan Bendor) The Evolutionary Advantage of Conditional Cooperation, Complexity, 1998, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.15-18
  •  (with Jonathan Bendor) The Evolution of Norms, American Journal of Sociology, 2001, Vol. 106, No. 6: 1493-1545.
  • (with Jonathan Bendor) The Rational Foundations of Social Institutions: An Evolutionary Analysis, in Politics from Anarchy to Democracy Irwin Morris, Joe Oppenheimer and Karol Soltan editors, Stanford University Press, 2003 (forthcoming).

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  • Formal Political Theory

 

 

 

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GVPT399A

GVPT730

 

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        Recent years:

  • 1997 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
  • 1998-99 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award
  • 1998 Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the APSR in 1997
  • 1998 IREX research grant award
  • 1999 Russell Sage Foundation research grant award
  • 2001 Appointed Senior Specialist in the Fulbright Foundation
  • 2002 Senior Specialist Program Grant, Fulbright Foundation 

 

 

 

 

LINKS

 

Email: pswistak@gvpt.umd.edu

 

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