Curriculum Vitae
Mathew D. McCubbins
Publications
Authored Books:
1. The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties
and the Appropriations Process. (with D. Roderick
Kiewiet) Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
Spring 1991.
1.1 Chapter 2 reprinted in Readings in
American Politics: Analysis and
Perspective, 1st and 2nd Editions. Edited by
Ken Kollman, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
2. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the
House. (with Gary W. Cox) Berkeley: University of
California Press, Spring 1993.
2.1. Pages 253-273 reprinted in Classics
in Congressional Politics. Edited by Lisa
Campoli, Eric Heberlig, and Herb Weisberg.
Longman Press, 1999.
3. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What
They Need to Know? (with Arthur Lupia) Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
3.1. Translated and reprinted in Japanese
by Bokutakusha Ltd., 2005.
3.2. Chapter 1 reprinted in An American
Government Reader, Pearson Custom
Publishing, 2007.
3.3. Pages 205-227 reprinted in Norton
American Politics Online Reader, W. W.
Norton & Company, 2008.
3.4 Excerpted and reprinted in Readings in
American Politics: Analysis and
Perspective, 1st and 2nd Editions. Edited by
Ken Kollman, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009,
2011.
4. Stealing the Initiative: How State Government
Responds to Direct Democracy. (with Elisabeth
Gerber, Arthur Lupia, and D. Roderick Kiewiet)
Prentice-Hall, 2001.
5. Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government
in the US House of Representatives (with Gary W.
Cox) [Setting the Agenda web site] Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
5.1 Pages 17–36 reprinted in Readings in
American Politics: Analysis and
Perspective, 1st and 2nd Editions. Edited by
Ken Kollman. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009,
2011.
6. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the
House Second Edition. (with Gary W. Cox). Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
Edited Books:
1. Congress: Structure and Policy. (with Terry
Sullivan) New York: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
2. Under the Watchful Eye: Managing Presidential
Campaigns in the Television Era. Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, August 1992.
3. Structure and Policy in Japan and the United
States: An Institutionalist Approach. (with Peter
Cowhey) New York: Cambridge University Press,
August, 1995.
4. The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic
Liberalization in the Modern World. (with Paul
Drake) Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1998.
5. Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice and the
Bounds of Rationality. (with Arthur Lupia and
Samuel Popkin) Cambridge University Press, 2000.
6. Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. (with
Stephan Haggard) Cambridge University Press,
2000.
7. Party, Process and Political Change in
Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives on the
History of Congress. (with David Brady).
Stanford University Press, 2002.
8. Party, Process, and Political Change in
Congress, Volume 2: Further New Perspectives on the
History of Congress. (with David Brady). Stanford
University Press, 2007.
Articles in Journals:
1.
“Policy Components of Arms Competitions.”
American Journal of Political Science 27, 3
(1983): 385-406.
2.
“Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police
Patrols vs. Fire Alarms.” (with Thomas
Schwartz) American Journal of Political Science
28, 1 (1984): 165-179.
2.1 Reprinted in Congress: Structure and
Policy. Edited by Mathew McCubbins and
Terry Sullivan, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1987.
2.2 Reprinted in Public Administration:
Policy, Politics, and Practice. Edited by
William Johnson, Dushkin Publishing Group,
1992.
2.3 Reprinted in Constitution, Democracy
and State Power: The Institutions of
Justice. Edited by Joshua Cohen and Archon
Fung. London: Edward Elgar Publishing
Ltd., 1996.
2.4 Reprinted in Economics of
Administrative Law. Edited by Susan RoseAckerman. London: Edward Elgar Publishing
Ltd., 2007.
2.5 Readings in American Politics:
Analysis and Perspective, 1st and 2nd
Editions. ed. Ken Kollman. W. W. Norton &
Company, 2009, 2011.
3.
“Policy Choice as an Electoral Investment.”
(with Gary W. Cox and Terry Sullivan) Social
Choice and Welfare 48, 2 (1986): 370-389.
4.
“Constituency Influences on Legislative Policy
Choice.” (with Terry Sullivan) Quality and
Quantity 18, 2 (1984) 299-319.
5.
“Congressional Appropriations and the Electoral
Connection.” (with D. Roderick Kiewiet) Journal
of Politics 47, 1 (1985): 59-82.
6.
