Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD 20742, tel: (301) 405-4149, fax: (301) 314-9690, email: pswistak@gvpt.umd.edu

EDUCATION

1978 M.S. in Mathematics, University of Warsaw (with excellence)
1979 M.A. in Sociology, University of Warsaw (summa cum laude)
1985 M.A. in Statistics, University of Chicago
1987 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Chicago (with distinction) under James Coleman

EMPLOYMENT

1979-80   Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw
1980-83   Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
1983-86   Searl Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
1987-88   Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, W. Averell Harriman School
                of Business and Institute for Decision Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook
1988-94   Assistant Professor Department, of Government and Politics and the University
                of Maryland Collective Choice Center, University of Maryland at College Park
1994-       Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics and the University
                of Maryland Collective Choice Center, University of Maryland at College Park
1998-      Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Program, Department
                of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park

AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES

1972   Finalist of the National Olympiad in Mathematics and the National Olympiad in Physics
1973-9 Awarded the University of Warsaw Rector's Prizes for academic excellence eight times
1979    The Polish Mathematical Society Prize, National Master's Theses Competition
1981    The University of Warsaw Rector's Prize for Research Achievements
1983    University Fellowships awarded by: the University of Chicago, Harvard University,
            California Institute of Technology
1987    The Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize for the dissertation research
1987-   Minor research grants, consultant on research grants
1995-   Rationality and Society, member of the editorial board
1997    College of Behavioral and Social Sciences 1997 Excellence in Teaching Award
1998-9 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

MAJOR FIELDS OF INTEREST

MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: social choice theory, game
theory, behavioral decision theory, statistical methods.
METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: problems of theory
construction, theory of measurement.
POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES: influence of values and norms on market behavior.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PAPERS IN REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Some Representation Problems for Semiorders, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Vol.21,
No.2, April 1980, pp. 124-135.

How to Resist Invasion in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Behavioral Science, Vol.34,
No.2, April 1989, pp. 151-153.

Comment on Macy's "Walking out of Social Traps", Rationality and Society, Vol.2, No.2, April
1990, pp. 238-241.

Paradigms of Measurement, Theory and Decision, Vol.29, pp. 1-17, 1990.

What Games? Why Equilibria? Which Equilibria?, Rationality and Society, Vol.4, No.1,
January 1992, pp. 103-116.

Formal Rational Choice Theory: A Cumulative Science of Politics (with David Lalman and Joe
Oppenheimer), in Political Science: The State of the Discipline II (Ada Finifter, editor),
American Political Science Association: Washington DC, 1993, pp.77-104.

(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, (forthcoming).

IN POLISH (IN REFEREED PUBLICATIONS)

Uogólnione Pojecie Pomiaru [The Generalized Concept of Measurement], Prakseologia,
Vol.3-4, 1992, pp. 35-47.

(with David Lalman and Joe Oppenheimer) Formalna Teoria Wyboru Racjonalnego:
Kumulatywne Nauki Polityczne [Formal Rational Choice Theory: A Cumulative Science of
Politics], Studia Socjologiczne, 1994, 3-4 (134-135), pp.13-71.

James S. Coleman, Encyklopedia Sociologii, [Encyclopedia of Sociology] Polish Academy of
Sciences, Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 1998, pp.95-97.

(with Grzegorz Lissowski) Wybór Najlepszego Uporzadkowania Spolecznego: Nowe Zasady
Sprawiedliwosci i Normatywne Wymiary Wyboru [Choosing the Best Social Order: New
Principles of Justice and Normative Dimensions of Choice], Studia Socjologiczne, 1998, 1
(148) pp.89-136.

O Pewnych Wynikach w Naukach Spo ecznych i Ich Potencjalnym Wplywie na Filozofie Nauki
[On Some Results in the Social Sciences and Their Potential Impact on the Philosophy of
Science], Edukacja Filozoficzna, 1998, Vol 26, pp.21-35.

(with Jonathan Bendor) Ewolucyjna Stabilnosc Kooperacji [The Evolutionary Stability of
Cooperation], Studia Socjologiczne, 1998, 3 (150) pp.127-171.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND BOOKS

Semiorders and Conceptual Problems of Measurement, Proceedings of International Conference,
Technology of Science, Plock, Poland, June 1979.

(with Jonathan Bendor) The Controversy about the Evolution of Cooperation and the
Evolutionary Roots of Social Institutions.'' in W. Gasparski, M. Mlicki, and B. Banathy (eds.),
Social Agency, pp.113-135, 1996, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

After Logical Positivism: Philosophy of Science and the Social Sciences. In Sklonnosc
Metafizyczna (M. Omyla editor), pp. 343-354, 1997, Warszawa: Wydzia Filozofii i Socjologii
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego [The University of Warsaw Press].

(with Marek Kaminski and Grzegorz Lissowski) The "Revival of Communism" or the Effect of
Institutions? The 1993 Polish Parliamentary Elections, in Empirical Studies in Comparative
Politics (Melvin J. Hinich and Michael C. Munger editors), pp. 211-231, 1998, Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers

Theories and Models. On the Uses of Models in Constructing Theories of Rational and Social
Choice. pp.1-144.
STATUS: Contract to publish extended by Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Manuscript under
revision.)

Statistics for Political Science, Volume I: (A) Introductory Statistics, pp. 1-169, (B) Study
Guide, pp. 1-66; Volume II: (A) Regression Analysis, pp. 1-223, (B) Study Guide, pp. 1-87
STATUS: in manuscript.

WORKING PAPERS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

After Logical Positivism: Formal Theory and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

The Evolution of Envy.

Trust, Rationality and Social Structure.

(with Grzegorz Lissowski) The Possibility of Choosing how to Choose.

(with Marek Kaminski and Grzegorz Lissowski) The Role of Formal Theory in Comparative
Research, or How to Measure Normative Attitudes?

(with Jonathan Bendor and Jeffrey Lorberbaum) Universal Instability in Repeated Interactions.

(with Jonathan Bendor) A Theory of Social Behavior and a Solution to the Riddle of Social
Norms. Working Paper. Graduate School of Business.  Stanford University.

(with Jonathan Bendor) The Evolution of Norms. Working Paper. Graduate School of Business.
Stanford University.

(with Jonathan Bendor) The Evolution of Groups and Social Structure. Working Paper.
Graduate School of Business.  Stanford University.

(with Jonathan Bendor) Finite Automata, Bounded Rationality, and Evolutionary Games.
Working Paper. Graduate School of Business.  Stanford University.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Review of "Game Theory in the Social Sciences. Vol.2. A Game-Theoretic Approach to
Political Economy," by M. Shubik, American Journal of Sociology, Vol.93, No.3, November
1987, pp. 721-722.

Review of "Polish Society in a Time of Crisis," by Stefan Nowak (ed.), Slavic Review, Vol.33,
No.1, 1988, pp.107-109.

Review of "Decision Synthesis," by S.R. Watson, and D. M. Buede, American Journal of
Sociology, Vol.94, No.5, March 1988, pp. 1254-1256.

Review of "Death in the Forest," by J.K. Zawodny, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.11, No.3,
August 1989, p.476.

A Lesson from Mathematics. The Political Science Educator, Vol.4, No.2, February 1998.

Review of "Cooperative Game Theory and Applications," by Imma Curiel, Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Review, Vol. 41, No.2, June 1999, pp.401-403.

Review of "Coalition Formation and Social Choice," by Ad M.A. Van Deemen, Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Review, Vol. 41, No.2, June 1999, pp.403-405.