Email: pswistak at umd•edu
Curriculum
Vitae
Education
- 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)
Fields of Study
Mathematical Models In Social Science, Formal Theory, Behavioral Decision
Theory, Methodology and Philosophy of Social Sciences.
Classes
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).
