Mathew D. McCubbins is the Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy and teaches in the USC Gould School of Law, Marshall School of Business and USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Political Science. He is co-director of the USC Center for the Study of Law and Politics.

Professor McCubbins is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also taught at the University of Texas, Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of San Diego Law School. McCubbins is a Distinguished Professor and the Chancellor’s Associates Chair in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego.

He is the co-author of six books,  The Logic of Delegation (University of Chicago Press, 1991), winner of the APSA’s 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award; Legislative Leviathan (University of California Press, 1993), winner of the APSA’s Legislative Studies Section’s 1994 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize;  The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Stealing the Initiative (Prentice-Hall 2000); Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press, 2005), winner of the APSA’s Leon Epstein Award; and Legislative Leviathan, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is also editor or coeditor of eight additional books and has authored or coauthored more than 60 scientific articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, in political science, economics and biology, with one winning the Congressional Quarterly Prize for best article on legislative politics and another winning the SPPQ Award for best article on state politics. He has authored more than two dozen articles in law reviews or law journals.

Professor McCubbins holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science in 1994-95. He served as a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization for eight years (Oxford University Press).  He has published under the nom de plume of McNollgast with his coauthors Roger Noll and Barry Weingast. He is presently on the Board of the Society on Empirical Legal Studies and is a co-editor of the Journal of Legal Analysis, published by the Harvard Law School, and is a co-network director for the Political Science Network (PSN) within the Social Science Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com/psn/index.html).

Books

• Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House Second Edition (with Gary W. Cox). Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress (edited with David Brady). Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (with Gary W. Cox). Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Party, Process and Policy: Studies of the History of Congress (edited with David Brady). Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy. (with Elisabeth Gerber, Arthur Lupia, and D. Roderick Kiewiet). Prentice-Hall, 2000.
• Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy (edited with Stephan Haggard). Cambridge University Press, 2000. Translated and reprinted in Spanish by Fondo De Cultura Economica SA, 2006.
• Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice and the Bounds of Rationality (edited with Arthur Lupia and Samuel Popkin). Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (with Arthur Lupia). Cambridge University Press, 1998. Translated and reprinted in Japanese by Bokutakusha Ltd. 2005. Chapter 1 reprinted in, An American Government Reader, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007.
• The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in the Modern World (edited with Paul Drake). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
• Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States (edited with Peter Cowhey). New York: Cambridge University Press, August, 1995.
• 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.
• Under the Watchful Eye: Managing Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era. (Editor) Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, August 1992.
• The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (with D. Roderick Kiewiet). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 1991.
• Congress: Structure and Policy (edited with Terry Sullivan). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “What Statutes Mean: Expanding Meaning from Legislative History” (with Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, and Daniel Rodriguez). San Diego Law Review, 2007. - (Hein)
• “The Dual Path Initiative” (with Elizabeth Garrett). Southern California Law Review 80:2. January, 2007. - (Hein)
• “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 Elizabeth Garrett and Elizabeth Graddy, eds., Fiscal Challenges, Cambridge University Press, 2007 - (SSRN)
• “Deliberation and Social Welfare: When Does Deliberating Improve Decision Making?” (with Daniel B. Rodriguez). Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2006. - (Hein)
• “Conditions for Judicial Independence” (with Roger Noll and Barry R. Weingast). Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2006 - (Hein)
• “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, 2006. - (Hein)
• “Courts, Congress and Public Policy, Part I: The FDA, the Courts and the Regulation of Tobacco” (with Jeff Lax). Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2006. - (Hein)
• “Agenda Control in the German Bundestag, 1980 – 2002” (with William Chandler and Gary W. Cox). German Politics, March 2006.
• “The Elusive Links Between Governance and Biodiversity” (with C. Barrett, C. Gibson, and B. Hoffman). Conservation Biology, 2006.
• “Statutory Interpretation and The Intentional(ist) Stance” (with Cheryl Boudreau and Daniel B. Rodriguez). Loyola Law Review, 2006. - (Hein)
• “The Motion to Recommit in the U.S. House of Representatives” (with Gary W. Cox and Chris Den Hartog), in David W. Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins eds., Process, Party and Policy Making: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress. 2006. - (SSRN)
• “Afterword” (with David Brady). In Process, Party and Policy Making: Advancements in the History of Congress, Edited by David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins, 2006.
• “American Political Geography” (with David Brady). In Process, Party and Policy Making: Advancements in the History of Congress, Edited by David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins, 2006.
• “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, 2006.
• “Delegation to International Agencies” (with David Lake). In International Organizations, edited by David Lake, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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