JCPA Annual Best Article Award: 2005

Theodore R. Marmor, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Yale University in three units: the School of Management, the School of Law, and the Department of Political Science. Since 2008 he has been an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Marmor received his PhD from Harvard University and was a graduate fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. Marmor began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen (Secretary of HEW) in the mid-1960s.  He has been an Associate Dean of Minnesota’s School of Public Affairs, a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the head of Yale’s Center for Health Studies, a member of President Carter’s Commission on the 1980s Agenda, and a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the Presidential campaign of 1984.  From 1992 to 2003 he was the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s post-doctoral program in health policy. Heis primarily a scholar of the modern welfare state, with special emphasis on health and pension issues.  Marmor, is an emeritus fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

The author (or co-author) of eleven books, he has published over 150 articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. The second edition of The Politics of Medicare appeared in 2000; the first edition of this book became something of a political science classic and launched his career in health politics, policy and law.  He is best known other works include Understanding Health Care Reform (Yale Press, 1994), Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? (Aldine de Gruyter, 1994), and America’s Misunderstood Welfare State (Basic Books, 1992) co-authored with Yale colleagues Jerry Mashaw and Philip Harvey.  A collection of his recent articles appeared in 2007: Fads Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Management and Policy (World Scientific Publishing).

Richard Freeman, PhD teaches theory and method in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, where he is also Director of the University's Public Policy Network. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and Jean Monnet Fellow, and is currently Visiting Fellow at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, Visiting Fellow at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Bremen, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, Yale University. He has recently joined an Advisory Board of Scottish Government focusing on knowledge transfer, and previously a member of the National Reference Group which informed its forthcoming Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland.  He is a member of a WHO Europe Working Group on mental health policy indicators and consulted to the recent Pittsburgh Conference on Social Inclusion and the Transformation of Mental Health Services.  He has also worked as a consultant to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the US federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

He is author of The Politics of Health in Europe (Manchester UP, 2000) and co-editor of Social Policy in Germany (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994) and Welfare and Culture in Europe (Jessica Kingsley, 1999), as well as more than fifty other journal articles and chapters in books. His recent and current work combines comparative public policy and the sociology of knowledge in understanding processes of policy learning.