Melvin Hinich

Biography

Professor Hinich has coauthored seven books and over 100 articles that traverse four fields: the spatial theory of voting in political science; time series analysis in statistics; political economy and regulatory issues in economics; and statistical theory and methods in engineering. He is on the editorial board of Public Choice, and is also an associate editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics (a distinction no other political scientist has held). He was president of the Public Choice Society from 1992-94. He is best known in social science for his pioneering efforts on the spatial theory of electoral competition, which has become a standard in the field called "formal theory" in political science.

He has been named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Public Choice Society, the American Statistical Association and a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at California Institute of Technology. Prof. Hinich's recent books include Topics in Analytical Political Economy (Elsevier Press, 2007) and Analytical Politics with Michael Munger (Cambridge University Press, 1997).