Jack M. Rabin (January 3, 1945 – November 13, 2006) was an American

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scholar.

Biography

Early life and education

Rabin received a B.A. in government (1965) and a M.A. in government (1967) from the

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and a Ph.D. in

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from the

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(1972). His dissertation (written under the direction of Robert T. Golembiewski) used Lawrence Kolhberg's

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protocol to operationalize

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's "zone of indifference" in organizations.

Career

Rabin held faculty positions at

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(1972–1980),

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(1983–1987), and The

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-Harrisburg (1988–2006). His academic specialities included

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, public personnel administration, and

. Rabin was the founding editor of eight

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s including ''Public Administration Quarterly'', the ''International Journal of Public Administration'', the ''Journal of Public Budgeting'', ''Accounting and Financial Management'', the ''Journal of Health and Human Services Administration''. Rabin was the series executive editor of the largest

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in public administration. It included 120 books edited by

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s from around the world, and was published by

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, Inc. Almost every major scholar in public administration during the period from 1973-2006 was published one or more times in a publication created by Jack Rabin. While living in

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, Jack Rabin became interested in developing an oral history of the civil rights movement. He, with help from graduate students, befriended the organizers of the

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, the organization responsible for the

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. He and his assistants conducted extensive interviews with E.D. Nixon; Clifford and Virginia Durr; Johnnie Carr and many other friends and associates of Martin Luther King, Jr. involved in the Montgomery bus boycott. Moreover, he befriended the officers of the

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that conducted surveillance of activities including the

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. These relationships allowed him to accumulate a unique collection of

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s and other documents that he eventually donated to Penn State University. PSU organized the material a
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists

Marriage and children

Rabin and his wife Sandra had two sons, Daniel and Scott.

Death and afterward

Dr. Rabin died on November 13, 2006 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and he was interred in Beth Shalom Cemetery in

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. A series of remembrances were published in the ''Public Administration Section Newsletter'' of the public administration section of the

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and in the "Journal of Public Administration Education" published by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rabin, Jack 1945 births 2006 deaths Auburn University at Montgomery faculty Pennsylvania State University faculty Public administration scholars Rider University faculty University of Miami alumni University of Georgia alumni