MARK ALEX PETERSON - UCLA Political Science · 1/15/2015 · Peterson, Mark A. “Presidential Power and the Potential for Leadership.” In Martha Joynt Kumar, Robert Y. Shapiro,

MARK ALEX PETERSON Chair, Department of Public Policy

Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law http://luskin.ucla.edu/mark-peterson

January 2015 Home Office 10338 Ilona Avenue Department of Public Policy Los Angeles, California 90064 UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs (310) 553-5272 3250 School of Public Affairs Building Los Angeles, California 90095-1656 (310) 794-4270, (310) 206-0337 (fax) [email protected] EDUCATION The University of Michigan A.B., 1977 Ann Arbor, Michigan A.M., 1981 Ph.D., 1985 Pomona College Transferred, 1975 Claremont, California PUBLICATIONS Books Authored Annenberg Democracy Project (group authored). Institutions of American Democracy: A Republic Divided. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2007. Peterson, Mark A. Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan. Cambridge, Mass.:

Harvard University Press, 1990. Paperback edition issued 1993.

Earlier version was recipient of the American Political Science Association E. E. Schattschneider Award and the Midwest Political Science Association Pi Sigma Alpha Award.

Edited Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue, and Mark A. Peterson, editors. Health Politics and Policy (Four Volume Set). London: Sage

Publications, 2010. Compilations of enduring works previously published in peer-reviewed journals, with our introductions.

Volume 1: Defining Health Systems: Path Dependence and Policy Emergence

Volume 2: Tensions in Health Policy: Ethics, Interests, and the Public

Volume 3: Health Systems in Comparative Perspective

Volume 4: The Contemporary Politics of Health System Reform

Vita—Mark A. Peterson—Page 2

Aberbach, Joel D, and Mark A. Peterson, eds. Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Published as part of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and Oxford University Press Institutions of American Democracy project.

Recipient of the 2006 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Reference Book on the Presidency from the Presidency Study Group of the American Political Science Association.

Hammer, Peter J., Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage, editors. Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and

the Changing Economics of Health Care. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Peterson, Mark A., editor. Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,

1998. With Joel D. Aberbach, Frank R. Baumgartner, Thomas L. Gais, David C. King, and Kim Lane Scheppele prepared, edited, and

contributed to: Jack L. Walker. Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Conceived and Edited Special Book-Length Journal Issues (Commissioned Essays) “Who Shall Lead?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 (April-June 2003): 181-524. “The Managed Care Backlash,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24 (October 1999): 873-1218. “Health Care into the Next Century: Markets, States, and Communities—Part 3: Community and Learning,” Journal of Health

Politics, Policy and Law 22 (August 1997): 933-1114. “Health Care into the Next Century: Markets, States, and Communities—Part 2: States—The Policy Crucible,” Journal of Health

Politics, Policy and Law 22 (June 1997): 687-906. “Health Care into the Next Century: Markets, States, and Communities—Part 1: Legacies and Markets,” Journal of Health

Politics, Policy and Law 22 (April 1997): 291-666. Later revised and published as Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care, listed above, with additions. Journal Articles Peterson, Mark A., “The Ideological and Partisan Polarization of Health Care Reform and Tax Policy.” Tax Law Review 65(4),

2012: 627-667. Peterson, Mark A. “It Was a Different Time: Obama and the Unique Opportunity for Health Care Reform.” Special Issue on

Health Care Reform. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (June 2011): 429-436. Bergman, Jonathan, Susan Logan, Arlene Fink, David A. Ganz, Mark A. Peterson, Mark S. Litwin, “Caring for the Uninsured

with Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Four Policy Alternatives in California.” Journal of Community Health 35(1) (February 2010): 18-26.

Leibowitz, Arleen, and Mark A. Peterson. “Perspective on the U.S. Health Care System.” Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche

2 (2009): 9-41. Aberbach, Joel D., Mark A. Peterson, Paul J. Quirk. “Who Wants Presidential Supremacy? Findings from the Institutions of

American Democracy Project.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 37 (September 2007): 515-530. Peterson, Mark A., Helen DuPlessis, David Ganz, Neal Halfon, Arleen Leibowitz. “Framing the Debate: A Strategy for

Transforming the American Health-Care System.” Context (Fall 2007): 77-91. Peterson, Mark A. “Introduction: Who Shall Lead?” Special Issue on Who Shall Lead? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and

Law 28 (combined April and June 2003): 181-194.


Peterson, Mark A. “From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care Markets.” Special Issue on Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 26 (October 2001): 1145-1163.

Revised and reprinted in: Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage, editors. Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

Peterson, Mark A. “The Fate of ‘Big Government’ in the United States: Not Over, But Undermined?” Governance 13 (April

2000): 137-150. Peterson, Mark A. “The Limits of Social Learning: Translating Analysis into Action,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

22 (August 1997): 1077-1114.

Revised and reprinted in: Mark A. Peterson, ed. Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Peterson, Mark A. “Introduction: Health Care into the Next Century,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 22 (April

1997): 291-313.

Revised and reprinted in: Mark A. Peterson, ed. Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Peterson, Mark A. "The Policy Process in Health Care." In Louise Comfort, ed., Initiating Change: Theory and Practice,

published as special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist 40 (January 1997): 341-353. Peterson, Mark A. "Health Care and the Hill: Why Is This Year Different from All Others?" PS: Political Science & Politics 27

(June 1994): 202-207. Peterson, Mark A. "Clinton and Congress: What Do You Expect?" In Extension of Remarks, "Clinton and the Congress:

Assessing the First Year." APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association. 1994. Peterson, Mark A. "Institutional Change and the New Politics of Health Care in the 1990s." American Behavioral Scientist 36

(July 1993): 782-801.

Revised and reprinted in: Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, ed. Health Care Reform in the Nineties. Sage Publications, 1994.

Peterson, Mark A. "Political Influence in the 1990s: From Iron Triangles to Policy Networks." Journal of Health Politics, Policy

and Law 18 (Summer 1993): 395-438.

Revised and reprinted in: James A. Morone and Gary S. Belkin, eds. The Politics of Health Care Reform: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994.

Reprinted in: Theda Skocpol and John L. Campbell, eds. American Society and Politics: Institutional, Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. New York: McGraw-Hill 1995.

Peterson, Mark A. "Report from Congress: Momentum Toward Health Care Reform in the U.S. Senate." Journal of Health

Politics, Policy and Law 17 (Fall 1992): 553-573. Peterson, Mark A. "The Presidency and Organized Interests: White House Patterns of Interest Group Liaison." American

Political Science Review 86 (September 1992): 612-625.


Gais, Thomas L., Mark A. Peterson, and Jack L. Walker. "Interest Groups, Iron Triangles, and Representative Institutions in American National Government." British Journal of Political Science 14 (April 1984): 161-185.

Reprinted in: Harrison Fox, Easton White, and Edwin Timbers, eds. The Domestic Political Scene, pp. 141-168. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, 1987.

Chapters in Edited Volumes Peterson, Mark A. “The Third Rail of Politics The Rise and Fall of Medicare’s Untouchability.” In Alan Cohen, David Colby,

Keith Wailoo, and Julian Zelizer, Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015.

Peterson, Mark A. “Interest Groups and the Executive Branch.” In Burdett A. Loomis, ed., Guide to Interest Groups and

Lobbying in the United States. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2011. Peterson, Mark A. “Congress and American Health Policy Making.” In James Morone, Leonard Robins, and Theodor Litman,

eds. Health Politics and Policy, 4th Ed. New York: Delmar Press, 2008. Revised 5th Ed, James A. Morone and Dan Ehlke, 2014. Peterson, Mark A. “Still A Government of Chums: Bush, Business, and Organized Interests.” In Colin Campbell, Bert A

Rockman, and Andrew Rudalevige, eds., The George W. Bush Legacy. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008. Peterson, Mark A. “The Three Branches of Government: Powers, Relationships, and Checks.” In Annenberg Democracy Project.

