David A. Rochefort Department of Political Science 923 Renaissance Park Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115
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CURRENT POSITION
Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University. Promoted from Assistant Professor in 1988; promoted from Associate Professor in 1995; appointed Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in 2001. Responsibility for undergraduate and graduate courses in policy analysis, social welfare policy, health policy, mental health policy, and quantitative methods (including online versions of several of these courses). Teaching outside the department has included a student leadership seminar, as well as interdisciplinary Honors Program courses on social problem fiction, political language, and political ethics.
Acting Chair of Department, Summer 2003. From 1984 to 1986 and 1991 to 1994, Chair of Master of Public Administration program. Duties included overseeing operation of the graduate program and coordinating such activities as student advising, curriculum planning, program development, marketing, student affairs, selection of adjunct faculty, and liaison between the MPA program and the national accrediting body of NASPAA. Also served for four years as Chair of departmental committee that formulated a new PhD program in Public and International Affairs, given university approval in spring, 1996. Experiential Education Advisor and Internship Coordinator for all department concentrators, 1998-2010. Associate Chair of Department, 2015-16, with responsibilities for Undergraduate Program development, curriculum review, course scheduling, outreach to admitted students, Honors Program advising, among other areas.
Affiliate Faculty Member, Doctorate in Law and Policy, Executive Program, Northeastern University, 2007-2010.
Core Faculty Member, Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University Law School, 2014-present.
Affiliate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, 2014-present.
Faculty Fellow, Humanities Center, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University, 2016-17.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Brown University American Civilization 1983
An interdisciplinary program focusing on U.S. public policy--health, welfare, mental health, and aging—and encompassing four fields of study completed in Departments of Political Science, Sociology, and History.
FIELDS OF STUDY:
Public Policymaking and Political Process Health and Social Services in Contemporary America U.S. Social Welfare Policy and Administration Social Research Methods and Statistics
M.A. Brown University American Civilization 1979 M.A. Brown University Political Science 1976 B.A. Brandeis University Political Science 1974 1 OTHER CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
Certified E-Learning Instructor, Northeastern University Online, December 2009. Updated, November 2010. National Institute of Health Web Training Course, “Protecting Human Research Participants,” May 2009. Case Teaching Workshop, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, June 15-18, 2008.
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
July to August 2017 -- Visiting Professor, Smith School of Social Work, Smith College, Summer, 2017. Invited instructor for intensive seminar in “Mental Health Policy and Services” that is required of all second-year doctoral students.
Fellow in Public Policy, Taubman Public Policy Center, Brown University, 2014-15. Visiting appointment to investigate health and mental health policy issues on the national level and in RI with the benefit of Brown’s research facilities.
October 1999 -- Beverly Visiting Professor, The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto. Distinguished visiting appointment at the Institute to collaborate with fellow researchers and to conduct a special weekly seminar on issues of mental health policy implementation. Keynote public address delivered on the politics of mental health reform in the Canadian provinces.
September to December 1996 -- Fulbright Scholar, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects Sociaux de la Santé et de la Prévention, University of Montreal, Montreal. Recipient of a Fulbright award to study mental health policy and administration in the province of Quebec, and to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary academic research group analyzing community-oriented public policymaking.
September to December 1993 -- Visiting Research Scholar, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects Sociaux de la Santé et de la Prévention, University of Montreal, Montreal. Stipended visiting researcher in a multidisciplinary academic center concerned with health, mental health, and social policy issues. Delivered conference and seminar presentations of my work, and collaborated in the development of a grant proposal to compare Canadian and U.S. social policy strategies.
Spring 1993, 1991, 1990 -- Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy, Taubman Public Policy Center, Brown University. Responsibility for teaching the core introductory course for the undergraduate public policy major. In addition to giving two lectures weekly to classes as large as 230 students, duties included organization of discussion sections, supervision of graduate teaching assistants, and arrangement of occasional guest lecturers from government and from Brown’s public policy faculty.
June 1986 to June 1987 -- Postdoctoral Fellow in Rutgers-Princeton Program in Mental Health Research, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University. Recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health award to conduct research into mental health policies, programs, and services and to participate in a special training program.
Spring 1980 -- Teaching Fellow in American Civilization, Brown University. Responsibility for designing and teaching an undergraduate seminar on "Issues in American Social Welfare Policy.”
Fall 1975 to Fall 1979 -- Teaching Assistant in Political Science, Brown University. Led discussion sections for the introductory political science course "The American Political System."
