Professor Weller is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International Relations. His primary research project investigates how information affects coordination and cooperation in politics. He is currently using a network approach to model the information environment in which individuals make choices, and he tests these models using experiments to study how the information environment affects a group's ability to resolve coordination problems. In a separate research project he is studying how different types of information affect the reputation of political consultants, and how consultants and political candidates decide to work together. He has also written about the diffusion of state tax and expenditures limits among U.S. states, the role of political parties in U.S. trade legislation, and the relationship between state capacity and income taxation. He has a B.A. from Rice University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Education
B.A. History and Policy Studies, Rice University, 5/1999
Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, SanDiego, 9/2008
Publications
Journal Article
Moule, E., Weller, N. W.
(2011).
Learning in Laboratories of Democracy: The Diffusion of Political Information via Direct Democracy in the U.S. States. State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Vol. 11 (3)
Boudreau, C., McCubbins, M. D., Rodriguez, D., Weller, N. W.
(2010).
Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How Political and Legal Institutions Can Facilitate Consensus. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Weller, N. W.
(2009).
Trading Policy: Constituents and Party in U.S. Trade Policy. Public Choice.
Vol. 141 (1), pp. 87.
McCubbins, M. D., Paturi, R., Weller, N. W.
(2009).
Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination. American Politics Research.
Vol. 37 (5)
Proceedings
McCubbins, M. D., Turner, M., Weller, N.
(2011).
The Challenge of Flexible Intelligence for Models of Human Behavior. Spring 2012. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Enemark, D., McCubbins, M., Paturi, R., Weller, N.
(2011).
Does more connectivity help groups to solve social problems?. Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Electronic Commerce 2011.
