Our Faculty

Courses I Teach

I am currently working on a new course entitled, "Culture Wars and U. S. Politics."

Publications & Presentations

American Prince, American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency and Presidential Relations

(Greenwood/Praeger, 1985, 1st ed., Trafford Publishing, 2010, 2d ed., 3d revision in process)

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Public Policy, Justice, and the Law

McGrawHill/Dushkin, November, 2005

Recent Publications

• "Au Revoir Voir Dire and Other Socioeconomic Disparities in the U. S. Legal System," New England Law Review, v. 47, Spring 2013
• "A Water Shed Election: The 2012 U. S. Presidential Election and Policies for the Next Administration," AngloAmerican University and IJAS, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2013.
• "The Crisis Presidency: What Price National Security?" International Journal of Arts and Sciences Vol 5, No. 6, 2013

Books and Chapter Contributions

• Research in progress for a book on individual acts of courage and conscience
• "Ogunquit: Then and Now," co-authored with Kathryn M. Severson and Susan D. Meffert, Arcadia Press, spring 2009
• American Prince, American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency and Presidential Relations, revision of American Prince, American Pauper: The Contemporary Vice Presidency in Perspective (see link below), spring 2010 
• Research under way on a book dealing with 9/11, civil liberties and the American Presidency.
• Understanding American Government, 6th ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, spring 2013
• Understanding American Government, 5th ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, spring 2011
• Understanding American Government, 4th ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, spring, 2009
• Understanding American Government, 3d ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, expected summer, 2007
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Public Policy, Justice, and the Law. McGrawHill/Dushkin, November, 2005
• Understanding American Government, 2d ed., text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, Fall 2005
• Understanding American Government text and Study Guide, Horizon Textbook Publishers, Fall, 2004
• "Civil Disobedience and The Rule of Law: Tensions Between Two Strains of American Thought,"chapter contribution to The Moral Authority of Government: Moorhead Kennedy, R. Gordon Hoxie, and Brenda Repland, eds., Transaction Publishers, 2000

Articles

• "Undoing Decades of Progress: The Trump Rhetoric and the Resurrection of Hatred, Bigotry and Violence," International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, vol. 7, n. 2, 2018 
• "Undoing Decades of Progress: The Trump Rhetoric and the Resurrection of Hatred, Bigotry and Violence," paper presented at the British School in Rome in association with IJAS, November, 2017
• "Justice Denied: Reforming the U. S. Judicial System," Academic Journal of Science, 7 (2), 2017. "U. S. Presidential Campaign 2016: Issues, Images and the Road to the White House," Humanities and Social Sciences Review, Volume 5, No. 3, 2016 "Citizens United: Corporate Spending and the Perversion of Democratic Elections," Humanities and Social Sciences Review (HSSR), 5 (2), April 2016. "There's Trouble in River City and that River is the Potomac: Presidential-Congressional Conflict,"  International Journal of Arts and Sciences, spring, 2015 "The Crisis Presidency: What Price Security?" International Journal of Arts and Sciences, fall, 2014 "Au Revoir Voir Dire and Other Socioeconomic Disparities in the U. S. Legal System," New England Law Review, 2013 "Rescuing the Underclass," Op-Ed article, Sunday Boston Globe, December, 1996 "President Bush at Work: A Lesson on the American Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1991 "Presidential Greatness in Peace and in War," Guest Editorial, Presidential Studies Quarterly winter, 1991 "The Separation of Powers in the United States," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1990 "American First Ladies," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C., 1990 "Dan Quayle: Administration Spokesman," The Boston Globe, May, 1989 "Presidency and Congress," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1988 "Harry S. Truman and the Contemporary Vice Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1988 "The Voters Decide: Americans Select a President," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C., 1985 "The American Voter: A Profile," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1983 "Factors Shaping the Contemporary American Presidency," a publication for the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1983 "The Humphrey Vice Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1982 "Perspectives on the Vice Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1982 "Vice Presidency Gains - But Is Subject to Presidential Whim,' Op-Ed article, The Atlanta Constitution, September 29, 1981 "Abolish the Vice Presidency?"  Presidential Studies Quarterly, spring, 1979 "The Vice Presidency: Walter Mondale in the Lion's Den," Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1979 "The Mondale Vice Presidency: Is the Die Cast?"  Presidential Studies Quarterly, spring/summer, 1977 "The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Opening a Pandora's Box," Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1976

