Professor
Yale University, 1967

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Office: 3353 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 780-4005
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: aberbach@polisci.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

Curriculum Vitae

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Field:

American Politics

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Notes:

Joel Aberbach studies bureaucracies, electoral behavior, and American government. He is the founding director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a scholar with the Brookings Institute, and a Fellow with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Aberbach is the author of several books, including In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive and Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight, both published by the Brookings Institution Press. Aberbach teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the American executive branch. He consults for such clients as the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and National Public Radio.

Selected Publications:

Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch
by Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson; Oxford University Press, USA (September 8, 2005)

The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development
by Joel D. Aberbach, David Dollar, and Kenneth Lee Sokoloff; M.E. Sharpe (April 1997)

Race in the City: Political Trust and Public Policy in the New Urban System
by Jack L Walker Joel D Aberbach; Little, Brown and Company (1973)

In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive
by Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman; Brookings Institution Press (August 2000)

Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight
by Joel D. Aberbach; Brookings Institution Press (February 1991)