“Appropriation Decisions as a Bilateral
Bargaining Game Between the President and
Congress.” (with D. Roderick Kiewiet)
Legislative Studies Quarterly 10, 2 (1985):
181-201.
7.
“The Legislative Design of Regulatory
Structure.” American Journal of Political
Science 29, 4 (1985): 721-748.
8.
“The Politics of Flatland.” (with Thomas
Schwartz) Public Choice 46, 1 (1985): 45-60.
9.
“The Congressional Foundations of Agency
Performance.” (with Talbot Page) Public Choice
51, 2 (1986): 173-190.
10. “Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game.”
(with Gary W. Cox) Journal of Politics 48, 2
(1986): 370-389.
11. “Administrative Procedures as Instruments of
Political Control.” (with Roger G. Noll and
Barry R. Weingast) Journal of Law, Economics
and Organization 3, 2 (1987) 243-277.
11.1 Excerpted and reprinted in State and
Federal Administrative Law. Edited by
Arthur E. Bonfield and Michael Asimow,
West Publishing, 1989.
11.2 Reprinted in Economic Regulation.
Edited by Paul Joskow, Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd., 2000.
11.3 Reprinted in Regulation and
Regulatory Processes (The International
Library of Essays in Law and Society).
Edited by Cary Coglianese and Robert
Kagan, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007.
11.4 Reprinted in Economics of
Administrative Law. Edited by Susan RoseAckerman, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.,
2007.
11.5 Reprinted in Rational Choice
Politics. Edited by Torun Dewan, Keith
Dowding and Kenneth A. Shepsle, London.
Sage Publications, 2009.
11.6 Reprinted in Institutional Law and
Economics. Edited by Pablo Spiller, Edward
Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
12. “Congress, The Courts and Public Policy: Policy
Consequences of the "One Man, One Vote" Rule.”
(with Thomas Schwartz) American Journal of
Political Science, 32, 2 (1988): 388-415.
13. “Presidential Influence on Congressional
Appropriation Decisions.” (with D. Roderick
Kiewiet) American Journal of Political Science
32, 3 (1988): 713-736.
14. “Structure and Process; Politics and Policy:
Administrative Arrangements and the Political
Control of Agencies.” (with Roger G. Noll and
Barry R. Weingast). Virginia Law Review 75, 2
March (1989): 431-482.
14.1 Reprinted in The Political Economy of
Regulation. Edited by Thomas Lylon, Edward
Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2007.
15. “A Theory of Political Control and Agency
Discretion.” (with Randall L. Calvert and Barry
R. Weingast) American Journal of Political
Science 33, 3 (1989): 588-611.
16. “Parties, Committees, and Policymaking in the
U.S. Congress: A Comment on the Role of
Transaction Costs as Determinants of the
Governance Structure of Political
Institutions.” (with D. Roderick Kiewiet)
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics 145, 4 (1989): 676-685.
17. “Positive and Normative Models of Due Process:
An Integrative Approach to Administrative
Procedures.” (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R.
Weingast) Journal of Law, Economics and
Organizations 6 (1990): 307-332.
18. “On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress.”
(with Gary W. Cox) Legislative Studies
Quarterly 16, 4 (1991): 547-570.
19. “Positive Canons: The Role of Legislative
Bargains in Statutory Interpretation.” (with
Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast),
Georgetown Law Journal, February 1992.
19.1 Reprinted in Sutherland on Contracts
and Statutory Construction 5th, 6th and 7th
Editions, Thompson West Publishing.
20. “Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive
Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation.”
(under the nom de plume of McNollgast, with
Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast) Law and
Contemporary Problems 57, 1 (1994): 3-37.
20.1 Reprinted in Public Choice and Public
Law, ed. Daniel A. Farber, Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd., 2007.
20.2 Reprinted in Legal Institutions and
Economic Development, eds. Robert D.
Cooter and Francesco Parisi. Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd. 2010.
21. “Designing Bureaucratic Accountability.” (with
Arthur Lupia), Law and Contemporary Problems
57, 1 (1994): 91-126.
21.1 Excerpted and reprinted in Gellhorn
and Byse's Administrative Law, Cases and
Comments, 9th Edition. By Peter L. Strauss,
Todd Rakoff, Cynthia R. Farina, Gillian E.
Metzger, Foundation Press, 1995.
