EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin, M.A., Ph.D., political science, 1992
University of Arkansas, B.A. political science, 1980

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1998- Acting Executive Director, Georgetown Graduate Public Policy Institute

1997- Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University
1995-1997 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
1992-1997 Assistant Professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University
1991-1992 Adjunct Professor, Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University
1988-1992 Senior Social Science Analyst, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division (PEMD), U.S. General Accounting Office
1986-1988 Research Assistant, Brookings Institution
1983-1985 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1981-1982 Legislative Assistant, the Honorable John Paul Hammerschmidt, U.S. House of Representatives

AWARDS AND HONORS

Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Graduate Public Policy Program, 1993, 1994, 1995
Co-Winner, APSA Harold D. Lasswell Award for best dissertation in the field of public policy, 1993
PEMD Top Performance Bonus, U.S. General Accounting Office, 1991
PEMD Operations Improvement Program Award, GAO, 1991, 1990
PEMD Outstanding Achievement Award, GAO, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, B.A. awarded magna cum laude, 1980
Harold Hantz Award for excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 1980
Henry Alexander Award for honors thesis, 1980
Kansai Gaidai University Scholarship, 1978
International Wilderness Leadership School Scholarship, 1977
Rockefeller Foundation National Merit Scholarship, 1975

GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research, 1995-1997.
Recipient, Georgetown University Summer Research Grant, 1994.
Recipient, Consortium of Washington Area Universities Faculty Collaboration Grant, 1994.
Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, 1986
Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1985, 1982
German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship, 1984

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Fatal Extraction: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Killing His Patients and Poisoning Public Health, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Welfare Magnets: The New Case for a National Welfare Standard, Brookings Institution, 1990, with Paul E. Peterson.

Monographs

AIDS: CDC's Investigation of HIV Transmission by a Dentist, GAO, 1992.
The U.S. Strategic Triad: ICBM Survivability, GAO, (classified report), 1992.
Rural Drug Abuse: Prevalence, Relation to Crime, and Programs, GAO, 1990.
Alternative Agriculture: Federal Incentives and Farmers' Opinions, GAO, 1990, with John Oppenheim.

Journal Articles

"Health Care Workers and HIV: Policy Choice in a Federal System," Publius, Summer 1993.
"American Federalism, Welfare Policy, and Residential Choices," American Political Science Review, 1989, with Peterson.
"The Family Support Act of 1988: Federalism, Developmental Policy, and Welfare Reform," Publius, 1989.

Book Chapters

"Health and Welfare in the American States: Politics and Policy," in Politics in the American States, 6th ed., (Congressional Quarterly, 1995), Virginia Gray and Herb Jacob, eds.
"The Politics of Congestion Pricing," in Congestion Pricing, (National Research Council, 1994).
"Macroeconomic Policymaking: Who Is in Control?" in Can the Government Govern?, John Chubb and Peterson, eds., (Brookings Institution, 1989), with Peterson.
"Lower Taxes, More Spending, and Budget Deficits," in The Reagan Legacy: Promise and Performance, Charles O. Jones, ed., (Chatham House, 1988), with Peterson.
"The Political Economy of the Midwest," in The Midwest's Response to the New Federalism, Peter K. Eisinger and William Gormley, eds., (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).
"Power versus Participation: The Wisconsin State Budget Process," in State Policy Choices: The Wisconsin Experience, Sheldon Danziger and John F. Witte, eds., (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), with Witte.

Book Reviews

Review, Reconceiving Liberalism: Dilemmas of Contemporary Liberal Public Policy, Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Governance, 1997.
Review, Whose Welfare? AFDC and Elite Politics, Steven M. Teles, Perspectives on Politics, 1997.
Review, Dealing with an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach to Resolving Disputes, Lawrence Susskind and Patrick Field, Governance, 1997.
Review, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, eds., American Political Science Review, 1997.
Review, Down From Bureaucracy, Joel F. Handler, Journal of Politics, 1997.
Review, Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment, John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener, eds., Governance, 1996.
Review, Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment, Maureen Casamayou, Governance, 1994.
Review essay, "FSLIC's Downfall," Policy Studies Journal, 1991.
Review, Stalemate: Political Economic Origins of Supply-Side Policy, Howard Winant, American Political Science Review, 1989.
Review, The Power of the Professional Person, Robert W. Clarke and Robert P. Larwy, eds., Ethics: An International Journal of Political and Legal Philosophy, 1989.

Other Publications

"HIV Prevention," Atlantic Monthly, (letter), October 1997.
"Bull Roar," East Bay Express, (letter) September 13, 1996.
"Why Not Assume that Public Officials Seek to Promote the Public Interest?" Public Affairs Report, Institute for Governmental Studies, July 1996.
"Sinking Swiftly and Silently: Welfare Policy at the Millennium," Georgetown Public Policy Review, May 1996.
"State Welfare Policy: A Race to the Bottom?" (with Kenneth F. Scheve., Jr., and Paul E. Peterson), Center for American Political Studies Occasional Paper, Harvard University, 96-1, 1996.
Entries concerning "Welfare Magnets" in Looking Before We Leap: Social Science and Welfare Reform, (Brookings Institution, 1995), R. Kent Weaver and William T. Dickens, eds.
"Families That Play Together: Recreation and Leisure in the District," (with Kerry Whitacre), Background Briefing Report (BBR), D.C. Family Policy Seminar (FPS), July 1995.
"HIV/AIDS: Helping Families Cope," (with Whitacre), BBR, D.C. FPS, April 1995.
"Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs: A Family Approach," (with Whitacre), BBR, D.C. FPS, February 1995.
"Family Friendly Welfare Reform," BBR, D.C. FPS, December 1994.
"Marion Barry's Great Victory," The Hoya, September 1994.
"Preventing Family Violence," BBR, D.C. FPS, September 1994.
"Preventing Adolescent Violence in the District of Columbia," BBR, D.C. FPS, May 1994.
"Health Care Reform IS Welfare Reform," Policy Perspectives, April 1994.
"Integrating Services for Preventing Teen Pregnancies," (with Jeanne Ponessa), BBR, DC FPS, December 1993.
"America's Welfare Magnets," USA Today, The Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Education, 1992.
"Alternative Agriculture: Federal Incentives and Farmers' Opinions," (with John Oppenheim), testimony for the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research and Foreign Agriculture, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, March 1990.
"The Case for a National Welfare Standard," Brookings Review, 1988, with Peterson.
"Welfare Reform, Federalism, and Residential Choice," (with Peterson), Center for American Political Studies Occasional Paper Series, no. 88-8, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1988).
"Federalism and Welfare Reform: The Determinants of Interstate Differences in Poverty Rates and Benefit Levels," (with Peterson), Brookings Discussion Papers in Governmental Studies, No. 14, September 1987.
"Welfare Woes," (with Peterson), Economist, (letter) October 20, 1990.
"Partisanship and the Pork Shortage," (with Peterson), Baltimore Sun, 1988.

