MATHEW D. McCUBBINS Department of University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 Social Sciences Bldg. 392 (voice) (858) 534-3733 (fax) (858) 534-7130 (email )[email protected]

Education

• B.A. University of California, Irvine, 1978

• M.S. California Institute of Technology, 1980

• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1983

Honors and Awards:

• 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.

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2001

Employment

1982-84 Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas

1984-85 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

1985-86 Visiting Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business Administration, Washington University

1 1986-87 Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas

1987-90 Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1990-present Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

2001-present Adjunct Professor of Law, University of San Diego

Professional Activities

• 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- Voice: (858) 534-3733; Email: [email protected].

• Co-Editor, The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. 1994 - 2001

• Member, Economics and Politics, Editorial Board, Department of Economics, Columbia University. 1991-1994.

• Member, Legislative Studies Quarterly Editorial Board, Comparative Legislative Research Center, 349 Schaeffer Hall, The University of Iowa,Iowa City, Iowa 52242. 1994-1996.

Authored Books

The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (with D. Roderick Kiewiet). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 1991.

Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House (with Gary W. Cox). Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1993.

• Pages 253-273 reprinted in Classics in Congressional Politics. ed. Lisa Campoli, Eric Heberlig, and Herb Weisberg. Longman Press, 1999.

The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (with Arthur Lupia). Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy. (with Elisabeth Gerber, Arthur Lupia, and D. Roderick Kiewiet). Prentice-Hall, 2000.

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Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (with Gary W. Cox). Forthcoming, 2005. Read it now.

Edited Books

Congress: Structure and Policy (with Terry Sullivan). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.   

Under the Watchful Eye: Managing Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, August 1992.   

Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States (with Peter Cowhey). New York: Cambridge University Press, August, 1995.

The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World (with Paul Drake). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice and the Bounds of Rationality (with Arthur Lupia and Samuel Popkin). Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy (with Stephan Haggard). Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Party, Process and Policy: Studies of the History of Congress (with David Brady). Stanford University Press, 2001.

Articles in Journals

• Policy Components of Arms Competitions , American Journal of Political Science, August 1983.

• Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols vs. Fire Alarms (with Thomas Schwartz), American Journal of Political Science, February 1984.

o Reprinted in: McCubbins, Mathew and Terry Sullivan, Congress: Structure and Policy, Cambridge University Press, 1987;

o Johnson, William C., Public Administration: Policy, Politics, and Practice, Dushkin Publishing Group;

3 o Cohen, Joshua and Archon Fung (eds.), Constitution, Democracy and State Power: The Institutions of Justice, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

• Policy Choice as an Electoral Investment (with Gary W. Cox and Terry Sullivan). Social Choice and Welfare, December 1984.

• Constituency Influences on Legislative Policy Choice (with Terry Sullivan). Quality and Quantity, Vol. 18, 1984.

• Congressional Appropriations and the Electoral Connection (with D. Roderick Kiewiet), Journal of Politics, February 1985.

• Appropriation Decisions as a Bilateral Bargaining Game Between the President and Congress (with D. Roderick Kiewiet). Legislative Studies Quarterly, May 1985.

• The Legislative Design of Regulatory Structure, American Journal of Political Science, November 1985.

• The Politics of Flatland (with Thomas Schwartz). Public Choice, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1985.

• The Congressional Foundations of Agency Performance (with Talbot Page). Public Choice, May 1986.

• Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game (with Gary W. Cox), Journal of Politics, May 1986.

• Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Fall, 1987.

o Reprinted and excerpted in: Bonfield, Arthur E. and Michael Asimow, State and Federal Administrative Law, West Publishing, 1989;

o Reprinted in Paul Joskow (ed.) Economic Regulation, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

• Congress, The Courts and Public Policy: Policy Consequences of the "One Man, One Vote" Rule (with Thomas Schwartz), American Journal of Political Science, May 1988.

