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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - John Gaus Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Donald F. Kettl is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations and Public Administration. Other relevant subfields include Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The research topics covered in their work encompass Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Weber, Simmel, and Sociological Theory, Management and Organizational Studies, Political and Economic History of the UK and US, and Political Systems and Governance.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Public Administration Review, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Governance, Leader to Leader, and the International Journal of Public Administration.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Donald F. Kettl include:

  • States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for COVID-19 (2020, Public Administration Review)
  • Weberian Bureaucracy and Contemporary Governance (2021, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance)
  • Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved? (2022, Governance)

Additional collaborative work includes papers coauthored with Andrew Podger and William D. Eggers, with topics exploring politicized public service and new visions of government.

Frequent coauthors of Donald F. Kettl include Andrew Podger, William D. Eggers, Melvin J. Dubnick, Mary E. Guy, and Pan Suk Kim.

There are also book publications under their name from prominent academic presses. Cambridge University Press published Experts in Government in 2023, and Princeton University Press published The Divided States of America in 2020.

Awards received include the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2008, and they are recognized as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Sharing Power: Public Governance and Private Markets

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The global revolution in public management: Driving themes, missing links

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The Transformation of Governance: Globalization, Devolution, and the Role of Government

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Politics of the Administrative Process

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Managing Boundaries in American Administration: The Collaboration Imperative

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The Global Public Management Revolution

    Donald F. Kettl

  • System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Government by proxy : (mis?)managing federal programs

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Contingent Coordination Practical and Theoretical Puzzles for Homeland Security

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Improving Government Performance: An Owner's Manual

    John J. DiIulio;Gerald J. Garvey;Donald F. Kettl

  • Leadership at the Fed

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Public Administration at the Millennium: The State of the Field

    Donald F. Kettl

  • Government by Proxy: (Mis?) Managing Federal Programs.

    Donna Wilson Kirchheimer;Donald F. Kettl

  • On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

    Ronald J. Daniels;Donald F. Kettl;Howard Kunreuther

  • Inside the reinvention machine : appraising governmental reform

    Donald F. Kettl;John J. DiIulio

  • Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works

    Donald F. Kettl;Patricia W. Ingraham;Ronald P. Sanders;Constance Horner

  • Reinventing Government: A Fifth Year Report Card

    Donald F. Kettl

  • 18. ASSESSING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM STRATEGY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

    Lawrence R. Jones;Donald F. Kettl

  • States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for Covid-19.

    Donald F. Kettl

  • The state of public management

    Donald F. Kettl;H. Brinton Milward

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Kunreuther
Howard Kunreuther University of Pennsylvania
Robert F. Durant
Robert F. Durant American University
Patricia W. Ingraham
Patricia W. Ingraham Binghamton University
Robert Agranoff
Robert Agranoff Indiana University
Laurence E. Lynn
Laurence E. Lynn The University of Texas at Austin
Paul E. Peterson
Paul E. Peterson Harvard University
Arjen Boin
Arjen Boin Leiden University
William Diebold
William Diebold Reed College
Peter H. Schuck
Peter H. Schuck Yale University
Kenneth K. Y. Wong
Kenneth K. Y. Wong University of Hong Kong

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