Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions

About the Author

191 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Beryl A. Radin is a member of the faculty at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Her government service includes an assignment as a special adviser to the assistant secretary for management and budget of the US Department of Health and Human Services. She calls herself a “pracademic” because she has moved back and forth between the worlds of a practitioner and an academic. Professor Radin has written a number of books and articles on public policy and public management issues, including Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Georgetown University Press); The Accountable Juggler : The Art of Leadership in a Federal Agency (CQ Press); and Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values (Georgetown University Press). She is a past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, former head of the public administration section of the American Political Science Association, and was editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory from 2000 to 2005. She received the 2009 H. George Frederickson Award for career achievement in scholarship from the Public Management Research Association and was the recipient of the 2002 Donald Stone Award given by the American Society for Public Administration’s section on intergovernmental management. This page intentionally left blank ...