Institutions of American Democracy: A Republic Divided. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Peterson, Mark A. “The Three Branches of Government: Comparative Trust and Performance.” In Annenberg Democracy

Project. Institutions of American Democracy: A Republic Divided. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Aberbach, Joel D., and Mark A. Peterson, “Introduction—Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American

Democracy.” In Aberbach, Joel D., and Mark A. Peterson, eds. Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Aberbach, Joel D., and Mark A. Peterson, “Control and Accountability: Dilemmas of the Executive Branch.” In Aberbach, Joel

D, and Mark A. Peterson, eds. Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Peterson, Mark A. “Health Reform and the Congressional Graveyard.” In James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds.

Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Peterson, Mark A. “Bush and Interest Groups: A Government of Chums.” In Colin Campbell and Bert A Rockman, eds., The

George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003. Hammer, Peter J., Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage. “Kenneth Arrow and the Changing

Economics of Health Care: Why Arrow? Why Now?” In Hammer, Peter J., Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage, editors. Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

Peterson, Mark A. “Presidential Power and the Potential for Leadership.” In Martha Joynt Kumar, Robert Y. Shapiro, and

Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds., Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Peterson, Mark A. “Clinton and Organized Interests: Splitting Friends, Unifying Enemies.” In Colin Campbell and Bert A

Rockman, eds., The Clinton Legacy. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1999. Peterson, Mark A. “The Politics of Health Care Policy: Overreaching in an Age of Polarization.” In Margaret Weir, ed., The

Social Divide: Political Parties and the Future of Activist Government. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press/Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.


Peterson, Mark A. "How Health Policy Information is Used in Congress." In Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, eds. Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy. Washington, D.C.: AEI and Brookings Institution, 1995.

Peterson, Mark A. "The Presidency and Congress." In Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 4th Ed.

Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1995. Revised version, 5th Ed., 1997. Revised version, 6th Ed., 2000.

Peterson, Mark A. "Interest Mobilization and the Presidency." In Mark P. Petracca, ed. The Politics of Interests: Interest Groups

Transformed, pp. 221-241. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1992. Peterson, Mark A. With Jack L. Walker. "The Presidency and the Nominating System." In Michael Nelson, ed. The Presidency

and the Political System, 2d Ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1988. Revised version: 3d Ed., 1990. Peterson, Mark A., and Jack L. Walker. "Interest Group Responses to Partisan Change: The Impact of the Reagan Administration

upon the National Interest Group System." In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Interest Group Politics, 2nd ed., 162-182. Washington, D.C.: C.Q. Press, 1986.

Reviews/Commentaries Rice, Thomas, and Mark A. Peterson. "Remembering Rick Brown." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 38(1) (February

2013): 187-193. Peterson, Mark A. Review of Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, “Health Care Reform and American Politics: What

Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Congress & the Presidency 39(3) (2012): 344-346.

Peterson, Mark A. “Commentary—Northern Disclosure: Getting Canada Right,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 34

(August 2009): 497-508. Peterson, Mark A. “The Leadership Gap.” In Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds. The Future of Political

Science: 100 Perspectives. Florence, KY: Routledge Taylor Frances, 2009. Lantz, Paula M., and Mark A. Peterson, “Obama Treats Health Care Crisis More Realistically,” Detroit Free Press, October 17,

2008. Peterson, Mark A. Review Essay of David Mechanic, The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform is Not Working in America,

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006; Julius B. Richmond and Rashi Fein., The Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and What It Will Take to Get Us Out, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005; and Kip Sullivan, The Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and How We’ll Get Out of It, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2006. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 33 (April 2008): 343-357.

Peterson, Mark A. “Health Care Reform As a Prisoner of the Past: A Sentence Without Parole?” Review of Rick Mayes,

Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance, 2nd Ed., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Health Affairs 24 (November/December 2005): 1681-1682.

Frankford, David M., Mark A. Goldberg, Jacob S. Hacker, Jonathan Oberlander, and Mark A. Peterson. “Politics and Medicare”

(Letter to the Editor). Journal of the American Medical Association 286(21) (December 5, 2001): 2670. Peterson, Mark A. “Lasting Impact.” Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare and the Politics of Health Care. Journal of

Health Politics, Policy and Law 26 (February 2001): 146-153. Peterson, Mark A. “New President Will Face the Perfect Storm.” UCLA Today, November 21, 2000. Peterson, Mark A. "The Health Care Debate: All Heat and No Light." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 (Summer

1995):425-430.


Peterson, Mark A. "Clinton's Plan Goes to Congress – Now What?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 19 (Spring 1994): 261-264.

Peterson, Mark A. Review of Dean Keith Simonton, Why Presidents Succeed, A Psychology of Political Leadership, New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1988. Congress and the Presidency 15 (Spring 1988): 113-115. Editor’s Notes (Special Issues), Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law “Insurance Coverage and the States,” Volume 29:2 (April 2004), Special Issue “A Decade (Nearly) in Health Politics, Policy, and Law,” Volume 28:1 (February 2003) “Managed Care Redux,” Volume 27:3 (June 2002), Special Issue “Terrorism, Guns, and Public Health,” Volume 27:2 (April 2002), Special Section “Health Politics and Policy in a Federal System,” Volume 26:6 (December 2001), Special Issue “Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care,” Volume 26:5 (October 2001), Special Issue “Comparative Health Care Policy,” Volume 26:4 (August 2001), Special Issue “Evidence: Its Meaning in Health Care and Law,” Volume 26:2 (April 2001), Special Issue “Medicare: Intentions, Effects, and Politics,” Volume 26:1 (February 2001), Special Issue “Is There a Future in Your Market?,” Volume 25:5 (October 2000), Special Issue “Women’s Health,” Volume 25:3 (June 2000), Special Issue “The Individual Health Insurance Market,” Volume 25:1 (February 2000), Special Issue “Challenging Conventions in Health Policy,” Volume 24:4 (August 1999), Special Issue “Motivation, Mobilization, and Monitoring: The Role of Groups in Health Policy,” Volume 24:3 (June 1999), Special Issue “Managed Care: Ethics, Trust, and Accountability,” Volume 23:4 (August 1998), Special Issue “Community: Meaning and Opportunity, and Learning for the Future,” Volume 22:4 (August 1997), Special Issue “States: The Policy Crucible,” Volume 22:3 (June 1997), Special Issue “A Season of Change,” Volume 22:1 (February 1997), Special Section “Understanding Medical Liability,” Volume 21:2 (Summer 1996), Special Issue on Law, Liability, and Defensive Medicine “Thinking, Talking, Acting,” Volume 21:1 (Spring 1996), Special Issue on Deliberative Democracy “Political Perspectives on Policy Defeat,” Volume 20:2 (Summer 1995), Special Section on The Failure of Health Care Reform,

and Roundtable on the Defeat of Reform “Learning from Experience,” Volume 20:1 (Spring 1995), Special Section “Making the Right Choices,” Volume 19:3 (Fall 1994), Special Sections on Assessing National Health Care Reform, and

Controversies in Health Care “A Season of Transition,” Volume 19:2 (Summer 1994), Special Sections on New Interpretations of Health Politics, and

Complexity and Ambiguity in Policy Making WORKS IN PROGRESS (Selected) Peterson, Mark A. “Hardball Politics, Hobbled Policy: Contexts, Choices, and Consequences in U.S Health Reform.” Book

manuscript near completion. Peterson, Mark A., and Darin DeWitt. “U.S. National Health, Policy, and Politics: The Public's Views on Health Determinants

and Government Interventions.” Article-length manuscript under review. Peterson, Mark A., Helen DuPlessis, David Ganz, Neal Halfon, Arleen Leibowitz, Samuel Sessions, and Timothy Prinz, “Public

Opinion and the New Focus of Reform on Health.” Article-length manuscript. DuPlessis, Helen, David Ganz, Neal Halfon, Arleen Leibowitz, Mark A. Peterson, and Samuel Sessions. “Moving Mountains in

American Policy Making: Striving to Transform the American Health Care System.” Article-length manuscript.


ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law Department of Public Policy, UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs;

Department of Political Science (“0-time” joint appointment); and School of Law (“0-time” joint appointment, effective July 1, 2012)

UCLA, 1998- Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and Public Health Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Political Science;

Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health (courtesy joint appointment) University of Pittsburgh, 1998 Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and Public Health Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Political Science;

and Department of Health Services Administration, and Graduate School of Public Health (courtesy joint appointment began 1995)

University of Pittsburgh, 1993-1998 Associate Professor of Government Department of Government Harvard University, 1990 to 1993 Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant/Associate Professor of Government Harvard University, 1987 to 1989, 1989 to 1990 Assistant Professor of Government Department of Government Harvard University, 1985 to 1987 Co-Director, Policy Core, Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services UCLA, 2007- Faculty Associate, Institute for Society & Genetics

UCLA, 2009- Faculty Affiliate, Center for Civil Society UCLA, 2005- Faculty Associate, Center for Health Policy Research UCLA, 2003- Faculty Affiliate, Center for Research on Health Care University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1997-1998 Associate, Center for Medical Ethics University of Pittsburgh, 1994-1998 Visiting Lecturer, American Foreign Policy, for course in International Politics Department of Political Science The University of Hong Kong, November 1982


Teaching Assistant Department of Political Science; and Program in American Institutions The University of Michigan, 1978-1981, 1983, 1984 Research Assistant and Research Associate Department of Political Science, Institute for Social Research, and Institute of Public Policy Studies The University of Michigan, 1978-1985 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Publishing Editor, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1993-2002 ● 51 issues, including many special issues (Vol. 19, Issue 2, Summer 1994 to Vol. 28, Issue 3, June 2003, plus

Vol. 29, Issue 2). ● Led transition from quarterly to bimonthly publication (Starting with Vol. 22, 1997) ● Introduced new cover design, 1997 ● Organized two national conferences, 1996 and 2002. Member, Executive Committee, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Chair 2002-2006; Member 2002- Member, Editor Selection Committee for Policy Studies Journal Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association and Policy Studies Organization, 2003 Member, Board of Editors, The California Journal of Politics and Policy (on-line), 2008- Member, Board of Editors, PS: Political Science and Politics, 2002-2005 Member, International Advisory Board, Health Governance Series, 1999- Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Politics, 1993-1997 Non-University and Off-Campus Administrative Activities Professional Societies American Political Science Association

Elected member, APSA Council, for 2008-2010 term Member, Council Administrative Committee, 2009-2010

Member, Selection Committee, Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Notable Public Service by a Political Scientist, 1995

Organized Section on Public Policy

President, 2010-2011

President-Elect/Program Chair, 2009-2010

Chair, Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award Committee, 2004-2005

Organized Section on Health Politics and Policy

Founding Chair, Nominating Committee, 2008

Chair, Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award Committee, 2011-12

Organized Section on the Presidents and Executive Politics

Member, Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award Committee, 2013-14


Midwest Political Science Association

Section Head, Presidency and Executive Politics, 1996 Western Political Science Association

Member, Nominating Committee, 2000-2001 AcademyHealth

Member, Health Services Research Impact Award Committee, 2005-2007

Member, Article-of-the-Year Award Committee, 2003-2005 Foundations

Chair, National Advisory Committee, Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Member 1997 - 2014, Chair 2011- 2014

Chair, National Advisory Committee, Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Member 1993 -, Chair 2002 - Member, National Advisory Board, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the

University of New Mexico, 2008 - Member, National Advisory Committee, Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2003 – Member, Design Team for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Clinical Scholars Program UCLA and RAND, Fall 2014 Invited to be a nominator, MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2005 Other Member, External Review Committee, Public Policy Graduate Program, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,

University of Minnesota, Fall 2006 External Reviewer, Public Policy Report (proposed graduate public policy program, which became the Frank Batten

School of Leadership and Public Policy), University of Virginia, 2005 University Administrative Activities University of California: Member, Health Care Task Force, UC University Committee on Faculty Welfare

Academic Senate, University of California, 2010 -

Member, Health Benefits Working Group, University of California Office of the President, 2012 - 2013 Member, Review Teams for Self-Insured UC Care RFP and Rebid RFP of Fully-Insured Health Benefits University of California Office of the President, 2013


UCLA: Campus Member, Campus Climate Committee (Local Work Team for System-wide Campus Climate Committee) Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2011- 2013

Member, Coordinating Committee, Global Health Initiative

Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2011- 2012 Member, Council of Advisors Academic Personnel Office/Faculty Development, UCLA, 2009- Member, Faculty Welfare Committee Academic Senate, UCLA, 2008 - 2011 Member, Review Committee, Fifth-Year Review, Dean of School of Law Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2008 - 2009 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee Center for Society & Genetics, UCLA, 2007 - 2008 Member, Center Co-Director Recruitment Committee Center for Society & Genetics, UCLA, 2006 - 2007 Member, Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel Search Committee Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2005 - 2006 Member, Law School Dean Recruitment Committee Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2003 - 2004 Member (Acting Chair, 2006-2007), Faculty Advisory Committee Institute for Social Research, UCLA, 2002 - 2010 Member, Department Chair Recruitment Committee (National Search) Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UCLA, 2001- 2004 Member, Review Committee, Fifth-Year Review, Dean of School of Public Affairs Office of the Chancellor, UCLA, 2001- 2002 Member, Ad Hoc Review Committee Academic Personnel Office, for Committee on Academic Personnel, UCLA, Spring 2001 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, 2000 - Member, Board of Directors

UCLA Center for Governance, 2000 - Member, Research Advisory Committee or Community and Policy Advisory Committee Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, UCLA Site, 1999 - Reviewer, Special and Extramural Fellowships, Graduate Division, UCLA, 1999 Honorary Patron Member, UCLA Library Associates Powell Society, 2008


UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs Chair of the Faculty, and Faculty Executive Committee Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2012 - 2013

Vice Chair of the Faculty, and Faculty Executive Committee

Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2011- 2012

Chair, Ad Hoc Review Committee, Senior Faculty Promotion Review (for a department at UCLA in which I do not have an appointment), UCLA, Fall 2008

Founding Chair, Nonprofit Research Grant Committee

School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2000-2002, Member 2002 - 2003 Member, Steering Committee, Defining Our Future: The Luskin School’s Critical Advantage Initiative, and Member,

Leadership Studies Task Force Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2011- 2012 Member, Undergraduate Policy Minor Redesign Committee School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2003 Member, Executive Committee Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2002 - 2006

Member, Dean’s Cabinet School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2001 - 2005 Member, Nonprofit Initiative Steering Committee School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2000 - Member, Executive Programs Advisory Committee and Executive MPA Committee School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2000 - 2005 Member, Nonprofit Faculty Search Committee School of Public Affairs, 2000 - 2001 Department of Public Policy Department Chair Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, July 2002 - June 2005; July 2014 - Acting Department Chair Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, November 2001- June 2002 Department Vice Chair Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 1999 - November 2001 Chair, Ad Hoc Review Committee, Faculty Promotion Review

Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, Fall 2010

Chair, Curriculum Committee Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2005 - 2013


Coordinator, Applied Policy Project (APP) in MPP Curriculum Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2006 - 2007, 2009-2014 Coordinator, Web Site and Infrastructure Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2005 - 2007 Chair, Faculty Recruitment Process Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 1999 - 2000, 2000 - 2001 Chair, International Policy Recruitment Committee Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2000 - 2001 Chair, Political Science Disciplinary Screening Committee & Subnational Field Subcommittee, Faculty Recruitment Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 1999 - 2000 Co-Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 1998 - 1999 Member, Ad Hoc Review Committee, Faculty Promotion Review

Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, Fall 2011

Member, Admissions and Fellowships Committee Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 2002 - Member, Personnel Committee Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 1998 - 2000 UCLA School of Law Member, Endowed Professorship Committee School of Law, UCLA, 2012 - 2013 University of Pittsburgh: Campus Member, Advisory Committee on Health

Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh, 1996 - 1998 Member, Advisory Committee, Lecture Series in Health Management and Policy Health Policy Institute, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 1994 - 1996 Member, Joint Degree Development Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs/Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh,

1993 - 1996 Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1993 - 1994 Member, Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1996 - 1997


Member, Ad Hoc Tenure Stream Review Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1993 - 1994 Member, Merit Review Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1994 Member, Doctoral Studies Program Committee Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 1993 - 1995 Harvard University: Campus Member, Senior Common Room Leverett House, Harvard University, 1987 - 1993 Participant, Panel on Diversity, Freshman Orientation Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1989 Participant, Panel on Gender in the Classroom, Spring Teaching Orientation Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 1989 Member, Summer Research Awards Committee Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1986 Member, Selection Committee for Harry S Truman Scholarships Harvard University, 1986 Department of Government Head Tutor in Government, Harvard University, 1987 - 1990 (Supervised the Government Tutorial Office and its dozen staff members, and directed the undergraduate

program in Government, during which it became the largest in Harvard-Radcliffe College) Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee and Board of Tutors Department of Government, Harvard University, 1987 - 1990 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee and Board of Tutors Department of Government, Harvard University, 1985 - 1987 Member, Chairman's Committee (quasi-executive committee) Department of Government, Harvard University, 1987 - 1988 Assisted in development and organization of Teaching Fellow Workshop Series Department of Government, Harvard University, 1987 - 1989


GRANTS Principal Investigator or Co-PI Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, “Analysis of U.S. Public Opinion on Health and Health Care Policy,” 2007 - 2008. The California Endowment grants to support two symposia on Redesigning the U.S. Health Care System: Moving from Blue Sky

to Blueprint, and major funding for further development of the Blue Sky Initiative (with Helen DuPlessis, David Ganz, Neal Halfon, and Arleen Leibowitz), 2003.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation, and Milbank Memorial Fund grants to support

conference and publication, Who Shall Lead? Continuity and Change in the Future of Health Care, sponsored by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, with co-sponsorship by the UCLA School of Public Affairs, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy, Covel Commons, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, scheduled for Apri 19 - 20, 2002.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to integrate and disseminate health policy research, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and

Law, 2000 - 2002. Academic Senate Council on Research Faculty Grants, UCLA, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2006-

2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to promote and disseminate special issue on “The Managed Care Backlash,” Journal of

Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1999 - 2000. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant (1996-1998) to support conference and publication, Health Care Into the Next Century:

Markets, States, and Communities, sponsored by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Durham, North Carolina, May 3-4, 1996.

Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1995 - 1998 (included two years leave from

teaching). Russell Sage Foundation research grant as part of the Working Group on the Politics of Social Policy, 1994 - 1996. Congressional Research Grant, The Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center and the Caterpillar Foundation, 1993. William F. Milton Fund Research Grant, Harvard Medical School, 1993. Grant, William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund to Enhance Teaching Excellence and Effectiveness through Innovation, Harvard University,

for a comparative study of gender experiences among Government undergraduate concentrators and in other social sciences, 1988 -1989.

Grant, University Development and Improvement Fund, Harvard University, for study of the undergraduate Government

Concentration and undergraduate participation in Institute of Politics activities at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1988 - 1989.

Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, 1987 - 1988. Harvard Graduate Society Fund Research Grant, Harvard University, 1986 - 1988. National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 1983 - 1984. Horace H. Rackham Dissertation Grant, The University of Michigan, 1983 - 1984.


Associated (Percentage of Time) National Institute of Mental Health, Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), collaboration of

UCLA Semel Institute Center for Community Health, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Friends Research Institute, and RAND, 2007 - (5% annually).

The California Endowment, Redesigning the U.S. Health Care System: Moving from Blue Sky to Blueprint, UCLA Center for

Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, 2003 - 2010 (10% annually). HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Professor of the Year Award, Selected by the Class of 2013 Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, June 2013. Recipient (with Joel D. Aberbach) of the Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Reference Book on the Presidency published in

2005 for Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005), Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association, 2006.

Elected to membership, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2004. Faculty Fellowship, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, 2000-2001 Listed in Who’s Who in the East, 26th Edition, Marquis, 1996 -. Congressional Fellowship, American Political Science Association, 1990 - 91. Served as Legislative Assistant on Health Policy, Office of Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD). Guest Scholar, Governmental Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, 1990-1991. Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1987.

E. E. Schattschneider Award for the Best Dissertation in American Government, American Political Science Association, 1986.

H. B. Earhart Foundation Fellowship in Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1983.

Nominated for the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1981 and 1982.

Excellent, Major Preliminary Examination in American Government, Department of Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1980.

Michigan College First Year Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham Graduate School, The University of Michigan, 1977 - 1978.

Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1977.


CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS Papers/Presentations “When and How Health Policy Research Matters: A Political Science Perspective.” Paper Presentation at the Annual Research

Meeting Panel on Improving the Translation and Dissemination of Health Services Research: Lessons from Inside and Outside the Health Sector , AcademyHealth, San Diego, CA, June 8-10, 2014.

“When and How Health Policy Research Matters: A Political Science Perspective.” Commissioned paper for the AcademyHealth

Workshop on Improving the Translation and Dissemination of Health Services Research: Lessons from Within and Outside the Health Sector, Barbara Jordon Conference Center, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, D.C., April 28-29, 2014.

“The Third Rail of Politics? Medicare’s Untouchability.” Chapter draft prepared for the “Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty”

conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 27-28, 2014. With Darin DeWitt: “U.S. National Health, Policy, and Politics: The Public's Views on Health Determinants and Government

Interventions.” Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, March 31-April 3, 2011.

“The Unique Opportunity for Health Care Reform.” Presentation for “Theme Panel: The Aftermath of Health Care Reform,”

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 2010. With Arleen Leibowitz, Helen DuPlessis, David Ganz, Neal Halfon: “Emerging Paradigm Perspective on the U.S. Health Care

System.” Paper prepared for the project on “Emerging Paradigm in Health Systems,” Directed by Dov Chernichovsky, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, February 2007.

“Public and Elite Perceptions of the Separation of Powers.” Presentation for (and organized) Theme Panel: The Separation of

Powers and the Rise of Executive Power in a Divided Nation,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006.

“The Politics of Transformative Policy Making.” Presentation for Roundtable Panel on “Blue Sky Project: Expanding Policy

Discussions on Health Care Reform,” Annual Research Meeting, AcademyHealth, Seattle, WA, June 25-27, 2006. “The Mobilization of New Interests.” Presentation for Panel on “A Quarter Century of Changes: United States’ Constitutional

System in an Age of Party Polarization,” conference on America: Quo Vidas?, sponsored by the Centro Studi American, Embassy of the United States, and Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Centro Studi American, Rome, Italy, May 16, 2006.

“The Politics of Medicare Reform: Dynamics, Hurdles, and Opportunities.” Discussion Paper Commissioned for Expert Panel on

Medicare Politics, Project on “Creating an Equitable, Efficient, and Sustainable Medicare for the 21st Century,” Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 27, 2006.

“The Politics of Health: The Changing Community of Organized Interests.” Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of

the American Political Science Association, IL, September 2-5, 2004. “Health Care Reform in the U.S.: The Challenge of Legislative Coalition Building.” Paper prepared for presentation at the

Conference on "Restructuring the Welfare State: Health Care Reform in Italy, Japan, UK and USA," Tokyo, Japan, July 5-6, 2001. Revised for next conference at International Jacque Maritain Institute, Research and Study Center at Breganziol, Treviso, Italy, September 16-17, 2002.