23.1 Reprinted in Positive Theories of
Congressional Institutions. Edited by
Kenneth Shepsle and Barry Weingast, Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
22. “Learning From Oversight: Police Patrols and
Fire Alarms Reconsidered.” (with Arthur Lupia)
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 10,
1 (1994): 96-125.
23. “Bonding, Structure, and the Stability of
Political Parties: Party Government in the
House.” (with Gary W. Cox) Legislative Studies
Quarterly 19, 2 (1994): 215-231.
24. “Who Controls? Information and the Structure of
Legislative Decision Making.” (with Arthur Lupia).”
Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 19, 3
(1994): 361-384.
24.1 Reprinted in Positive Theories of
Congressional Institutions. Edited by
Kenneth Shepsle and Barry Weingast, Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
25. “Politics and the Courts: A Positive Theory of
Judicial Doctrine and the Rule of Law.” (under
the nom de plume of McNollgast, with Roger G.
Noll and Barry R. Weingast) The Southern
California Law Review 68 (1995): 1631-1683.
26. “Rationality and the Foundations of Positive
Political Theory.” (with Michael Thies)
Rebaiasan (in Japanese, [Leviathan]) 19 (1996):
7-32.
27. “As a Matter of Factions: The Budgetary
Implications of Shifting Factional Control in
Japan’s LDP.” (with Michael Thies) Legislative
Studies Quarterly 22, 3 (1997): 293-329.
27.1 Reprinted in Japanese Law and Legal
Theory: The Political Economy of Japanese
Law. Edited by Mark Ramseyer, Aldershot:
Dartmouth Publishing, 2000.
27.2 Reprinted in Japanese Law. Edited by
Mark Ramseyer, Ashgate Publishing Limited,
2002.
28. “Politics, Institutions, and Outcomes:
Electricity Regulation in Argentina and Chile.”
(with William Heller) Journal of Policy Reform
1 (1996): 357-387.
29. “The Political Origins of the Administrative
Procedure Act.” (under the nom de plume of
McNollgast, with Roger G. Noll and Barry R.
Weingast) Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization 15, 1 (1999): 180-217.
29.1 Excerpted and Reprinted in Gellhorn
and Byse's Administrative Law, Cases and
Comments, 11th Edition. By Peter L.
Strauss, Todd Rakoff, Cynthia R. Farina,
Gillian E. Metzger, Foundation Press,
2011.
30. “Representation or Abdication: How Citizens Use
Institutions to Make Their Agents Accountable.”
(with Arthur Lupia) European Journal of
Political Research 37, 3 (1999): 291-307.
31. “Agenda Power in the Japanese House of
Representatives.” (with Gary Gox and Mikitaka
Masuyama) Japanese Journal of Political
Science, Fall 2000.
31.1 Reprinted in Politics of Modern
Japan: Critical Concepts in the Modern
Politics of Asia. Edited by Christopher P.
Hood, Routledge, 2008.
32. “Agenda Power in Brazil´s Câmara dos Deputados,
1989 to 1998.” (with Octavio Amorim Neto and
Gary W. Cox) World Politics 55, 4 (2003): 550578.
33. “When Does Government Limit the Impact of Voter
Initiatives? The Politics of Implementation and
Enforcement.” (with Elizabeth Gerber and Arthur
Lupia) Journal of Politics 66, 1 (2004): 43-68.
34. “Social Choice, Crypto-Initiatives and Policy
Making by Direct Democracy.” (with Thad
Kousser) Southern California Law Review 78, 4
(2005): 949-984.
35. “Lost in Translation: Social Choice Theory is
Misapplied Against Legislative Intent.” (with
Arthur Lupia) Journal of Contemporary Legal
Issues 14 (2005): 585-617.
36. “Canonical Construction and Statutory
Revisionism: The Strange Case of the
Appropriations Canon.” (with Daniel B.
Rodriguez) Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues
14 (2005): 669-715.
37. “Statutory Interpretation and The
Intentional(ist) Stance.” (with Cheryl Boudreau
and Daniel B. Rodriguez) Loyola Law Review 38
(2006): 2131-2146.
38. “The Complex Links Between Governance and
Biodiversity.” (with C. Barrett, C. Gibson, and
B. Hoffman) Conservation Biology 20, 5 (2006):
1358-1366.
39. “Agenda Control in the Bundestag, 1980 – 2002.”
