Dr. Frank Fischer
Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance
Dr. Frank Fischer is Professor II of Political Science and Public Administration and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance. In addition to teaching in the Ph.D. Program in Public Administration on the Newark Campus, he is a member of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the graduate program in political science on the New Brunswick campus.
Among his books are Politics, Values and Public Policy (1980), Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy (1994), co-edited with Carmen Sirianni, Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria (1987), co-edited with John Forester, Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise (1990), The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (1993), co-edited with John Forester, Evaluating Public Policy (1995), Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future (1995), co-edited with Michael Black, Living with Nature: Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse (1999), co-edited with Maarten Hajer, Citizens, Experts and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge (Duke University Press, 2000), Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices (Oxford University Press, 2003).
His research interests include public policy analysis, comparative public policy, environmental policy and administration, science and technology policy, public administration and bureaucratic politics, U.S. and German politics, theory and methods of the social sciences, and democratic political theory and the state. Currently, he is working on a comparative study of environmental policy in Germany and the United States.
He has taught and lectured in many countries, including Germany, Austria, Holland, England, Hungary, Sweden, Canada, Yugoslavia, India, Brazil, South Africa, China, Japan and South Korea.
In addition, he is on the editorial board of numerous academic journals, including Organization and Environment, Administration and Society, International Journal of Public Administration.
Frank Fischer is winner of the 1999 Harold Lasswell Award of the Policy Studies Organization, given to "outstanding scholars for contributions to the understanding of the substance and process of public policy."
