Kenneth Shepsle Wins William H. Riker Prize

Faculty Associate (emeritus) Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham Research Professor of Government at Harvard University, is the recipient of the William H. Riker Prize for Political Science. The award honors a social scientist in recognition of a body of research that exemplifies and advances the scientific study of politics in the spirit of William Riker. Shepsle received the prize for “advancing the scientific study of politics through research in the formal political theory of structure-induced equilibria, agenda setting and committees, and parliamentary institutions.”