(published as Mathew D. McCubbin with William
Chandler and Gary W. Cox). German Politics 15,
1 (2006).
40. “Courts, Congress and Public Policy, Part I:
The FDA, the Courts and the Regulation of
Tobacco.” (with Jeff Lax) Journal of
Contemporary Legal Issues 15 (2006): 163-198.
41. “Courts, Congress and Public Policy, Part II:
The Impact of the Reapportionment Revolution on
Urban and Rural Interests.” (with Jeff Lax)
Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 15 (2006):
199-218.
42. “Conditions for Judicial Independence.” (under
the nom de plume of McNollgast, with Roger Noll
and Barry R. Weingast) Journal of Contemporary
Legal Issues 15 (2006): 105-128.
43. “When Does Deliberating Improve Decision
Making?” (with Daniel B. Rodriguez) Journal of
Contemporary Legal Issues 15 (2006): 9-50.
44. “The Dual Path Initiative Framework.” (with
Elizabeth Garrett) Southern California Law
Review 80, 2 (2007): 299-346.
45. “What Statutes Mean: Lessons From Positive
Theories of Communication and Legislation.”
(with Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia and Daniel
B. Rodriguez) San Diego Law Review 44, 4
(2007): 957-992.
45.1 Excerpted and Reprinted in Legal
Methods, Second Edition. Edited by Peter L.
Strauss, Foundation Press, 2008.
46. “Agenda Power in the Italian Chamber of
Deputies 1988-2000.” (with Gary W. Cox and
William B. Heller) Legislative Studies
Quarterly 33, 2 (2008): 171-198.
47. “When Voters Make Laws: How Direct Democracy is
Shaping American Cities.” (with Elizabeth
Garrett). Public Works Management and Policy
13, 1 (2008): 39-61.
48. “For Whom the TEL Tolls: Can State Tax and
Expenditure Limits Effectively Reduce
Spending?” (with Thad Kousser and Ellen Moule)
State Politics and Policy Quarterly 8, 4
(2008): 331-361.
49. “Nothing But the Truth? Experiments on
Adversarial Competition, Expert Testimony, and
Decision Making.” (with Cheryl Boudreau)
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 5, 4 (2008):
751-789.
50. “Knowing When to Trust Others: An ERP Study of
Decision-Making After Receiving Information
From Unknown People.” (with Cheryl Boudreau and
Seana Coulson) Social, Cognitive, and Affective
Neuroscience 4, 1 (2009): 23-34.
51. “The Problem of Being Special: Democratic
Values and Special Assessments.” (with Vladimir
Kogan) Public Works Management and Policy 14, 1
(2009): 4-36.
52. “Connected Coordination: Network Structure and
Group Coordination.” (with Ramamohan Paturi and
Nicholas Weller) American Politics Research 37,
5 (2009): 899-920.
53. “Competition in the Courtroom: When Does Expert
Testimony Improve Juror’s Decisions.” (with
Cheryl Boudreau) Journal of Empirical Legal
Studies 6, 4 (2009): 793-817.
54. “Proposition 13 and the California Fiscal Shell
Game.” (with Colin McCubbins) California
Journal of Politics and Policy 2, 2 (2010).
55. “The Blind Leading the Blind: Who Gets Polling
Information and Does It Improve Decisions?”
(with Cheryl Boudreau) Journal of Politics 72,
2: (2010): 1-15.
56. “The Rule of Law Unplugged.” (with Daniel B.
Rodriguez and Barry R. Weingast) Emory Law
Journal 59, 6 (2010): 1455-1494.
57. “Party Power or Preferences?: QuasiExperimental Evidence from American State
Legislatures.” (with Gary Cox and Thad Kousser)
Journal of Politics 72, 3 (2010): 1–13.
58. “Changing Tracks? The Prospect for California
Pension Reform.” (with Vladimir Kogan)
California Journal of Politics and Policy 2, 3
(2010) (DOI: 10.2202/1944-4370.1111).
59. “Low Memory Distributed Protocols for 2Coloring.” (with Amos Israeli, Ramamohan
Paturi, and Andrea Vattani) in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science: Stabilization, Safety, and
Security of Distributed Systems, 12th
International Symposium 6366 (2010): 303-318.
60. “Making Mountains of Debt out of Molehills: The
Pro-Cyclical Implications of Tax and
Expenditure Limitations.” (with Ellen Moule)
National Tax Journal 63, 3 (2010): 603-621.
