The University of Texas at Austin

Prior to his appointment at the LBJ School, Lynn was the George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Previously, he served on the faculties of the Stanford Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, where he was the Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management. He is a past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

His latest books are Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach (with Carolyn J. Hill), Public Management: Old and New, and Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (with Anthony M. Bertelli). In addition to the H. George Frederickson and John Gauss awards, he has received the Dwight Waldo and Paul Van Riper awards from the American Society for Public Administration. He earned his A.B. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Education

M.A. (Hon.), Harvard University, 1974.

Ph.D. (Economics) Yale University, 1966.

A.B. (Economics) with honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1959.

Current Positions

Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management Emeritus, School of Social Service Administration and Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago (2002-present).

Previous Positions

George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, (2002-2007); Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management, School of Social Service Administration and Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, (1997-2002); Academic Visitor, Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science, (1989); Dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, (1983-1988); Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Irving B. Harris Graduate School of (formerly Committee on) Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, (1983-1997); Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, (1982-1983): Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, (1975-1983); Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, (1974-1975); Associate Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, (1970-1971).

Assistant Secretary for Program Development and Budget, U. S. Department of the Interior, (1973-1974); Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, (1971-1973); Assistant for Programs to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council, (1969-1970); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Resource Analysis, U.S. Department of Defense, (1968-1969); Director of the Strategic Mobility and Transportation Division and then of Economics and Mobility Forces in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis), U. S. Department of Defense, (1966-1968); Weapon Systems Analyst, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis), U. S. Department of Defense, (1965-1966).

Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection, editor (The National Academy of Science, 1978).

Studies in the Management of Social R&D: Selected Policy Areas, editor (The National Academy of Science, 1979).

The State and Human Services: Organizational Change in a Political Context (MIT Press, 1980).

Designing Public Policy: A Casebook on the Role of Policy Analysis (with Instructors Manual) (Goodyear, 1980).

Managing the Public's Business: The Job of the Government Executive (Basic Books, 1981).

The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform (with David Whitman) (Temple University Press, 1981).

Managing Public Policy (Little Brown, 1987).

Urban Change and Poverty, co-editor with Michael G. H. McGeary (National Academy Press, 1988).

Inner-City Poverty in the United States, editor (National Academy Press, 1990).

Public Management as Art, Science, and Profession (Chatham House, 1996).

Teaching and Learning With Cases: A Guidebook (Chatham House, 1999; Chinese language edition, 2001 in series titled “Public Administration and Public Management Classics”).

Governance and Performance: New Perspectives, co-editor (with Carolyn J. Heinrich), (Georgetown University Press, 2000).

Improving Governance: a New Logic for Empirical Research (with Carolyn J. Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill). (Georgetown University Press, 2001).

The Art of Governing: Analyzing Management and Administration, co-editor (with Patricia W. Ingraham). (Georgetown University Press, 2004).

The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, co-editor (with Ewan Ferlie and Christopher Pollitt). Oxford University Press, 2005).

Madison’s Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (with Anthony M. Bertelli). (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Public Management: Old and New. (Routledge, 2006)

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