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American politics
Bio:
J. Theodore Anagnoson is professor emeritus of political science at Cal State LA and a Visiting Professor at UCSB. He taught at UCSB for several years in the 1970s and early 1980s but spent most of his career at Cal State LA, where he taught from 1983 to 2010. He was also a health policy analyst and acting director of health financing policy under the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 1997.
He received Cal State LA’s Outstanding Professor Award in 1991, the President’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2005, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration’s Harry Scoville Award for Academic Excellence in 2006, and was the Cal State LA nominee for CSU’s Wang Family Excellence Award of the CSU in 2005 and 2006.
He also taught at the University of Rochester, where he got his PhD; Alfred University; the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was a Fulbright lecturer in 1981; and at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1988. In 1974-75, he was a Brookings Institution research fellow while working on his dissertation.
He is the editor of the CSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association newsletter, The Reporter, and has taught several courses for senior citizens through the Osher Lifelong Learning Programs at CSULA and UCSB and VISTAS Lifelong Learning in Santa Barbara.
Publications:
Publications since 1996 include:
Textbook 1996 StataQuest 4 (for DOS and Windows 3.1). Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Duxbury. 303 pp. With Richard E. DeLeon.
Textbooks 1996 StataQuest Text Companion for Windows 3.1. StataQuest Text Companion for DOS. Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Duxbury.
Textbook 1997 StataQuest 4 for Windows 95. With Richard E. DeLeon. . Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Duxbury.
Textbook 1997 StataQuest 4 Text Companion for Windows 95. With Richard E. DeLeon. Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Duxbury.
Book chapter. 1999. "Microsimulation of Social Policy," for the Handbook of Public Information Systems, ed. Dr. G. David Garrison. New York: Marcel Dekker.
Short article. 2003. “United States – Davis Debacle,” short commentary on California’s budget politics and the recall, Oxford Analytica Brief, Summer, 2003.
Article. 2005. “History of StataQuest.” Stata Technical Review.
Short article. 2005. “United States: Schwarzenegger Reform Campaign Flags.” OxfordAnalytica Brief, September, 2005.
Book review essay. 2006. “Is the Past the Future? The Case of Social Security.” Public Administration Review. May/June 2006.
Textbook. 2007. Governing California in the 21st Century. W.W. Norton. Co-authored with G. Bonetto, V. Buck, R. DeLeon, J. Emrey, J. Kelleher, and N. Koch.
Book review essay. 2008. “What Do They Know That We Don’t?” Review of Jochen Clasen, ReformingEuropean Welfare States, Germany and the United Kingdom Compared (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Martin Schludi, The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems, A Comparison of Pension Politics in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006), and David Wise and Naohiro Yashiro, Eds., Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006), for the Public Administration Review.
Textbook. 2009. Governing California in the 21st Century. 2nd ed. W. W. Norton. Co-authored with G. Bonetto, V. Buck, R. DeLeon, J. Emrey, J. Kellher and N. Koch. Author of Chapters 1, 8 and 10.
Textbook. 2011. Governing California in the 21st Century. 3rd ed. W. W. Norton. Co-authored as per the 2nd edition above.
Book chapter. 2011. “United States.” In The International Handbook on Civil Services, Ed. Andrew Massey. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Textbook, 2013. Governing California in the 21st Century. 4th ed. W. W. Norton. Co-authored as per the 2nd edition above.
Courses:
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PS 12 |
American Government and Politics |
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PS 106 C A |
California Government and Politics |
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PS 151 |
Voting and Elections |
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PS 157 |
The American Presidency |
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PS 170 |
Public Policy Analysis |