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.
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