Reviews

• Review of The VP Advantage: How Running Mates Influence Home State Voting in Presidential Election Years, Devine, Christopher J. and Kyle C. Kopko. Authors, Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall 2016.
• Review of In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, William E. Leuchtenberg, author, Presidential Studies Quarterly, summer, 1985
• Review of Letters from the Hill Country: The Correspondence of Rebekah and Lyndon Baines Johnson, Philip R. Rulon, ed., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1985
• Review of Studying the Presidency, George C. Edwards, III and Stephen J. Wayne, eds., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1984
• Review of The Virginia Papers on the Presidency, vol. V and vol. VVI, Kenneth W. Thompson, eds., Presidential Studies Quarterly, winter, 1984
• Review of The Presidency and Information Policy, Harold Relyea, author, Government Publications Review, Vol. 9, no. 2, 1982
• Review of George C. Wallace and the Politics of Powerlessness: The Wallace Campaigns for the Presidency, 1944-1976, Jody Carlson, author; Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980
• Review of The Road to the Whiter House, Stephen J. Wayne, author, Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980
• Review of Rockefeller of New York, Robert H. Connery and Gerald Benjamin, authors; Presidential Studies Quarterly, fall, 1980
• Review of The Truman White House: The Administration of the Presidency, 1945-53; Francis J. Heller, ed., Presidential Studies Quarterly, summer, 1980

Panel Participation/Paper Presentations/Special Lectures

• "Citizens United: Corporate Spending and the Perversion of Democratic Elections," paper accepted for presentation at Internation Conference for Social Sciences and the Humanities and IJAS, Florence, Italy, June 2015
• "There's Trouble in River City and That River is the Potomac: Presidential-Congressional Divisiveness," paper presented at the International Journal of Arts and Science conference, Valetta, Malta, March 2014
• Panel Participation in New England Journal of Law Symposium entitled, "Crisis in the Judicial System," November 2012
• "A Heartbeat Away: The U. S. Vice Presidency," International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference, Salzburg, Austria, May, 2011
• "Vice Presidents and First Ladies," Panel Discussant, Northeast Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April, 2010
• "Religion and Politics," Panel Chair, Northeast Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April, 2010
• "Terrorism, Rhetoric, and the Imperial Presidency," paper presented at an international conference on "Interdisciplinary Analyses of Aggression & Terrorism," co-sponsored by the Coloquios Internationales Sobre Conflicto Y Agresion (CICA) and the Society for Terrorism Research (STR). Madrid, Spain, September 2007
• "9/11 and the Imperial Presidency," lecture at the University of Nuremberg at Ehrlingen, Germany, December 2006
• Visiting Professor, American University Washington Semester Program (summer 1998 and summer 2006)

Miscellaneous

• Political consultant in the production of the documentary entitled "Campaign Fever," broadcast on WCVB-TV, Channel 5, fall, 1984
• "Using Simulation Games in the College and University Classroom: A Workshop, lecture and workshop direction at the American Society for Public Administration (APSA) Regional Meeting, Albany, New York, October, 1978
• "Simulation Games in the Classroom: A Workshop," Merrimack College, November, 1978
• "Simulation Games in the Classroom: A Workshop," Bryant College, October, 1978
• "Simulation Games for the Classroom: A Television Experience," discussion at the annual conference of the North American Simulation and gaming Association (NASAGA), October 14, 1977, held at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

Media Appearances

• "The U. S. Senate," radio interview with George Knight, spring 2010
• "The Kennedy Legacy," "Ireland Today" (Dublin, Ireland news program)
• "The American Presidency and Afghanistan." BBC-TV, London, England
• Participation in a one-hour PBS documentary on the American Vice Presidency, "Running Mate," initially aired during October, 1996 and repeated thereafter
• Interview re: Republican vice presidential candidate selection, "The Connection," with Christopher Lyden, NPR, August, 1996
• "The Vice Presidency and the 1996 Election," Voice of American Radio interview (aired internationally), taped spring, 1996

Research Focus

I find that I HAVE to juggle several projects at once.  So I continue to work on the individual acts of courage and conscience book, am pondering a book of collected materials on the U. S. Presidency, and, believe it or not, have been writing a murder mystery for the past 10 years - which I promise myself I am going to finish this year!