Maggie Penn is a Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a formal political theorist whose work focuses on social choice theory and political institutions. She regularly teaches undergraduate courses on electoral systems and agent-based modeling as well as graduate courses on positive political theory. Her work has been published with Cambridge University Press and in the. Since the fall of 2015 she has been a Managing Editor of.

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I am the Paul Klapper Professor in the College. And in the Division of Social Sciences. At the University of Chicago. My primary home is in the Political Science Department. But I am also Associated Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. I am also a Visiting Professor in the Institute for Sociology at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany.

With a focus on post-communist Europe, her research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics. Her next book manuscript,.

Some papers take longer to bake than others. Six years ago, I wrote the first version of an essay on Hannah Arendt and Bertolt Brecht. I then went back to the drawing board, and back to the archives, more than once. You can now find the final result, which I hope tells a good story while also saying something theoretically interesting, at.