Copyright (c) 7/1997 J. Marc Pedulla and Fernando VilaUniversity of Pittsburgh
Department of Political Science
FACULTY 
BERT A. ROCKMAN
(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974)
University Professor of Political Science
email: brockman+@pitt.edu
 
COURSES:
PS1212 American Presidency
PS1212 Syllabus
PS 1241 Public Administration & Political Systems (UHC)
PS 1281 Seminar on American Politics
PS 1241 Public Administration & Political Systems (UHC)
PS 1281 Seminar on American Politics
PS 2010 Concepts and Theories in Political Science
PS 2200 American Government and Politics

PS 2212 American Presidency
PS 2230 American Politics Pro-Seminar
PS 2241 Bureaucracy, Organizations and Politics
PS 2381 Political Institutions
PS2381 Syllabus


AREAS OF EXPERTISE
American politics, comparative politics (industrial societies), institutions, political leadership, executive politics, public administration and organizational behavior, U.S. presidency
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the United States Federal Executive.(In press.) (Brookings Press, 2000). (Co-authored with Joel D. Aberbach.)
 
The Clinton Legacy. Chatham House, 2000. (Co-edited with Colin Campbell.)
 

"Hards Times for Presidential Leadership? (And How Would We Know?)" Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (December 1999): 757-777.
 

"Staffing the Presidency at Mid-Century and Century's End." In Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Kumar, and Lawrence Jacobs, eds., The Presidency at Mid-Century and Century's End. Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
 

Institutions and Democratic Statecraft. Westview Press, 1997. (Co-edited with Metin Heper and Ali Kazancigil.)
 

"Honey, I Shrank the State: On the Brave New World of Public Administration." In Ali Farazmand, ed., Politics and Bureaucrats in Modern Systems of Governance, 275-94. Sage Publications, 1997.
 

"Bureaucracy, Control, Responsiveness, Performance." In Abdo Baaklini and Helen Desfosses, eds., Designs for Democratic Stability: Studies in Viable Constitutionalism, 73-94. M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
 
The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals. Chatham House, 1996. (Co-edited with Colin Campbell.)
 

Agenda for Excellence 2: Administering the State. Chatham House, 1996. (Co-edited with B. Guy Peters.)
 

"Adjustments to Change: Speculations from the American and European Experiences." In Roger Benjamin, C. Richard Neu, and Denise Quigley, eds., Balancing State Intervention: The Limits of Trans-Atlantic Markets, 253-264. St. Martin's Press, 1995.
 

"The Political Views of U.S. Senior Federal Executives, 1970-1992." Journal of Politics (August 1995) 57, 838-852. (Co-authored with Joel D. Aberbach.)
 
Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the U.S. and Abroad. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1993. (Co-edited with R. Kent Weaver.)
 

The Leadership Question: The Presidency and the American System. Prager, 1984.
(** Winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book Published on the U.S. Presidency in 1984.)
 

Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies. Harvard University Press, 1981. (Co-authored with Joel D. Aberbach and Robert D. Putnam.)
 

OTHER FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Research Professor of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS).
 

Director of the Center for American Politics and Society (CAPS), University of Pittsburgh.
 

Co-editor of Governance: International Journal of Policy and Administration.
 

Non-Resident Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
 

Former President, APSA Organized Section for Presidency Research.
 

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