collaboration with prominent Ukrainian Sociologist, Valeriy Khmelko and Melvin J. Hinich resulted in publications in Post-Soviet Affairs (1999, 2002), where they analyze the results of Ukraine's 1998 parliamentary and 1999 presidential elections using spatial model of voting, specifically concentrating on East/West divide of Ukraine. Teaching and Mentoring Ordeshook has been an outstanding mentor and adviser to graduate students. His notable students and mentees include Emerson Niou, Kenneth Williams, Guofu Tan, Arthur Lupia, Langche Zeng, Yan Chen, Katerina Sherstyuk and Olga Shvetsova and Marianna Klochko. He was the Director of Graduate Studies in the early to mid 1990s at Caltech Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, putting a significant effort in finding and attracting promising graduate students to the program, and further pioneering recruitment of students from China and the former USSR. Aligned with Ordeshook’s research interest in voting, corruption and constitutional design, collaborations with many of these students resulted in research contributions such as Constitutional Secessions Clauses (with Yan Chen, Constitutional Political Economy,1994), Designing Federalism (with M. Filippov and O. Shvetsova, Cambridge University Press, 2004), Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks (with Marianna Klochko, Edward Elgar, 2005), and The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia and Ukraine (with Mikhail Myagkov, Cambridge University Press, 2009). Selected publications McKelvey, Richard D., and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1985. “Elections with Limited Information: A Fulfilled Expectations Model Using Contemporaneous Poll and Endorsement Data as Information Sources.” Journal of Economic Theory 36: 55-85. Ordeshook, Peter C. and Langche Zeng. 1997. "Rational Voters and Strategic Voting: Evidence from the 1968, 1980 and 1992 Elections", Journal of Theoretical Politics, 9(2): 167–187. Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy. Edward Elgar, 1997. A Political Theory Primer. Routledge Press, 1992. Constitutional Secessions Clauses (with Yan Chen), Constitutional Political Economy. 1994. The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia and Ukraine (with Mikhail Myagkov), Cambridge University Press, 2009. Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks (with Marianna Klochko), Edward Elgar, 2005. Designing Federalism (with M. Filippov and O. Shvetsova), Cambridge University Press, 2004. Game Theory and Political Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1986. The Balance of Power: Stability in International Systems (with Emerson Niou and Gregory Rose), Cambridge University Press, 1989. References External links Ordeshook's profile Google scholar page https://www.amacad.org/directory?search_api_fulltext=Ordeshook&field_class_section=21&field_class_section_1=All&field_deceased=All&sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance_DESC&sort_by=field_election_year&sort_order=DESC 1942 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Rochester alumni California Institute of Technology faculty Carnegie Mellon University faculty