Melvin J. Hinich
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Dr. Hinich is the Mike Hogg Professor of Government and professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a research professor at the Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas.
Dr. Hinich has a long record of distinction in a number of fields. He has published papers in the fields of statistics, signal processing, economics, political science, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, and library science. His signal processing papers deal with a variety of applications from geophysics to finance. He has also made contributions in the policy area of food regulation and has coauthored a book on food regulation. Dr. Hinich collaborated with James Enlow to write the first book on the modern spatial theory of elections The Spatial Theory of Voting (Cambridge University Press, 1984). Drs. Hinich and Enlow also produced an edited volume on spatial theory, Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Dr. Hinich's more recent collaboration with Dr. Michael Munger on extending the spatial theory of elections has resulted in several papers and three books: Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Analytical Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the Public Choice Society.
Dr. Hinich received a bachelor of science (1959) and master of science (1960) in mathematics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1963.