William T. Gormley (born August 7, 1950) is a University Professor at

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. Gormley, a scholar of child care and education, is also the co-director of the Center for Research on Children.Georgetown biography
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, and has extensively studied programs in Oklahoma, calling it a "beacon for early childhood advocates."

Biography

Gormley grew up in

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, and received his B.A. from the

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in 1972. In 1976, he received his

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from the

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, also in political science. He then taught at the

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and the

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, from 1980 to 1990. In 1991, Gormley became a professor of Government and Public Policy at

, where he still teaches. He served as interim dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute from 2008 to 2010. Gormley's wife is a professor at

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, and he has a stepson and a daughter. In 2000, Gormley was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Publications

Books

*''Voices for Children: Rhetoric and Public Policy'' (Brookings Institution Press, 2012). *''Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance'' with

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(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 3rd ed., 2013): Analysis of bureaucracy centered "around four prominent social theories:

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, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and

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." *''Politics and Public Policy'' with Carl Van Horn and Donald Baumer (Washington, D.C.:Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001, 3rd edition). *''Organizational Report Cards'' with David Weimer (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)). *''Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem'' (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995). *''Privatization and its Alternatives'' edited (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991): Presents 14 different perspectives on privatization. Gormley provides a "unifying framework" in his introduction. *''Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). *''The Midwest Response to the New Federalism'' edited with Peter Eisinger (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). *''The Politics of Public Utility Regulation'' (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983). *''The Effects of Newspaper-Television Cross-Ownership on News Homogeneity'' (Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, 1976).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gormley, William T. 1950 births Living people American political scientists University of Pittsburgh alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Georgetown University faculty Deans of the McCourt School of Public Policy