Thad Kousser

Legislatures Under Stress: Promoting & Protecting the Legislative Institution

Getting the Job Done: Process and Politics in the Midwestern Legislatures

Thad Kousser is a professor of political science and co-director of the Yankelovich Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He studies American state and national politics and has authored or edited several books: The Logic of American Politics, Politics in the American States, The Power of American Governors, The New Political Geography of California, Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism, and Adapting to Term Limits: Recent Experiences and New Directions. Kousser has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and a Flinders Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Flinders University in Australia, and he received UCSD’s Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He also served as co-editor of the journals Legislative Studies Quarterly and State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and he has worked as a staff assistant in the California, New Mexico, and United States Senates. Kousser also comments on American politics for venues such as NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times.