“Lasting Impact.” Paper prepared for delivery at the Symposium on the “Politics of Medicare”: A Thirty Year Retrospective on

Ted Marmor’s Classic Work, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 2000. “The Changing Congress and the Politics of Major Health Policy Innovation.” Presentation at the University-Wide Conference on

Research Initiatives in American Government, Politics & Public Policy, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, May 7-8, 1999.


“Interest Groups: Transforming Institutions and the Politics of Major Health Policy Change.” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program, Charleston, S.C., October 28-30, 1997.

“A Framework for Understanding the Policy Impact of Research and Evaluation.” Presentation at the Research and Evaluation

Conference: Maximizing the Impact of Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J., June 26-27, 1996.

“Health Policy in Political Science: Questions in Search of Impact.” Guest lecture, Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Aspen, Colorado, May 29-June 1, 1996. “The Limits to Social Learning: Translating Analysis into Action.” Paper prepared for delivery at the conference on Health Care

Into the Next Century: Markets, States, and Communities, sponsored by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Washington Duke Inn, Durham, N.C., May 3-4, 1996.

"Interest Groups as Allies and Antagonists: Their Role in the Politics of Health Care Reform." Paper prepared for delivery at the

invited papers panel on the Politics of Health Care, Annual Meeting of the Association for Health Services Research and Foundation for Health Services Research, Chicago, Ill., June 4-6, 1995.

"From Allies to Antagonists: The Transformation of Interests in Health Care." Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, New York, NY, September 1-4, 1994. "From Vested Oligarchy to Informed Entrepreneurship: New Opportunities for Health Care Reform in Congress." Paper prepared

for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 14-16, 1994. Advised production of and participated as panelist for "Health Care Reform: Which Way?" Television program on President

Clinton's health care reform plan produced by WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, PA, October 8, 1993. "The Politics of Health Care Reform: Are Good Policy and Good Politics Possible?" Working Paper and presentation prepared

for the Seminar on Future Directions in American Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, September 30, 1993. "Health Care Reform and Social Learning: More than Just the Facts." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1993. "The Presidency and Policy Making." Presentation to the Seminar for Superintendents, Programs in Professional Education,

Harvard Graduate School of Education, July 21, 1993. "The Presidency and Interest-Group Liaison." Presentation at Panel on The Politics of Presidential Power, conference on Beyond

the First 100 Days: What the Clinton Administration Must Do, sponsored by the Institute of United States Studies, the University of London, London, England, March 11-12, 1993.

"Future Options for Financing Health Care." Speech to the 125th Anniversary Symposium of the Harvard School of Dental

Medicine, Harvard University, November 1992. "National Health Care Reform in the 1990s: Changing Institutions and Leadership." Presentation of papers to the Health Policy

Workshop, School of Organization and Management, Yale University, October 5, 1992. "Health Policy Making in the Information Age: Is Congress Better Informed than the President?" Paper prepared for delivery at

the conference on Governance in an Era of Skepticism: Administrators and Politicians, sponsored by the International Political Science Association Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG), Stockholm, Sweden, 1992.


"Leading Our Way to Health: Entrepreneurship and Leadership in the Health Care Reform Debate." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1992.

Also presented at the Workshop on American Political Development, sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, March 24, 1993.

"National Health Care Reform in the 1990s: Politics, Structure, and the Change from Iron Triangles to Policy Networks." Paper

prepared for delivery at the conference on Health Care Reform: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, sponsored by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Duke University, 1992.

"Institutions, Networks, and the Development of National Health Care Policy in America." Research-in-Progress Seminar

Presentation, Governmental Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, July 15, 1991. With Joel Aberbach, Frank Baumgartner, Thomas Gais, David King, and Kim Schepple prepared, edited, and contributed to Jack

Walker book manuscript presented at Panel Honoring and Continuing the Work of Jack L. Walker, Jr.: Mobilizing Political Interests in America, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Calif., 1990.

"Institutions, Networks, and the Development of National Health Care Policy in America." Paper prepared for delivery at the

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Calif., 1990. "Developing the President's Program: The President as a Strategic Player." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of

the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., 1990. "A Deliberate Balance: Congressional Responses to Presidential Policy Initiatives." Presentation of research, Center for American

Political Studies Seminar Series, Harvard University, 1988. "A Deliberate Balance: Congressional Responses to Presidential Policy Initiatives." Presentation of research to the American

Politics Workshop, the University of Chicago, 1988. "A Deliberate Balance: Congressional Responses to Presidential Policy Initiatives." Presentation of research, Department of

Political Science, UCLA, 1988. "Agenda Setting and Explanation: Bottles and Wine, But Are Any of Them New?" Paper prepared for the Roundtable on New

Directions for Research on Agenda Setting in the Courts, the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Washington, D.C., 1987.

"Interest Groups and the Reagan White House: For Whom the Door Bell Tolls." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual

Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1986. "Congressional Responses to Presidential Proposals: Impact, Effort, and Politics." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual

Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., 1986. With Jack L. Walker. "The Impact of the First Reagan Administration upon the National Interest Group System." Paper prepared

for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, 1985. "Domestic Policy and Legislative Decision Making: Congressional Responses to Presidential Initiatives, 1953-1981." Paper

prepared for delivery at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1985. "The President's Domestic Legislative Program: More than Meets the 'Aye'?" Paper prepared for delivery at the Midwest

Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1984. With Thomas L. Gais and Jack L. Walker. "Interest Groups, Iron Triangles, and the Presidency in American National

Government." Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, WI, 1982.


Panel Chair/Moderator Chair and Discussant, Panel on Representing Health Interests,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

New Orleans, LA, August 30-September 2, 2012. Chair and organizer, Roundtable on Elections 2008 and Health Care Reform: Influencing Electoral Returns, Shaping Policy

Outcomes, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 27-31, 2008. Chair, Panel on Rounding Up the Votes: The President as Chief Legislator?, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science

Association, Washington, D.C, 2005. Chair and organizer, Roundtable on Medicare, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA,

2001. Chair and organizer, Panel on Consumer Protection and Managed Care Reform, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Health

Services Research and Health Policy, Los Angeles, CA, 2000. Chair and Discussant. Panel on Medicare: Politics, Policy, and Law, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science

Association, Boston, MA, 1998. Chair/Facilitator. Panel on The Potential for Leadership, Conference on Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st

Century, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 15-16, 1996. Chair and Discussant. Panel on No-Fault Alternatives to the Tort System for Medical Injuries, Annual Research Conference,

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Pittsburgh, PA, October 31-November 2, 1996. Moderator (and helped organize). “The Future of Medicaid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” with panelists Bruce

Vladeck, Administrator of U.S. HCFA; Feather Houston, Secretary of Department of Public Welfare, Pennsylvania; and Michael Sparer, Columbia University, Institute of Politics and Health Policy Institute, University of Pittsburgh, 1996.

Chair and Discussant. Panel on Presidential Politics and the New Congress, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science

Association, Chicago, IL, 1995. Chair and organizer. Panel on The Institutional Context of American Health Care Policy, Annual Meeting of the American

Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1992. Chair and organizer. Panel on The Presidential-Congressional Nexus: New Twists on Recurrent Issues, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, 1989. Moderator. Panel on "Putting the Election in Perspective: A Conversation with Presidential Historians." Institute of Politics

Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1992. Moderator. Panel on the War Powers Act. Institute of Politics Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

University, 1987.


Discussant Panel on Institutional Settings and the Politics of Policy Making, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 2010. APSA Theme Panel on Health System Complexity and Change: Measuring the Politics of Delivering Care, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009. Panel on Policymaking in Legislatures, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 27-

31, 2008. Commentator on Carolyn Tuohy, “Governing in a System of Federalism and Separated Powers,” presented at the conference on

The True Workings of Single Payer Health Systems: Lessons or Warnings for U.S. Reform, sponsored by Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 9-10, 2008.

Research and Evaluation Conference, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, September 27-28, 2007. Sixth Meeting of the University Working Groups on the Social Dimensions of Inequality, UCLA California Center for Population

Research, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, paper by Larry Bartels, “Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability,” UCLA, January 25-26, 2007.

Panel on Medicare, Bureaucratic Decision Making, and the Power of Payment Policy,” Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006. Panel on The Politics of Health Policy in the Second Bush Administration, Committee on Health Politics, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2005. Panel on Public Policymaking as Catalyst for Innovative and Unexpected Policy Responses by the Private Sector, Annual Meeting

of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2-5, 2004. Panel on Presidents and Unilateral Powers in Time, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Jose, CA,

March 24-26, 2000. Panel on Doing Better Than Expected? The Politics of Health Care Expansion in the 1990s, Annual Meeting of the American

Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 2-5, 1999. Invited participant. Meeting to discuss James Robinson, The Corporate Practice of Medicine, Milbank Memorial Fund,

Claremont Resort, Oakland, CA, September 18, 1998. Panel on The President’s Advisors and Appointees, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington,

D.C., August 28-31, 1997. Panel on System Change : Reform, Competition, and the Future of Health Policy, Committee on Health Politics, Annual Meeting

of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997. Invited participate/respondent. Policy Summit on the Future of Medicare, Vanguard Public Foundation Health Care Public

Education Fund, Washington, D.C., April 25, 1997. Invited participant. Meeting to discuss Rosemary Stevens, American Medicine and the Public Interest, Milbank Memorial Fund,

New York, NY, October 8, 1996. Panel on Formal Models of Executive Politics, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,

August 31 - September 3, 1995. Panel on The Development of Health Insurance in Comparative Perspective, Politics and History Section. Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, New York, NY, September 1-4, 1994.


Session on Health Care Reform and the Future: What Role of the States? Conference on Health Care Reform and the Role of the States, sponsored by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 28-29, 1994.

Panel on Race and Governance. Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, Representation, and Governance (Second Session). Center for

American Political Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1993. Panel on The Presidential Role in Policy Making. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,

1992. Conference on "Congress and the Making of Foreign Policy." For volume edited by Paul E. Peterson, sponsored by the John M.

Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, held at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., January, 1991. Panel on The Internal Dynamic of Interest Groups. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA,

1989. Panel on Presidents, Interest Groups, and Advisory Committees: Impacting Administrative Process and Policy. Annual Meeting

of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1988. Panel on Dimensions of Congressional Policymaking. Legislative Studies Section, Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1987. Panel on Conceptual Challenges in Presidential Analysis. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,

Ill., 1987. Roundtable Participation Roundtable on Research Translation and Dissemination in Health Policy and Service Research, Annual Research Meeting,

AcademyHealth, San Diego, June 9, 2014. Roundtable on Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities, Annual Research Meeting, AcademyHealth, Chicago, IL,

June 28-30, 2009. Roundtable on Beyond Health Insurance Expansion: Building a Better Health System, Annual research conference of the

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Los Angeles, November 6-8, 2008. Visionary Panel, Technolink Association's Trends Forum, Omni Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2005. Roundtable on Getting Published: Impacting the Field, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Health Services Research and Health

Policy, Los Angeles, CA, 2000. Roundtable: The Ramifications of Impeachment for Presidential-Congressional Relations, Annual Meeting of the Midwest

Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2000. Roundtable on Politics and Managed Care, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, 1999. Roundtable on The End of the Big State?, Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) conference on Taking the Measure of

Government, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., October 30-November 1, 1997. Roundtable on Health Care Policy as a Determinant and a Consequence of Social Change, Annual Meeting, Robert Wood Johnson

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 15-17, 1996. Roundtable on Managing for White House Leadership: Technology, Structure, Staff, and Leadership, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 1996. Roundtable (chaired) on the Future of Health Care: Markets, States, and Communities, Committee on Health Politics, Annual

Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 1996.


Roundtable (chaired) on the President, Congress, and the Politics of Policy Reform, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 18-20, 1996.

Roundtable on Implications for Public Policy of Competitive Market Experiences and Research, Alpha Center conference on The

New Competition: Dynamics Shaping the Health Care Market, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1995. Roundtable on Health Care Reform and the Republican Congress, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

Chicago, IL, August 31 - September 3, 1995. Roundtable and Discussant. Panels on the Role of Health Policy Research in the Shaping of Health Policy and Multidisciplinary

Perspectives in Health Policy Research, Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Scottsdale, AZ, 1995.

Roundtable on Two Decades of Health Reform: Perspectives from JHPPL Editors. Committee on Health Politics. Annual

Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, NY, September 1-4, 1994. American Political Process Conference. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, 1993. Roundtable on Health Care Under Clinton. Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, 1993. Roundtable on In-Depth Interviews of Elites and Masses. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1988. Roundtable on State of the Discipline: The Graduate Curriculum in American Politics. Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, 1988. Roundtable on Interest Groups. Annual Meeting of the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists, Flint, MI, 1983. Named Lectures, Keynote Addresses, and Plenary Speeches “The Affordable Care Act: Implementation Wars Sowed in Legislative Success.” Michael M. Davis Lecture Series, School of

Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 29, 2013. “Obamacare: Sausage, Not Hash.” Speech to the Jonathan Club Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, CA, September 24, 2013. “The Old Politics of Health Care, A New Politics of Health.” Keynote Address to the 2nd Geirach Symposium on the Psychology

of Politics, “Psychological and Political Perspective on Health Policy in America,” University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, February 24, 2012.

“A Century in the Making: Obama and the Era of Health Care Reform.” Speaker Series on “Great Expectations: Obama and the

Politics of Reform,” the Wayne Morse Center on Law and Politics and the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, April 29, 2010.

“Exploring the Challenges of Making Health Policy.” Keynote, Kansas Legislative Health Academy, Kansas Health Institute,

Wichita, KS, November 8, 2009. “Challenges Facing the American Health Care System.” Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, the David

Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, October 1, 2008. “The Blue Sky Initiative: An Overview of Health System Transformation.” Opening plenary address, Public & Private

Partnerships: Incentives for Health Care Change, Annual Conference of the Oregon Health Forum, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR, October 10, 2007.

“Presidential Leadership in a Separation of Powers System: From Artful Craft to Forged Supremacy.” Dinner address to The

American Council of Young Political Leaders Leadership Seminar on “The Art of Strategic Leadership,” Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library, Simi Valley, CA, May 18, 2007.

“The Blue Sky Initiative: A Description and a Challenge.” Plenary address, Washington Health Legislative Conference, Hilton

Seattle Airport & Conference Center, December 12, 2006.


“Forty Years of Trends in Health Policy and Politics: A Context for the 90s and Beyond.” HAP (the Hospital and Healthsystem

Association of Pennsylvania), Leadership Summit 2000, Harrisburg, PA, April 11, 2000. "The Politics of Health Care Reform." Keynote Address to the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Political Science Association,

Indianapolis, IN, April 28, 1995. "Health Care Reform: Policy and Political Imperatives." Keynote Address to Washington G-2 Lab Institute '94, Washington,

D.C., October 6, 1994. "National Health Care Reform: Policy Mastery or Political Muddle?" John Hazen White, Sr. Lecture Series, Brown University,

Providence, RI, September 19, 1994. "Is Congress Broken?" Lecture Series sponsored by the Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Institute for Law and Society, Stonehill College,

North Easton, MA, April 15, 1993. "Health Care in America: On the Cusp of Change." 1960s Scholars Speakers Program, Williams College, Williamstown, MA,

April 8, 1993. "From Politics to Government in the '90s." Forty-Seventh Series of the Hamilton Hall Lectures, Salem, MA, February 25, 1993. "Health Care Reform and the Clinton Administration." WEB, Network of Benefits Professionals, Washington, D.C., February 22,

1993. "The Status of National Health Care Legislation." Keynote Address to the New England Health Care Caucus, sponsored by

Citizens for Participation in Political Action, Clark University, January 9, 1993. "Currents and Cross-Currents in the Coming Elections." Forty-Second Series of the Hamilton Hall Lectures, Salem, MA,

February 18, 1988. "The Evolution of the Presidency." Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA, September 29, 1989. "Currents and Cross-Currents in Presidential Nominations." Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, MA, June 14,

1988. "U.S. Bored of Inquiry? The Iran-Contra Scandal." Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, MA, February 4, 1987. "Assessing the Reagan Presidency." Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, MA, October 20, 1986.


Other Selected Formal Presentations Off Campus Presentations as Chair of the National Advisory Committee, Annual Meetings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program—The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO; Estancia, La Jolla, CA; Eaglewood, Istasca, IL; The Landsdowne, Leesburg, VA; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ; The Alexander, Indianapolis, IN.: “Bringing the Social Scientific to the Health Policy Domain,” 2003 “Multidisciplinary Engagement and Policy Action: The NASI Study Panel on Medicare and Markets,” 2004 “The Blue Sky Project to Transform the U.S. Health and Health Care System,” 2005 “Current Challenges to Translating Ideas into Action,” 2006 “Back on the Agenda Again: Public Opinion and Health System Change,” 2007 “24 Hours in Trauma: Views from a Public Urban Hospital,” 2008 “Soup’s On: Moving from Ideas and Evidence to Public Policy,” 2009 “Informing Policy: RWJF Scholars’ Research in the Policy-Making Process,” 2010 “Informing the Public: Can Scholar Research Make a Policy-Relevant Difference?” 2011 “Beyond Disciplinary Silos: How Health Policy Research Can Expand One’s Career Portfolio, Broaden the Mind, Make

a Difference, and Feed the Soul,” 2012 “What a Difference a Program Makes: The Illustrative Case of Political Science,” 2013 “The ACA Implementation War: Revealing the Need for Interdisciplinary Health Policy Research,” 2014 Presenter, “‘The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime’: Now What?” HAART (Human Resources Round Table for Senior

Executives) 2012 Annual Retreat, The Lodge at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA, November 17, 2012. Keynote Speaker, “The Why, What, and Where of the Affordable Care Act,” 3rd Annual Southern California Solid Organ

Transplant Conference, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, September 28, 2012. Panelist, “What the Affordable Care Act Is and Is Not: Hear What the Experts Have to Say,” National Council of Jewish

Women/Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, August 22, 2012. Panelist, “James Q. Wilson, Broken Windows, and Los Angeles,” Zócalo Public Square, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica,

CA, June 4, 2012. Presentation, “The Future of the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court,” Southern California Political Action Group, Los

Angeles, April 15, 2012. Presentation, “Transforming Health and Health Care in America,” Medical Education Program, Providence-Tarzana Medical

Center, Tarzana, CA, March 20, 2009. Presentation, “Congress and Health Policy: Sausage Making, Graveyards, and the Potential for Redemption,” American Politics

Workshop, University of Virginia, March 13, 2009. Presentation, “Is This the Era of Health Care Reform? Why This Time is Different from All Other Times,” Leonard Davis

Institute of Health Economics Health Policy Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, February 20, 2009. Presentation, “The Cognitive-Dissonant American: Context and Strategy for Health Care Reform,” Symposium following the

Tanner Lecture on Human Values (delivered by Uwe Reinhardt), Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, January 10, 2009.

Presentation, “A New Medicare Governance,” conference on “Making Medicare Sustainable: Transforming Our Health Program

for America’s Seniors,” New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., July 23, 2008. Presentation, “Caring for America: Health Care Decisions Facing the Next President and Congress,” Institute of Governmental

Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 17, 2008. Panel Member, Deliberative Poll on Health Care Reform, California State University, Fullerton, April 12, 2008.


Presentation, “The Changing Congress and Opportunities for Transforming Health Care Policy,” at Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine (May 21, 2004); University of California, Santa Barbara (February 6, 2004); RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University (December 12, 2003); Center for American Politics and Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Washington (May 21, 2003); Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS), Stanford University (April 17, 2003).

Organized, chaired, and presented, two panels on “The Managed Care Backlash,” National Press Club, Washington, D.C.,

November 22, 1999. Presentation, “Trends in National Health Care Politics and Policy Making.” Retreat, Board of Directors, PHICO Group, Inc.,

Carlsbad, California, September 16, 1999. Presentation, “The U.S. Congress: New Access and New Opportunities for Health Policy Change,” Seminar on Health Policy,

Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Yale University, February 22, 1999. Presentation, “Interest Groups and Congress: Transforming Institutions and the Politics of Major Health Policy Change,” Scholars

in Health Policy Research Program, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, October 16, 1997. Presentation, “Interest Groups and Congress: Transforming Institutions and the Politics of Major Health Policy Change,” Health

Policy Forum, Center for Health Policy and Management, SUNY Stony Brook, October 9, 1997, and Department of Political Science, October 10, 1997.

Presentation, “Moving from Health Economics to Health Politics,” course on Health Economics, H. John Heinz III School of

Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, April 16, 1997. Presentation, “The Politics of Health Care Policy: Overreaching in an Age of Polarization,” Seminar on Health Policy, Scholars in

Health Policy Research Program, Yale University, September 16, 1996. Presentation, “Congress and Health Care Policy Making,” course on Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy, John

F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 18, 1996. Presentation, “National Health Care Policy Making in the U.S.: Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?,” Clinical Scholars Program,

School of Public Health, and “Dynamic Institutions and Health Care Policy Making in the U.S.”, Department of Political Science, Center on American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, February 12, 1996.

Presentation, “National Health Care Policy Making in the U.S.: Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?” Department of Political

Science, the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, January 30, 1996. Presentation, “National Health Care Policy Making in the U.S.: Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?”, Scholars in Health Policy

Research Program, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, December 14, 1995. Presentation, "The Politics of Health Care Reform." Forum sponsored by the Pittsburgh Area Chapter, American Society of

Public Administration, Pittsburgh, PA, April 5, 1994. Presentation, "Health Care in the United States: Where Are We Going?" Symposium sponsored by the School of Management,

Lesley College, Cambridge, MA, April 22, 1993. Presentation, "National Health Care Reform." Fellows in the Research Training Program in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard

Medical School, July 29, 1992. Presentation, "Health Insurance Coverage in the United States." Panel sponsored by the Community Health Program, Tufts

University, Medford, MA, April 21, 1992. Presentation, "The Status of Health Care Reform in Congress." United Church of Christ Fellowship Program, Washington, D.C.,

January 10, 1991. Presentation, "The Uses of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences." Simmons College, Boston, MA, November 20, 1986.


Courses Taught Harvard University Government 1300, The U.S. Congress (Undergraduate and graduate; co-taught with Douglas Price) Government 1540, The American Presidency (Undergraduate and graduate; joint with Kennedy School of Government;

solo and co-taught with Roger Porter) Government 90bb, President and Congress (Junior Seminar) Government 90cc, Agendas, Decisions, and Public Policy (Junior Seminar) Government 90et, Health Care as a Decision-Making Problem (Junior Seminar) Government 2305, Field Seminar in American Politics (PhD Seminar; co-taught with Sidney Verba) Government 2310, Congress: Representation or Paralysis? (PhD Seminar)\ Government 2330, The Organization, Mobilization, and Articulation of Private Interests (PhD Seminar) Government 2465, The Presidential-Congressional Nexus (PhD Seminar; co-taught with Paul Peterson) University of Pittsburgh Public & Int’l Affairs 2000, The Political and Institutional Setting of Public Affairs (Masters) Public & Int’l Affairs 2010, Professional Skills, Module on Organizations and Institutions (Masters) Public & Int’l Affairs 2096, Capstone Seminar: Health Care as a Policy Problem (Masters) Public & Int’l Affairs 2096, Capstone Seminar: Medicare Reform (Masters) Political Science 1230, Interest Group Politics (Undergraduate) Political Science 1262, Health Policy in the U.S. (Undergraduate) UCLA Public Policy 191A (special topics), later Public Policy 113, The Politics of U.S. Health Policy (Undergraduate) Public Policy 202, American Political Institutions and Processes (Required in MPP Core Curriculum) Public Policy M267/Health Services M252, Medicare Reform (Masters and some PhD) Public Policy 298A, 298B, and 298C, Applied Policy Projects (Required in MPP Core Curriculum) RESEARCH INTERESTS The Development of National Health Care Policy Presidential-Congressional Interaction and Policy Making White House Decision Making Congressional Policy Making Interest Groups and Public Policy RELATED EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES Policy Making:

As an APSA Congressional Fellow, worked as a legislative assistant on health policy in the office of Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD). Participated in drafting proposed legislation including S. 2513, The American Health Security Plan of 1992 (comprehensive health care reform), and other proposed bills. Also wrote speeches, floor statements, and guest editorials; assisted with hearing preparation; and engaged in all other activities of a legislative assistant.


Policy Review and Promotion:

Core Team (with Helen DuPlessis, David Ganz, Neal Halfon, Arleen Leibowitz, and Samuel Sessions), “The Blue Sky Health Initiative to Transform the U.S. Health and Health Care System,” Spring 2003 -

Moderator, “Moving from Sick Care to Health: A Briefing on the Keys to America’s Healthy Future – Prevention and Children,” Blue Sky Health Initiative and Nemours, briefing for congressional staff, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., September 16, 2009.

Co-Director, Policy Core, Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), UCLA, 2007 -

2011 Co-Chair, Commission on the Executive Branch, Institutions of American Democracy Project, Annenberg Foundation

Trust at Sunnylands, 2003-2005 Member, Advisory Council, Frances Perkins Center, Newcastle, ME, 2009 - Member, Health Policy Advisory Committee, Barack Obama for President Campaign, 2008 Member, Advisory Council, “Transforming Medicare into a Sustainable and Equitable Health Program for America’s

Elderly,” New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 Participant, BasicCHAT (Choosing Healthplans All Together) Project Thought-Leaders Meeting, supported by the

California HealthCare Foundation, Fall 2004 Member, advisory group to Center for Health Policy, Institute for International Studies, Stanford, research protocol for

“The Effectiveness of Public/Private Partnerships in Enhancing Health and Welfare Systems Development” on behalf of the World Health Organization’s Kobe Research Center, Fall 2003 - Winter 2004

Member, Advisory Board Member, PolicyArchive.Net Center for Governmental Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 2004 - 2006 Member, Advisory Panel, Project on “Towards a Common Language: Creating a Framework for Assessing Coverage

Expansion Proposals” California HealthCare Foundation, 2003 - 2004 Member, Advisory Board, Feasibility Study on a Sacramento Policy Center prepared for James Irvine Foundation Center for Governmental Studies, Los Angeles, 2003 Member, Study Panel on Medicare and Markets, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2000-2003 One of four study panels established as part of the NASI’s “Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term” project

support by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Issued “The Role of Private Health Plans in Medicare: Lessons from the Past, Looking to the Future,” Final Report of the Study Panel on Medicare and Markets, National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, D.C., November 2003.

Member, Advisory Board, UniPayer HealthCare Education, Inc., 1998 - A non-profit organization dedicated to providing education about single-payer health care financing. Participant, Working Together Consortium Health Care Initiative, 1997 - 1998 Organized by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, chaired by Paul O’Neill, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa, to develop a

community-organized reform of health care financing and delivery in Western Pennsylvania. Member, Health Care Study Group, 1993 - 1994 Informal organization of health care specialists nationwide seeking to influence the process of health care reform in

the United States.


Member, Health Care Advisory Group, 1993 -1994 Appointed by the Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh to advise Senator Harris Wofford on health care reform,

chaired by Dr. Thomas Detre, Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Member, Working Group on the Politics of Public Policies for America's Children, 1992-93 Organized under the auspices of the Program on the Future of Our Children at the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences. Politics:

Extensive involvement in community politics: Precinct Coordinator; Ward Chair; precinct delegate to county, district, and state conventions; campaign activist for city council, mayoral, state representative, congressional, and presidential campaigns; helped develop, supervise, and analyze congressional district voter attitudes survey.

Campus Lectures:

Numerous lectures, at Harvard University: Institute of Politics dinner and student groups, to undergraduate and alumni groups; and for Harvard Development Office. At University of Pittsburgh: Graduate School of Public Health, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Medical Ethics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Human Services Executives Academy; Center for American Politics and Society. At UCLA: Extension Tension Spots in the World lecture series; School of Public Health courses; UCLA 2004 Post-Election Wrap-Up, and Public Health 2004 Election Impact; Blue Sky Seminar Series; Center for Health Policy Research Seminar Series; Annual Health Care Symposia organized by the medical students of the Geffen School of Medicine; Law School Medicare debate; Library Associates luncheon for Charles Young Research Library; Department of Surgery Grand Rounds; NET Impact (School of Public Affairs and Anderson School of Management) Symposium on Public-Private Partnerships, GlobeMed at UCLA event on Vote 2008: Healthcare and Politics, UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program Advanced Management Institute; Medical Marketing Program, UCLA Anderson School of Management; 2012 Milhaupt Symposium, The PLATO Society of UCLA; UCLA Emeriti and Retirees joint session on “Expanding Medicare as a Route to National Health Insurance;” UCLA Library “Opening Up Campaign Archives” panel; Beyond the Headlines at UCLA Extension; various Luskin School of Public Affairs events, including the Dean’s Roundtable, “Inside the Health Care Debate: A Rational Conversation with Thought Leaders,” and Dean’s Salon, “The Obamacare Saga: On the Books, Embattled, but Begun.”

Media:

Numerous newspaper, specialized journal, radio, and television interviews, e.g., New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, San Diego Union Tribune, Arizona Republic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Pasadena Star-News, The Oregonian, U.S. News & World Report, CQ Weekly, The Hill, American Medical News, Le Monde, Correio Braziliense, Jornal do Brasil,Le Ben Franklin Post (France USA Media); broadcasts such as CBS Evening News, CNNMoney.Com, National Public Radio, Marketplace from American Public Media, radio stations in the U.S., including Minnesota Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and Canada, local television news, RedeTVNews, (Brazil), Sanlian LifeWeek (China); assisted producer on program design and appeared as panelist on “Health Care Reform: Which Way?,” WQED Television, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1994.

The Profession:

Reviews of book and article manuscripts, and project proposals, including for Harvard University Press; Yale University Press, University of Chicago Press; Princeton University Press; University of California Press; Dorsey Press; CQ Press; American Political Science Review; Journal of Politics; American Journal of Political Science; Social Science Quarterly; Studies in American Political Development; Western Political Quarterly; Political Research Quarterly; Polity; Governance; Legislative Studies Quarterly; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Congress & the Presidency; Political Behavior; Public Administration Review; Southeastern Political Review; PS: Political Science and Politics; Health Affairs; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Health Services Research; American Journal of Public Health; Bioethics; Hypatia; the National Science Foundation; the Russell Sage Foundation; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program, and Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Program; numerous faculty promotion reviews.


ASSOCIATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

National Academy of Social Insurance (elected member)

American Political Science Association Presidents and Executive Politics Section Legislative Studies Section Public Policy Section (past president) Health Politics and Policy Section (founding member) Politics and History Section Political Organizations and Parties Section

Midwest Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

Center for the Study of the Presidency

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

AcademyHealth

The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Special Guest Privileges, 1983-1984, 1995-1998 Guest Scholar, 1990-91

Universities Service Centre Kowloon, Hong Kong, Fall 1982 REFERENCES Available upon request.

Documents

MARK ALEX PETERSON - UCLA Political Science · 1/15/2015 · Peterson, Mark A. “Presidential Power and the Potential for Leadership.” In Martha Joynt Kumar, Robert Y. Shapiro,