The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Alex Coram

Winthrop Professor
Political Science and International Relations

Contact details

Address

Political Science and International Relations
The University of Western Australia (M259)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2097

Fax

6488 1060

Email

abtcoram@arts.uwa.edu.au / alex.coram@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 2.01, Social Sciences Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA Tas., PhD Syd.

Publications

Books

State Anarchy and Collective Decisions: Some Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy. Palgrave (Macmillan). 2001.

Federal Stability and the Theory of the Core. Federalism Research Centre. Australian National University. 1995. Co-authored with Shapiro, P., and J. Petchey.

Research papers.
1.'The long run tendency of the rate of profit to fall', Politics, 1985. 159-165.

2.'Marx, Roemer and the falling rate of profit', Australian Economic Papers, December 1986. 265-271.

3.'The thin theory and the tough test: the minimal conditions required for capitalism to exist', British Journal of Sociology. vol. xxxviii, no.4. December 1987 .464-481.

4.'Making sense of Elster', Thesis Eleven, No.16. 1987. 214-218.

5.'The welfare state defended against Nozick’. Politics, May 1988. 56-61.

6.'Mathematical modeling and game theory: a rational choice for the social science?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, vol.24. no.3. November 1988, 459-470.

7.'Social relations and forces of production in the transition to socialism', Social Theory and Practice, Summer 1989. vol 15. no. 2. 213-229.

8.'New Marxism with added mathematics and micro-foundations', Political Theory Newsletter, vol.2. 1990, 17-24.

9.'Why political parties should make unbelievable promises', Public Choice, vol.69. no. 1. 1991. 101-105.

10.'Military expenditure and wealth in a state of nature', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 27. no. 2. July 1992. 319-325.

11.'Spoiling the class divide: struggles within the working class over distribution', British Journal of Sociology, vol. 43. no. 3. 1992. 393-420.

12.'Stolper-Samuelson, party cleavages and coalition formation in Australian politics,' Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 28. no. 1. March 1993. 135-141.

13.'State and structural dependence: a simple Marxian model', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 94. January 1994. 139-148.

14.'The problem of predictability in history: unstable systems, traffic dividers and arms races', Political Studies. vol 42. no. 1. March 1994. 5-14.

15.'States and cooperation: why tit-for-tat will not replace government in important cases', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 29. no. 3. November 1994. 575-581.

16.'Social democracy and bargaining: a hypothetical comparative system', Comparative Politics. vol. 27. no. 2. 1995. 215-229.

17.'Markets for protection and predatory behaviour in a Nozickean state of nature', Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 35, 1995. 437-440.

18.'Some applications of game theory to Marxian political economy', Rethinking Marxism, Vol.8. No 1. Spring 1995. 48-62.

19.'Second best theorems', The Theory of Institutional Design. ed., Robert Goodin. Cambridge University Press. 1996. 143-163.

20.'Social class and luck: some lessons from gambler's ruin and branching processes', Political Studies, volume xlv. March 1997. 66-77.

21.'To infinity and beyond: Hobbes and Harsanyi still nowhere near the abyss.' Canadian Journal of Political Science. September 1997. XXX.3. 555-9.

22.'Social choice theory and welfare: a short introduction to the general problem' Imprints. vol.2. no.2 October 1997. 145-156.

23.'Why social scientists should be interested in luck' Social Science Quarterly. Vol 79. No. 1. March 1998. 129-147.

24.'Social choice with normative restrictions.' Imprints. vol 2. No. 3 March 1998. 241-254.

25.'Social Choice, Public Choice and Formal Models: Some New Directions.' Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 1998. 90: 104_107.

26.'Distribution in a vote bidding game with general interest and single issue voters.' Economics Letters. vol.67. no. 3. June 2000. 239-243.

27.'Sharing the costs of maintaining environmental resources: a comparison of different programmes.' Environmental Modeling and Software. 16. 2001.

28.'Sharing taxes in a federal government:: a study in the theory of the core.' European Journal of Political Research. 39. 2001. 417-429.

29.'Equilibria in games with discontinuous payoffs.' Economics Letters. 72. 2001. 175-80.

30.'The rise and fall of support for political parties: a dynamic analysis.' Electoral Studies. 22. 2003 .603-16.

31.'International cooperation over environmental costs.' Social Science Quarterly. 2003. vol. 84. no.1. 174-90.

32.'An asymmetric dynamic struggle between pirates and producers'. Economics Working Papers. University of Massachusetts. 2006.

33.'The optimal allocation of water along a system of rivers: a continuous model with sequential bidding.' Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2006. Vol.50. Issue 3. 313-326.

34.‘Game Theory.’ The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Eds. Galligan, B., Roberts, W. Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 2007. 222.

35.‘Political Modeling.’ The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Eds. Galligan, B., Roberts, W. Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 2007. 430-31.

36.'A marketing competition with a finite termination time: some differential games' Global Journal of Business Research. 2007. Vol.1. No. 1. 157-67.

37.'Social choice problems with continuous ordering functions. ‘Economics Working Papers. University of Massachusetts. 2008.’

38.‘The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don't the rabble expropriate the rich?’ Public Choice. 2008. vol 136. 315-330.

39.‘The optimal extraction of water along an arbitrarily configured river system.’ (with L. Noakes). Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. April 2009, v. 53, iss. 2, pp. 251-64.

40.‘Relative Satisfaction and Welfare Maximizing Wealth Distribution,’ (with L. Noakes) The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: 2009. v. 9. Iss. 2. Article 1.

41.‘The Red Queen and the dynamics of marketing effort in a competition between political parties’. British Journal of Political Science. Iss. 2. April 2010. 469-475

42.‘Resource spending over time in competitions for electoral support.’ Electoral Studies. Volume 29, Issue 3, September 2010. 497-508

43.‘Social choice from an n-dimensional Euclidean space: a short impossibility proof.’ (with L. Noakes) Australian Economics Papers. December 2010. Vol 49. Iss. 4. 253-8

44.‘Super-agents and the problem of controlling the dynamics of regional arms races.’ (with L. Noakes) Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. Vol. 16 : Iss. 1,
http://www.bepress.com/peps/vol16/iss1/6.

45.'Social choice over collective bads with changing distribution of wealth: a max-limit mechanism'. Review of Policy Research. Vol 28. 2011 Issue 1. 49-63.


46.‘Maximizing welfare across a river system: an integrated management programme,’ (with L. Noakes). in eds Jarvis, D., Ramesh, Araral, Eduardo Jr; Wu Xun, ‘Regulation and Infrastructure.’ Forthcoming 2011.

47.‘The dynamics of asymmetric interactions: some insights from formal theory and Richardson models.’ (with L. Noakes) Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. Accepted 23 November 2011.

Useful links

Blogs:
http://blog.arts.uwa.edu.au/pols2206
http://blog.arts.uwa.edu.au/pols3315
http://blog.arts.uwa.edu.au/pols8605

Research profile

Research profile and publications