Michael J. Malbin hes legislative politics, elections, campaign finance as well as a course entitled Founding the American National Government. In recent years, he has been teaching on the Albany campus in the fall and has been running the department's Washington Semester Program in the spring (www.ualbany-dc.net) Since 1999, he has also been executive director of The Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research and educational institution in Washington D.C.
Prof. Malbin's recent books include The Election After Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (forthcoming 2005), Life After Reform: When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics (2003) and the latest edition of Vital Statistics on Congress, which he co-authors with Norman Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann.
During 1997-98, Prof. Malbin was a Guest Scholar at The Brookings Institution, where he finished his work on The Day After Reform: Sobering Campaign Fianance Lessons from the American States (co-authored by Thomas L. Gais.) For several years before that, he was director of the Center for Legislative and Political Studies at SUNY's Rockefeller Institute, where he was the principal investor for Presidential Congressional Relations for a collaborative, multi-university grant funded by the National Science Foundation.
Before joing the University of Albany's faculty, he worked for the Iran-Contra Committee, the House Republican Conferance and as speech writer to the Secretary of Defense. He was also a presidential appointee to the National Humanities Council from 1990-94 and has been a visiting professor at Yale University. Before government service, he was a resident fellow at The American Enterprise Institute (1977-86) and a reporter for National Journal (1973-77).
