School of Public Policy, Contributing to a Livable World



















Susan J. Tolchin
University Professor

tolchin@gmu.edu
phone: 703.993.4035
fax: 703.993.2284
George Mason School of Public Policy
4400 University Drive – MS 3C6
Fairfax VA 22030

Education

Ph.D., New York University
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Bryn Mawr College

Biography

Susan J. Tolchin is professor of public policy at The School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She has written The Angry American – How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation (1996), which was published in its second edition in 1998 by Westview Press. Together with Martin Tolchin, she has coauthored seven books, including: Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom (Westview / Perseus, 2001);To The Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House (1971); Clout: Womanpower and Politics (1974); Dismantling America: The Rush to Deregulate (1983), Buying Into America: How Foreign Money is Changing the Nation (1988), and Selling Our Security: The Erosion of America’s Assets (1992); and their most recent book, A World Ignited: How Apostles of ethnic, Religious and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe, published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Dr. Tolchin served on the national board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and was elected a fellow and a board member of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 1997, she received the Marshall Dimock Award from the American Society for Public Administration for the best lead article in the Public Administration Review for 1996, and in 1998, the Trachtenberg Award for Research from George Washington University.

Areas of Expertise

Voting trends
American electorate
Congressional ethics
American presidency