Politikwissenschaftler
Geboren 1941 in Basra. Lebt in Princeton, USA.
Professor of the Political Sciences at the University of Princeton.
His teaching and research interests are in the areas of comparative bureaucracy, policymaking, and executive leadership. He is the author or co-author of Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France; Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival; Private Power and Centralization in France; Industrial Policies in Western Europe; Politics and Society in Contemporary France; Presidents and Prime Ministers; Bureaucrats and Policy Making; Parliament and Parliamentarians in Democratic Politics; The Politics of Public Sector Reform and Privatization; and Elites in Europe. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, and a fellow of the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.
Professional experience
1973 - 1979: Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
1985 - 1998: Chairman of the Commission "Europe", Fullbright Commission
1990 - 1999: Chairman of the Programm Jury - L'Union Européenne, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris)
1981 - 2000: Manager, Programm "Young Leaders" (fondation francoaméricaine)
Since September 1979: Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Princeton