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Mark A. Peterson
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Phone: 310-794-4270
Fax: 310-206-0337
markap@ucla.edu |
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A specialist on American national institutions and a political scientist, much
of Professor Peterson’s scholarship focuses on interactions among the Presidency,
Congress, and interest groups, evaluating their implications for policy making,
both within the general domain of domestic policy and with special attention to
health care policy. He has written extensively on how Congress responds to presidential
legislative initiatives, exploring how different political, economic, and institutional
settings affect coalition building, promote inter-institutional conflict or cooperation,
influence the president’s legislative performance, and establish the baseline
for assessing the performance of individual leaders. He has also investigated
the ways in which presidents use relationships with organized interests to promote
their administration’s political or programmatic agendas, based on the presidential
objectives and strategic calculations. His most recent research examines how transformation
of the interest group community, institutional dynamics in Congress, changes in
the context and demands of political leadership, and various dimensions of social
learning by policy makers promote or constrain enacting major health policy innovations.
These various projects have been supported by, among others, the National Science
Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Dirksen Congressional Leadership
Research Center, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator
Award in Health Policy Research, and time as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2004, he was elected to membership in the
National Academy of Social Insurance.
From 1993 to 2002, Professor Peterson was the editor of the Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law, a leading bimonthly scholarly journal
in the field. He now chairs the journal’s Executive Committee and also
serves on the Board of Editors of PS: Political Science & Politics.
Previously he was on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Politics.
Professor Peterson has also been engaged with politics and policy making more
directly. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was Democratic Party Ward Chair in the
First Ward, and worked on many political campaigns. As an American Political
Science Association Congressional
Fellow, he served as a Legislative Assistant for Health Policy in the Office
of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle. During 2000-2003 he was on the Study Panel
on Medicare and Markets organized by the National
Academy of Social Insurance. He has often been interviewed for television,
radio, and print media stories, including for National Public Radio, Congressional
Quarterly Weekly Report, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Christian
Science Monitor.
In addition, Professor Peterson chairs the National Advisory Committee for
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars
in Health Policy Research program and is a member of the National Advisory
Committees for the Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
(HCFO) program and its Investigator Awards
in Investigator Awards in Health
Policy Research Program.
He has also served on advisory panels for the California
HealthCare Foundation.
At UCLA, he is a Faculty Associate of the Center
for Health Policy Research and on the faculty boards of the Center for
American Politics and Public Policy, the Center
for Policy Research on Aging, the Center
for Governance, the Lewis Center
for Regional Policy Studies, and the Institute
for Social Science Research.
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Selected Publications:
Mark A. Peterson. Legislating
Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from
Eisenhower to Reagan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, eds. The
Executive Branch (part of
the Institutions of American Democracy Series). New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William
M. Sage, eds. Uncertain
Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Mark A. Peterson, ed. Healthy
Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Mark A. Peterson. “Health Reform and the Congressional Graveyard.” In
James A. Morone, and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. Healthy,
Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004.
Mark A. Peterson. “Bush and Interest Groups: A Government of Chums.” In
Colin Campbell and Bert A Rockman, eds., The
George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. Washington, D.C.:
CQ Press, 2003.
Mark A. Peterson. “From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public
Choice, and Health Care Markets.” Special Issue on Kenneth Arrow and
the Changing Economics of Health Care. Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law 26 (October 2001): 1145-1163.
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