Dr. Thurber is author and coauthor of numerous books
and more than fifty articles and chapters on Congress, congressional-presidential
relations, congressional budgeting, congressional reform, interest groups
and lobbying, and campaigns and elections. His most recent publications
are Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates and Voters; Campaign
Warriors: Political Consultants in Elections, edited with Candice Nelson;
Crowded Airwaves: Campaign Advertising in Elections, edited with Candice
Nelson and David Dulio; Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional
Relations; Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide; Remaking
Congress: The Politics of Congressional Stability and Change; Campaigns
and Elections: American Style, edited with Candice Nelson; and Divided
Democracy: Cooperation and Conflict Between Presidents and Congress.
Dr. Thurber has served in government as a Legislative
Assistant to the late U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota) and
U.S. Representative James G. O'Hara (Michigan). He has been involved
in congressional reorganization efforts, serving as a Senior Staff Analyst
for U.S. Representative David Obey and the Commission on Administrative
Review of the U.S. House of Representatives and for U.S. Senator Adlai
Stevenson, III and the Senate Committee on Committees, the first major
successful revision of the U.S. Senate committee system since 1946.
Professor Thurber was also a consultant to the Joint Committee on the
Organization of Congress in 1993-1994. Thurber was an American Political
Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow and chaired the APSA
Congressional Fellow Selection Committee. He was recently President
of the National Capital Area Political Science Association, the APSA
Representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences,
and he served on the Executive Board of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national
political science honor society. Dr. Thurber was appointed a Fellow
of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2000.
Dr. Thurber is interviewed frequently on CBS-TV, ABC-TV,
NBC-TV, BBC radio and TV, CNN, National Public Radio, C-SPAN, and for
major newspapers as an expert on American politics and government. He
has served recently as a consultant to BBC for a documentary on American
politics.
Dr. Thurber was born and raised in Albany, Oregon and
earned his B.S. in political science from the University of Oregon in
1966 and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 1973.
