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Arthur Lupia

Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor
Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
Principal Investigator, ANES, TESS
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

4252 ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 647-7549
lupia@umich.edu
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Arthur Lupia examines how information and institutions affect policy and politics. He studies how people make decisions when they lack information and has applied these insights to topics such as voting and elections, civic competence, legislative-bureaucratic relations, parliamentary governance, and the role of the media and the internet in politics. He is co-author of two books, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? and Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Reacts to Direct Democracy, and co-editor of Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. His many articles appear in political science, economics, and law journals, and his editorials are published in leading newspapers. His research has been supported by a wide range of groups including the World Bank, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Markle Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. It has also received multiple honors including the National Academy of Sciences' Award for Initiatives in Research. He serves on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Behavior, is a member of the National Election Studies' Board of Overseers and is Political Science’s representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He presents lectures on his research regularly, having made over 140 professional presentations in 11 countries.

Selected Publications

  • Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1998. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Samuel L. Popkin (eds.). 2000. Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Elisabeth R. Gerber, Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, and D. Roderick Kiewiet. 2001. Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Arthur Lupia. 1994. " Shortcuts versus Encyclopedias: Information and Voting Behavior in California Insurance Reform Elections." American Political Science Review 88: 63-76.
  • Arthur Lupia and Kaare Strøm. 1995. "Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections." American Political Science Review 89: 648-665.
  • John D. Huber and Arthur Lupia. 2001. "Cabinet Instability and Delegation in Parliamentary Democracies." American Journal of Political Science 45: 18-32.
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