Norman James Schofield (January 30, 1944 – October 12, 2019)^[1] was a Scottish-Americanpolitical scientist, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at theWashington University in St. Louis.^[2][3]

Schofield earned two bachelor's degrees from theUniversity of Liverpool; one in physics in 1965 and the other in mathematics in 1966. Later he obtained two PhDs fromEssex University: the first in government in 1976 and the second in economics in 1985.

From 1970 to 1976, he was a lecturer in government atEssex University. He became an associate professor of government at theUniversity of Texas at Austin 1976 to 1979. He then became a reader in economics at Essex University from 1979 to 1986.

He came to Washington University in 1986 as a fellow to the Center of Political Economy; became subsequently adjunct professor in 1989 and made full professor in 1996.^[2][4]

Schofield is the author or co-author of the following books:

• Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (New York University Press 1984, reprinted as Studies in Economic Theory 17, Springer, 2004,ISBN 978-3-540-21138-9)
• Social Choice and Democracy (Springer, 1985,ISBN 978-0-387-15604-0)
• Advanced Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences (with Whiteley, Satchell, and Chatterji; Praeger, 1986)
• Multiparty Government: the politics of coalition in Europe (with Michael Laver, Oxford University Press, 1990, reprinted by University of Michigan Press, 1998,ISBN 978-0-472-08562-0)
• Architects of Political Change: Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2006,ISBN 978-0-521-83202-1)
• Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (with Itai Sened, Cambridge University Press, 2006,ISBN 978-0-521-45035-5)
• The Spatial Model of Politics (Routledge Series of Political Economy 95, Psychology Press, 2008,ISBN 978-0-415-32127-3)
• The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny (Oldenbourg, 2009,ISBN 978-3-486-58826-2)
• Leadership Or Chaos: The Heart and Soul of Politics (with Maria Gallego, Springer, 2011,ISBN 978-3-642-19515-0)

Schofield has been awarded honorary doctorates from theUniversity of Liverpool in 1986, and from theUniversity of Caen in 1992.^[2][4]

In 2002, Schofield won theWilliam H. Riker Prize in political science "for his path-breaking contributions to the theory of collective choice in multidimensional settings, the extension of those results to the analysis of coalition politics in parliamentary systems, and, subsequently, to the analysis of American constitutional politics."^[4]

In 2005, he was elected as a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[5]

• 1944 births
• 2019 deaths
• American political scientists
• Alumni of the University of Essex
• Alumni of the University of Liverpool
• Academics of the University of Essex
• University of Texas at Austin faculty
• Washington University in St. Louis faculty
• Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Scottish emigrants to the United States

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