Mathew D. McCubbins

Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Associates Chair


Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

 Adjunct Professor of Law,

University of Southern California

Office phone: (858) 534-3733
Office fax:      (858) 534-5170
Personal fax:   (858) 433-0504

mmccubbins@ucsd.edu

 

 


Mathew D. McCubbins is the Chancellor's Associates Chair VIII and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.  Professor McCubbins is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is the co-author of six books, The Logic of Delegation, winner of the American Political Science Association's 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award; Legislative Leviathan (First and Second Editions), winner of the American Political Science Association, Legislative Studies Section’s 1994 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize; The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?; Stealing the Initiative; and most recently, Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives, winner of the 2005 American Political Science Association, Leon Epstein Award. He is also editor or coeditor of eight additional books and has authored more than ninety scientific or legal articles, book chapters and other written entries, with one winning the 1986 Congressional Quarterly Prize for best article on legislative politics and another winning the 2005 APSA, SPPQ Award.  Professor McCubbins work has been translated into Spanish and Japanese.  Professor McCubbins was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science in 1994-95.  He served for eight years as a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, and has served on the editorial boards of Economics and Politics and the Legislative Studies Quarterly.  Presently he serves on the Board of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and is a co-Network Director for the Political Science Network (PSN) at SSRN.com.  He is presently also a co-editor of the Journal of Legal Analysis.  McCubbins is one third of McNollgast, a nom de plume adopted by McCubbins and two of his co-authors.

 

ï      Publications (with links to downloadable content)

ï      Publication by Area.

ï      UCSD Political Science Experimental Laboratory & Data        Archives

ï      PS162 Syllabus

ï      PS163 Syllabus

ï      PS 163 Links for some readings

*    Statutory Interpretation

 

Professor McCubbins has also published under the name, McCubbin and Matthew D. McCubbins