Susanne Lohmann
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
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Phone: (310) 794-5860
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E-mail:lohmann@ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
Curriculum Vitae
Short Bio
Public Policy
Human Complex Systems
Center for Governance
UCLA Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Class Websites
Course Descriptions:
Ethics and Governance
Can't We Make Moral Judgments?
Diversity, Disagreement, and Democracy
Understanding the Public Issue Life Cycle
Global Environment and World Politics
Universities, the Rise of the West, and the Rise of the Rest
Fields:
Methodology, Political Theory, Comparative Politics
Research Interests in the Past:
Game Theory; Collective Action; Monetary Policy and Central Banking
Current Research Interests:
Human Complex Systems; Ethics and Governance; Political Economy of
Universities, Science, and Higher Education
Notes:
Susanne Lohmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Human Complex Systems and Director of the Center for Governance at UCLA. Professor Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Lohmann’s articles on collective action and central banking have appeared in American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Organization, and other leading social science journals. Her current research focus is the political economy of research universities and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book titled How Universities Think: The Hidden Work of a Complex Institution, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on ethics and governance. Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.
Selected Publications on Collective Action:
“A
Signaling Model of Informative and Manipulative Political Action,” American
Political Science Review, Vol. 88, 1993:
319-333.
“Information
Aggregation Through Costly Political Action,” American Economic
Review, Vol. 84, 1994: 518-530.
“Dynamics
of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany,
1989-1991,” World Politics, Vol. 47, 1994:
42-101.
“An
Information Rationale for the Power of Special Interests,” American Political
Science Review, Vol. 92, 1998:
809-827.
Selected
Publications on Monetary Policy and Central Banking:
“Optimal
Commitment in Monetary Policy: Credibility versus Flexibility,” American
Economic Review, Vol. 82, 1992: 273-286.
“Federalism
and Central Bank Independence: The Politics of German Monetary Policy,
1957-1992,” World Politics, Vol. 50, 1998: 401-446.
“What
Price Accountability? The Lucas Island Model and the Politics of Monetary
Policy,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 43, No.
2, 1999: 396-430.
“Sollbruchstelle:
Deep Uncertainty and the Design of Monetary Institutions,” International
Finance, Vol. 3, 2000: 391-411.
Selected
Publications on the Political Economy of Universities, Science, and Higher
Education:
“Darwinian
Medicine for the University,” in Governing Academia, ed.
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University Press, 2003, pp.
71-90.
How Universities
Think: The Hidden Work of a Complex Institution.
