BIO: Timothy J. Conlan received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and an A.B. degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to George Mason University, he served as Assistant Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and as a Senior Analyst with the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Dr. Conlan is the author of more than fifty books, monographs, articles, and book chapters in the areas of federalism, legislative politics, and public policy making. His 1988 book, New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan, received the "Best Book Award" from the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations of the American Political Science Association in 1998.

COURSES TAUGHT: Public policy making, federalism and intergovernmental relations, and Congress and legislative politics.

CURRENT RESEARCH: U.S. and comparative federalism, the politics of intergovernmental relations, and the politics of federal policy making.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-five Years of Intergovernmental Reform (Washington: Bookings Institution, August 1998).

"The Rehnquist Court and Contemporary American Federalism," Political Science Quarterly 116 (Summer 2001): 253-275 [with Francois Vergnoille de Chantal].

AAmerican States and Trade Promotion: Intergovernmental Cooperation and Global Competition,@ Policy Studies Review. Forthcoming. [with Michelle Sager].

"At What Price? The Costs of Federal Mandates in the 1980s," State and Local Government Review 28 (Winter 1996): 7-16.
[with Marcella Ridlen Ray]

APathways of Power: The Volatility of Tax Policy and the New Politics of Reform,@ in Durability and Change: Politics and Policymaking in the 1990's, Mark Landy and Martin Levin, eds. (Georgetown University Press. 2001). [with David R. Beam].

ANew Opportunities/Nagging Questions: The Politics of State Policy Making in the 1990s,@ in The New Devolution. Max Zawicky, ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 1999).