Table of contents for Policy passages : career choices for policy wonks / edited by Howard J. Wiarda.

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I. Stopping at the Bachelor's or Master's Degrees

    1. Storming Washington-and Returning to Graduate School
       Carolyn Blackwell                                              3
    2. Coming to Washington to Earn an M.A. and a Career
       Janine T. Perfit                                                11
    3. The M.P.A.: Careers in the Public Sector
       Steven Bosacker                                                 19

II. Advanced Degrees

    4. The Academy as Pastoral Policy Shop (or, Campus
    Activism as Policy Making)
       John Brigham                                                    31
    5. A State Department Career-and Afterwards
       Lowell R. Fleischer                                             39
    6. A Career as an "In 'n' Outer"
       Joseph S. Nye, Jr.                                              47
    7. On Being a Woman in Academia and in Research Institutes
       Susan Kaufman Purcell                                           55
    8. Law and Public Policy
       William D. Rogers                                               65



III. Life as a Policy Wonk

    9. Close to Home: Working in State Government
       Steve D. Boilard                                                75
    10. The World of the Washington Think Tanks
        Howard J. Wiarda                                                83
    11. Influencing Policy on an International Level:
    Life and Work in a United Nations Agency
        Elizabeth D. Gibbons                                            93
    12. The Satisfactions of Nonpartisan Policy Analysis
    on Capitol Hill
        K. Larry Storrs                                                107
    13. Up and Down Pennsylvania Avenue:
    Congress and the Executive Branch
        Victor C. Johnson                                              117
    14. Dealing with the Media
        Norman Orstein                                                 125
    15. A Foot in Both Camps:
    Building a Career in Washington and Academe
        Thomas E. Mann                                                 135
    16. The CIA, Defense Department, and Hard Choices
        Melvin A. Goodman                                              143
    17. Bor in a Newsroom: A Political Scientist on CNN
        William Schneider                                              155

IV. Expanding Access and Influence

    18. Roads Taken and Not Taken: My Political
    Science Career in Washington
        Margaret Daly Hayes                                            165
    19. Homem da Lua: Moving by an Unknown Source
        Thomas Orum                                                    175
    20. Bridging Two Cultures, Straddling Two Disciplines
        Alfred G. Cuzdn                                                185



V. Conclusions

   21. How to Be a Public Policy Manager in Washington: The Pi Sigma
   Alpha Lecture to the American Political Science Association
       Donna E. Shalala                                               197
   22. Conclusion and Recommendations
       Howard J. Wiarda                                               207
       
How to Find Jobs in Washington: An Annotated Bibliography
       Compiled by Rebecca Root                                       219