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Reform and Representation: A New Method Applied to Recent Electoral Changes

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 May 2013 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015

Thad Kousser, Justin Phillips and Boris Shor

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Columbia University - Department of Political Science and University of Houston - Department of Political Science

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Social Choice, Crypto-Initiatives and Policy Making by Direct Democracy

U San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-02

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Feb 2005

Thad Kousser and Mathew D. McCubbins

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Department of Political Science and Law School, Duke University

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When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget? Politics and Spending Limits in California, Colorado, Utah and Washington

FISCAL CHALLENGES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO BUDGET POLICY, Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth Graddy, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jul 2007

Thad Kousser, Mathew D. McCubbins and Kaj Rozga

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Law School, Duke University and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

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Get Out the Vote by Mail? Evidence from a Natural/Field Experiment

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 May 2009

Kevin Arceneaux, Thad Kousser and Megan Mullin

Temple University - Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Duke University - Nicholas School for the Environment

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For Whom the TEL Tolls: Can State Tax and Expenditure Limits Effectively Reduce Spending?

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Jun 2008

Thad Kousser, Mathew D. McCubbins and Ellen Seljan

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Law School, Duke University and Lewis & Clark College

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Kingmakers or Cheerleaders? Party Power and the Causal Effects of Endorsements

EPSA 2013 Annual General Conference Paper 149

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jun 2013

Thad Kousser, Scott Lucas, Seth E. Masket and Eric McGhee

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), University of Denver and Public Policy Institute of California

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Financing Direct Democracy: Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

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Financing Direct Democracy: Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Sep 2010

John M. de Figueiredo, Chang Ho Ji and Thad Kousser

Duke University School of Law, La Sierra University and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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Financing Direct Democracy: Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

NBER Working Paper No. w16356

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Sep 2010

John M. de Figueiredo, Chang Ho Ji and Thad Kousser

Duke University School of Law, La Sierra University and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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The Roots of Executive Power

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2010

Thad Kousser and Justin Phillips

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Columbia University - Department of Political Science

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Get Out the Vote-by-Mail? A Randomized Field Experiment Testing the Effect of Mobilization in Traditional and Vote-by-Mail Precincts

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2009

Kevin Arceneaux, Thad Kousser and Megan Mullin

Temple University - Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Duke University - Nicholas School for the Environment

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Parties and Pork: Historical Evidence from the American States

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2011

Gerald Gamm and Thad Kousser

University of Rochester - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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The Embattled Metropolis: Big Cities in American State Legislatures

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2010

Gerald Gamm and Thad Kousser

University of Rochester - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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Contingent Partisanship: When Party Labels Matter - and When They Don’t - in the Distribution of Pork in American State Legislatures

APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Aug 2013

Gerald Gamm and Thad Kousser

University of Rochester - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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Parties and Pork in the Emerging Fiscal State

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2012

Thad Kousser and Gerald Gamm

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and University of Rochester - Department of Political Science

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Ideological Adaptation? The Survival Instinct of Threatened Legislators

Journal of Politics, Vol. 69, Issue 3, pp. 828-843, August 2007

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Dec 2007

Thad Kousser, Jeffrey B. Lewis and Seth E. Masket

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Lobbying at the Water's Edge: The Corporate Foreign Policy Lobby

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Nov 2015

Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton, Thad Kousser and David G. Victor

UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and UC San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy

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Does Voting by Mail Increase Participation? Using Matching to Analyze a Natural Experiment

Political Analysis, Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 428-445, 2007

Posted: 18 Aug 2009

Thad Kousser and Megan Mullin

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Duke University - Nicholas School for the Environment

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The Complicated Impact of One Person, One Vote on Political Competition and Representation

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 80, 2002

Posted: 17 Jul 2002

Nathaniel Persily, Thad Kousser and Patrick Egan

Columbia Law School, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

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