2 HONORS AND AWARDS
Portz Award, Northeastern University, Recognition for Outstanding Contributions to Honors Program, 2014 Practice-Oriented Education Award, Northeastern University, 2006 College of Arts & Sciences, Northeastern University, Distinguished Professor, appointed 2001 Beverly Visiting Professor, The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, fall 1999 Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Center List of Outstanding Books on Human Rights, 1997, for From Poorhouses to Homelessness, 2nd ed. Northeastern University Excellence-in-Teaching Award, June 1998 (additional nominations in 2007, 2010) President’s Outstanding Service Award, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, 1998 Fulbright Scholar Award, University of Montreal, fall 1996 Board Member of the Year, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, 1995 Winner, 1994 Better Government Competition, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research Theodore Lowi Award for Outstanding Policy Studies Article of 1994, Policy Studies Organization NIMH Postdoctoral Award, 1986-1987 Teaching Fellow, Brown University, spring 1980 Teaching Assistant, Brown University, 1975-1979 B.A. magna cum laude with departmental honors, Brandeis University, 1974 Brandeis University academic scholarships, 1970-1974
GRANTS
Corporation for National and Community Service Grant, “National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative,” administered by Princeton University’s Community-Based Learning Initiative in partnership with the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation ($11,250 including required 50% matching from Northeastern University’s College of Arts and Sciences), 2008-2010. Mental Health Association of Rhode Island and Research and Scholarship Development Fund, Northeastern University, “Public Opinion Survey on Managed Mental Health Care,” summer 1999 ($10,000) Fulbright Scholar Award, fall 1996 ($10,750 Can) Faculty Research Grant, Canadian Studies Program, International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa, 1996-97 ($6,000) Research and Scholarship Development Fund, Northeastern University, “Comparative Research on Canadian/U.S. Mental Health Care,” 1996-97 ($2,495) Collaborating Investigator, “State and Community: Emerging Social Policy Paradigms,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (with Deena White, University of Montreal) ($90,000) Faculty Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University, “Mental Health Policy Information Network,” 1995 ($530) Finalist and Senior Investigator, Fourth Annual Better Government Competition, Pioneer Institute (with Ann Dill, Brown University), 1994 ($5,000) Quebec Studies Grant Program, Province of Quebec, "Assessing Quebec's New Mental Health Planning Process" ($2,000) Faculty Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University, "Immersion Program in French-Language Training," University of Montreal, 1992 ($1,872 + supplement) Faculty Research Grant, Canadian Studies Program, International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa, 1990-91 ($5,000) NIMH Postdoctoral Grant, 1986-87 ($26,000) Grant Coauthor and Project Member, Substance Abuse Needs Assessment Project, Rhode Island Division of Substance Abuse, 1985 ($50,000) Project author, "Days of Darkness, Days of Hope" Public Educational Project, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 1981 ($1,000) 3 GOVERNMENT AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
April 2014 to Present – Affiliated Research Investigator, Rockefeller-Fels Institutes and Brookings Institution Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Winter, 2007 – Statistical Training Consultant, U.S. Department of Environmental Protection. Designed and conducted a five-part workshop series on statistics and their applied uses in policy analysis, program evaluation, and field research.
Winter, 2002 – Designated Expert Reviewer, Romanow Commission for the Future of Health Care in Canada. Provided review and commentary for commissioned papers on “National Values, Institutions, and Health Policies” and “Complicated and Complex Systems.”
Summer, 1999 -- Consultant Policy Analyst, Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, Waltham, MA. Research report prepared on the status of mental health care in Massachusetts. The report subsequently was published in fall, 1999, as the latest in a series of Issue Briefs released by MHPF.
Spring, Summer 1996 -- Consultant Policy Analyst, Human Services Research Institute, Cambridge, MA. Prepared a published research monograph for a federally-funded mental health evaluation center on the issue of state-level regulation of managed mental health care. Also participated in a symposium for Health Care Financing Administration officials dealing with oversight of managed mental health care programs under federal Medicaid waivers.
Spring 1993 -- Designated Expert Reviewer, Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, Report on "Mental Health in Health Policy: A Cross-National Comparison."
Fall 1989 to Spring 1983 -- Social Science Consultant, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Analysis and Inspections, Region l, Boston, MA. Social science research, evaluation, and policy analysis services provided in the form of oral and written technical assistance and staff training. Activities include research design, data collection and statistical analysis, synthesis of study findings, and development of policy recommendations.
Winter 1992 -- Designated Expert Reviewer, Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, Report on "The Biology of Mental Disorders."
August 1986 to June 1987 -- Policy Consultant, Office of Policy and Program Evaluation, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton, NJ. Prepared background reports and contributed to the development of a program design for the Department's welfare reform initiative. Also involved in activities to implement the REACH (Realizing Economic Achievement) program.
Spring 1986 -- Planning Consultant, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI. Completion of planning-related analyses and reports at the request of the Vice-President for Planning.
