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PEOPLE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

David Lewis Feldman, head, department of political science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Michael Lipsky, Senior Program Officer, Governance and Civil Society Program, Ford Foundation for the past 12 years, has joined the staff of Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action. Dr. Lipsky will serve as Senior Program Director for the State Governance for the Future Program and Washington representative for the organization. Demos President Miles Rapaport welcomed Lipsky to the organization: “Michael Lipsky’s work at the Ford Foundation has been groundbreaking in its tireless emphasis on citizens gaining the ability to deal effectively with government, and at the same time working with government, particularly at the state level, to make it responsive to citizens’ needs. We are proud to have him continue that work at Demos; he will add immeasurably to the quality of our contribution to these and other critical issues facing our democracy.” Dr. Lipsky looks forward to the challenge of working at Demos: “After 20 years of devolution, downsizing, privatization, hamstringing ballot initiatives and deregulation, America’s state governments face profound challenges in their ability to solve the critical problems states are facing in the year ahead. Demos’ commitment to a vibrant and accountable public sector is an opportunity to help states and the people in them meet those challenges.” Dr. Lipsky is the author of five books, including the prize-winning Street Corner Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, and, most recently, Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting (with S. R. Smith). Before joining the Ford Foundation, he was professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lipsky will be based in Washington, D.C., where he will also serve as professor in the Georgetown University Institute of Public Policy. James M. Glaser, dean, undergraduate education for the arts, sciences, and engineering, Tufts University.