Hugh Heclo (10 March 1943 – 6 August 2017) was born in Marion, Ohio. After receiving a Bachelor of Art's degree from George Washington University in 1965, he went on to receive an M.A. from Manchester University in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970. Heclo was a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at

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, in the

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from 1987 until retirement in 2014. He was previously a professor of government at

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and

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in the 1980s. He operated Ashcroft Farms, a Christmas tree farm outside

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. Heclo is perhaps best known as an expert on American democratic institutions and the development of modern

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. In 1978, he invented the concept of an

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, used to describe loose alliances between interest groups, organizations, and economic actors that attempt to influence policy development. Issue Crawler, a server-side software that locates public debate on the Web, is based on the

concept. In addition to his many academic accomplishments, Heclo received many awards and accolades, including the

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's John Gaus Award, recognizing and honoring exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Heclo was also the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and served the Library of Congress' Kluge Center from 1985-1986 and served the White House as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A collection of Heclo’s donated materials is housed at th
George Mason University Special Collections Research Center

List of Works

* 197
Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden
* 197

* 1977 [https://www.amazon.com/Government-Strangers-Executive-Politics-Washington/dp/0815735367/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&qid=1586359552&refinements=p_27%3AHugh+Heclo&s=books&sr=1-5 A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington] * 199
The Government We Deserve
* 200
Religion Returns to the Public Square
(contributor and editor) * 2003 Chapter i

* 2003 Chapter i
The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment
* 200

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20100730024424/http://provost.gmu.edu/index.php

1943 births 2017 deaths American political scientists Harvard University faculty George Mason University faculty George Washington University faculty George Washington University alumni Alumni of the University of Manchester Yale University alumni People from Marion, Ohio {{US-polisci-bio-stub