Terry Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his B.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1980) from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the faculty, he served as an APSA Congressional Fellow, taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as a research fellow at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. He is past President of the Presidency Research Group, an international association of professional scholars interested in the American Presidency. Professor Sullivan also served as Edwards Professor of Democracy and Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he coordinated the institute's efforts to prepare the presidential transition in 2001. Currently he serves as the Executive Director of the White House Transition Project, a multi-institutional project preparing briefing materials for the presidential transition and lending advice on White House operations to the new administration. Professor Sullivan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the Congress, the Presidency, and research techniques. His main research interests currently focus on the nature of presidential leadership. He wrote Nerve Center: Managing to Govern from the White House (Texas A&M University Press) and Procedural Structure: Success and Influence in Congress (1984) and co-edited Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and The White House World (Texas A&M Press, 2003). Currently, he is completing Making A Difference: LBJ, Persuasion, and Presidential Leadership (Princeton University Press). He has published research articles in Presidential Studies Quarterly (where he is features editor), Public Choice, The Journal of Politics, The American Journal of Political Science, and The American Political Science Review. Click here to view his web site.