FRED THOMPSON
Grace and Elmer Goudy Professor of Public Management and Policy Analysis
Director, Center for Governance and Public Policy Research
B.A., Pomona College
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

EML:  fthompso@willamette.edu
Homepage: www.willamette.edu/~fthompso
Public Policy Center Page: www.willamette.edu/centers/publicpolicy

How can business be more successful in the competitive world economy? By being more productive - by finding better ways to provide value to customers, by adopting technologies that create products of better quality at lower cost, by removing unnecessary costs and burdens, and by implementing marketing efforts that sell goods and services in a competitive fashion.

Government can also do many things to increase productivity. But sometimes the most important thing it can do is nothing, to allow industries and firms that can't make it to disappear.

The world in which we live increasingly requires mutual understanding of business and government. Government officials must understand what makes business tick. And business leaders must appreciate the functioning of government. The Atkinson School is committed to this mutual understanding, so it's not surprising that we're jointly accredited by AACSB International and NASPAA.

Economics of Organization, Budget Theory, Public Sector Financial Engineering

Recipient of the 2000 NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award. Consultant; Arthur Andersen, LLP; Institute of Chartered Accounting, New Zealand; Consulting and Audit, Canada; Air Force Material Command; Office of Management Improvement and Business Process Reengineering, DOD; Economic Council of Canada, House of Commons (Canada); Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Realignment and Closure; Academic Advisory Board, Cascade Policy Institute Executive Council; International Public Management Network, ASPA Section on Theory and Research; Past President, Association for Public Budgeting and Financial Management. Editorial Boards: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Municipal Finance Journal, Policy Sciences, Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Administration Review, Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal; Founding Editor International Public Management Journal.

"Organizational Process Models of Budgeting," (with M. Green), Research in Public Administration, 2001. "Responsibility Budgeting," (with L.R. Jones), International Public Management Journal, 2000. Public Management: Institutional Renewal for the 21st Century, (with L.R. Jones) JAI Press/Elsevier Scientific, 1999. Handbook of Public Finance, Dekker, 1997 (edited with M. Green). Reinventing the Pentagon, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994 (with L.R. Jones). "The Marginal Costs of Taxation and Regulation," in Handbook of Public Finance, 1997 (with W.E. Diewert & D.A. Lawrence). "Environmental Activism in the Pacific Northwest," American Political Science Review, December 1997 (with R. Ellis). "The Cost of Regulation," Interfaces, May-June, 1997 (with E. Littrell). "Toward a Regulatory Budget," Public Budgeting and Finance, 1997. "The New Public Management," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997. "The Information Revolution and the New Public Management," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1996 (with G. Reschenthaler). "Matching Responsibilities with Tactics: Administrative Controls and Modern Government." Public Administration Review, 1993. Winner ASPA's Mosher Award for best article of the year by an academic.