John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.

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. was an American political scientist who was Professor Emeritus at the

Center for Public Administration and Policy The Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) is an academic department of Virginia Tech focused on public administration and public policy. It has campuses in Blacksburg, Alexandria, and Richmond. One of the Center's founding faculty me ...

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. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S.

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in relationship to civil servants and

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. He also received the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2002 for contributions to the literature and leadership of public administration. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and Fellow of the National Academy of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. One of Rohr's argument is that the

pervades American society. Rohr wrote the book, ''Prophets Without Honor,'' which talked about the issue of Selective Conscientious Objection to war, detailing both the pros and cons of the possibility of such a policy. While not a Straussian in the sense of, say,

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, Rohr was a student of

Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (, ; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. ...

during a famous period of political theory training at the

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that heavily influenced his future work and legendary seminar teaching style. He died in

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, in 2011.John Anthony Rohr; ''Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014''

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