June 1985 to October 1985 -- Health Policy Consultant, Department of Community Medicine, Brown University Medical School. Involved in the organization and preparation of a state-level planning document on the substance abuse treatment system in Rhode Island under contract to the Rhode Island Division of Substance Abuse. Special responsibility for analyzing major health policy issues and approaches as they pertain to the substance abuse field, including certificate-of-need regulation, integration of services, provider competition and consumer choice, and utilization review.
4 GOVERNMENT AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE (continued)
September 1983 to July 1984 -- Health Policy Consultant, Rhode Island Department of Health. Conducted special health policy studies as requested by the Assistant Director for Health Policy, particularly an analysis of past and projected health care expenditure patterns in the state.
September 1980 to July 1982 - Health Facilities Specialist, Rhode Island Department of Health. Responsible for developing the health services and facilities components of the State Health Plan and Annual Implementation Plan; providing technical assistance to organizations proposing to implement recommendations of the State Health Plan; and providing staff support to the Statewide Health Coordinating Council (SHCC). Also served as liaison to Consumer Caucus of the SHCC.
Summer 1979 -- Program Consultant, Taunton Area Community Mental Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Developed grant proposals to strengthen the service delivery system.
July 1977 to July 1978 -- Research Assistant, Social Matrix Research, Inc. Taunton, MA. This position involved the planning and supervision of a survey of human service needs among households in the greater Taunton area. Responsibilities included sample design, questionnaire construction, computer programming, and statistical analysis, as well as general administrative tasks and the publication of a final report. Additional research on other mental health research topics dealing with the deinstitutionalization program at Taunton State Hospital and the evaluation of a federally funded project to integrate local human services.
March 1977 to July 1977 -- Research Intern, Bureau of Research, Planning and Evaluation, Rhode Island Department of Education. Analysis of data relevant to the public educational system of Rhode Island. Coauthor of report projecting public elementary and secondary enrollments.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
July 1996 to June 1998 -- President, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island. Elected by the membership to the presidency of an 80-year old voluntary mental health advocacy organization. Responsibilities included working closely with the executive-director of the Association to set the organizational agenda, formulate the annual budget, and implement activities through the committee structure. The president also chairs bimonthly board meetings and all Executive Committee meetings. A special initiative as president was collaborating with board members to prepare a series of position papers on issues such as managed care, Medicaid cutbacks, mental health promotion, and for-profit hospital ownership. Served as Vice-President for Public Policy, 1993-96 and 1999- 2000. Member of Board of Directors, since 1988.
April 1995 to April 1998 -- Library Trustee, Town of Seekonk. Elected in the annual town election to a three-year term on the library Board of Trustees. Responsibilities included planning for technological modernization, responding to changing user needs, and determining the annual budget.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Book Review Editor, New England Journal of Human Services (1985-1990).
Manuscript reviewer for Policy Studies Journal, Political Psychology, Policy Studies Review, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Politics, 5 Policy and Law, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Social Problems, Public Administration Review, New England Journal of Human Services, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, American Politics Quarterly, Health Economics, Policy, and Law, Greenwood Press, Westview Press, Oxford University Press, University Press of Kansas, Georgetown University Press.
BOOKS
(Coauthor with David Mechanic and Donna McAlpine) Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care, sixth ed. (Boston: Pearson, 2013).
(Senior author with Kevin P. Donnelly) Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us About Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care (New York: Routledge, 2012).
(Editor and coauthor) Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006), 267 pp.
(Editor, with Robert Hackey, and contributor) The New Politics of State Health Policy (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 318 pp.
From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care, 2nd ed. (Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997), 320 pp.
(Senior editor, with Roger W. Cobb, and contributor) The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 216 pp.
From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care (Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1993), 297 pp.
(Editor and contributor) Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989), 546 pp.
American Social Welfare Policy: Dynamics of Formulation and Change (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986), 206 pp.
PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
Community-Based Policy Analysis. Sage Research Methods Cases (London, UK: Sage Publishing, January 3, 2019).
(Senior author with M. Ganim) Rhode Island: Individual State Report (Final). State-Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Rockefeller Institute of Government (State University of New York), The Brookings Institution, and Fels Institute of Government (University of Pennsylvania). October 2016. http://www.rockinst.org/ACA/states/Rhode_Island/2016-10-RI_Individual_Report_Update.pdf.
Rhode Island: Individual State Report (Phase One). State-Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Rockefeller Institute of Government (State University of New York), The Brookings Institution, and Fels Institute of Government (University of Pennsylvania). April 2014, http://www.rockinst.org/aca/states/Rhode_Island/2016-05-Rhode_Island_Individual_Report.pdf.
