Elaine Kamarck
| Elaine Kamarck | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | The Brookings Institution |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Education: | •Bryn Mawr College •University of California, Berkeley |
Elaine Kamarck is an American political scholar. As of May 2024, she was a senior fellow in The Brookings Institution's Governance Studies program and the director of Brookings' Center for Effective Public Management. She served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997, where she developed and led the National Performance Review, an effort to review and improve federal government processes. Kamarck "conducts research on 21st-century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, intelligence reorganization, and governmental reform and innovation," according to her profile at The Brookings Institution. Below is a summary of Kamarck's education and career:[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Kamarck's education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- A.B. (1972), Bryn Mawr College
- M.A. (1974), University of California, Berkeley
- Ph.D. (1986), University of California, Berkeley
Professional positions and honors
- Senior fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
- Director, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Institution
- Lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Senior policy advisor, Gore 2000 presidential campaign, 2000
- Senior policy advisor to the Vice President of the United States Al Gore, 1993-1997
- Senior fellow, Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1989-1993
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by Kamarck about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.[2]
| Works related to the administrative state | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "Reforming the Administrative State" | RealClearPolicy Podcast Series (2017) | ||
| "Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again" | Brookings Institution Press (2016) | ||
| "Presidential Leadership and Presidential Management" | American Society of Public Administration (2014) | ||
| "How Change Happens – Or Doesn’t: The Politics of US Public Policy" | Lynne Rienner Publishers (2013) | ||
| "The End of Government-As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work" | Lynne Rienner Publishers (2007) | ||
| "Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age" | Brookings Institution Press (2002) | ||
| "Practical Politics and Government in the United States" | MacMillan Publishing Co. (1976) | ||
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes
