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29
Citations
6695
World Ranking
1228
National Ranking
616

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - 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

Overview

Paul Light is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their academic profile includes recognized contributions to the field of political science and public administration.

Among their awards, Paul Light received the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2015. They have also been honored as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration.

Paul Light's contributions have been noted without specific details on recent publications, frequent co-authors, or venues of publication. The available data does not list particular works or research topics but indicates a scholarly presence within political science and related areas.

Best Publications

  • The tides of reform : making government work, 1945-1995

    Paul Charles Light

  • The search for social entrepreneurship

    Paul Charles Light

  • Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship

    Paul Light

  • Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally

    Paul Charles Light

  • Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability

    Paul Charles Light

  • The True Size of Government

    Paul Charles Light

  • The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Reagan

    Paul Charles Light

  • Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform

    Paul Charles Light

  • The New Public Service

    Paul Charles Light

  • Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It

    Paul Charles Light

  • Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability

    Paul Charles Light

  • Artful work : the politics of social security reform

    Paul Charles Light

  • The Content of their Character: The State of the Nonprofit Workforce

    Paul Light

  • Pathways to nonprofit excellence

    Paul Charles Light

  • The Tides of Reform Revisited: Patterns in Making Government Work, 1945–2002

    Paul C. Light

  • A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It

    Paul Charles Light

  • The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results

    Paul Charles Light

  • THE HEALTH OF THE HUMAN SERVICES WORKFORCE

    Paul C. Light

  • Vice-Presidential Power: Advice and Influence in the White House

    Paul Charles Light

  • High-Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives

    Robert E. Klitgaard;Paul Charles Light

  • Still Artful Work: The Continuing Politics of Social Security Reform

    Paul Charles Light

  • A government Ill executed: The depletion of the federal service

    Paul C. Light

  • Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability

    Jacob A. Toby;Paul C. Light

  • The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results: Lessons from the RAND Corporation

    Paul Charles Light

  • Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability.

    Robert Maranto;Paul C. Light

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Lempert
Robert J. Lempert RAND Corporation
B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Martin J. Smith
Martin J. Smith University of York

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