Expertise
Urban and regional policy; urban politics; comparative urban policy and politics; local and regional economic development; state and local finance; intergovernmental relations
Background
Current Positions
Director, George Washington Institute of Public Policy;Professor, Departments of Political Science and School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the George Washington University
Past Positions
Director and Professor, Policy Sciences Graduate Program and Department of Political Science, University of Maryland;Professor, Departments of Political Science and College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University;Associate Professor of Politics, University of Massachusetts-Boston;Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania;Senior Research Associate in Public Finance, the Urban Institute;Director of Research, White House Conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development;Staff Director, Subcommittee on the City, U.S. House of Representatives;Legislative Assistant, Senator Adlai Stevenson III
Education
Ph.D. (1968), M.A. (1965), University of Michigan; Masters of Urban Planning (1976), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.A. (1964), Oberlin College