Susan J. Tolchin is University Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She has written Global Anger: The Politics of Hate (2006), The Angry American – How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation (1996, 2nd ed. 1998), and Women in the U.S. Congress. Recently she co-wrote (with Harrison and Harris) American Democracy Now (2008).

Together with Martin Tolchin, she has co-written seven books, including the recently published A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe. They are now working on a book about current patterns in political patronage.

Susan and Martin Tolchin's books include: 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); Selling Our Security: The Erosion of America’s Assets (1992); and Glass Houses:Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom (2001). All of these books have appeared in paperback editions.

Dr. Tolchin served on the national board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and was elected fellow and to the board 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.

• American Government and Politics
• Ethics
• Federal Government (US)
• Public Policy Theory
• Regulation

Books
Tolchin, S. J., B. C. Harrison, and J. W. Harris. American Democracy Now, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Tolchin, S. J. a. M. T. A WORLD IGNITED: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Book Sections
Stabile, B., and S. J. Tolchin, “Winning Over an Increasingly Cynical Public: Debate Over Stem Cell Research and Other Biotechnologies.” In Routledge Handbook on Political Management, edited by. D. Johnson. Taylor &Francis Group, Routledge, 2008.

Presentations and Proceedings
Tolchin, S. J. Presentation on the 2008 election, Development and Public Relations Office, George Mason University, 2008.

Tolchin, S. J. “The Role of Religion and Ethnic Hostility in World Strife.” Presented to the Oxford Roundtable, Oxford University, UK, 2008.

Tolchin, S. J. “New Forms of Political Patronage.” Presented at the Wilson Center, 2008.

Op-Ed
Tolchin, S. J. “WAR – WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Chicken Congress AWOL from Battle." Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2005.

Honors
Marshall Dimock Award, conferred by the American Society for Public Administration, for the best lead article in the Public Administration Review for l996, at the annual ASPA convention, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997.

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National War College, January-March, l994.

Scholar-in-Residence, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rockefeller Foundation, May l99l.

Elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, November 1990. Elected to the Board of NAPA, 2001.

Selected by Washingtonian magazine as one of "Washington's 100 most powerful women," 1983 and 1989.

In Who's Who, Who's Who of American Women and Emerging Leaders in America.

Dilthey Fellowship Award, The George Washington University, 1983 and l994.

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Fellowship participant, Executive Seminar, March 1979.

"Teacher of the Year," awarded at Mount Vernon College,1978.

Founders Day Award - conferred with the Ph.D. by New York University, 1968.

Honors in Political Science - conferred with the B.A. by Bryn Mawr College, May 1961.