EDUCATION: Ph.D., Political Science, Maxwell Graduate School of Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1977.

RESEARCH SPECIALTIES

• Political & Administrative Transition in Central Europe
• Organizational Innovation and Transfer: Process and Policy
• Organizational and Governmental Ethics

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATION, AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
( Recent Years)

1. "Ethics and Public Policy Making: An Incomplete Transition," in Lessons for Public Policy in Central & Eastern Europe, CEE Press, 2003

2. Consulting Report, “To the Czech National Training Fund Project - Comprehensive Public Administration Reform at the Ministerial Level - Starting Points” June 1998.

3. Article, “Public Administration’s Underdeveloped Core: Neglected Subjects,” forthcoming in George Fredrickson, ed., International Journal of Public Administration, v. 20, Issue 6-8, June 16, 1998, pp. 963-990.

4. Book Chapter, “Public Policy Ethic: An Incomplete Transition in Central & Eastern Europe,” chapter in Lessons for Public Policy in Central & Eastern Europe, to be published by NISPAcee (Network of Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe), 1999, (forthcoming).

5. Foundation Report, “Analysis of the Czech Economic Development Certification Program (PCERO - 1993-1997),” Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1998.

6. Conference Paper, “Reinventing the Czech Administrative State: Confronting a New Millennium,” paper for a conference celebrating the 650th anniversary of the founding of Charles University - ‘Czech Society Towards the End of the Millennium,” March 12-`14, 1998, Prague, Czech Republic.

7. Distinguished Lecture Series, “Unbalanced Sectoral Development in the Czech Republic: Democracy and the Civic, Market, & State Sectors," The New School for Social Research Democracy Series Lecture, Prague, Czech Republic, 18 May 1994.

8. Chapter - "Public Organizations As Settings for Conflict Theory & Practice," for Conflict Theory and Practice, Manchester University Press. Dennis Sandole, ed. Spring 1993.

9. Paper, "Revising the Social Sciences in Czech Universities," presented at the Law School, Charles University, Prague, June 1990.

10. Chapter, "The Search for Public Administration: Roads Not Followed," Public Administration Review, March/April, 1988.

11. Book, Brown with Richard Stillman II. A Search for Public Administration, Texas A & M Press, 1986.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Invited participant to the Freedom House Conference in Budapest, Hungary on “Ten Years of Democractic Transition in Central Europe: The Role of NGOs.” 1999

• Consultant to the Czech National Training Fund on a Comprehensive Public Administration Reform Project, a European Union Funded Project, 1998

• Principle Investigator of a 3 year grant of $760,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support economic development activities in the Czech Republic - working with 2 ministries and 9 pilot cities, 1993-1997; in residence 6 mo. in 1996.

• Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship to the Czech Republic, 1994 at Charles University - for research on transition and to help develop a new program in public administration and public policy. Taught first graduate course in Public Administration given by the Institute of Sociological Studies.

• Invited participant in Workshop on Bureaucratic Transition in East Central Europe, 1992, Project Liberty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dobris, Czechoslovakia, 21 June-24 June. Audience: top administrative advisors from governments throughout Central Europe.

• Advisor & Board member - Center for Democracy and Free Enterprise, Prague, Czech Republic. Advise on numerous programs and grant proposal concerning civil service reform, community leadership. NGO development, etc.

• Twice USIA Visiting Scholar to Czech Republic, including lectures and consultations at several ministries, universities, and the Czech Parliament.

TEACHING AREAS
• Administrative and Political Transformation in Central Europe
• Theory and Practice of Public Administration
• Conflict and Its Resolution in Public Organizations
• Ethical Dimensions of Public Administration
• Organization Theory and Behavior

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Society for Public Administration
• Association for Public Policy and Management
• International Academy of Astronautics