题目： 美国的政治委任制度及其运行
The Political Appointment System in the United States: How it Works
时间：2015年4月23日上午10：00——11:30
地点：同济大学教学南楼216教室
讲座人：范德堡大学政治学教授David Lewis博士

        美国政治制度中有一个特征是其有大量的政治委任，人事遴选的主要因素是政治上的关联而非个人品质。这种制度是如何发展、如何运作的？它对政府绩效的影响如何？

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Associate Chair and Co-Director for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt
Author of Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford) and The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton).
Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award and Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award.

Here is a longer bio:
David Lewis is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He currently serves as Associate Chair and co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt. His research interests include the presidency, executive branch politics and public administration. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and book chapters on American politics, public administration and management. His first book Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford University Press, 2003) examines why elected officials design agencies to be insulated from political influence. His second book, The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008), analyzes the causes and consequences of presidential politicization of the executive branch. This book received the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Public Administration Section and the Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Presidency Research Section. Before joining Vanderbilt’s Department of Political Science, he was assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, where he was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, from 2002-08. He began his academic career at the College of William and Mary, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Government from 2000-02. He serves on the editorial board of Public Administration. He earned his PhD from Stanford University.