In Progress

Welfare is Gone for Good, book proposal under contract with Georgetown University Press.
"Democratizing Disease: AIDS and Gay Politics," book chapter.
"Health and Welfare in the American States," book chapter
Pursuing Happiness and Protecting Health: Politics and Policies for Behavioral Risk, book manuscript.

Research Presentations

"Welfare in the Congress and the White House: A Brief History," APSA, 1997.
"Welfare's Fatal Flaws: AFDC Program Design and Implementation," SWSSA, 1997.
"Going, Going, Gone: AFDC as a State Income Support Program," NAWRS, 1997.
"Strolling to the Middle: State Competition and the Medicaid Program," RWJ Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Conference, 1997.
"Telling Tales: Narrative Policy Analysis and Fatal Extraction," Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, 1997.
"Better than Welfare: New Strategies for Assisting Adults and Children," APPAM proposal.
"AFDC is Gone for Good," APPAM, 1996.
"The Race Among the States: Welfare Benefits, 1976-1989," APSA, 1996.
"Racing to the Bottom? State AFDC Benefit Choices, 1976-1989," NAWRS, 1996.
"Pursuing Happiness and Protecting Health," RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research, 1996.
"U.S. Welfare Policy: Sinking Swiftly and Silently," North America Forum, 1996.
"Sinking Quickly and Silently: Welfare Policy at the Millennium," APPAM, 1995.
"A Race to the Bottom? State Welfare Policy Choices," NAWRS, 1995.
"States Face AIDS: Policy Choices for HIV-Positive Health Care Workers," APSA, 1993.
"Health Care Workers and HIV: The Politics of State Policies," MPSA, 1993.
"Protecting the Public Health: Setting Policy for HIV-Positive HCWs," SWSSA, 1993.
"Creating a National Welfare Standard," APPAM, 1990.
"The Case for a National Welfare Standard," Brookings Institution, 1990.
"Reforming the Welfare System," Washington Intergovernmental Roundtable, 1990.
"Alternative Agriculture," Energy and Environment Study Institute, 1990.
"Substance Abuse in Rural America," National Advisory Council on Rural Health, 1990.
"Rural Drug Abuse," Office of Substance Abuse Prevention Research Conference, 1990.
"Substance Abuse in Montana and Rural America," Montana State Drug Council, 1990.
"Major Welfare Issues Facing the Bush Administration," NJPSA, 1988.
"Reforming Welfare," APPAM, 1988.
"Welfare Provision in a Federal System," APSA, 1988.
"Federalism and Welfare Reform," MPSA, 1987.
"Structure and Evolution of the American Home and Farm Financial Systems," APSA, 1987.
"Saving Themselves: The FHLBB and the FCA Adjust to Tough Times," MPSA, 1987.
"How Big the PIG? Legislative Campaign Spending and the Party in Government," NEPSA, 1987.
"Saving Themselves: The USL and Economic Stress," NEPSA, 1986.
"Financing a Comeback: Campaign Finance Laws and Prospects for Political Party Resurgence," APSA, 1985.

I have made invited presentations at the University of California-Santa Barbara; University of California-Berkeley, Louisiana State University, Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, UCLA, Case-Western Reserve University, Georgetown University School of Nursing, American University, Mt. Vernon College, and the University of Arkansas.

I have served as a panel chair or discussant at APSA, MPSA, SPSA, and NCAPSA.

TEACHING

Quantitative Methods for Public Policy
Introduction to the American Political System
Bureaucratic Politics.

SERVICE

Professional Service

Advisory Board, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 1997-1998.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Government, Georgetown, 1997-
Founder and Director, "The D.C. Family Policy Seminar" 1992-1995.
Director, "The Mayor's Roundtable," 1992-1994.
Chair or member of various committees for the Department of Government and the Graduate Public Policy Program.

Article reviewer, American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Publius; Congress and the Presidency; Political Research Quarterly; Journal of Politics; Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and the Law; Journal of Policy History, Governance.

Consulting

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 1994-1995.
International Research and Exchanges Board, 1994.
National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, 1993.
Ford Foundation, Reviewer, 1993.
University of Wisconsin, Community Dynamics Institute, 1993.

Media

My research has been covered by NBC, ABC, BBC, CNN, NPR, GOP TV, Channel 1, Monitor Radio, Armed Forces Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press, and other radio stations and newspapers.

Address

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Washington, DC 20007-2670
202-687-7033
202-687-5544 Fax
romm@gunet.georgetown.edu