Norman James Schofield (January 30, 1944 – October 12, 2019)[1] was a Scottish-American political scientist, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at the Washington University in St.
[2][3] Schofield earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Liverpool; one in physics in 1965 and the other in mathematics in 1966.
He became an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin 1976 to 1979.
[2][4] In 2002, Schofield won the William H. Riker Prize in political science "for his path-breaking contributions to the theory of collective choice in multidimensional settings, the extension of those results to the analysis of coalition politics in parliamentary systems, and, subsequently, to the analysis of American constitutional politics.
"[4] In 2005, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.