Thad Kousser

Thad Kousser is professor of political science and co-director of the Yankelovich Center at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as a legislative aide in the California, New Mexico, and U.S. Senates. He is the author of Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism , coauthor of The Power of American Governors and The Logic of American Politics , and coeditor of The New Political Geography of California and recent editions of Politics in the American...See more

Thad Kousser is professor of political science and co-director of the Yankelovich Center at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as a legislative aide in the California, New Mexico, and U.S. Senates. He is the author of Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism , coauthor of The Power of American Governors and The Logic of American Politics , and coeditor of The New Political Geography of California and recent editions of Politics in the American States . Kousser has been awarded the UCSD Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award, has served as coeditor of the journals State Politics and Policy Quarterly and Legislative Studies Quarterly . See less