Richard S. Conley
Richard S. Conley is Associate Professor of Political Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a M.A. from McGill
University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. His research interests focus on the presidency, Congress, executive-legislative relations, and
comparative executives.
He is author of
The Presidency, Congress, and Divided Government: A Post-War Assessment (College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, 2002) and
Florida 2002 Elections Update (Boston: Pearson, 2002), as well as editor of
Reassessing the Reagan Presidency (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003) and
Transforming the American Polity: The Presidency of George W. Bush and
the War on Terrorism (Prentice-Hall "Real Politics in America" Series, October 2004). His articles have appeared in Presidential Studies
Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, Polity, American Politics Research, and White House Studies.
Recently, Professor Conley has been engaged in archival research at the Bush, Eisenhower, Ford, and Reagan Presidential Libraries to
analyze presidents' veto and veto threat strategies. He is currently researching a book comparing executive politics and leadership in
the United States, Fifth Republic France (1958-), and Ireland with an emphasis on institutional development of the executive in each system,
the impact of divided government (cohabitation in France, coalition governments in Ireland) on executive-legislative relations, and the public
politics in each country.
