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Bernard Grofman
Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair
Professor of Political Science and
Adjunct Professor of Economics
Director, Center for the Study of Democracy
University of California, Irvine
Department of Political Science
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine CA 92697-5100
949-824-6394
Professor Grofman received his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Universityof Chicago in 1972.  He has been teaching at the University of California, Irvine since 1976 and a Full Professor since 1980.  He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, visiting professor at the University of Michigan and at the University of Washington, and quest scholar at the Brookings Institution.  He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Mannheim (Germany) at Kansai University, Osaka (Japan), at the University of Bologna (Italy), at the Berlin Science Center (Germany), at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), at the University of Paris, II (France) and at Nuffield College, Oxford University (England), and a short term scholar-in-residence at the University of Tilburg (Netherlands) and the University of Victoria (Canada).

Curriculum Vita
Representative Books Published

Courses Taught Spring 2009
Public Choice


Courses Taught Winter 2008
US in Comparative Perspective


Courses Taught Winter, 2007
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Political Science I
Statistics for the Social Sciences Part II-Probabilitiy & Statistics

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Link to SSRN New Online Submission

Lubin, David, Brunell, Thomas, Grofman, Bernard, and Lisa Handley.  1-19-2009.  'Has the Voting Rights Act Outlived its Usefulness? In a Word, 'No'


MISCELLANEOUS PAPER


Pig and Proletariat:  Animal Farm as History.  1978. 
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SOME UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS


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Identifying Trading Blocs Among the Long Term Democracies ca. 1995
Bernard Grofman and Mark Gray


ABSTRACT
 Using 1995 bilateral trade patterns among 31 long-term democracies as the bases of our analyses, we model the extent to which trade among these nations can be characterized in terms of trade blocs. We begin with a simple regression of overall trade patterns on the trade patterns with a handful of key trading partners. This analysis supports a two-dimensional or three-dimensional structure to trade. We then adapt ideas ("k-covers" and "minimal k-covers") drawn from graph-theory to evaluate the extent to which the world consisted in 1995 of multiple trading blocs centered around leading trading nations or sets of geographically proximate nations. Our graph-theoretic analysis is supplemented by a multidimensional scaling of the same data. Based on these analyses, we argue that, ca. 1995, a tripolar structure (based on trade links to the U.S., Europe, and Japan) accounted for most of the variance from a common pattern of trade, with each of these factors having a clear geographic component. In addition, there was a fourth largely non-geographic (and non-orthogonal) factor linked to trade between members of the British Commonwealth. Above and beyond these patterns, we also find further national differences in trading patterns linked to geographic distance (e.g., a Nordic trade bloc). However, in line with the gravity model, we also find that distance is mediated by GDP in that, ceteris paribus, a country which borders on (or is geographically proximate to) nations that have large GDPs is more likely to have a high proportion of its trade with those countries than will countries with neighbors who are poor.

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What Does It Mean to Offer a "Solution" to the Problem of Ecological Inference?
Bernard Grofman and Samuel Merrill

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RECENT AMICI BRIEFS

Jackson et al. v. Perry et al. Amici Curiae (Gary King, Bernard Grofman, Andrew Gelman, and Jonathan Katz)
Vieth et al. v. Jubelirer et al. Amici Curiae (Bernard Grofman and Gary Jacobson)


Avocations

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Link to A Wuffle's Page (A Wuffle is a long-time Assistant to Professor who has been
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Links of Interest:

UCI homepage
UCI School of Social Sciences
Public Choice Society
UCI Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science
UCI Center for the Study of Democracy
UCI Interdisciplinary Concentration in Public Choice