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Michael Dukakis

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Michael S. Dukakis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northeastern University, and a visiting professor at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. He and former U.S. Senator Paul Simon authored How to Get Into Politics – and Why, which was designed to encourage young people to think seriously about politics and public service as a career. Dukakis was the three-term governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

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  • Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
  • Governor of Massachusetts, 1975-1979, 1983-1991
  • Voted Most Effective Governor in U.S., National Governor’s Association, 1986
  • Vice-Chair, Amtrak Reform Board, 1998-2003.
  • Visiting Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • Board Member, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
  • Board Member, The Free for All Fund
  • Board Member, The New England Center for Children
  • Leader-Managers in the Public Sector: Managing for Results; M.E. Sharpe, 2010 (with John Portz)
  • How to Get into Politics-and Why: A Reader. Boston, MA: Great Source Education Group, 2000 (with Paul Simon)
  • “The Governors and Health Policymaking” in Hackney and Rochefort, The New Politics of State Health Policy (2001)
  • “The Problem is Not the Phone Calls: It’s the Special Interest Money.” Journal of Legislation 24:2 (1998)
  • “A Governor Looks at Purchase of Service” in Margaret Gibelman and Harold W. Demone, Jr., Private Solutions to Public Problems. Springer Publishing Company, 1996
  • “Improving the Electoral Process: A Summary of Issues and Some Recommended Proposals” in Improving the Electoral Process, National Conference on Improving the Electoral Process, Northeastern University,1995
  • “Health Care Reform: Blueprints for Progress from the States.” Compensation and Benefits Management 9:2 (Spring 1993)
  • “Learning from the Aloha State.” Journal of American Health Policy 2:1 (1992)
  • “The States and Health Care Reform.” New England Journal of Medicine (8 October 1992)

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    Harvard University

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