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2033 Allen Building |
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M 2:00-4:00 & by appointment |
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Dr. Kenneth J. Meier is the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He also directs the Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance and the Carlos Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment and holds a joint appointment as a professor of public management at the Cardiff University School of Business in Wales. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Dr. Meier’s research is characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach that combines both empirical and normative questions. He uses institutional theories of politics applied to a wide range of substantive issues to determine who gets what, when and how. Key themes in his studies include representation, institutional governance, equity, and institutional interaction.
Dr. Meier currently has two major, multi-year research projects. The minority education project examines the politics of Latino and African American education in 1800 school districts throughout the United States. It considers questions of electoral structure, access to political power, representation in management and bureaucratic positions, and the performance of minority students on a wide range of indicators. A second project on public management considers how institutions are governed and managed and what difference various governance structures and management strategies make. This wide-ranging agenda includes a book project linking bureaucracy to democracy, a book project presenting and testing a formal, nonlinear theory of management, and a book project demonstrating that this approach can be used to study all political institutions.
Dr. Meier was the editor of the American Journal of Political Science (1994-1997), an associate editor of the Journal of Politics (1991-1993), and is an associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Johns Hopkins University Press Series in Public Management. He has been a Big XII Faculty Fellow (University of Missouri) and an Advanced Institute for Management International Fellow (U.K.). He was the president of the Public Management Research Association and the Midwest Political Science Association. His work has received the Clarence Kulp Award (1990), the Gustavus Myers Award (1991, 1993), the Herbert Kaufman Award (1992, 2001, 2007), the Herbert Simon Award (1999), the American Society for Public Administration/National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Distinguished Research Award, (2003), the Joseph Wholey Award (2004), the Charles Levine Award (2005), the William Mosher Award (2005), the John Gaus Award (2006), The Lucius Barker Award (2007), The Accenture Advances in Public Management Award (2007) as well as awards from the Academy of Management (2000), Public Administration Review (2001), and the American Society for Public Administration (2002), and the Association of Former Students (2003). |
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| Spring 2007 |
| POLS 689-600 |
Special Topics in... |
9:00 to 11:50 M |
ALLN 2064 |
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| Fall 2007 |
| POLS 309-900 |
Polimetrics |
4:45 to 6:00 MW |
ALLN 1015 |
| POLS 645-600 |
Politics, Policy and Administration |
9:00 to 11:50 M |
ALLN 2064 |
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| Spring 2008 |
| POLS 641-600 |
Seminar in Public Administration |
9:00 to 11:50 M |
ALLN 2064 |
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| POLS 689-600 |
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