Kousser joined the faculty Fall Quarter, 2003. His general research interests include legislative politics, policymaking, and political regulation. His publications include work on term limits, the initiative process, voting by mail, reapportionment, campaign finance laws, the blanket primary, health care policy, and European Parliament elections.  He is the author of Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which won the APSA Legislative Studies Section’s Alan Rosenthal Prize, and the co-editor of The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2008). 

Contact Information
Office: SSB 369
Phone: (858) 534-3239
E-mail: tkousser@ucsd.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Course Websites:

• 30 Political Inquiry
• 103A California Politics
• 102G The Law of Politics
• 204A Research Design
• 253 Research in State Politics
• 271B Quantitative Methods