Philip B. Coulter

Philip Brooks Coulter (born February 27, 1939 in Elizabethtown , Kentucky ; abbreviated: Philip B. Coulter ) is an American political scientist and was Professor of Political Science, most recently at the University of New Orleans (UNO).

education

In 1961, Coulter made his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science and English from Center College . From 1961 to 1962 he completed 24 graduate hours (graduate hours) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky . He received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1966 in political science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany .

Career

Academic

Coulter was a teacher (instructor) for government (especially: state government [government of the individual states] and metropolitan politics ) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Massachusetts Amherst / UMass Amherst (1964–1966). He was an Assistant Professor (1966–1970) and Associate Professor (1970–1975) at UMass Amherst. At the Department of Political Science of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University in West Lafayette (Indiana) , Coulter was Professor of Political Science (1976–1978). He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama (UA) in Tuscaloosa (1978–1990). He held the chair in the Department of Political Science of the UA College of Arts and Sciences (1978–1985). Coulter is a founder and director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) of the UA's College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1990). He was Professor of Political Science at the UN (1990–2006). For a decade he was the dean of the UN College of Liberal Arts (COLA) (1990-2000) and he was the rector of the UN's Associate for International Programs (2000-2002). Coulter was the dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA; today: Center for Urban and Public Affairs [CUPA], College of Planning and Urban Studies ) of the UN (2004–2006).

Otherwise

From January to August 1971 Coulter was visiting professor at the Department of Public Administration of the Institute for Social Science (ISS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands . He was senior political scientist at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) from 1975 to 1976. In the summer of 2003, Coulter was a professor at the University of New Orleans in connection with the Glories of France Program in Montpellier , France .

Memberships

He is a member of The American Political Science Association (APSA).

Awards

He received the following honors:

• Outstanding Academic Book Award (for Political Voice ), The Association of College & Research Libraries ;
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy , State University of New York at Albany ;
• William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award (for best article in the Public Administration Review ), American Society of Public Administration .

Works

Books

• As editor: Politics of Metropolitan Areas. Thomas Y. Crowell , New York City 1967. 497 pp.
• Social Mobilization and Liberal Democracy: A Macroquantitative Analysis of Global and Regional Models. DC Heath and Co. , Lexington (Massachusetts) 1975. ISBN 978-0-6699-8053-0 . 212 pp.
• As co-editor and co-author with Terry Busson: Policy Evaluation for Local Government. Greenwood Press , Westport (Connecticut) 1987. ISBN 978-0-3132-5953-1 . 286 pp.
• Political Voice: Citizen Demand for Urban Public Services, Tuscaloosa. University of Alabama Press , Tuscaloosa (Alabama) 1988.
• Measuring inequality. A Methodological Handbook. Westview Press , Boulder (Colorado) 1989. ISBN 978-0-8133-7726-1 . 204 pp.

Essays

• "Democratic Political Development: A Systemic Model Based on Regulative Policy", Development and Change , (on behalf of: International Institute of Social Studies / ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam ) 3, 1, autumn 1971, pp. 25–62.
• Policy Science: The Perspective of Policy Research Institutes, Policy Studies Journal , 6, 3, University of Colorado Denver March 1978, pp. 238–45.
• "Organizational Effectiveness in the Public Sector: The Example of Municipal Fire Protection," Administrative Science Quarterly , 24, 1, March 1979, pp. 65-82.
• With Patrick R. Cotter and Jeffrey Cohen: "Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews", Public Opinion Quarterly , 46, 2, Summer 1982, pp. 278–284.
• With Karin Brown: "Subjective and Objective Measures of Police Service Delivery", Public Administration Review , 43, 1, January / February 1983, pp. 50–59.
• With Terry Pittman: "Measuring Who Gets What: A Mathematical Model of Maldistribution", Political Methodology (since 1986: Political Analysis ), 9, 3, 1983, pp. 215-234.
• "Inferring the Distributional Effects of Bureaucratic Decision Rules," Policy Studies Journal, 12, 2, University of Colorado Denver, December 1983, pp. 347-55.
• With Terry Busson (from Policy Evaluation for Local Government): A Symposium in Policy Studies Journal, 12, 2, University of Colorado Denver Dec 1983, pp. 271-385.
• "There's a Madness in the Method: Redefining Citizen Contacting of Government Officials," Urban Affairs Quarterly , 28, 2, Dec. 1992, pp 297-316.

Web links

• Website , UNO
• CV (Status: January 12, 2005; PDF file, approx. 44 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Status: January 12, 2005; PDF file, approx. 44 kB)