Catherine Rudder

CONTACT INFORMATION

School of Public Policy
George Mason University Washington, D.C.
3401 North Fairfax Drive, MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 993-4996
(703) 993-8215 (fax)
rudder@gmu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1973. M.A., Ohio State University, 1972.

B.A. (High Honors), Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969.

EMPLOYMENT

School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia

Professor, 2004 to present, serves on the Tenure and Promotion Committee (2008 to present) and chaired the Search Committee, coordinating five subcommittees and five searches (2008-09).

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 2004 to 2007, presided over the academic affairs of the School of Public Policy, composed of a Ph.D. and five master’s programs. Served on the school’s management, curriculum, and recruitment committees, the University’s Graduate Council and the Classroom Space Advisory Committee, and the Provost’s Policy Committee.

Director of the Master's Program in Public Policy, 2001 to 2004, and 2009 to present, builds and leads the new MPP program of the School of Public Policy, serves on the school’s management, curriculum, and, in the initial term, recruitment committees.

American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

Executive Director, 1987-2001, oversaw all operations of the APSA, a non-profit [50l(c)(3)] scholarly society with a staff of 24, an operating budget of $4.5 million, assets of $27 million, and a membership of 13,500 political scientists, 34 Organized Sections, 800 departments of political

science, and 2,500 institutions in the U.S. and abroad at the time of my departure. Founded in 1903, the APSA is the major professional organization whose members are engaged in the study of politics and government. [For the annual reports of the executive director, the September issues of PS: Political Science and Politics, APSA, Washington, D.C., 1987-2001.]

Associate Director, 1983 to September 1987, and Assistant Director, 1981-83, directed the Congressional Fellowship Program, edited PS: Political Science and Politics, a quarterly journal of political analysis and news for political scientists, and assisted in directing and staffing other activities of APSA, including the Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms and APSA's Travel Grant Program. Reconceived and recast PS, created French and German components of the Congressional Fellowship Program and devised the international human rights dimension of the Professional Ethics Committee.

U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Wyche Fowler, Jr., Washington, D.C.

Chief of Staff, 1978-81, supervised staff of 18 with direct responsibility for legislative and support staff and for all legislative matters (with special emphasis on the House Committee on Ways and Means), and represented Rep. Fowler in his absence.

Legislative Assistant, September-December 1977, covered taxes, the economy, the federal budget, and selected domestic issues.

University of Georgia, Department of Political Science, Athens, Georgia.

Assistant Professor, 1973-1977 (on leave l974-75), Honors Faculty, taught graduate seminars in American politics, legislative process, and American political parties, and upper division courses in public opinion (including a statewide survey research practicum), electoral process, and state politics; also directed state internship program.

RECOGNITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2003 Winner of the Women’s Caucus Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, Midwest Political Science Association, accorded on April 15, 2004.

Excellence in Mentorship Award, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, accorded at the American Political Science Association Conference, 2002.

Erika Fairchild Award, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, South, 2002.

Frank J. Goodnow Award for exceptional contributions to the profession of political science, American Political Science Association, 2001.

Distinguished Service Award, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, American Political Science Association, 2001.

Robert Bosch Public Policy Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Fall 1999.

George S. Parthemos Scholar, University of Georgia, Athens, 1997 Rosalyn Carter Honorary Fellow of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies,1993-95.

Public Affairs Fellow, National Fellows Program, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1990-91.

Distinguished Alumnus, Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA, l99l.

Emory Medal, accorded to an outstanding alumnus, Emory University, 1990.

Congressional Fellow, American Political Science Association, 1974-75. William Jennings Bryan Dissertation Prize, Ohio State University, 1974. Four-Year University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1969-1973.

Marion Luther Brittain Award for Academic Achievement, Leadership and Service, Emory University, 1969.

Mortar Board, 1968.

Omicron Delta Kappa.

Eta Sigma Psi.

Pi Sigma Alpha.

Phi Beta Kappa.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

"U.S.A. Tobacco Control: Six Lessons in Public Policy for Medical Science Professionals." World Medical and Health Policy. Volume 1, No. 1 (Fall 2009), coauthored with A. Lee Fritschler.