61. “Agenda Control in the Israeli Knesset during
Ariel Sharon’s Second Government.” (with Osnat
Akirav and Gary W. Cox) Journal of Legislative
Studies 16, 4 (2010): 251-267.
62. “Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How
Legal and Political Institutions Can Facilitate
Consensus.” (with Cheryl Boudreau, Daniel B.
Rodriguez and Nicholas Weller), Journal of
Empirical Legal Studies 7, 4 (2010) 868-885.
63. “The Dilemma of Direct Democracy.” (with Craig
M. Burnett and Elizabeth Garrett) Election Law
Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 9, 4 (2010):
305-324.
64. “Superstatutory Entrenchment: A Positive and
Normative Interrogatory.” (with Daniel
Rodriguez) 120 Yale Law Journal Online (2011):
387.
65. “Statutory Interpretation: How Much Work Does
Language Do? Deriving Interpretive Principles
From a Theory of Communication and Lawmaking.”
(with Daniel B. Rodriguez) 76 Brooklyn Law
Review 979 (2011): 979-996.
66. “Does more connectivity help groups to solve
social problems?” (with Daniel Enemark,
Ramamohan Paturi, and Nicholas Weller)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Electronic
Commerce 2011. San Jose, CA.
Articles in Books:
1.
“A Theory of Congressional Delegation.” (with
Talbot Page) In Congress: Structure and Policy.
Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry
Sullivan, New York: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
2.
“Party Politics, Divided Government, and Budget
Deficits.” In The Politics of Economic Policy
in The U.S. and Japan. Edited by Samuel
Kernell, Washington D.C.: Brookings
Institution, 1991.
3.
“Party Governance and U.S. Budget Deficits:
Divided Control and Fiscal Stalemate.” In
Politics and Economics in the Eighties. Edited
by Alberto Alesina and Geoffrey Carliner,
National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1991.
4.
“Government on Lay-Away: Federal Spending and
Deficits Under Divided Government.” In The
Politics of Divided Government. Edited by Gary
W. Cox and Samuel Kernell, Boulder: Westview
Press, 1991.
5.
“Fiscal Policy and Divided Government.” (with
Gary W. Cox) In The Politics of Divided
Government. Edited by Gary W. Cox and Samuel
Kernell, Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
6.
“Party Decline and Presidential Campaigns in
the Television Age.” In Under the Watchful Eye:
Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era.
Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins, Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.
7.
“Party Coherence on Roll Call Votes in the U.S.
House of Representatives.” (with Gary W. Cox)
In Encyclopedia of the American Legislative
System. Edited by Joel H. Silbey, New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
8.
“Equilibrium Behavior and the Appearance of
Power: Legislators, Bureaucrats and the Budget
Process in the U.S. and Japan.” (with Gregory
Noble) In Structure and Policy in Japan and the
United States. Edited by Peter Cowhey and
Mathew McCubbins, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
8.1 Reprinted in Japanese Law in Context:
Readings in Society, The Economy, and
Politics. Edited by Curtis J. Milhaupt, J.
Mark Ramseyer, and Michael K. Young, New
York: Cambridge University Press.
8.2 Reprinted in The International Library
of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd
Series, edited by J. Mark Ramseyer.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
9.
“Perceptions and Realities of Japanese
Budgeting.” (with Gregory Noble) In Structure
and Policy in Japan and the United States,
edited by Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins,
New York: Cambridge University Press, August
1995.
10. “Partisan Allocation of the Personal Vote in
Japan and the United States.” (with Frances M.
Rosenbluth) In Structure and Policy in Japan
and the United States. Edited by Peter Cowhey
and Mathew McCubbins, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
11. “The Politics of Nuclear Power in Japan and the
United States.” (with Linda Cohen and Frances
M. Rosenbluth) In Structure and Policy in Japan
and the United States. Edited by Peter Cowhey
and Mathew McCubbins, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
12.
“Putting
the State Back into State Government:
The Constitution and the Budget.” In
Constitutional Reform in California: Making
State Government More Effective and Responsive.
Edited by Bruce Cain and Roger Noll, Berkeley:
Institute of Governmental Studies, 1995.
