Arthur Lupia
Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Principal Investigator, American National Election Studies, and Co-Principal Investigator of the TESS Project, Arthur Lupia's work focuses on how information and institutions affect policy and politics, and particularly on how people make decisions when they lack information.
His work provides insights on voting, civic competence, legislative-bureaucratic relations, parliamentary governance, and political communication. His books include 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 Reacts to Direct Democracy (2001), and Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings (2007).
His articles and editorials have appeared in many respected journals and newspapers.
He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2006-2007) and was previously a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000). He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 and as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Now, as a Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies (www.electionstudies.org), he is helping to introduce many new procedural and methodological innovations to one of the world's best-known scientific studies of elections.
