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Prof. B. Guy Peters

University of Pittsburgh

E-Mail: bgpeters@pitt.edu

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B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh, and also Distinguished Professor of Governance at Zeppelin University.  He also holds honorary positions in Denmark, Hong Kong and Belgium.  Professor Peters is founding co-editor of the European Political Science Review, and was also founding co-editor of Governance.  His work is on issues of comparative governance, including comparative public administration and comparative public policy.  

B. Guy Peters has been a visiting researcher to KFG from January to June 2009.

Main fields of interest

Comparative public policy and administration, American public administration

Publications

Recent Publications

Mixes, Matches and Mistakes:  New Public Management in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics: Budapest, 2008.

Debating Governance. Authority, steering and democracy: Oxford, 2006 (co-authored with Jon Pierre and Gerry Stoker).

Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism (London: Continuum).

Policy Coordination in the European Union: The National Dimension (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (Co-edited with Hussein Kassim and Vincent Wright).

Comparative Politics: Theory and Method (Basingstoke: Palgrave).

The Future of Governing, 2nd Edition (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas).

Bureaucrats and Politicians During Administrative Reform (London: Routledge) (Co-edited with Jon Pierre).

The Politics of Bureaucracy, 5th Edition. (London: Routledge).

Selected Publications

The New Institutionalism. London: Cassells, 1998.

“The Diffusion of Administrative Reform” West European Politics (Autumn 1997).

“Can’t Row, Shouldn’t Steer: What’s a Government to Do?” Public Policy and Administration (1997).

“Sixteen Ways to Consumerize the Public Sector” Public Money and Management (1997) (Co-authored with Christopher Hood and Hellmut Wollmann).

“Escaping the Joint Decision Trap: Policy Segmentation and Iterative Games in the European Union” West European Politics (April 1997) 20:22-36.

The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models. University of Kansas Press, 1996.

The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Comparative Perspective, 4th Edition. Longmans, 1995.