Paul C. Light

Paul C. Light
Awards	Herbert Simon Award (APSA), Louis Brownlow Book Award, D. B. Hardeman Prize
Academic background
Education	University of Michigan (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	New York University

Paul C. Light is an American political scientist and Professor Emeritus of Public Service at New York University. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, known for his works on government reform, public service, veterans policy, social security, and social innovation. He is a winner of the Herbert Simon Award (APSA) for his book A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It.

Publications

• Government by Investigation: Congress, the President and the Search for Answers, 1945-2012, Brookings Institution Press/Governance Institute, 2014
• The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Brookings Institution, 2008
• A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It, Harvard University Press, 2008,
• Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It, Brookings Institution, 2004
• Government’s Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security, Brookings Institution, 2002
• Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence, Brookings Institution, 2002
• Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform, Brookings Institution/Aspen Institute, 2000
• The New Public Service, Brookings Institution, 1999
• The True Size of Government, Brookings Institution, 1999
• The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1994, Yale University Press, 1997
• Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability, Brookings Institution-Governance Institute, 1995
• Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability, Brookings Institution/Governance Institute, 1993
• Vice Presidential Power: Advice and Influence in the White House, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983
• The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Carter, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; second edition published as The President's Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Reagan, 1992; third edition published as The President’s Agenda: Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton, 1998

External links

• Light at NYU