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Scott de Marchi, Associate Professor

Scott de Marchi
Contact Info:
Office Location:  407 Old Chem
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4342
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://moria.poli.duke.edu/overallpage.htm

Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1998
M.A. (degree waived), University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1993
BS and BA (cum laude and with honors), Wake Forest University, 1990
Specialties:

Methods
American Politics
Research Interests: Mathematical methods :: Political behavior :: Institutions

(Ph.D., University of North Carolina (1998)), Assistant Professor of Political Science, specializes in the fields of computational political Economy and other mathematical methods, individual decision-making, the presidency, and public policy. The glue that holds these interests together is a fascination with strategic action under conditions of incomplete information. Instead of postulating that everything about a game is known a priori, his work focuses on situations in which agents use limited resources to learn as they go along. He also maintains an active interest in mathematical methods, especially insofar as these fields reflect upon human and artificial intelligence Ii.e., induction and analogy-making, classification problems, algoithms for solving extensive game forms, etc.). His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and he has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Public Choice. His first book on the foundations of mathematical methods in the social sciences, Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. He was appointed a Fellow-at-Large by the Santa Fe Institute in 1999, and is a faculty member of both the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute and the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models summer program (Michigan and Duke).

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. S. de Marchi, Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences (2005), Cambridge University Press [catalogue.asp] .
  2. S. de Marchi, Chris Gelpi and Jeff Grynaviski, Untangling Neural Networks, American Political Science Review, vol. 98 no. 2 (2004) .
  3. S. De Marchi with Brandice Canes-Wrone, The President's Ability to Capitalize on Approval for Legislative Success, Journal of Politics, vol. 64 no. 2 (2002) .
  4. S. De Marchi, Adaptive Models and Electoral Instability, Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 11 no. 3 (1999), pp. 393-419 .
  5. S. de Marchi, Melvin Hinich and Michael Munger, Ideology and the Construction of Nationality: The Canadian Elections of 1993, Public Choice, vol. 97 no. 3 (1998), pp. 401-28 .