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

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, is a

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, the William Bennett Munro 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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