Pietro S. Nivola

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Senior Fellow, Governance Studies | Co-Director, Red and Blue Nation | The Douglas Dillon Chair

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Pietro Nivola is a senior fellow and served as VP and director of Governance Studies from 2004-2008. He has written widely on energy policy, regulation, federalism and American politics. His current project is a study of partisan polarization. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Energy policy
  • Federalism
  • Regulatory policy
  • Urban policy
  • American government and politics

Experience

Past Positions

  • VP and Director of Governance Studies (2004-2008), Research Associate, Guest Scholar, and Visiting Fellow, Brookings
  • Lecturer and Visiting Professor, Harvard University
  • Associate Professor, University of Vermont

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976
  • M.C.P., Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1969
  • A.B., Harvard College, 1966

Language Fluency

  • Italian

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"Could it be that, for all the laments about America's 'gridlocked' and 'broken' political system, it actually appears to have done a better job contending with the Great Recession and its aftermath than do many other advanced democracies?"

Source: National Public Radio

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