University of Rochester Political Science Department

Kevin A. Clarke
Associate Professor of Political Science

PhD, Michigan, 2001. Political methodology, international relations, and philosophy of science. Current research focuses on model discrimination and specification. Publications include "Democracy and the Logic of Political Survival" (with Randy Stone), American Political Science Review (forthcoming), "Modernizing Political Science: A Model-Based Approach" (with David Primo), Perspectives on Politics (2007), "A Simple Distribution-Free Test for Nonnested Hypotheses," Political Analysis (2007), "The Necessity of Being Comparative: Theory Confirmation in Quantitative Political Science," Comparative Political Studies (2007), "The Phantom Menace: Omitted Variable Bias in Econometric Research," Conflict Management and Peace Science (2005), "Nonparametric Model Discrimination in International Relations," Journal of Conflict Resolution (2003), "The Reverend and the Ravens," Political Analysis (2002), and "Testing Nonnested Models of International Relations: Reevaluating Realism," American Journal of Political Science (2001). Teaches courses in political methodology and international relations.

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Courses:

PSC 201	Political Inquiry
PSC 204	Research Design
PSC 272	Theories of International Relations
PSC 404	Probability and Inference
PSC 405	Linear Models
PSC 505	Maximum Likelihood Estimation