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Thurber earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from the University of Oregon and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Indiana University and was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
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Thurber earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from the University of Oregon and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Indiana University and was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
Under his direction, CCPS organizes the Campaign Management Institute, the Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute, and the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute. He is editor of the journal Congress and the Presidency. He was the principal investigator of a seven-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct and a four-year study of lobbying and ethics from the Committee for Economic Development.
He has worked on four reorganization efforts for committees in the United States. House of Representatives and United States. Senate from 1976 to present.
He was Director of the Washington, District of Columbia based Human Affairs Research Centers of the Battelle Memorial Institute and served as acting Dean of the School of Government and Public Administration at American University. Thurber has been on the faculty at American University since 1974 and was honored as the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 1996.
He was legislative assistant to United States. Senators Hubert H. Humphrey, Bill Brock, Adlai Stevenson III, and United States. Representative David Obey. He worked with Senator Barack Obama on ethics and lobbying reforms.
He is the author and editor of numerous books and more than eighty articles on American politics including Obama in Office (2011), Congress and the Internet (2002) with Colton Campbell,, Crowded Airwaves: Campaign Advertising in Elections (2001) with Candice J. Nelson and David A. Dulio and
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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