Frank J. Thompson has published extensively on
issues of health policy, policy
implementation, public personnel
policy, and administrative politics.
His books include Personnel
Policy in the City, Health Policy
and the Bureaucracy, Public Administration:
Challenges, Choices and Consequences,
Revitalizing State and Local
Public Service, and most
recently, Medicaid and Devolution:
A view from the States (coeditor
and contributor)
Thompson
is former president of the National
Association of Schools of Public
Affairs and Administration and
has held offices in other professional
associations. He has worked for
the City of Oakland, California,
and was a fellow with the U.S.
Public Health Service. He has
also served as consultant to
various government agencies,
as Executive Director of the
National Commission on the State
and Local Public Service, and
is a Fellow of the National Academy
of Public Administration. He
received his B.A. in Political
Science from the University of
Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D.
in that discipline from the University
of California, Berkeley. He is also the former Dean of Rockefeller College at the University at Albany.
