Education
Ph.D., New York University

M.A., University of Chicago

B.A., Bryn Mawr College

Biography
Susan J. Tolchin is University Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She has written The Angry American – How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation (1996, 2nd ed. 1998), and Women in the U.S. Congress.

Together with Martin Tolchin, she has co-authored 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.

Areas of Research

• Public Policy Theory
  
• Federal Government (US)
  
• Federal Regulation
  
• Ethics