Public Affairs Faculty

Robert Agranoff Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1967

Professor Agranoff's research and teaching interests focus on intergovernmental relations and management and interorganizational systems in managing public policy, particularly those involving social policy, rural development, and economic and community development. His published works have been in the areas of social program integration, management of public agencies, approaches to managing interdependent public organizations,intergovernmental management, and federal arrangements. He is currently studying cross-national intergovernmental relations and U.S. intergovernmental networks. Agranoff's recent work in the U.S. includes a 237 city study of intergovernmental management of economic development, state rural development policy and collaboration and networking in a variety of midwest public-nongovernmental joint efforts.

His writing is based on applied research and consulting experiences with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Technical Committee on Governmental Structures of the 1981 White House Conference on Aging, the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, National Institute of Justice, Indiana Governor's Office Human Services Reorganization Task Force, National Academy of Public Administration, National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and International City Management Association. He has been a consultant to the Governance/Modernization Project of the Spanish National Ministry of Public Administration, based at the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Madrid. Professor Agranoff is the Chair of the Research Committee on Federalism and Federation, International Political Science Association, and was chairperson (1996-1998) of the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Political Science Association.

Agranoff is a former Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Spain, where he continues to study intergovernmental relations and management. He co-directed a U.S. and Spanish research project on "Towards Federalism in Spain: Fifteen years of Democratic Constitutionalism," which was by the U.S. Spanish Joint Committee on Educational and Cultural Cooperation, the Spanish National Institue of Public Administration, and the U.S. Center for the Study of Federalism. Professor Agranoff has also been a Visiting Fellow, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University (1995) and an Overseas Fellow, Centre for Constitutional Analysis, Human Science Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa (1997).

Awards

Comparative Federalism Newsletter

Recent Publications

Agranoff, Robert, "Local Governments," and "Managing Within Federalism," in Ellis Katz, Joseph Marbach, and Troy Smith (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Federalism (2 vols.) Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.

Agranoff, Robert, "A New Look at the Value-Adding Functions of Intergovernmental Networks," paper presented for National Public Management Research Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October, 2003.

Agranoff, Robert, " Is Managing Within Intergovernmental Networks Changing the Boundaries of Government?: A Preliminary Report," paper presented for Second Annual Founders Forum, American Society for Public Administration 64th national Conference, Washington, D.C. March, 2003.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire, Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments. Georgetown University Press, 2003.

Agranoff, Robert, "Understanding Networks: A Guide for Public Managers," report for IBM Endowment for the Business of Government. Arlington, VA: IBM Endowment, 2003.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire, "American Federalism and the Search for Models of Management," Public Administration Review, Vol. 61 (November/December): 650-660, 2001.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire, "Big Questions in Network Management Research," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 11 (July): 295-326, 2001.

Agranoff, Robert, "Managing Within the Matrix: Does Collaborative Federalism Exist?" Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol.31 (Summer):31-56, 2001.

Agranoff, Robert (editor and contributor), Accommodating Diversity:  Asymmetry in Federal States   European Center for Federalism Series No. 10, 1999.(Baden-Baden, Germany: NOMOS Publishing.

Author, with Beryl A. Radin, Ann O'M.  Bowman, C.  Gregory Buntz, J.  Steven Ott, Barbara S.  Romzek, and Robert H.  Wilson, New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships.  Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996.