John Marini is professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute.

Dr. Marini has written extensively on the development of bureaucracy and the three branches of American government. He is co-editor of The Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers (Pharos Books, 1989) and author of The Politics of Budget Control (Crane Russak, 1992).