VITA
A WUFFLE, Associate to Full Professor
Born: December 2, 1960
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VITAA WUFFLE, Associate to Full Professor Born: December 2, 1960 |
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Associate to Full Professor, 2001-
Assistant to Full Professor,
1980-2001
Assistant to Associate
Professor, 1976-1980
Assistant to Assistant
Professor, 1970-1976
B.S. University of Chicago, Mathematics (1966)
M.A. University of Chicago, Political Science (1968)
Ph.D. University of
Chicago,
Political Science (1972)
Professional Articles, Research Notes and Communications (in print)
A note on 'A caveat to the 1970 APSA election.' PS (Summer 1972), 290.
Monopoly & trade is a capitalist plot. Simulation and Games (1978), 252-254. (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR.)
A note on Abraham Lincoln in Probabilityland. Theory and Decision (1979), 453-455 (under a pseudonym). PDF
Mo Fiorina's advice to children and other subordinates. Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 5 (November 1979), 292-297. PDF
The pure theory of elevators. Mathematics Magazine, Vol, 55, No. 1 (January 1982), 30-37. PDF
A Wuffle's advice to the expert witness in court. PS (Winter 1984), 60-61. PDF
Should you brush your teeth on November 6, 1984?: A rational choice perspective. PS (Summer 1984), 577-580. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Expert versus expert: Lessons from Badham v. Eu. PS (Summer 1985), 576-581. PDF
Reflections on academia. PS (Winter 1986), 57-61. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
The 'minimax blame' rule for voter choice: Help for the undecided voter on November 8, 1988. PS (Summer, 1988), 85-88. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Finagle's law and the Finagle point, a new solution concept for two-candidate competition in spatial voting games without a core. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 33, No. 2 (1989), 427-454 (with Scott Feld, Guillermo Owen, and Bernard Grofman). PDF
Uncle Wuffle's advice to the advanced graduate student. PS (December 1989), 838-839. PDF
A corollary to the third axiom of general semantics. Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 1992), 238-240. PDF
Uncle Wuffle's advice to the assistant professor, PS, (March 1993), 89-90. PDF
The political economy of the automobile: Four approaches. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 5 No 3 (July, 1993), 409-412. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Why Democrats shouldn't vote and probably shouldn't register either (with acknowledgements to R. Erikson), 1997. Journal of Theoretical Politics (with Christian Collet), 9(1): 137-140, PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Death where is thy sting? The Senate as a Ponce (de Leon) scheme. (with Thomas Brunell and William Koetzle). 1997. PS , 1: 58-59. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Credo of a "Reasonable Choice" Modeler. Journal of Theoretical Politics, (1999) 11(2): 203-206. PDF
Vindicating Anthony Downs (with Mark Gray as senior author). PS: Political Science & Politics, October, 2005, 737-740. PDF (Reprinted in Sigelman et al. (Eds.), 2011. The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR)
Uncle Wuffle's advice on job talks. 2006. PS: Political Science & Politics, (October, 2006): 883-886. PDF
Reflections on Prediction. 2011. In Sigelman et al. (Eds.), The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR.
Voter Advice in the Presidential Election of 2008: A Guide for the Perplexed. 2011. In Sigelman et al. (Eds.), The Wit and Humor of Political Science. APSA/ECPR.
Taking the Temperature: Implications for Adoption of Election Day Registration, State-Level Voter Turnout, and Life Expectancy." (with Craig Leonard Brians, and Kristine Coulter). 2012. PS: Political Science & Politics 45 (January): 78-82.
Confessions of a mad modeler. In School of Social Sciences Research Report R6, University of California, Irvine, June 1978 (rejected by so many journals that I have pretty much given up).
Winning by losing: Extremism as a rational strategy in two-party spatial competition, Unpublished manuscript, 1984 (rejected by so many journals that I have definitely given up).
The compleat guide to exercise without leaving bed. Unpublished manuscript, 1986 (available in a plain brown envelope). PDF
Of mouse and man: Philological and archeological explorations of the law, society, and culture of the sunken lands. Presented as a graduation present to the Institute on Athenian Democracy, UC Santa Cruz, July 1992.
Uncle Wuffle's helpful hints on teaching. Unpublished manuscript, 1994 (PS had the nerve to reject this masterpiece).
Four truths about truth. Unpublished manuscript, 1997 (someday this will be submitted somewhere).
Countdown to VRA Renewal, 2006 PDF
"Letter to the Editor:
Election
Forecast." PS 26 No, 2 (June 1993): 167.
The Collected Wit and Wisdom of A Wuffle, Vol I (in three folios), unpublished , 1980 or so.
The Collected Wit and Wisdom of A Wuffle, Vol II , unpublished , 1986 or so.
The Collected Wit and Wisdom of A Wuffle, Vol III , unpublished , 1990 or so.
The Collected Wit and Wisdom of A Wuffle, Vol IV , unfinished 1992 or so (available only in handwritten form scribbled on yellow pads).
The Collected Wit and
Wisdom
of A Wuffle, Vol V, unfinished ,
1997 (available
only in handwritten form scribbled on yellow pads).
The
"Eating Out Can Be Fun" Guide to Restaurants in Orange County, (unpublished but shared with
many
friends)
I am a mathematical muddler specializing
in metrical gibber, muddles of cognitive blintz, applications of
macaroni
chain theory, the life and works of Mo Fiorina and Edgar Rice
Burroughs,
and the epistemioincological development and literary exposition of the
Wuffeauldian paradigm of post-rational research.
Wife
& Wuffle
Wuffle in the Saddle