(Senior author with David M. Smith) Implementing a Restorative Peer Justice Model at Social Justice Academy: Year-Two Evaluation of Training. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, May 2010. 6
PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS AND RESEARCH REPORTS (continued)
(Senior author with David M. Smith) Implementing a Restorative Peer Justice Model at Social Justice Academy: Year-Two Student Body Survey. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, December 2009.
(Senior author with David M. Smith) Implementing a Restorative Peer Justice Model at Social Justice Academy: Year-One Evaluation of Training. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, April 2009.
(Project Director and senior author) Survey of Public Opinion on Health Care Reform in Rhode Island: Summary of Findings. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, December 2007.
(Project Director and senior author) Employment-Based Health Insurance in Massachusetts: Erosion, Cost-Shifting, and the Dilemmas of “Consumer-Driven” Reform. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, May 2006.
(Project Director and senior author) Massachusetts Public Libraries At Risk: Gauging the Impact of Budgetary Cuts. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, May 2004, 59 pp.
(Project Director and senior author) Renewing the Massachusetts Bottle Bill: Constant Goals, Changing Times. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, June 2003, 30 pp.
(Project Director and senior author) Good News, Bad News, and Points of View: An Analysis of Mental Health Coverage in Boston’s Two Major Newspapers. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, November 2002, 46 pp.
Mental Health Care in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, ISSUE BRIEF no. 6. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, November 1999, 33 pp.
Public Opinion on Managed Care in Rhode Island. RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE SERIES. The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI, December 1999, 7 pp.
Regulating Managed Mental Health Care: A Policy Analysis and Discussion of the Role of Evaluation. Cambridge, MA: The Evaluation Center@HSRI, December 1996, 56 pp.
(Project Administrator & Coauthor with Michael Dukakis and Jerry Berger) Insuring American Health for the Year 2000, Northeastern University Publications, June 1992, 73 pp.
"Toward a Normative Distribution of State Health Expenditures," Technical Report no. 29, Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, July 1984, 61 pp.
Surveying Human Needs: Methods, Analysis, and Materials (Boston: Social Matrix Research, Inc., 1979), 110 pp.
(Coauthor, with Bertrand H. Goulet) Barriers in the Establishment and Operation of Halfway Houses (Boston: Social Matrix Research, Inc., 1979), 50 pp. 7 ARTICLES
“Making Single-Payer Reform Work for Behavioral Health Care: Lessons from Canada and the United States,” International Journal of Health Services 50 (Number 3, 2020) 334–349.
“Innovation and Its Discontents: Pathways and Barriers in the Diffusion of Assertive Community Treatment,” The Milbank Quarterly 97 (December 2019): 1151-1199.
“The Affordable Care Act and the Faltering Revolution in Behavioral Health Care,” International Journal of Health Services 48 (Number 2, 2018): 223–246.
“Reimagining the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Journal of Medical Humanities 39 (Number 1, 2018): 3-14.
“Agenda Setting,” in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, second ed., Evan M. Berman, Jack Rabin, and T. Aaron Wachhaus, eds. (Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis Group, 2015), 7 pp.
“Protest through Reification of the System in Contemporary Health Policy Fiction,” Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum 4 (Number 1, 2014), online journal.
“The Rhetoric of ‘Crisis’ and Implementing the Affordable Care Act,” Harvard Health Policy Review 15 (Fall 2013): 5-10.
(Coauthor with Kevin P. Donnelly) “The Lessons of ‘Lesson Drawing’: How the Obama Administration Attempted to Learn from Failure of the Clinton Health Plan,” Journal of Policy History 14 (April 2012): 184-223.
(Coauthor with Elise Dallimore and Kristen Simonelli) “Community-Based Learning and Research,” in Experiential Education: Making the Most of Learning Outside the Classroom. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Winter 2010, pp. 15-22.
(Senior author, with Kevin P. Donnelly) “The Medicaid Waiver: Does How It’s Said Affect What You Hear?” Rhode Island Policy reporter 33 (October 2008): 3-6.
(Senior author, with Kevin P. Donnelly) “The Changing Influence of the Canadian Single-Payer Model in America’s National Healthcare Debate,” Harvard Health Policy Review 9 (Spring 2008):132-148.
(Senior author, with Marie Ganim and Kevin P. Donnelly) “Covered but Still at Risk: How Can Policymakers Address Increased Cost Sharing in Private Health Insurance?” Medicine & Health Rhode Island 93 (April 2008): 109-112.
“A New Look at Rhode Island’s Underinsured,” Rhode Island Policy Reporter 29 (December, 2007): 1-5.
(Senior author, with Kevin P. Donnelly) “Public Opinion on Health Reform in Rhode Island: Problem Definition and Patterns of Support,” Brown Policy Report, December 2007.
“Is Health Reform in Massachusetts a Model for Rhode Island?” Medicine & Health/Rhode Island 89 (December 2006): 408-411.