“What Is Public Policy?” in The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives, Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds., Routledge Taylor Frances, 2009, p. 235-237.

“Private Governance as Public Policy: A Paradigmatic Shift,” Journal of Politics, October 2008 (vol. 70, issue 04): 899-913.

“Transforming American Politics through Tax Policy,” in Congress Reconsidered, Ninth Edition, Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

Smoking and Politics: Bureaucracy-Centered Policy Making, 6th edition (Prentice-Hall, 2007) with A. Lee Fritschler.

“The Politics of Taxing and Spending in Congress: Ideas, Strategy, and Policy,” in Congress Reconsidered, Eighth Edition, Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2004.

"The House Committee on Ways and Means." In Joel H. Sibley, Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, 1033-48.

“The Perspective of Scholarly Societies,” presented at a conference on Realizing Digital Libraries sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, 1994.

"Can Congress Govern?" In Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1993, pp. 365-374.

"Nonincremental Policy-Making Under Divided Party Control." American Politics Quarterly, 19:4 (October 1991), 426-437.

"Fiscal Responsibility, Fairness and the Revenue Committees." In Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1989.

"Fiscal Responsibility and the Revenue Committees." In Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1985.

"Tax Policy: Structure and Choice." In Allen Schick, ed., Making Economic Policy. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1983, pp. 196-220.

"The Policy Impact of Reform of the Committee on Ways and Means." In Leroy N. Rieselbach, ed., Legislative Reform. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1978, pp. 73-87.

"Committee Reform and the Revenue Process." In Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, eds., Congress Reconsidered, 1st ed. New York: Praeger, 1977, pp. 117-139.

SELECTED POPULAR AND SEMI-SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

“Lehre online: Informationstechnologien veraendern die Strukturen des akademischen Lebens,” Der Tagesspiegel, September 26, 1999, p.A2.

PS: Political Science and Politics, American Political Science Association, 1981-2001, numerous reports from the executive director, unsigned articles, editor’s comments, and related material.

Book Reviews for Political Science, Key Reporter, Phi Beta Kappa, 1993- 98.

“Scrapping the National Endowment for the Humanities,” Point of View, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 3, 1995 (with Sandria B. Freitag and John Hammer).

TRUSTEESHIPS AND DIRECTORSHIPS

Board of Trustees, Emory University, 1990-96 [committee service 1990 to 2005].
Secretary of the Board, 1991-96
Executive Committee, 1991-96.
Academic Affairs Committee, 1994 to present [requested to continue to serve after the mandatory end of six-year term as Alumni Trustee].
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, 1995-96.
Finance Committee, 1991-94.
Nominations Committee, 1991-96.

Senator, Phi Beta Kappa, 2003-08.

Board of Trustees, The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2000 to present.
Selection Committee, Congressional Research Awards, 2000 to present.

OSU Alumni Advisory Council, Graduate School Representative, April 2005-April 2008. The Alumni Advisory Council serves in an advisory capacity to the President of the University and the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

National Humanities Alliance, 1989-2001.
President, 2000-2001.
Board of Directors, 1989-2001. Vice President, 1997-2000.
Committee on Libraries and Intellectual Property, 1996 to 2002.
Executive Committee, 1992-2001.
Membership Committee, Chair, 1992-93.

Executive Committee and Board of Directors, Consortium of Social Science Associations, 1987-2001.

Council, International Political Science Association, 1991-2001.

Board of Directors, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, 1988 to present; member, advisory committee for the Center’s project on political consultants.

Board of Directors, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994-96. Board of Directors, National Peace Foundation, 1992-95.

American Council of Learned Societies
Board of Directors, 1990-93.
Chair, Council of Administrative Officers [representing 53, now 60, scholarly societies], 1990-93.

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1989-93.

Board of Governors, Association of Emory Alumni, 1987-90 (inaugural Chair, Emory Assembly), Atlanta, Georgia.

Governing Board [ex officio], The Bill of Rights Education Collaborative, American Historical Association and American Political Science Association, 1991-93.

OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Southern Political Science Association 
President, 2007-08.
President-Elect, 2006.
Vice President and Program Chair, 2004-05.
Vice President-Elect, 2002-04.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 2005 to present.

Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholars Committee and Audit Committee, 1994 to 2008.
Political Science Book Reviewer, Key Reporter [circ.400,000], 1993-98.

Chair, Advisory Committee, Office of International Medical Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Member: 2003 to 2008 and Chair: 2008 to present.

Advisory Committee, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, 2002 to present.

Advisory Committee, Center on Congress, led by former U.S.
Representative Lee Hamilton, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1998 to present.

Advisory Committee, Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2000 to present.

American Political Science Association
Publications Committee, 2006 to present.
Advisory Committee, Congressional Fellowship Program, 2001 to present.
Selection Panel for Political Scientists and Journalists, 2003- 2004.
Chair, Leonard White Award Committee for the best dissertation in Public Administration, 2006.
Centennial Committee, 2003.
Selection Committee, LGBT Caucus in Political Science Best Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting, 2003.
Graduate School Advisory Council, Emory University, 1990 to 2004. Interim Chair, 2002 to 2004.

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Professor, Seminar in Public Policy (with A. Lee Fritschler) for the Truman Scholars, 2005-06.
Member, Regional Selection Committee, Washington, D.C., 2005 and 2006.

Emory College Council of Advisors, Emory University, 1998 to 2005.

Advisory Committee, Women’s Leadership Seminar, Mount Vernon College of George Washington University, 2000 to 2003.

Nominating Committee, Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences (K) [elected position], American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998-2001.

Visiting Scholar, George Washington University, Spring 2000. Member, National Advisory Committee on the Strategic Plan, Southwestern University, September, 2000.

Participant, Seminar on the Future of the University in the 21st Century in a Democracy [invitational], George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1997-99.

Membership Review Committee [formerly the Accreditation Committee] of the Association of American Law Schools, 1994-98.

Graduate Dean's Alumni Council, Ohio State University, 1988-96.

Advisory Committee, Renewing Congress Project, Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute, 1992-93.

Academic Advisory Board, Catholic University, Congressional Studies Program, 1991-93.

Editorial Board, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1990-93.

Chair (1992) and Member, Selection Committee, Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, 1990 and 1992.

Selection Committee, Everett Dirksen Prize for Distinguished Reporting on Congress, 1989 and 1992.

Editorial Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (a project of the Commission of the Bicentennial of the U.S Constitution),1991-93.

National Issues Forums Advisory Committee, Brookings Institution, 1992- 93.

Advisory Committee, American Scholastic Competition Network, Sioux City, Iowa, 1988-93.

Consultant, Education Licensure Commission, District of Columbia, 1991.

OTHER SELECTED PAST ACTIVITIES

Visiting Lecturer, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts for the Jean Picker Washington Internship Program, l986-91 (one semester course each year).

Legislative Studies Section Executive Committee, American Political Science Association, 1986-88.

Principal Lecturer and Lecturer, Robert A. Taft Institute for Two-Party Government, University of Georgia, 1975-83, l984-86; New York University, 1984; American University (Taft II), 1984; University of Baltimore, 1986.

Visiting Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, Massachusetts, 1982-86 (Washington, D.C. academic seminar for Washington interns, two courses each year).

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES

Alumni Signature Event Panelist, School of Public Policy, "Public Policy Making - Diatribe or Discourse: Can We Make a Difference?" with Frank Sesno and Jack Goldstone, October 21, 2005.

“Public Interest in a Privatized World,” Address to the Association of College Honor Societies, Washington, D.C., February 19, 2005.

“Is Authority a Four-Letter Word?” Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, Induction Ceremony for Gamma Chapter at Emory University, April 2, 2001.

“The State of Scholarly Societies: An Analysis,” Conference of Administrative Officers, American Council of Learned Societies, Annual Fall Conference, Boise, Idaho, November 2, 2001.

“Challenges Facing the University and Political Science in the United States,” Guest Lecture, School for International Organization, Potsdam University, December 2, 1999.

“Whatever Happened to the Republican Revolution?” George S. Parthemos Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, May 19, 1997.

“The Current Political Climate and Prospects for the Humanities,” Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting, National Humanities Alliance, Philadelphia, Spring, 1997 meeting.

