Politics of the Administrative Process

About Donald F. Kettl

Donald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Until his retirement he was the Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a senior adviser at the Volcker Alliance a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books including Bridgebuilders: Harnessing Societys Superpowers to Solve Its Biggest Problems with William D. Eggers; The Divided States of America (2020); Can Governments Earn Our Trust? (2017); Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy (2017); Escaping Jurassic Government: Restoring Americas Lost Commitment to Competence (2016); System under Stress: The Challenge to 21st Century American Democracy Homeland Security and American Politics (2014); The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008); and The Global Public Management Revolution (2005). He has received three lifetime achievement awards: the Dwight Waldo Award of the American Society of Public Administration; the John Gaus Award of the American Political Science Association; and Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. Three of his books have received national best-book awards. Kettl holds a PhD in political science from Yale University. He consults broadly for government organizations at all levels and around the world. He has appeared frequently in national and international media. With his wife Sue he is also a co-shareholder of the Green Bay Packers.