Kenneth A. Shepsle

Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government and a founding member of The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.

Professor Shepsle has written numerous articles on formal political theory, congressional and parliamentary politics, public policy, and political economy. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was editor of Public Choice, sits on the Board of Editors of the Cambridge University Press Series on the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions, and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association. In 1990, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was chair of the Department of Government at Harvard, 1995 - 98. 

He chaired the Faculty Planning Committee for the Center for Government and International Studies, a building complex of government, international and social scientific research centers. His current research focuses on formal models of political institutions and intergenerational politics.