G. Calvin Mackenzie

Professional Activities

2004-2007

Senior Research Associate
The Brademas Center on the Congress
Congress and the Future Project

Member, Presiding Officers' Advisory Committee 
    on Legislative Ethics
Maine State Legislature

Fulbright Lecturer
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing, China

Co-author, Consensus and Conflict in American Politics
 (Worth, 2007)

Co-author, The Liberal Hour: The 1960s and the
Remaking of American Life (Penguin Books,
 forthcoming)

Fellow
National Academy of Public Administration
Washington, DC

2000-2003

Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC

Senior Advisor, The Presidential Appointee Initiative Washington,DC

Senior Advisor
National Commision on the Public Service
(Second Volcker Commission)
Washington, DC

Author, "The State of the Presidential Appointments Process," The Brookings Review (March, 2001)

Editor, Special edition of The Brookings Review on "The State of the Appointments Process" (March, 2001)

Editor, Innocent Until Nominated: The Breakdown of The Presidential Appointments Process (Brookings: book published August, 2001). Selected by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.

Author, Scandal Proof: Can Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical?(Brookings: book published 2002)

"Can Government Be Honest and Effective, Too?" Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, March 12, 2003

"Old Wars, New Wars, and the American Presidency" paper presented at the British Library Conference on the American Presidency, London, May 13, 2003.  To be published in George Edwards and Philip Davies, ed., New Challenges for the American Presidency (Longman, forthcoming)

1999-2000

John Adams Fellow
Institute of United States Studies
University of London
London, England