Gary Walter Cox

Gary W. Cox is currently the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His work focuses primarily on the comparative study of legislative and electoral politics, formal theories of politics, British political history, and American politics. In addition to numerous articles on these topics, Cox is the author of The Efficient Secret (winner of the 1983 Samuel H Beer dissertation prize and the 2003 George H. Hallett Award), co-author of Legislative Leviathan (winner of the 1993 Richard F. Fenno Prize), author of Making Votes Count (winner of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1998 Luebbert Prize and the 2007 George H. Hallett Award); co-author of Setting the Agenda (winner of the 2006 Leon D. Epstein Book Award); and author of Marketing Sovereign Promises:  Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State (2016).  A former Guggenheim Fellow, Cox was elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Cox received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1982.