Policy passages : career choices for policy wonks / edited by Howard J. Wiarda ; with contributions by Carolyn Blackwell ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiarda, Howard J., 1939-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Vocational guidance--United States.

Policy sciences.

Vocational guidance.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 233 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

This book presents the career stories of twenty scholars and policy practitioners to give readers an accurate and realistic view of life outside the academic world.

Contents:

Introduction: Pursuing Careers in Public Policy / Howard J. Wiarda ix

I. Stopping at the Bachelor's or Master's Degrees

1. Storming Washington

and Returning to Graduate School / Carolyn Blackwell 3

2. Coming to Washington to Earn an M.A. and a Career / Janine T. Perfit 11

3. The M.P.A.: Careers in the Public Sector / Steven Bosacker 19

II. Advanced Degrees

4. The Academy as Pastoral Policy Shop (or, Campus Activism as Policy Making) / John Brigham 31

5. A State Department Career

and Afterwards / Lowell R. Fleischer 39

6. A Career as an "In 'n' Outer" / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 47

7. On Being a Woman in Academia and in Research Institutes / Susan Kaufman Purcell 55

8. Law and Public Policy / William D. Rogers 65

III. Life as a Policy Wonk

9. Close to Home: Working in State Government / Steve D. Boilard 75

10. The World of the Washington Think Tanks / Howard J. Wiarda 83

11. Influencing Policy on an International Level: Life and Work in a United Nations Agency / Elizabeth D. Gibbons 93

12. The Satisfactions of Nonpartisan Policy Analysis on Capitol Hill / K. Larry Storrs 107

13. Up and Down Pennsylvania Avenue: Congress and the Executive Branch / Victor C. Johnson 117

14. Dealing with the Media / Norman Ornstein 125

15. A Foot in Both Camps: Building a Career in Washington and Academe / Thomas E. Mann 135

16. The CIA, Defense Department, and Hard Choices / Melvin A. Goodman 143

17. Born in a Newsroom: A Political Scientist on CNN / William Schneider 155

IV. Expanding Access and Influence

18. Roads Taken and Not Taken: My Political Science Career in Washington / Margaret Daly Hayes 165

19. Homem da Lua: Moving by an Unknown Source / Thomas Orum 175

20. Bridging Two Cultures, Straddling Two Disciplines / Alfred G. Cuzan 185

21. How to Be a Public Policy Manager in Washington: The Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture to the American Political Science Association / Donna E. Shalala 197

22. Conclusion and Recommendations / Howard J. Wiarda 207

How to Find Jobs in Washington: An Annotated Bibliography / Rebecca Root 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0275975282

0275975290

OCLC:

49711915