John W. Patty

John W. Patty is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.

A graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Economics and Mathematics, and earned a Masters and PhD in Economics and Social Science from California Institute of Technology.

He is a winner of the William H. Riker Book Prize and the Herbert Simon Award (APSA) for his book Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch with Sean Gailmard. Patty is a Co-editor with Torun Dewan of the Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Books Learning While Governing: Information, Accountability, and Executive Branch Institutions, with Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago Press 2012 Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility, with Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Cambridge University Press 2014