“A Tribute to the House Committee on Ways and Means,” [featured speaker with U.S. Rep. Bill Archer, Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means] presented for the Capitol Historical Society to the Committee on Ways and Means and invited guests, Washington, D.C., October, 1996.

“The Angry Electorate: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?” presented at Emory University, Women’s Studies Program, Atlanta, 1995.

“Shaking up the Place: The Difference Gender is Making in Politics,” for the Faye C. Goostree Symposium, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, October 29, 1993.

“Nonincremental Policy Making Under Divided Party Government: The Case of the Tax Reform Act of 1986,” public lecture, University of California, Riverside, April 5, 1991.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Presidential Address, Southern Political Science Association, “Private Governance as Public Policy, New Orleans, LA, January 11, 2008.

Chair of panel, "Studying Legislative Change," Southern Political Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 4-7, 2006.

Participant, Roundtable on Intellectual and Political Orientations of Political Scientists in the Academy, Southern Political Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 4-7, 2006.

Chair of panel, "India Rising: Implications for U.S Science and Technology Policy,” Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC on November 5, 2005.

Lead academic discussant for Roundtable Discussion of John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss Morse, Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs about How Government Should Work, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, January 16, 2004.

Presenter, “Ethics and Accountability: Corporate Relations with Government in the U.S.,” for the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India, George Mason University, November 11, 2004.

Presenter, Entrepreneurship in Public Management, GMU-wide conference on Entrepreneurship, November 12, 2004.

Invited panelist, 2004 Election Analysis, Ohio Wesleyan University, November 15, 2004.

Chair of panel, “Congressional Party Switchers 1876-2002: The Effects of Party and Constituency on Strategic Behavior,” Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003.

Participant, invitational conference on the establishment of a new national association of congressional centers, West Virginia, May 5, 2003.

Participant, invitational conference on the safety of the blood supply, spring 2003, George Mason University, (sponsored by SPP’s Office of International Medical Policy).

Roundtable Chair, “Extreme Environments: Development of Decision Processes and Training Programs for Medical Policy Formulation,” Washington, D.C., July 24-25 (sponsored by SPP’s Office of International Medical Policy).

Participant, invitational Academic Conference in Honor of the Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, November 7, 2003.

Chair, “Institutions, Processes, Management and Ethics in the MPP Core Curriculum,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C. November 8, 2003.

“The Ethics of Public Policy Making by Private Bodies: The Case of Independence of the Accounting Industry in the U.S.,” A paper prepared for the Triennial World Congress of the International Political Science Association, June 28-July 4, 2003, Durban, South Africa.

“Scholarly Societies and Their Members: Incentives, Motives and Strategies,” paper prepared for Conference of Administrative Officers, American Council of Learned Societies, New York, November 2002. Substantially revised for presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003. Published on the ACLS website.

“Beyond the Tax Code: Federal Restrictions on Lobbying by Nonprofit Organizations,” presented at the Philanthropy and the Law Conference, New York University Law School, New York, October, 1995.

"Three Decades of Change: The House Committee on Ways and Means." One of the two commissioned papers presented at the Committee on Ways and Means Bicentennial Symposium, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1989.

"Accounting for Synoptic Change in U.S. Tax Policy Making," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Atlanta, Georgia, August 3l-September 3, 1989.

"Learned Societies as Agents of Change." Presented at the Conference of Executive Officers, American Council of Learned Societies, Wye Woods, Maryland, November 1989.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

Lecturer [periodic over the past two decades]
U. S. Department of State, Meridian House German National Merit Scholars
White House Commission on Presidential Scholars (Leadership) Public Leadership Education Network
Brookings Institution (Educational Programs for Business Executives)
Women's Research and Education Institute
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows and APSA Congressional Fellows
IREX and USIA
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (Federal Executive Institute) Internal Revenue Service (Executive Selection and Development Program)
Centre for Legislative Exchange (Canada-U.S.) American University (Washington Semester Program)
Close-Up Foundation, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, others.

Participant on numerous panels at national and regional political science meetings.

CONSULTING

National Center for Nonprofit Enterprise, project consultant
National Council of Teachers of English, strategic planning and board development
Women's Research and Education Institute, organizational development Southwestern University, strategic planning
American Academy of Religion, strategic planning

January 2010