13. “Legislative Control of Bureaucratic Policy
Making.” (under the nom de plume of McNollgast,
with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast) In
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the
Law. Edited by Peter Newman, London: PalgraveMacMillan, 1998.
14.
“Political Structure and Economic
Liberalization: Conditions and Cases from the
Developing World.” (with William Heller and
Phil Keefer) in The Origins of Liberty:
Political and Economic Liberalization in the
Modern World, edited by Paul Drake and Mathew
McCubbins, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1998.
15. “The Institutional Foundations of Political
Competence.” (with Arthur Lupia) In Elements of
Reason: Cognition, Choice and the Bounds of
Rationality. Edited by Arthur Lupia, Mathew
McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
15.1 Reprinted in Critical Concepts in
Political Science, edited by Michael
Saward, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2006.
16. “Constructing a Theory of Reasoning.” (with
Arthur Lupia and Samuel L. Popkin) In Elements
of Reason: Cognition, Choice and the Bounds of
Rationality. Edited by Arthur Lupia, Mathew
McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
17. “Beyond Rationality: Reason and the Study of
Politics.” (with Arthur Lupia and Samuel L.
Popkin) In Elements of Reason: Cognition,
Choice and the Bounds of Rationality Edited by
Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel
Popkin. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2000.
18. “Political Institutions and the Determinants of
Public Policy.” (with Stephan Haggard) In
Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. Edited by
Stephan Haggard and Mathew McCubbins, New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
19. “The Institutional Determinants of Economic
Policy Outcomes.” (with Gary W. Cox) In
Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. Edited by
Stephan Haggard and Mathew McCubbins, New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
20. “Political Institutions and Economic
Development: The Case of Electric Utility
Regulation in Argentina and Chile.” (with
William Heller In Presidents, Parliaments, and
Policy. Edited by Stephan Haggard and Mathew
McCubbins, New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2000.
21. “Agenda Power in the US House of
Representatives, 1877 to 1986.” (with Gary W.
Cox) In Party, Process and Political Change in
Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives on the
History of Congress. Edited by David W. Brady
and Mathew D. McCubbins. Stanford University
Press, 2002.
22. “Agenda Power in the US Senate, 1877 to 1986.”
(with Andrea Campbell and Gary W. Cox) In
Party, Process and Political Change in
Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives on the
History of Congress. Edited by David W. Brady
and Mathew D. McCubbins. Stanford University
Press, 2002.
23. “The Motion to Recommit in the U.S. House of
Representatives.” (with Gary W. Cox and Chris
Den Hartog) In Party, Process and Political
Change in Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives
on the History of Congress. Edited by David W.
Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins, Stanford
University Press, 2006.
24. “When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget?
Politics and Spending Limits in California,
Colorado, Utah and Washington.” (with Thad
Kousser and Kaj Rozga) In Fiscal Challenges.
Edited by Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth A.
Graddy and Howell Jackson, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
25.
“Pathways to Persuasion: How Neuroscience Can
Inform the Study and Practice of Law.” (with
Cheryl Boudreau and Seana Coulson) In Law and
Neuroscience: Current Legal Issues, Volume 13.
Edited by Michael Freeman, Oxford University
Press, 2011.
26.
“Going Cognitive: Tools for Rebuilding the
Social Sciences.” (with Mark Turner) In
Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive
Sciences. Edited by Ron Sun. MIT Press, 2012.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:
1.
“Introduction: Institutional Aspects of
Decision Processes.” (with Terry Sullivan) In
Congress: Structure and Policy. Edited by
Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan, New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
2.
“Representation.” (with Terry Sullivan) In
Congress: Structure and Policy. Edited by
Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
3.
“The Shape of Congressional Institutions.”
(with Terry Sullivan) In Congress: Structure
and Policy. Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins and
Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
4.
“The Impact of Institutional Arrangements:
Implications for the Study of Congress.” (with
Terry Sullivan) In Congress: Structure and
Policy. Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry
Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
5.
“The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on
the Development of Public Policy.” (with Terry
Sullivan) In Congress: Structure and Policy.
Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry
Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
6.
“Introduction.” In Under the Watchful Eye:
Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era.
Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins. Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.
7.
“Conclusion.” In Under the Watchful Eye:
Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era.
Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins. Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.
8.
“Introduction.” In Structure and Policy in
Japan and the United States. Edited by Peter
Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins, New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
9.
