Mathew D. McCubbins

Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law and Politics
University of Southern California

Department of Finance and Business Economics
Marshall School of Business

3670 Trousdale Parkway, Bridge Hall 308, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
mmccubbins@marshall.usc.edu (213) 740-5036 (office)(213) 740-6650 (fax)

Gould School of Law 
699 Exposition Blvd., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
mmccubbins@law.usc.edu (213) 740-7538 (office)(213) 740-5502 (fax)

Department of Political Science, University of Southern California




Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
Adjunct Professor, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology


Mathew D. McCubbins is a Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy in the Marshall School of Business, Gould School of Law, and the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He also holds a courtesy appointment at the School of Policy, Planning and Development at USC and has adjunct positions at California Institute of Technology and 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 an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

McCubbins 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, 1st and 2nd 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. McCubbins is also editor or co-editor of eight additional books and has authored more than 120 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.

Mathew McCubbins’ work has been translated into Spanish and Japanese and has been reprinted more than three-dozen times. He 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 on the editorial boards of Economics and Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly. After serving as the co-president 2008-09, McCubbins serves on the board of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. He is co-editor of the Journal of Legal Analysis. He co-founded and co-directs the Political Science Network (PSN) at SSRN.com. McCubbins is one third of McNollgast, a nom de plume adopted by McCubbins and two of his coauthors.

 

Due to the expert diligence of copy-editors, Professor McCubbins has also published under the name, Mathew D. McCubbin and Matthew D. McCubbins.