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David Hugh-Jones, Ph.D.

	David Hugh-Jones, Ph.D.
	Research Associate
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
	This page is not maintained anymore since October 2010.
	my personal webpage

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Positions

September 2003-December 2008:	PhD student at Essex University Department of Government.
July-August 2008:	visiting research fellow at Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin.
October 2008-October 2010:	postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena.

Education

PhD in Government, University of Essex. Expected December 2008.
Masters in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University. July 2007.
MPhil in Political Theory and Intellectual History, Cambridge University, July 2000.
BA (Hons) First Class in Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, July 1998.

Dissertation

Papers on Direct Democratic Institutions. Supervisor: Hugh Ward. Advisory Board: Hugh Ward, Anthony McGann, Thomas Plümper. External Examiner: David Myatt.
Abstract: Using formal models and empirical data, I examine how direct and representative democracies interact.

Papers

• "Counter-initiatives: Spatial Theory and Evidence". Accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science.
• "Constitutions and Policy Comparisons: Direct and Representative Democracy When States Learn From Their Neighbours". Accepted for publication in the Journal of Theoretical Politics, January 2009.

Conference Papers

• "Constitutions and Policy Comparisons". Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008, the Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, March 2008 and the Essex Political Economy Seminar, October 2007.
• "Counter-Initiatives: Spatial Theory and Evidence". Presented at the Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, May 2006 and at the Essex Political Economy Seminar, October 2005.
• "Direct Democracy and Policy Outcomes: Progressive Policy Priorities in the States". Presented at the State Politics and Policy Conference, Lansing, May 2005.
• "Counter-Initiatives". Poster presentation at the Midwestern Political Science Association, April 2005.

Conference Papers

• "Explaining Institutional Change: Why Elected Politicians Implement Direct Democracy".
• "Internal and External Political Competition".
• "Anonymity, Signaling, Contributions and Ritual" (with David Reinstein).

Academic Service

• Panel chair and discussant, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008.
• Discussant for Panel B2.2, Applied Political Economy, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, March 2008.
• Panel chair for "The European Union and Dilemmas of National Identity", Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, May 2006.
• Article referee for the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Peace Research, and Public Choice.
• Organizer, Essex Department of Government PhD Colloquium, 2004-5.

Research Work

• 1999 Research Secretary to Rt Hon Frank Field MP. Wrote "Making Government Successful", a report on success measurements for welfare reform. Acted as secretary to two groups of academics, politicians and industry figures, and met with ministers, pensions industry figures and representatives from different countries.
• 2006 Research for the Institute for Public Policy Research on the relationship between poverty and turnout in UK General Elections.
• 2007 Research Assistant to Kristian Gleditsch. Developed R code to measure minimum distances in spatial datasets.

Teaching

• Lecturer, Political Game Theory (graduate course), Essex, Spring 2008.
• Teaching Assistant for Advanced Political Science (Sean Gailmard, MMSS Program), Northwestern 2007.
• Teaching Assistant for Political Theory (Michael Freeman), Essex 2005.

Workshops and Summer Schools

• LASER Summer School, Trento, 2008: Why Isn't Ethics A Behavioural Science?
• NSA Summer Institute in Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, UCLA 2007.
• ICPSR Summer School, Michigan, 2005: Advanced Game Theory.
• Oxford Spring Courses, 2005: Panel Data.
• ICPSR Summer School, Essex, 2004: Logistic Regression.

Courses Taken

Northwestern: Static Optimization, Dynamic Optimization, Microeconomics (2 quarters), Real Analysis (3 quarters), Political Economy (3 quarters), Game Theory. Independent study with David Austen-Smith (political economy of dictatorship and migration).

Essex: Political Explanation, Contemporary Political Theory. Audited: Game Theory, Mathematical Analysis, Statistics.

Fellowships and Awards

• UK Economic and Social Research Council research award for PhD.
• Graduate Assistantship, Northwestern University.

Prizes and Honors

• Scholarship: Jesus College, Cambridge.

Interests for future research

• Behavioral theory of leadership.
• Public goods experiments with subgroups.
• A model of cooperation in dynamic group conflict.

Statistics and Software Packages

R, Stata, Maple, Mathematica, Maxima, SPSS, Python, Perl, PHP et cetera.

Languages

Native English. Good French and German. Some Italian, Portuguese and Hindi. Latin and Ancient Greek.

Other interests

Agent-based modelling: I submitted one of the top ten strategies for the Tournament of Party Strategies held by James Fowler and Michael Laver at APSA 2006, and have evolved viable new strategies using genetic programming (not the better-known genetic algorithm approach).
I sing bass and occasionally write poetry.