“Conclusion.” In Structure and Policy in Japan
and the United States. Edited by Peter Cowhey
and Mathew McCubbins, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
10. “The Origins of Liberty.” (with Paul Drake) In
The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic
Liberalization in the Modern World. Edited by
Paul Drake and Mathew McCubbins, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1998.
11. “Afterword.” In The Origins of Liberty:
Political and Economic Liberalization in the
Modern World. Edited by Paul Drake and Mathew
McCubbins, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1998.
12. “Gridlock and
Decisiveness
Encyclopedia
Barry Clarke
Press, 2000.
the Democratic Tradeoff Between
and Resoluteness.” In The
of Democratic Thought. Edited by
and Joe Foweraker, Routledge
13. “Legislative Process.” In The Encyclopedia of
Democratic Thought. Edited by Barry Clarke and
Joe Foweraker, Routledge Press, 2000
14. “Legislative Process and the Mirroring
Principle.” In The Handbook of the New
Institutional Economics. Edited by Claude
Menard and Mary Shirley, Kluwer Press, 2005.
15. “The Political Economy of Law.” (under the nom
de plume of McNollgast, with Roger Noll and
Barry R. Weingast). In The Handbook of Law and
Economics. Edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky and
Steven Shavell, Elsevier Press 2007.
16. “Delegation to International Agencies.” (with
David Lake) In Delegation and Agency in
International Organizations. Edited by Hawkins,
Darrin G., David Lake, Daniel Neilson, and
Michael J. Tierney. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
17. “An Introduction to PPT and the Law.” (with
Daniel B. Rodriguez) In The Handbook of
Positive Political Economy. Edited by Barry
Weingast and Donald Wittman, Oxford University
Press, 2006.
18. “American Political Geography.” (with David
Brady). In Process, Party and Policy Making:
Further New Perspective on the History of
Congress, Edited by David Brady and Mathew D.
McCubbins, Stanford University Press, 2007.
19. “Afterword.” (with David Brady). In Party,
Process, and Political Change in Congress,
Edited by David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins,
Stanford University Press, 2007.
20. “Agenda Power in the U.S. Congress in a
Comparative Perspective.” (with Gary W. Cox)
Chapter 20 in Oxford Handbook of the American
Congress. Edited by Eric Schickler and Frances
Lee, April 2011
Notes, Comments, and Responses:
1.
“Slack, Public Interest, and Structure-Induced
Policy.” (under the nom de plume of McNollgast,
with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast)
Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations 6
(1990): 203-212.
2.
“Budget Policy Making and the Appearance of
Power.” Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organizations 6 (1990): 133-153.
3.
“The Theory of Interpretive Canon and
Legislative Behavior.” (under the nom de plume
of McNollgast, with Roger G. Noll and Barry R.
Weingast) International Law and Economics
Review November (1991).
4.
“Towards a Theory of Legislative Rules Changes:
A Response to Schickler and Rich.” (with Gary
W. Cox) American Journal of Political Science
41, 4 (1997): 1376-1386.
5.
“Review: A Response to Austen-Smith.” (with
Arthur Lupia) Public Choice 106, 1/2 (2001):
183-189.
6. “Abdication or Delegation? Congress, the
Bureaucracy, and the Delegation Dilemma.”
Regulation 22, 2 (1999).
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8.
“A Précis on Legislative Leadership.” (with
Gary Cox) Extensions, Carl Albert Congressional
Research and Studies Center, Fall (2003).
“Theories of Legislative Organization.” (with
Gary Cox) American Political Science
Association – Comparative Politics Newsletter
Winter (2004).
9. “What is New in the New Statutory
Interpretation? Introduction to The Journal of
Contemporary Legal Issues Symposium.” (with
Daniel B. Rodriguez) Journal of Contemporary
Legal Issues 14 (2005): 535.
10. “Revisiting the Links between Governance and
Biodiversity Loss.” (with Christopher Barrett,
Clark Gibson and Barak Hoffman) Conservation
Biology 21, 4 (2007): 900-901.
11. “Administrative Law Agonistes.” (with Barry R.
Weingast, Roger Noll and Daniel B. Rodriguez)
108 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 108 (2008): 1522.
Book Reviews:
1.
“Foreman, Christopher H., Jr. Signals From the
Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge
of Social Regulation.” American Political
Science Review 84 1990: 302-304.