“Agenda Setting,” in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, ed. Jack Rabin (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2005). 8 ARTICLES (continued)
“The Erosion of Public Library Services in Massachusetts,” City & Town, Massachusetts Department of Local Services, May 2005, pp. 6-7.
“Mental Health Policy,” in Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004), pp. 460-463.
“Loaded Dice: Reformism and Constraint in Contemporary U.S. Mental Health Policy,” Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 22 (Fall, 2003): 1-12.
(Coauthor, with Carolyn Dewa et al.) “Left Behind by Reform: The Case for Improving Primary Care and Mental Health System Services for People with Moderate Mental Illness,” Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2 (vol. 1, 2003): 43-54.
“The Rhode Island Public and the Mental-Health Parity Debate,” Medicine and Health in Rhode Island 84 (November 2001): 365-368.
(Coauthor with John Portz and Matthew Reidy) “How Managed Care Is ‘Reinventing’ Medicaid and Other Public Health-Care Bureaucracies,” Public Administration Review 59 (September/October 1999): 400-409. “Canadian Health Care and Its Vulnerabilities,” The Milbank Quarterly 77 (no. 3, 1999): 409-414.
(Senior author with Michael Rosenberg and Deena White) “Community as a Policy Instrument: A Comparative Analysis,” Policy Studies Journal 26 (Fall 1998): 548-568.
“The Role of Anecdotes in Regulating Managed Care,” Health Affairs 17 (Nov/Dec 1998): 142-149.
(Senior author with Paula Goering) “‘More a Link than a Division’: How Canada Has Learned from U.S. Mental Health Policy,” Health Affairs 17 (September/October 1998): 110-127.
“Mental Health Reform and Inclusion of the Mentally Ill: Dilemmas of U.S. Policymaking,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 19 (No. 3/4, 1996): 223-237.
(Coauthor with David Mechanic) “Comparative Medical Systems,” Ann. Rev. of Sociology 22 (1996): 239-270.
"Research Issues in Mental Health Policy," Carolina Health Services Review 2 (Summer 1994): 133-145. Keynote Address at the First Annual Carolinas Conference on Mental Health Policy..
“Mental Health Policy Inquiry, Its Importance, and Its Rewards,” Policy Studies Journal 22 (Winter 1994): 653-660.
"The Pragmatic Appeal of Employment-Based Health Care Reform," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 18 (Fall 1993): 683-693. Selected for reprinting in J. A. Morone and G. S. Belkin (eds.), The Politics of Health Care Reform (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 283-293; and in C. Wekesser (ed.), Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego: Green Haven Press, 1994).
(Senior author with John Portz) "Different Systems, Shared Challenges: Assessing Canadian Mental Health Care from a U.S. Perspective," The American Review of Canadian Studies 23 (Spring 1993): 63-80.
9 ARTICLES (continued)
(Senior author with Roger W. Cobb) "Problem Definition, Agenda Access, and Policy Choice," Policy Studies Review 21 (March 1993): 56-7. Selected for reprinting in: Policy Evaluation, ed. R.C. Rist (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1994).
"More Lessons, Of A Different Kind: Canadian Mental Health Policy in Comparative Perspective," Hospital & Community Psychiatry 43 (November 1992): 77-84. Also excerpted in Yearbook of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health, ed. J.A. Talbott ( Chicago: Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1994).
(Senior author with Roger W. Cobb) "Framing and Claiming the Homelessness Problem," New England Journal of Public Policy 8 (Spring/Summer 1992): 49-65.
(Coauthor with David Mechanic) "A Policy of Inclusion for the Mentally Ill," Health Affairs ll (Spring 1992): 128-150.
"Partnership: A More Enthusiastic View," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Summer 1991): 331-333. An invited commentary on "'Partnership,' The New Remedy for Government's Most Current Strategic Problems! The Case of Quebec's Mental Health Policy," by Francoise Boudreau.
(Coauthor with William Miles) "Nationalism vs. Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa," American Political Science Review 85 (June 1991): 393-403. Selected for excerpting in N. Zahariadis, ed., Theory, Case, and Method in Comparative Politics. (Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1997), pp. 87-91.
(Coauthor with David Mechanic) "Deinstitutionalization: An Appraisal of Reform," Annual Review of Sociology 16: 301-327.
(Coauthor with Ann Dill) "Coordination, Continuity, and Centralized Control: A Policy Perspective on Service Strategies for the Chronic Mentally Ill," Journal of Social Issues 45 (No. 3, 1989): 145-159.
(Senior author with Carol Boyer) "Use of Public Opinion Data in Public Administration: Health Care Polls," Public Administration Review 48 (March/April 1988): 650-660.
