John W. Patty

John W. Patty
John W. Patty
Awards	Herbert Simon Award (APSA), William H. Riker Book Prize
Academic background
Education	California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD); University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (BA);
Thesis	Voting Games of Incomplete Information (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Thomas Palfrey
Other advisors	Richard McKelvey, Jeffrey Scot Banks, Kim Border
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University; Harvard University; Washington University in St. Louis; University of Chicago; Emory University;
Website	https://www.johnwpatty.net/

John W. Patty is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.

A graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Economics and Mathematics, and earned a Masters and PhD in Economics and Social Science from California Institute of Technology.

He is a winner of the William H. Riker Book Prize and the Herbert Simon Award (APSA) for his book Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch with Sean Gailmard. Patty is a Co-editor with Torun Dewan of the Journal of Theoretical Politics.