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