Steven Brams

SteveBrams

B.S. 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. 1966, Northwestern.

Game theory; social choice theory; fair division; voting and elections; international politics

Select Publications

"When to Stop Consulting" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Revisiting the Secretary Problem" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Fairer Shootouts in Soccer: The m-n Rule" (with Mehmet S. Ismail and D.
Marc Kilgour)
"Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: Bentham vs. Rawls on Envy" (with D. Marc Kilgoup, Christian Klamler and Fan Wei)
"A Game That Stymies AI"
"Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance between White and Black" (with Mehmet S. Ismail)
"A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Every Normal-Form Game Has a Pareto-Optimal Nonmyopic Equilibrium" (with Mehmet S. Ismail)
"Making Partisan Gerrymandering Fair: One Old and Two New Methods"
"How Lies Induced Cooperation in "Golden Ball": A Game-Theoretic Analysis" (with Ben D. Mor)
"Stabilizing Cooperative Outcomes in Nuclear Cases: Theory and Cases" (with Mehmet S. Ismail)
"The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes" (with Markus Brill and Anne-Marie George)
"Making Partisan Gerrymandering Fair"
"The Catch-Up Rule in Major League Baseball," (with Aaron Isaksen)
"Stabilizing Cooperative Outcomes in Two-Person Games: Theory and Cases," (with Mehmet S. Ismail)
"Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive," (with Mehmet S. Ismail, D. Marc Kilgour, and Walter Stromquist)
"Three Persons, Two Cuts: A New Cake-Cutting Algorithm" with Peter S. Landweber
"Multiwinner Approval Voting: An Apportionment Approach" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Richard F. Potthoff)
"Catch-Up: A Game in Which the Lead Alternates" (with Aaron Isaksen, Mehmet Ismail, and Andy Nealen)
"Making the Rules of Sports Fairer" (with Mehmet Ismail)
"The Paradox of Grading Systems" (with Richard F. Potthoff)
"Maximin Envy-Free Allocation of Indivisible Items" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamer)
"How to Divide Things Fairly" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
"An Algorithm for the Proportional Division of Indivisible Items" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
"Paths to Victory in Presidential Elections: The Setup Power of Noncompetitive States" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Two-Sided Matchings: An Algorithm for Ensuring They are Minimax and Pareto-Optimal" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Law and Mechanism Design: Procedures to Induce Honest Bargaining" (with Joshua R. Mitts)
"Narrowing the Field in Elections: The Next-Two Rule" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009" (with Gustavo Camilo and Alexandra D. Franz)
"A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices" (with Todd R. Kaplan and D. Marc Kilgour)
"Satisfaction Approval Voting" (With D. Marc Kilgour)
"Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation" (With D. Marc Kilgour)
"The Undercut Procedure:An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items" (ith D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
"When Does Approval Voting Make the 'Right Choices'?" (with D. Marc Kilgour)
"Two-Person Cake-Cutting: The Optimal Number of Cuts" (with Julius B. Barbanel)
"N-Person Cake-Cutting: There May Be No Perfect Division" (with Michael A. Jones and Christian Klamler)
"Why You Shouldn't Use a Toss for Overtime" (with Zeve N. Sanderson)
"Mechanism Design in M&A Auctions" (with Joshua R. Mitts)
"Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm" (with D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)

American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Peace Science Society, Public Choice Society, Social Choice and Welfare Society, American Association for Advancement of Science.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992; President, Peace Science Society, 1990-1991; Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987; Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 1998-1999, President, Public Choice Society, 2004-2006 (Fellow, 1998).