Areas of Study
Public Policy; Health Policy and Reform; State, Local, and Federal Government; Public Management
Selected Publications
- Leader-Managers in the Public Sector: Managing for Results; M.E. Sharpe, 2010 (with John Portz)
- How to Get into Politics-and Why: A Reader. Boston, MA: Great Source Education Group, 2000 (with Paul Simon)
- “The Governors and Health Policymaking” in Hackney and Rochefort, The New Politics of State Health Policy (2001)
- “The Problem is Not the Phone Calls: It’s the Special Interest Money.” Journal of Legislation 24:2 (1998)
- “A Governor Looks at Purchase of Service” in Margaret Gibelman and Harold W. Demone, Jr., Private Solutions to Public Problems. Springer Publishing Company, 1996
- “Improving the Electoral Process: A Summary of Issues and Some Recommended Proposals” in Improving the Electoral Process, National Conference on Improving the Electoral Process, Northeastern University,1995
- “Health Care Reform: Blueprints for Progress from the States.” Compensation and Benefits Management 9:2 (Spring 1993)
- “Learning from the Aloha State.” Journal of American Health Policy 2:1 (1992)
- “The States and Health Care Reform.” New England Journal of Medicine (8 October 1992)
Selected Professional Activities
- Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
- Governor of Massachusetts, 1975-1979, 1983-1991
- Voted Most Effective Governor in U.S., National Governor’s Association, 1986
- Vice-Chair, Amtrak Reform Board, 1998-2003.
- Visiting Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
- Board Member, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Board Member, The Free for All Fund
- Board Member, The New England Center for Children
Recent and Current Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- POLS 3307 Public Policy and Administration
Graduate
- POLS 7305 Institutional Leadership and the Public Manager
- POLS 7321 Health Policy and Politics