4 • Presidential Influence on Congressional Appropriation Decisions (with D. Roderick Kiewiet), American Journal of Political Science, August 1988.

• 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, March 1989.

• A Theory of Political Control and Bureaucratic Discretion (with Randall L. Calvert and Barry R. Weingast). American Journal of Political Science, August 1989.

• Parties, Committees, and Policy Making in the U.S. Congress (with D. Roderick Kiewiet), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, November 1989.

• 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, 1990.

• On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress (with Gary W. Cox). Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1991.

• Positive Canons: The Role of Legislative Bargains in Statutory Interpretation (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Georgetown Law Journal, February 1992.

o Reprinted in Sutherland Statutory Construction.

• Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Law and Contemporary Problems, Winter 1994.

• Designing Bureaucratic Accountability (with Arthur Lupia), Law and Contemporary Problems, Winter 1994.

o Excerpted and reprinted in E. Gellhorn and Byse (eds.) Administrative Law, Ninth Edition.

• Learning From Oversight: Police Patrols and Fire Alarms Reconsidered (With Arthur Lupia). Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, March 1994.

• Bonding, Structure, and the Stability of Political Parties: Party Government in the House (With Gary W. Cox), Legislative Studies Quarterly, May 1994.

o Reprinted in Shepsle, Kenneth, and Barry Weingast, eds. Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions. Ann Arbor, Mi., Press 1995.

5 • Who Controls? Information and the Structure of Legislative Decision Making (with Arthur Lupia). Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1994.

o Reprinted in Shepsle, Kenneth, and Barry Weingast, eds. Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions. Ann Arbor, Mi., University of Michigan Press 1995.

• Political Control of the Judiciary: A Positive Theory of Judicial Doctrine and the Rule of Law (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast). The University of Southern California Law Review, September 1995.

• Rationality and the Foundations of Positive Political Theory (with Michael Thies). Leviathan (in Japanese), Fall 1996.

• As a Matter of Faction: The Budgetary Implications of Shifting Factional Control in Japan’s LDP (with Michael Thies). Legislative Studies Quarterly, August 1997.

o Reprinted in Ramseyer, Mark, ed., Japanese Law and Legal Theory: The Political Economy of Japanese Law. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 2000.

• Politics, Institutions, and Outcomes: Electricity Regulation in Argentina and Chile (with William Heller). Journal of Policy Reform, 1997.

• The Political Origins of the Administrative Procedure Act (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast). Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Spring 1999.

• When is Delegation Abdication: How Citizens Use Institutions to Make Their Agents Accountable (with Arthur Lupia). European Journal of Political Research, 1999.

• Agenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives (with Gary Gox and Mikitaka Masuyama). Japanese Journal of Political Science, Fall 2000.

• When Do State Governments Overturn Election Results? (with Elizabeth Gerber and Arthur Lupia). Journal of Politics, forthcoming.

Articles in Books

• A Theory of Congressional Delegation (with Talbot Page), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

6 • 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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, eds. Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

o Reprinted in Milhaupt, Curtis J., J. Mark Ramseyer, and Michael K. Young (eds.), Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, The Economy, and Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

o Reprinted in The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd Series. ed., J. Mark Ramseyer. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

• Perceptions and Realities of Japanese Budgeting (with Gregory Noble). In Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States, eds. Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

• 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,

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• 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, eds. Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

• Putting the State Back into State Government: The Constitution and the Budget. In Constitutional Reform in California: Making State Government More Effective and Responsive, eds. Bruce Cain and Roger Noll. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, September 1995.

• Legislative Control of Bureaucratic Policy Making (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast). London: New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1997.

