John E. Jackson

John E. Jackson is the M. Kent Jennings Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. Jackson's major interest is in the creation, evolution and growth of market economies, with a concentration on the dynamics of firm creation, growth and death. He models these processes to understand how a variety of economic, political and sociological factors affect and are affected by these dynamics. His research integrates concepts from industrial organization, dynamic systems, organizational ecology and econometrics.

Jackson received a B.S/M.S in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 1964. In 1969, he completed his doctorate degree in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University. Jackson served in the United States Army and in the Pentagon, as a systems analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. He has held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, before coming to the University of Michigan in 1980. He has conducted funded research on over nineteen projects since 1970, and has published multiple books and articles on voting behavior, economic analysis and fiscal policies.