Dr. John Matsusaka

Biography

John Matsusaka is a Professor at USC Gould School of Law specializing in Business, Law, and Political Science. He has served as the Executive Director of the Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC, where he studies and tracks ballot measures and propositions across the country. Matsusaka is a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and held the John M. Olin Professorship in Economics at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago. He has had visiting appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology. Matsusaka graduated from the University of Washington and earned his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. His notable publications include 'For Initiative, Public Policy, American Democracy' published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004 and the article 'Direct Democracy Works' in the Journal of Economic Perspectives in 2005.

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