• Political Structure and Economic Liberalization: Conditions and Cases from the Developing World (with William Heller and Phil Keefer). The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World, eds. Paul Drake and Mathew McCubbins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

• The Institutional Foundations of Political Competence (with Arthur Lupia) Elements of Reason, eds. Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Constructing a Theory of Reasoning (with Arthur Lupia and Samuel L. Popkin)Elements of Reason, eds. Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Beyond Rationality: Reason and the Study of Politics (with Arthur Lupia and Samuel L. Popkin)Elements of Reason, eds. Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Political Institutions and the Determinants of Public Policy (with Stephan Haggard), in Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• The Institutional Determinants of Economic Policy Outcomes (with Gary W. Cox), in Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Political Institutions and Economic Development: The Case of Electric Utility Regulation in Argentina and Chile (with William Heller), in Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

8 • Agenda Power in the US House of Representatives, 1877 to 1986 (with Gary W. Cox). To be included in Brady and McCubbins, Parties, Procedure and Policy: Essays on the History of Congress, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2002.

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

• Introduction: Institutional Aspects of Decision Processes (with Terry Sullivan), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• Representation (with Terry Sullivan), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• The Shape of Congressional Institutions (with Terry Sullivan), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• The Impact of Institutional Arrangements: Implications for the Study of Congress (with Terry Sullivan), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on the Development of Public Policy (with Terry Sullivan), in Congress: Structure and Policy, eds. Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• Introduction, in Under the Watchful Eye: Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era, edited by Mathew D. McCubbins. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.

• Conclusion, in Under the Watchful Eye: Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era, edited by Mathew D. McCubbins. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.

• Introduction, in Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins (eds.) Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

• Conclusion, in Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins (eds.)Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

• The Origins of Liberty (with Paul Drake), in Paul Drake and Mathew McCubbins (eds.), The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

9 • Afterword, in Paul Drake and Mathew McCubbins (eds.), The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

• Gridlock and the Democratic Tradeoff Between Decisiveness and Resoluteness. In The Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, eds. Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker, Routledge Press, 2000.

• Legislative Process. In The Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, eds. Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker, Routledge Press, 2000

• Legislative Process and the Mirroring Principle. In The Handbook of the New Institutional Economics, eds. Claude Menard and Mary Shirley, Kluwer Press, forthcoming 2004.

• The Positive Political Theory of Law (with Roger Noll and Barry R. Weingast). In The Handbook of Law and Economics, edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, forthcoming Elsevier Press 2004.

Notes, Comments, and Responses

• Slack, Public Interest, and Structure-Induced Policy (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations, 1990.

• Budget Policy Making and the Appearance of Power. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, 1990.

• The Theory of Interpretive Canon and Legislative Behavior: A Comment on Rodriquez (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), International Law and Economics Review, November 1991.

• Towards a Theory of Legislative Rules Changes: A Response to Schickler and Rich (with Gary W. Cox). American Journal of Political Science, July 1997.

• Abdication or Delegation? Congress, the Bureaucracy, and the Delegation Diemma. Regulation. 1999, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Book Reviews

• Foreman, Christopher H., Jr. Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation. American Political Science Review Vol. 84, March 1990: 302-304.

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Articles

• Packing the Courts: The Politics of Creating Federal Judgeships (with Roger Noll and Barry R. Weingast).

• Political Credibility and Economic Reform: A Report for the World Bank (with Arthur Lupia).

• Conditions for the Stability of Political Agreements: A Report for the World Bank (with Arthur Lupia).

• Resurrecting the Will of the People: Cognition, Complexity and Social Choice Theory (with Arthur Lupia).

• Statutory Interpretation: Defending Intentionalism (with Dan Rodriguez). Forthcoming.

• Rethinking Canons of Interpretation (with Dan Rodriguez). Forthcoming.

Books and Edited Volumes

• Legislative Leviathan Revisited: Parties, Procedure and Policymaking in the US Congress (with Gary W. Cox). Forthcoming, Summer 2003.

• What Statutes Mean: Positive Political Theory and Statutory Interpretation (with Dan Rodriguez). Forthcoming, December 2003.

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