Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, 1991

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Office: 4343 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 339-7081
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: lohmann@ucla.edu

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UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

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Comparative Politics and Methodology

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Notes:
Susanne Lohmann is Professor of Political Science and Director of UCLA's Center for Governance. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics and Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, and taught in Stanford's Graduate School of Business before joining the faculty at UCLA. Her current research interests include collective action, political economy of central banking, German politics, international political economy, formal theory, experimental political economy, and computational models of ethical reasoning. Her publications explore political mechanisms of information aggregation, the politics of central banking and monetary policy, and the governance of public institutions. They have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Economic Review, the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Games and Economic Behavior, and other leading journals. Her current research focuses on the flow of information and distribution of decision making powers in university governance. Professor Lohmann has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the University of Southern California's School of Law. She received the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies in 1998.

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