The Politics of the Administrative Process

Donald F. Kettl is dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to his appointment at the University of Maryland, he was the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as professor of Political Science. Kettl is the author of numerous books, including "The Politics of the Administrative Process, The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us""and How to Fix Them, The Global Public Management Revolution, " and "Leadership at the Fed". Kettl has twice won the Louis Brownlow Award for the best book in public administration for "The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-first Century America" in 2003 and "System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics "in 2005. In 2008, he received the John Gaus Award of The American Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations and is a regular columnist for "Governing" magazine.