James Green-Armytage

Research Economist, New Jersey State Treasury  

James Green-Armytage graduated from Hunter College High School (where he made amateur VHS with Lin-Manuel Miranda) in 1998, from Antioch College (with a self-designed BA combining philosophy and social sciences) in 2004, and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (with a PhD in economics) in 2013. He taught for two years at Virginia Tech (where he collaborated with Nicolaus Tideman) and three years at Bard College (where he taught public economics and microeconomic theory), before going to work for the New Jersey State Treasury (where he estimates the budget effects of new and pending legislation).

James has published seven academic papers on the topic of Condorcet voting. “Cardinal-Weighted Pairwise Comparison,” “Four Condorcet-Hare Hybrid Methods for Single-Winner Elections,” “Selecting the Runoff Pair” (with Nicolaus Tideman), and “A Dodgson-Hare Synthesis” each develop new Condorcet methods. “Direct Voting and Proxy Voting” explores the idea of using Condorcet’s principle in the context of liquid democracy. “Strategic Voting and Nomination” and “Statistical Evaluation of Voting Rules” (with Nicolaus Tideman and Rafael Cosman) conduct comparative evaluations of Condorcet rules and non-Condorcet rules, with an emphasis on the potential negative effects of strategic incentives.