University
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.
Department of Political Science
4L01 Forbes Quadrangle
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: polisci+@pitt.edu
Tel: (412) 648-7250
Fax: (412) 648-7277