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Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. UC-Berkeley, 2002
State Politics, Legislatures and Legislative Elections, and California Politics
Thad Kousser joined the faculty in 2003. He has authored, co-authored, or edited the books Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism (Cambridge, 2005), Adapting to Term Limits: Recent Experiences and New Directions (PPIC, 2004), The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2008), and The Logic of American Politics, 4th Edition (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009). His work has also been published or forthcoming in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Legislative Studies Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He is a recipient of the UCSD Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award, the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, serves as co-editor of the journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and has worked as a staff assistant in the California, New Mexico, and United States Senates. Kousser spent the 2009-2010 year at Stanford University working on California constitutional reform as a Visiting Association Professor at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and as a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Contact Information
Office: SSB 369
Phone: (858) 534-3239
tkousser@ucsd.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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