Claudia Devita Scott (born 1945) is an American-New Zealand academic. She is currently an emeritus professor of public policy at
Victoria University of Wellington.
Career
Scott completed her
BA at
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
...
in
Massachusetts. This was followed by
MA and PhD qualifications at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
. Scott's 1971
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
thesis was titled ''Forecasting public outlays: an expenditure model for
New Haven, Connecticut''.
Scott was appointed an honorary
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the
1997 Queen's Birthday Honours
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, for services to public administration and the community.
Between 2003 and 2014 Scott was professor of public policy at the
Australia and New Zealand School of Government and was appointed a fellow in 2015.
Personal life
Scott and her partner, former Treasury secretary
Graham Scott, have a family bach at
Arthur's Pass in the
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
's
Southern Alps. In 2004, their daughter Carla Devita Scott, 26, drowned while walking in the area.
Selected works
* Scott, Claudia Devita. Public and private roles in health care systems. Vol. 39. Buckingham:
Open University Press
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, 2001.
* Greene, Kenneth V., William B. Neenan, and Claudia Devita Scott. Fiscal Interactions in a Metropolitan Area. 1974.
* Scott, Claudia Devita, and Karen J. Baehler. Adding value to policy analysis and advice. Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press, 2010.
* Scott, Claudia D. "Reform of the New Zealand health care system."
Health Policy
Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(Web archive)/ref> According to the ...
29, no. 1-2 (1994): 25–40.
References
External links
*
institutional homepage
1945 births
Living people
New Zealand women academics
Duke University alumni
Victoria University of Wellington faculty
People from Wellington City
Honorary Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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Mount Holyoke College alumni