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Arthur Lupia



Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

Treasurer, American Political Science Association

lupia@umich.edu
T: 734.647.7549

F: 734.764.3341

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Biography

Game Theory

Richard Boylan, John Ledyard, Arthur Lupia, Richard D. McKelvey, and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1991. "Political Competition in a Model of Economic Growth: An Experimental Study." In Thomas R. Palfrey (ed.), Contemporary Laboratory Research in Political Economy , 33 - 67. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Arthur Lupia. 1992. "Busy Voters, Agenda Control and the Power of Information." American Political Science Review 86:390-403.

Arthur Lupia. 1993. "Credibility and the Responsiveness of Direct Legislation." In William A. Barnett, Norman J. Schofield and Melvin J. Hinich (eds.) Political Economy: Institutions, Competition and Representation 379-404. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1994. "Learning From Oversight: Fire Alarms and Police Patrols Reconstructed." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 10: 96-125.

Arthur Lupia. 1994. "Bounded Rationality and 'The Institutional Foundations of Democratic Government.'" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 150: 203-210.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1994. "Who Controls? Information and the Structure of Legislative Decision Making." Legislative Studies Quarterly 19:361-384.

Arthur Lupia. 1994. "The Effect of Information on Voting Behavior and Electoral Outcomes: An Experimental Study of Direct Legislation." Public Choice 78: 65-86.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1994. "Designing Bureaucratic Accountability." Law and Contemporary Problems 57: 91-126. Sections reprinted in Peter L. Strauss, et. al. (eds.) Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments , ninth edition. Westbury, NY: Foundation Press. 1995.

Arthur Lupia and Kaare Strøm. 1995. "Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections." American Political Science Review 89: 648-665.

Elisabeth Gerber and Arthur Lupia. 1995. "Campaign Competition and Policy Responsiveness in Direct Legislation Campaigns." Political Behavior 17:287-306.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1998. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2000. "Representation or Abdication? How Citizens Use Institutions to Help Delegation Succeed." European Journal of Political Research 37: 291 - 307.

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.

Arthur Lupia. 2000. "The EU, the EEA, and Domestic Accountability: How Outside Forces Affect Delegation within Member States." Journal of Legislative Studies 6: 15-32.

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.

Gregory L. Bovitz, James N. Druckman and Arthur Lupia. 2002. "When Can a News Organization Lead Public Opinion? Ideology versus Market Forces in Decisions to Make News." Public Choice 113:127-155.

Arthur Lupia. 2002. "Who Can Persuade Whom? Implications from the Nexus of Psychology and Rational Choice Theory." In James H. Kuklinski (ed.) Thinking About Political Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 51-88.

Arthur Lupia. 2003. "Delegation and its Perils." In Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm (eds.) Delegation and Accountability in West European Parliamentary Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 33-54.

Arthur Lupia and Gisela Sin. 2003. "Which Public Goods Are Endangered? How Evolving Technologies Affect The Logic of Collective Action." Public Choice 117:315-331.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2005. "Lost in Translation: Social Choice Theory is Misapplied Against Legislative Intent." Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 14.

Arthur Lupia. 2004. "Can Political Institutions Increase Citizens' Competence? Findings from a Formal Model and Two Experiments." In Irwin Morris, Joe A. Oppenheimer, and Karol Soltan (eds.) Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 132-156.

Elisabeth R. Gerber, Arthur Lupia and Mathew McCubbins. 2004. "When Does Government Limit the Impact of Voter Initiatives?" Journal of Politics 66:43-68.

Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2005. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (Japanese translation). Tokyo : Bokutakusha.
[Data Available Here]

Arthur Lupia and Kaare Strøm. 2005. "Coalition Governance: A Theoretical Framework." In Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm (eds.) Coalition Government in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Arthur Lupia and Jesse Menning. 2007. "Politics and the Equilibrium of Fear: Can Strategies and Emotions Interact?" In Ann Crigler, Michael MacKuen, George E. Marcus, and W. Russell Neuman (eds.), The Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

David Austen-Smith and Arthur Lupia. 2007. "Information in Elections." In John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia (Eds.), Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

John H. Aldrich, James E. Alt, and Arthur Lupia (Eds.). 2007. Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Arthur Lupia and Jesse O. Menning. 2009. "When Can Politicians Scare Citizens into Supporting Bad Policies?" American Journal of Political Science 53: 90-106.

Arthur Lupia and Gisela Sin. 2008. "How the Senate and the President Affect the Balance of Power in the House: A Constitutional Theory of Intra-Chamber Bargaining." Manuscript.

Arthur Lupia, Adam Seth Levine, and Natasha Zharinova. 2010. "Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Benefits, Costs and an Application to Jury Theorems." Political Analysis 18:103-123.

 
 
Books

>The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (1998)

> Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality (2000)

> Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy (2001)

> Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings (2007)

> The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (2010)

 

Research Topics

Voting/Mass Decisions
 > Civic Competence
 > Deliberation
 > Direct Democracy
 > Experiments
 > Models
 > Political Communication
 >
Political Psychology
 > Racially Polarized Voting


Legislation/Elite Decisions
 > Delegation and Accountability
 > McCain/Feingold
 > Parliaments/Coalitions
 > Statutory Interpretation
 > Term Limits


Methods/Phil. of Science
 > Game Theory
 > Value of Political Science