Owens, John E. 1948-

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OWENS, John E. 1948-

PERSONAL: Born June 13, 1948, in Widnes, England; son of William Thomas (a grocer) and Catherine (a shopkeeper; maiden name, Jones) Owens; married October 1, 1971; wife's name Margaret Patricia; children: Daniel Scott, Rachel Hannah. Ethnicity: "European." Education: University of Reading, B.A. (with honors), 1973; attended University of Warwick, 1973-75; University of Essex, Ph.D., 1982.

ADDRESSES: Home—Colchester, England. Office—Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 100 Park Village E, London W1N 3SR, England; fax: 0207-911-5164. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Polytechnic of Central London, London, England, lecturer, 1978-85; University of Essex, Colchester, England, lecturer in government, 1985-86; University of Westminster, London, senior lecturer, 1986-98, reader, 1998-2002, professor of U.S. government and politics, 2002—. University of Essex, visiting fellow at Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1993-95; Brookings Institution, guest scholar, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000-02; Texas A & M University, visiting fellow at Center for Presidential Studies, 1999; consultant to Library of Congress and British Broadcasting Corp.

MEMBER: International Political Science Association, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (chair of American Politics Group, 1992-94), American Political Science Association (Legislative Studies Section), Western Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from American Politics Group, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1978-98; Moody grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1982-83; grants from U.S. Information Service, 1985, 1991, Nuffield Foundation, 1987-89, 1993-95, and Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Center, Pekin, IL, 1988-89.

WRITINGS:

(With John Keane) After Full Employment, Hutchinson University Press (Dover, NH), 1986.

(With Michael Foley) Congress and the Presidency: Institutional Politics in a Separated System, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1996.

(Editor, with Dean McSweeney, and contributor) The Republican Takeover of Congress, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(Editor, with Erwin C. Hargrove, and contributor) Political Leadership Skills in Context, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The State, Finance, and Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Post-war Trends in Six Advanced Industrial Economies, edited by Andrew Cox, Wheatsheaf (Brighton, England), 1986; Superpower Politics: Change in the United States and the Soviet Union, edited by Michael Pugh and Philip Williams, Manchester University Press (New York, NY), 1990; New Developments in American Politics 3, edited by Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, and others, Chatham House Publishers (Chatham, NJ), 1998; American Politics: 2000 and Beyond, edited by Alan R. Grant, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 2000; and Governing America: The Politics of Divided Democracy, edited by Robert Singh, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2003. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Roll Call, Critical Social Policy, Social Studies Review, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Studies. Book review editor, American Politics Review, 1992-2002; member of editorial board, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1998—, and Journal of Legislative Studies, 2000—.