"Policymaking Cycles in Mental Health: Critical Examination of a Conceptual Model," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 13 (Spring 1988): 129-152.
"The Political Context of Mental Health Care," New Directions for Mental Health Services 36 (Winter 1987): 93-105.
"Responding to the New Dependency: Welfare Reform, 1969-1980," New England Journal of Human Services 7 (Number l, 1987): 14-24.
(Coauthor with Bruce M. Logan and Ernest Cook) "Block Grants for Mental Health: Elements of the State Response," Journal of Public Health Policy 6 (December 1985): 476-492.
"How Should Health Expenditures Be Allocated?" New England J. of Human Services 5 (Winter 1985): 15-27.
"Origins of the 'Third Psychiatric Revolution': The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 9 (Spring 1984): 1-30. 10 ARTICLES (continued)
(Senior author with Donald Williams, Bruce Kelley, David Gute, and James Jackson) "Rhode Island's Aging Population and the Use of Medical Care, 1980-2020," Rhode Island Medical Journal 66 (February 1983): 74-80.
"Author's Reply" in "Debate with Authors" section, Social Service Review 56 (December 1982): 661-663.
(Contributor and editor) "Community Residences and the Problem of Social Resistance," Perspectives column in New England Journal of Human Services 2 (Spring 1982): 44-49.
"Progressive and Social Control Perspectives on Social Welfare," Social Service Review 55 (December 1981): 568-592.
"Three Centuries of Care of the Mentally Disabled in Rhode Island and the Nation, 1650-1950," Rhode Island History 40 (November 1981): 111-132.
"The Western Moratorium of Theodore Roosevelt," North Dakota Quarterly 49 (Summer 1981): 42-56.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Corruption of the Innocent in Contemporary Social Problem Fiction,” in Pop Culture Matters: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, ed. M. Norden and R. Weir (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2019), pp. 36-46.
“Agenda Setting, Problem Definition, and their Contributions to a Political Policy Analysis,” in Handbook of Public Policy Agenda-Setting, ed. Nikolaos Zahariadis (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016), pp. 35-52.
“Mental Health and Social Policy: 1960s-Present,” in Guide to U.S. Health and Healthcare Policy, ed. Thomas Oliver (Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press/Sage, 2014), pp. 349-362.
(Senior author with Kevin P. Donnelly) “Agenda Setting and Political Discourse: Major Analytical Frameworks and their Application,” in Routledge Handbook of Public Policy, eds. Eduardo Araral et al. (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 189-203.
“Mental Health Policy,” in Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. G. Mink and A. O’Connor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2004), pp. 460-463.
“The Backlash Against Managed Care,” in The New Politics of State Health Policy, ed. R. Hackey and D. A. Rochefort (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001), pp. 113-141.
(Senior author with Roger Cobb) “Problem Definition: An Emerging Perspective,” in The Science of Public Policy, ed. Tadao Miyakawa (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 544-574.
“Mental Health Policymaking in the Intergovernmental System,” in Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, ed. A. V. Horwitz and T. L. Scheid (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 467-483.
“Mental Health Care and National Health Reform,” in Health Politics and Policy, 3rd ed., ed. T. J. Litman and L. S. Robins (Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1997), pp. 352-366. 11 BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
(Senior author with Ann Dill) “Moving Recipients Toward Self-Sufficiency Through Improved Case Management,” in Invitation to Change: Better Government Competition on Welfare Reform, 1994 Winners, ed. L. Brown and K. Ciffolillo (Boston: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research), pp. 61-79.
(Senior author with Paul Pezza) "Public Opinion and Health Policy," in Health Politics and Policy, 2nd ed., ed. T. J. Litman and L. S. Robins (Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1991), pp. 247-269.
"Mental Illness and Mental Health as Public Policy Concerns," in Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States, ed. D. A. Rochefort (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 3-20.
(Senior author with Bruce M. Logan) "The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant: Origins, Design, and Impact," in Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States, ed. D. A. Rochefort (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 143-171.
"Responding to the New Dependency: The Family Assistance Plan of 1969," in Poverty and Public Policy in Modern America, ed. D. T. Critchlow and E. W. Hawley (Chicago, IL: Dorsey, 1989), pp. 291-303.
"Toward a Work-Oriented Welfare System: New Jersey's REACH Program," in New Jersey Economic Issues, ed. J. Chelius (Trenton, NJ: The Make Jersey Work Roundtable, 1988), pp. 47-59.
GOVERNMENT AND OTHER REPORTS
(Senior author with Kevin Donnelly) “Holding Teachers Responsible for Failing Schools: The Battle Over Education Reform in Central Falls, Rhode Island,” The Electronic Hallway, Evans School, University of Washington, 2011. https://hallway.evans.washington.edu/cases/details/holding- teachers-responsible-failing-schools-battle-over-education-reform-central-fall.
