John J. DiIulio, Jr
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Description
John J. DiIulio, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard and then became Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directed Princeton's first domestic policy research center within Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2001, he was appointed the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush. Later that year, he became the first senior Bush advisor to resign. Over the course of his career, DiIulio has authored more than a dozen books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles on American politics, health care policy, crime policy, religious nonprofits, and other topics. With James Q. Wilson, he co-authored the widely used textbook American Government, which was found to contain factual inaccuracies and a conservative bias on issues such as global warming, school prayer, and gay rights. He is currently the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Books
Deregulating the Public Service
Discussion of the need & difficulty of improving government administration.
Governing prisons
Topics covered include prison riots and quality of prison life.
Making health reform work
Nearly everyone agrees that the nation's health care system needs to be reformed. Nearly a dozen major reform plans have been debated in Congress. But beyond the political challenge of passing a reform package lies an even bigger challenge - how to make health reform work. This challenge will persist well beyond the 1990s. Long after the debates over competing national health plans have faded, the states will be faced with the supremely difficult task of reforming their health care finance and delivery systems and translating both new and existing federal health policies into effective administrative action. The nation's health care finance and delivery systems are already immensely complex and problem-ridden. Is it possible to achieve meaningful reforms without adopting new administrative strategies and structures that are equally complex? What role do the states now play in administering the nation's health care system? Is it possible to design administrative success into national health reform plans from the start? Produced in close consultation with state health care officials from all around the country, this important volume offers practical and timely recommendations for how to make health reform work. It addresses the central implementation, management, and federalism dimensions of reform. Chapters by some of the country's leading health policy and public management experts explore the administrative challenges of reform as they relate to health alliances, cost containment, quality of care, medical education and training, and other key issues. They discuss various working principles for developing an administratively sound health reform policy.
Medicaid and devolution
How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this book analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution.
No escape
He Was Taught How To Kill Even behind bars, serial killer Harvey Day Smith exudes menace. Psychologist Jolene Granger has agreed to hear his dying confession, vowing not to let the monster inside her head. And Harvey has secrets to share--about bodies that were never found, and about the apprentice who is continuing his grisly work. . . And Now He'll Teach Them He buries his victims alive the way his mentor Harvey did, relishing their final screams as the earth rains down. And as one last gift to the only father he knew, he'll make the most perfect kill of all. How To Die Everything about this investigation is unnerving Jo, from Harvey's fascination with her to the fact that she's working alongside Texas Ranger Brody Winchester, her ex-husband. Harvey's protege is growing bolder and more vicious every day. And soon the trail of shallow graves will lead them to the last place Jo expected, and to the most terrifying truth of all. . .
Performance measures for the criminal justice system
"A Discussion paper from the BJS-Princeton Project"