Luis Fernando Medina
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics
Address: 232 Cabell Hall, Of. 146
Phone: (434) 924-3664
email: lfm9b@virginia.edu
Welcome
to my home page. I have spent so much time in academia that I can now hardly
think of stuff you may need to know about me that is not related to scholarly
matters. But I have a non-academic persona, as well. As I overcome
procrastination, I will add more about it (except for that car chase incident
in the middle of the
If
I had to describe in one question my overriding intellectual interest, it would
be: ``How do economic processes generate political consequences?" Much of
my research and teaching come from here. I am addressing this question in three
different fronts. First I have just published a book called A Unified
Theory of Collective Action and Social Change (University of Michigan
Press, 2007) where I develop a new game-theoretic technique that calculates
probabilities of collective action phenomena as a function of their economic
environment. Second, I am writing several pieces where I look at the
philosophical underpinnings of this problem. Third, I am dealing with
collective-action phenomena in my teaching on insurgencies in
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