"Assessing Quebec's New Mental Health Planning Process," a report submitted to the Quebec Studies Program of the Ministry of International Affairs, Province of Quebec, 16 pp. + appendix items.
"Public Insurance for Mental Health Care in Nova Scotia, Canada: Trends and Policy Issues," A report submitted to Canadian Studies Program of Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., 32 pp.
"Final Report on Employment and Training Programs and the Welfare Reform Plan," Office of Policy and Program Evaluation, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton, October 1986, 19 pp.
(Coauthor with David C. Lewis, Carol N. Williams, Harry Sterling, Elizabeth Morrison, and Leisha Westbrook) "Substance Abuse Treatment in Rhode Island: Population Needs and Program Development," Brown University Center for Alcohol Studies, Providence, October 1985, 107 pp.
(Coauthor with staff of the bureau) "Changing Enrollments for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Rhode Island: Trends, Projections, and Implications," Bureau of Research and Evaluation, Rhode Island Department of Education, Providence, September 1977, 41 pp.
12 BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS
Review of National Myths: Constructed Paths, Contested Presents, edited by Gérard Bouchard, Social History, 48 (May 2015): 307-309.
Review of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. De Boef, and Amber E. Boydston, Public Administration, 2011.
“Investigating Our Fixation with Flawed Market Solutions.” A review of The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles by Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs, Health Affairs 28 (March/April 2009): 588-589.
“Stuck in The Middle with You (With Apologies To Stealers Wheel)” A review of Screwed: The Undeclared War against the Middle Class—and What We Can Do about It by Thom Hartmann, War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back by Lou Dobbs, and The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement by Jacob Hacker, Health Affairs 26 (May/June, 2007): 891-893.
Review of The Health Care Mess by Julius B. Richmond and Rashi Fein, Health Affairs 25 (September/October, 2006): 1444-1445.
Review of Dead on Arrival by Colin Gordon, Contemporary Sociology 33 (4, 2004): 488-490.
Review of The Body in the Library, ed, by Iain Bamforth, Health Affairs 23 (3, 2004): 284-284.
Review of Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care by W. Richard Scott et al., Contemporary Sociology 31 (vol. 2, 2002): 228-229.
Review of The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States by Christopher Howard, Journal of Politics 63 (May 2001): 636-638.
Review of Comparative Mental Health Policy: From Institutional to Community Care by Simon Goodwin, Social Service Review 4 (December 1999): 591-594.
“Clozaril Without Side Effects Is Not Enough,” Health Affairs, (September/October 1999): 260-261. A review of Transforming Madness by Jay Neugeboren.
“Conflict and the Discourse of Scientific Truth,” Health Affairs, 18 (May/June 1999: 262-264). A review of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge by Steven Epstein.
Review of Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems by Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, American Political Science Review.
“Health and Social Context,” Health Affairs 15 (Winter 1996): 204-206. A review of Writing At the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine, by Arthur Kleinman.
“Beneath the Abstractions of Our Health Care Debate,” Health Affairs 13 (Fall 1994): 225-227. A review of Mama Might Be Better Off Dead by Laurie Kaye Abraham.
13 BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS (continued)
"Private-Sector Strategies for a Public Policy Crisis," Politics and the Life Sciences ll (August 1992): 276-277. A review of The Crisis in Health Care by Dean C. Coddington et al.
"An Expert Diagnosis of U.S. Health Care Ills," Politics and the Life Sciences 10 (August 1991): 101-102. A review of The Medical Triangle: Physicians, Politicians, and the Public by Eli Ginzberg.
Review of Social Welfare: Policy and Analysis by Andrew W. Dobelstein in American Review of Public Administration 21(March 1991): 73-75.
"Where Politics Meets Program Design: Dilemmas of Contemporary Social Security Policymaking," The Gerontologist 30 (Number 4, 1990): 567-569. A review of Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis, edited by Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw, and Age, Class, Politics, and The Welfare State, by Fred C. Pampel and John B. Williamson.
"Bioscientific Progress, Politics as Usual," Politics and The Life Sciences 8 (August 1989):101-102. A review of Biocracy: Public Policy and the Life Sciences by Lynton Keith Caldwell.
"The Welfare State in Historical and Comparative Perspective," Policy Studies Review 5 (August 1985): 164-173. A review of Social Welfare or Social Control? edited by Walter I. Trattner, The Welfare State and Beyond by Gunnar Heckscher, Capitalism and the Welfare State by Neil Gilbert, and Contradictions of the Welfare State by Claus Offe.
Review of The Chronically Limited Elderly: The Case for A National Policy for In-Home and Supportive Community-Based Services by Howard A. Palley and Julianne S. Oktay, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 9 (Summer 1984): 348-352.