Reports:
1. “The Fiscal Shape of the American States:
Trends and issues in state budgeting in the
21st Century.” (with Ellen Moule) In Governing
Arizona, © 2009 the Communications Institute,
Los Angeles, CA.
Work in Progress:.
1. “Trusting Your Beliefs: Understanding Beliefs
and Behavior in a Trust Game.” (with Nicholas
Weller) October (2011).
2. Visit http://ssrn.com/author=17402
Education:
B.A. University of California, Irvine, 1978
M.S. California Institute of Technology, 1980
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1983
Employment:
1982-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-90
1990 2009
Spring
2001 –
Spring
2008
2006 -
Assistant Professor of
Government, University of
Texas
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Political Science,
Stanford University
Visiting Associate Professor
of Political Economy,
Graduate School of Business
Administration, Washington
University
Associate Professor of
Government, University of
Texas
Associate Professor of
Political Science, University
of California, San Diego
Professor of Political
Science, University of
California, San Diego
Distinguished Professor and
Chancellor’s Associates Chair
VIII
Adjunct Professor of Law,
University of San Diego
Adjunct Professor of Law,
2010
University of Southern
California
Provost Professor of
2010Business, Law and Political
present Economy, University of
Southern California
Honors and Awards:
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Thompson Teaching Fellow, University of Texas,
1986
Legislative Studies Section, American Political
Science Association, Congressional Quarterly
Award for Best Paper on Legislative Politics
Presented at the 1986 Meeting of the APSA, for
"Presidential Influence on Congressional
Appropriations Decisions."
American Political Science Association, Gladys
M. Kammerer Award for Best Publication on U.S.
National Policy, 1991, for The Logic of
Delegation.
Legislative Studies Section, American Political
Science Association, Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize
for the Outstanding Book Published in 1993 in
legislative studies, for Legislative Leviathan:
Party Government in the House.
Fellow, Center of Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, 1994-95
Jacob Marschak Memorial Lecturer,
Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in
the Behavioral Sciences, UCLA, 1998 & 2008
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
elected 2001
Fellow, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, elected 2011
State Politics and Policy Quarterly 2005 Best
Paper Award, for the best paper on US state
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politics presented at any political science
conference
APSA’s, Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
for outstanding and lasting significance in the
field for Setting the Agenda, 2006
Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in
Graduate Teaching, 2008
(http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/art
icle/17505; Also see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP4sx0Ob3dc)
Faculty Research Lecturer, University of
California, San Diego, 2009
Professional Activities:
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Coordinator, Law and the Behavioral Sciences
Project, UCSD, 0521. 1993-1997
Coordinator, Public Policy Research Project,
and Seminar in Law, Economics and Public
Policy, UCSD, 0521. 1997- 2009
Coordinator, Program in Behavioral,
Computational, and Social Sciences, CALIT2,
UCSD, 2007 – 2009
Coordinator, Seminar in Game Theory and Human
Behavior, USC 2010-11
Co-Director, USC-CalTech Center for the Study
of Law and Politics, 2007 - present
Co-Editor, The Journal of Law, Economics, &
Organization, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street,
Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. 1994 – 2001
Co-Editor, The Journal of Legal Analysis,
Harvard law School 2008 – present
Member, Founding Board of Directors, Society of
Empirical Legal Studies. 2006-2011
Co-President, Society for Empirical Legal
Studies, 2008-09
Member, Economics and Politics, Editorial
Board, Department of Economics, Columbia
University. 1991-1994
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Member, Legislative Studies Quarterly Editorial
Board, Comparative Legislative Research Center,
349 Schaeffer Hall, The University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa 52242. 1994-1996
Nominations Committee, American Political
Science Association, 2004-6
Service on numerous disciplinary committees,
conference program chairs and committees, and
referee for many dozens of journals in
political science, law, economics and reviewer
of grant and fellowship applications for
federal agencies and private foundations
Contact Information:
Department of Finance and Business Economics
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
3670 Trousdale Parkway
Bridge Hall 308
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0804
(Tel) (213) 740-5036
(Fax) (213) 740-6650
(personal fax) (213) 973-7538
(email) Mathew.Mccubbins@marshall.usc.edu
http://www.mccubbins.us
Gould School of Law
699 Exposition Boulevard, 421
Los Angeles, CA 90089
(email) mmccubbins@law.usc.edu