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Professor Wise's research and teaching interests focus on public organizations and management, public law, and democratization in comparative politics and administration. Within public organization, his research focuses on interorganizational relationships, and organization design. Within public law, his research focuses on impact of constitutions on public administration, the liability of public officials and organizations, regulatory takings and environmental regulation, and the processes of legislation. Within comparative politics and administration, his research focuses on institutional change and its contribution to organizational effectiveness and democratization. He has written on these topics as they apply to Sweden and Ukraine.
Professor Wise teaches classes in Public Management, Public Organization, Public Law, and Policy and Democratization.
Professor Wise is Project Director of the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine (PHP). Since 1994, PDP has worked to strengthen the parliament as a transparent, effective, democratic institution. Improving legislative-executive relations, increasing citizen involvement and trust in the legislature, and providing technical assistance have been central themes in the Project’s efforts. PDP facilitates innovative approaches to involve citizens in the legislative process including parliamentary access advocacy training and calling for proposals to be funded by PDP's Parliamentary Citizen Access Grant Program. To build legitimacy and encourage highly motivated young professionals to become involved with the legislature, the Project initiated a Parliamentary Internship Program. This program places young professionals in committees of the Ukrainian legislature and Secretariat departments.
Professor Wise has served in the United States Department of Justice, first as Special Assistant for Policy Analysis in the Office of Legislative Affairs and then as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, and as a consultant to the U.S. Air Safety Commission. He is a past president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He is the former managing editor of The Public Administration Review. He has three times been awarded the William E. Mosher Award (in 1985, 1992, and 1993) by the American Society for Public Administration for the best academic article to be published in The Public Administration Review for the year. He has published a book entitled The Dynamics of Legislation (Jossey-Bass). Professor Wise's work can be found in The Public Administration Review, The Administrative Law Review, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration and Society, Public Administration Quarterly, The Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration and Development, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Democratization, Scandinavian Political Studies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and the Journal of Legislative Studies.
Recent Publications
Robert K. Christensen and Charles R. Wise. (2005). "A Full and Fair Capacity: Federal Courts Managing State Programs." Administration and Society, Vo. 37, No. 5, 576-610.
Robert K. Christensen, Edward Rakhimkulov, and Charles R. Wise. (2005). "The Ukrainian Orange Revolution Brought More than a New President: What Kind of Democracy will the Institutional Changes Bring?" Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 38(2): 207-230.
Charles R. Wise. (2004). “Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Policy,” in Robert Durant, Rosemary O’Leary, and Daniel Fiorino (Eds.),Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, pp. 289-321.
Trevor Brown and Charles Wise. (2004). “Constitutional Courts and Legislative-Executive Relations: The Case of Ukraine.” Political Science Quarterly , Vol. 119, No. 1 (Spring).
Charles Wise and Rosemary O’Leary. (2003). “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Dissolution of Judicial Supervision of Public Services,” Public Administration Review. Vol. 63, No. 2 (March/April), pp.177-191.
Charles Wise, Brian Clemow, Sarrane Murray, and Lisa Bingham. (2003). “When Things Go Wrong,” in Siegren Fox Freyss (Ed.), Human Resource Management in Local Government, 2nd ed., Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association.
Charles Wise. (2002). “Organizing for Homeland Security.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, (March/April), pp. 131-144.
Charles R. Wise and Christian M. Freitag. (2002). "Balancing Accountability and Risk in Program Implementation: The Case of National Fire Policy." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 12, No. 4 (October), pp. 493-523.
Charles Wise and Rania Nader. (2002). “Organizing the Federal System for Homeland Security: Problems, Issues, and Dilemmas.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 62 (September), pp. 44-57.
Vladimir Pigenko, Trevor Brown, and Charles Wise. (2002). “Elite Attitudes and Democratic Stability: Analyzing Legislators’ Attitudes towards the Separation of Powers in Ukraine,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1 (January), pp.87-107.
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