Review of Clifford W. Beers: Advocate for the Insane by Norman Dain in New England Journal of Human Services 3 (Summer 1983): 47-48.
Review of The Mentally Ill in Community-Based Sheltered Care by Steven Segal and Uri Aviram and Decarceration by Andrew Scull in New England Journal of Human Services, Inaugural Issue (October 1980): 57-55.
PAPERS, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, AND SPEECHES
In addition to numerous papers delivered at professional conferences (e.g., American Political Science Association, New England Political Science Association, Northeast Political Science Association, New York Political Science Association, American Public Health Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, International Studies Association, Northeast Popular/American Culture Association), significant presentations/addresses have also been made at such venues as the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Health Care Finance Administration, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health-University of Toronto, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects Sociaux de la Santé et de la Prévention-University of Montreal, Medical University of South Carolina, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, Massachusetts Health Care For All, Rhode Island Senate Educational Briefing, Massachusetts Legislative Committee Hearing, Rutgers University Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, and Western Michigan Medical Humanities Conference.
14 PH.D. AND OTHER THESIS SUPERVISION
(Committee Member) Giuliano Espino, “Communities No More: How Epistemic Coalitions Adjust to Member Infighting,” PhD in Political Science, in progress.
(Committee Member) Alexandra Alden, “The State of Racial Justice Efforts in Mental Health Policy,”PhD in Sociology, in progress.
(Faculty Advisor) Jared Hirschfield, “Implications of Single-Payer Reform for Rural Health Care in the United States” Senior Honors Thesis.
(Committee Member) Jarvis Chen, “Charter Schools and Accountability: A Study of Market and Compliance Accountability by Charter Authorizers,” PhD in Political Science, 2016.
(Faculty Advisor) “The Psychology of Foreign Policy Decision-Making: An Examination of the U.S.-Led Invasion of Iraq,” 2016.
(Committee Chair) Veronica Czastkiewicz, “Victims, Villains, Heroes: Melodrama and the Narrative of Charter School Policymaking,” PhD in Political Science, 2015.
(Committee Chair) “Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Hard,” PhD in Political Science, 2013.
(Committee Chair) Kevin P. Donnelly, “The Rhetoric of Reform: Examining the Role of Political Language in Rhode Island’s Health Care Debate," PhD in Public and International Affairs, 2009.
(Committee Chair) Kaitlyn Kenney Walsh, “Deadlock: A Political Economy Perspective on the Massachusetts Health Policy Reform Experience,” PhD in Public and International Affairs, 2008.
(Committee Member) Robyn Olson, “The Politics of Water Fluoridation from a Problem Definition Perspective,” PhD in Law, Policy, and Society, 2008.
(Faculty Advisor) Toby Shepherd, “Buying Growth or Selling Out: A Study of the Massachusetts Economic Development Incentive Program,” Senior Honors Thesis, 2007.
(Committee Member) Michelle A. Lee, “The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Public Policy: Immigration and Indigenous Land Rights Policies in Australia,” Ph.D. in Political Science, 2006.
(Committee Member) Gillian Mulvale, “Mental Health Policy and Service Delivery in Canada: Issues in Policy Reform, Access to Care and Use of Mental Health Providers,” PhD in Health Research Methodology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 2006.
(Committee Chair) Marie L. Ganim, “State Health Policy Analysis: The Promise of Reform,” PhD in Public and International Affairs, 2005.
(Faculty Advisor) Natalie Prosin, “Contemporary Welfare Reform: An Analysis of Impacts based on Alternative Forms of Policy Research,” Senior Honors Thesis, 2005.
(Committee Chair) Cynthia E. Newton, “Obesity as an Emerging Policy Domain and Strategies to Combat Youth Obesity,” PhD In Public and International Affairs, 2004.
15 PH.D. AND OTHER THESIS SUPERVISION (continued)
(Committee Chair) Harvey D. Cotton, “The Evolution of a Regulatory Relationship: The Management of the Liquidation of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England,” PhD in Law, Policy, and Society, 2003.
(Faculty Advisor) Michelle Kick, “The Effect of Welfare Reform on Women and their Dependents,” Senior Honors Thesis, 2002.
(Director) Kate Nepveu, “Increasing Organ Donation: An Analysis of Federal Policy Options,” Senior Honors Thesis, 1999.
(Committee Member) Michael McCubbin, “The Political Economy of Mental Health: Power and Interests in a Complex System. PhD in Sociology, Faculté des études supérieures, Université de Montréal, 1998.
(Committee Chair) Charlotte B. Cloutier, “Medical Malpractice: Social Problem v. Political Crisis,” PhD in Law, Policy, and Society, 1988.
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