Susan Moffitt

Susan Moffitt is the John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and professor and chair of political science at Brown University. Her research focuses on American political institutions and public policy, particularly the politics of information gathering, distribution, and use in education and public health policy implementation. She is the author of Making Policy Public: Participatory Bureaucracy in American Democracy and (with David K. Cohen) The Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools? Her work has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, American Journal of Education, Medical Care, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, History of Education Quarterly, and RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research. Moffitt earned an MPP and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

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