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Mark J. Rozell

Hilton L. Root
Professor of Public Policy

Curriculum Vita

Areas of Interest
Major Fields: International Economics and Finance, International Economic Policy, Foreign Affairs

Subfields: International development, developing nations, political economy of the design and implementation of development policy, economic policy reform, North-South relations, Asian-Pacific affairs.

Principal Employment
2006- Present  Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

2003- Present   Senior Research Fellow, Claremont Graduate University

2003- Present   Senior Fellow, Milken Institute.

2003- 2006   Freeman Fellow and Visiting Professor of Economics, Pitzer College

2001- 2002   Senior Advisor to Undersecretary Department of the Treasury

1998 – 2001   Director and Senior Fellow, Global Studies, Milken Institute

1992 – 1998   Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

1995 – 1998   Associate Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University

1996 – 1998   Director, Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy, Hoover Institution

1988 – 1991   Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

1985 – 1988   Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Advisory and Consulting Services (ongoing)

African Economic Commission of the United Nations

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

The World Bank (WB)

Rand Corporation

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

United States Department of the Treasury

United States Department of State

Selected Works

Books
Alliance Curse: How the U.S. Lost the Third World. Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Capital & Collusion: Political Logic of Global Economic Development.  Princeton University Press, 2006.

Governing for Prosperity, edited with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Yale University Press, 2000, Chinese Translation. Renmin Press, 2006.

Small Countries, Big Lessons: Governance and the Rise of East Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1996

The Key to the East Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible, co-authored with J. Edgardo Campos. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. Awarded the 1997 Charles H. Levine Award for the best book of the year by the International Political Science Association

Articles
“Judicial Systems and Authoritarian Transition” Root, Hilton and Karen May in Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes, eds. Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

“Walking with the Devil: The Commitment Trap in U.S. Foreign Policy" The National Interest, Number 88, Mar/Apr 2007:42-46.

“Opening the Doors of Invention: Technology, Institutions and Developing Nations” forthcoming. International Public Management Review. February 2006.

“Making Infrastructure Work for Poor: A concept paper on Infrastructure and Governance.”     2005.   UNDP. DEVINFRA.Org: A Website for Infrastructure Development    http://www.devinfra.org/subcontent.asp?id=26

“Pakistan: The Political Economy of State Failure” The Milken Institute Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp 64-74, 2005.

“Do U. S. Deficits Threaten Global Financial Stability” YaleGlobal Online, October 13, 2004, reprinted Singapore Straits Times, October 15, 2004 and La Vanguardia, November 1, 2004, “Amenaza el deficit estadounidense la establidad financiera mundial?” p 7.

“Bush Administration Financial Policies in Asia” in George W. Bush and Asia: A Mid-Term Assessment, eds. Robert M. Hathaway and Wilson Lee, Woodrow Wilson International Center, pp. 91-101, 2003.

“Which Path for East Asia?” Washington Post, August 16, 2002. The International Herald Tribune, August17, 2002

“The Political Roots of Poverty: The Economic Logic of Autocracy” with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. National Interest, Summer 2002, p. 27-37

“Growth Requires Economic Policy Reform; Humanitarian Aid Isn’t Enough” International Herald Tribune, March 21, 2002

“What Can Democracy Do For East Asia,” Journal of Democracy, January 2002, p.113-126

“Public Administration Reform in Sri Lanka”.  International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 24, Number 12, December 2001, pp.1357-1379

“The Sociology of the State.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, editor Raymond Boudon, Elsevier Science Limited, Oxford, U.K. 2001

“Invisible Hand: A Thirst for Funds Drives Change”, The Asian Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2001

“How to Get Ahead Again”, The 5th Column, Far Eastern Economic Review, April 26, 2001, p.31

“What A Way To Reform: Indonesia is Inching Towards Political and Economic Change” The International Economy, March-April, 2001, pp. 32-35

“Do Strong Governments Produce Strong Economies?” The Independent Review, Volume V, Number 4, pp. 565-573, Spring 2001

“East Asia’s Bad Old Ways: Reforming Business by Reforming the Environment” Foreign Affairs, March 2001, pp. 1-5

“Thailand Moving Forward Into the Past”, Wall Street Journal Asian edition, February 8, 2001Curse

“Choosing the Right Financial System for Growth,” with James R. Barth, Daniel E. Nolle and Glenn Yago. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Winter 2001, pp. 8-15