Gary W. Cox (born 23 September 1955), born in

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, is a

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, the

William Bennett Munro William Bennett Munro (5 January 1875 – 4 September 1957) was a Canadian historian and political scientist. He taught at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. He was known for research on the seigneurial system in New Fr ...

Professor of Political Science at

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. He qualified as a Ph.D.,

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, in 1983, was elected a

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in 1995, elected to the

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in 1996, and was elected to the

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in 2005.

Publications

*''The Efficient Secret'', winner of the 1983 Samuel H. Beer dissertation prize and the 2003 George H. Hallett Award *''Legislative Leviathan'' (w/ Mathew D. McCubbins), Cambridge University Press (1993); winner of the 1993 Richard F Fenno Prize *''Making Votes Count'' Cambridge University Press (2002) . winner of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1998 Luebbert Prize and the 2007 George H. Hallett Award *''Setting the Agenda'' (w/ Mathew D. McCubbins), Cambridge University Press (2003); winner of the 2006 Leon D. Epstein Book Award *''Marketing Sovereign Promises: Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State'', Cambridge University Press (2016) *
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context: Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond
'' with Nathan F. Batto, Chi Huang, and Alexander C. Tan, editors. University of Michigan Press (2016). .

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