Paul E. "PJ" Johnson
Professor
Department of Political Science,
Assoc. Director, CRMDA
Contact Information
Offices: 523 Blake, 470 Watson
Office phone number(s): (785)864-9086, (785)864-3353
Office hours: 2-4 Tues, 2-5 Thurs, 1-2 Friday in 470 Watson
Personal Web Page: http://pj.freefaculty.org
Vita: http://www.ku.edu/~kups/people/vitae/Johnson_Paul.pdf
Email Address: pauljohn@ku.edu
| Mailing Address: | 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 |
| Lawrence, KS 66044-3177 | |
| USA |
Background
Educational Background
Graduated from: Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., Political Science, 1988
University of Iowa, M.A., Political Science, 1983
University of Kansas, B.A., Communication Studies and Political Science, 1981
First Appointed at KU: 1987
| Previous Positions: | Taught for one year in the School of Management at Yale and one (incredibly long) summer at Michigan’s ICPSR summer program.
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Areas of Interest
Brief list of research and teaching interests:
American government, research methodology, computer simulation, interest group politics, formal theory.Research Statement:
I’m currently working with the Swarm toolkit to do agent-based models of politics. I recently finished work on the Artificial Stock Market and the page for that is here http://ArtStkMkt.sourceforge.net.
I’m increasingly well entertained by the idea that aggregate outcomes don’t necessarily reflect the intention of any particular actor or group, but rather they emerge.
References:
I’ve recently coalesced many of my online offerings here: http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn. That includes the Perl scripts. Other class related stuff and Swarm RPMS are on the lark account.References Retrieved from Departmental Database
(Search found 8 references)
Brichoux, David; Johnson, Paul E. 2002.The Power of Commitment in Cooperative Social Action. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 9(9): 1.1-5.4
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/3/1.html
Huckfeldt, Robert; Johnson, Paul E.; Sprague, John D. 2002.Political Environments, Political Dynamics, and the Survival of Disagreement. Journal of Politics. 64(0): 1-21
Huckfeldt, Robert; Johnson, Paul E.; Sprague, John D. 2004. Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Johnson, Paul E. 1988. The By-Product Hypothesis and its Ramifications. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Johnson, Paul E. 1994. American Government: People, Institutions, and Policies, 3rd ed.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Johnson, Paul E. 1996.Unraveling in a Variety of Institutional Settings. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 8(0): 299-331
Johnson, Paul E. 1998. Social Choice: Theory and Research. Beverly Hills: Sage
Johnson, Paul E. 1999.Simulation modeling in political science. American Behavioral Scientist. 42(10): 1509-1530
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