Expertise/Areas of Interest
Thad Kousser researches legislative politics, policymaking, and political regulation. He is an expert in the areas of comparative American state politics, elections and campaigns, as well as California politics, including the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Topics of Publication
Kousser has written on topics including term limits, legislative professionalism, reapportionment, campaign finance laws, the blanket primary, the recall, health care policy, and European Parliament elections.

His book,Term Limits: Undoing the Professionalization of American State Legislatures, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and based on his 2003 dissertation that won the William Anderson prize awarded by APSA.

Background
Kousser has worked as a staffer in the US, California, and New Mexico Senates, and has worked on numerous federal, state, and local campaigns. He joined the UCSD faculty in the Fall of 2003.