Thomas Schwartz, Senior Advisor

Professor of Political Science at UCLA, Ph.D.
A leading specialist in social choice theory and mathematical political science, Thomas Schwartz is Professor of Political Science at UCLA, but his doctoral degree is rather in Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, 1969). He has also published research in American Politics and International Relations, and in moral philosophy and logic. He draws upon reasoning from philosophy, mathematics, and economics to study problems of collective choice, institutional design, and constitutional politics.

Dr. Schwartz's articles have appeared in Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Economic Theory, Constitutional Political Economy, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Logic, American Philosophical Quarterly, and other journals and anthologies of politics, economics, and philosophy. He is the author of The Logic of Collective Choice and The Art of Logical Reasoning. He helps governments and other organizations write constitutions.