Expertise
Public management; federalism; budgeting; American politics
Background
Current Positions
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Past Positions
Director of the Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania; Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs; Professor, Department of Political Science and Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow in the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University; Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Associate Professor of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Awards
2005—National Academy of Public Administration's Louis Brownlow Book Award for the best book in public administration—System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004)
2003—National Academy of Public Administration's Louis Brownlow Book Award for the best book in public administration—The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
Education
Ph.D. (1978), M.Phil. (1976), M.A. (1976), B.A. (1974), Yale University