Nicol C. Rae has an MA from the University of Edinburgh (1982) and a D. Phil from the OxfordUniversity (1986).  He is the author most recently (with Colton C. Campbell) of Impeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill (Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press, 2003). Professor Rae is also the author several other publications, including The Decline & Fall of the Liberal Republicans: From 1952 to the Present (Oxford University Press, 1989), Southern Democrats (Oxford University Press, 1994); Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress (M. E. Sharpe, 1998), co-author (with Tim Hames) of Governing America (Manchester University Press, 1996).  In addition, Professor Rae is co-editor, with Colton C. Campbell, of New Majority or Old Minority? The Impact of Republicans on Congress (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), The Contentious Senate: Partisanship, Ideology and the Myth of Cool Judgment (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), and with Campbell and John F. Stack, Jr. of Congress and the Politics of US Foreign Policy (Prentice-Hall, 2003). Professor Rae was awarded a Congressional Fellowship by the American Political Science Association in 1995-1996, and served as a Capitol Hill aide to Congressman George P. Radanovich of California, and Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi.