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B. Guy Peters, PhD
Michigan State University, 1970

Maurice Falk Professor of
American Government

E-mail: bgpeters@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae


COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 2261 American Public Policy
PS 2301 Concepts and Theories of Comparative Politics
PS 2305 Comparative Policy

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Comparative public policy and administration, American public administration

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism (London: Continuum).

Policy Coordination in the European Union: The National Dimension (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (Co-edited with Hussein Kassim and Vincent Wright).

Comparative Politics: Theory and Method (Basingstoke: Palgrave).

The Future of Governing, 2nd Edition (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas).

Bureaucrats and Politicians During Administrative Reform (London: Routledge) (Co-edited with Jon Pierre).

The Politics of Bureaucracy, 5th Edition. (London: Routledge).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The New Institutionalism. London: Cassells, 1998.

“The Diffusion of Administrative Reform” West European Politics (Autumn 1997).

“Can’t Row, Shouldn’t Steer: What’s a Government to Do?” Public Policy and Administration (1997).

“Sixteen Ways to Consumerize the Public Sector” Public Money and Management (1997) (Co-authored with Christopher Hood and Hellmut Wollmann).

“Escaping the Joint Decision Trap: Policy Segmentation and Iterative Games in the European Union” West European Politics (April 1997) 20:22-36.

The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models. University of Kansas Press, 1996.

The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Comparative Perspective, 4th Edition. Longmans, 1995.

OTHER FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Research Professor of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

Senior Fellow, Canadian Centre for Management Development

Honorary Professor, City University of Hong Kong



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