About the Director
William (Bill) Resh holds the C. C. Crawford Professorship in Management and Performance as an Associate Professor in Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy. Bill earned his doctoral degree at the American University's School of Public Affairs in 2011. Prior to attaining tenure at USC, he was an assistant professor in public management at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 2011 to 2014 and at USC from 2014-2017.
Bill is on the Board of Trustees of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, the Board of Directors of the Public Management Research Association, the Advisory Board for Arizona State University's Center for Organizational Research Design, and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Public Procurement’s Center for the Advancement of Research and Excellence. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. He is also affiliated with USC Price School's Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation. Bill established CLEAR in 2021 to be a student-supported enterprise that provides rigorous research on civic leadership and public sector labor markets.
His own work focuses on executive politics and how policy is implemented within varying political and socio-economic constraints. His work has garnered several awards across public administration, management, and political science, including awards from the Academy of Management, the American Society for Public Administration, and the American Political Science Association (APSA). Among them, his book Rethinking the Administrative Presidency won the American Political Science Association’s 2019 Herbert Simon Award for its lasting contribution to the study of public administration. In 2024, he and his coauthors were awarded the Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by APSA for their work on the effects of U. S. government shutdowns.
He is the coauthor of the textbook The Politics of the Administrative Process (10th Edition) with Donald F. Kettl. He also has a forthcoming book published by Cambridge University Press with Heejin Cho (Partnership for Public Service) entitled Revisiting JQ Wilson’s Bureaucracy: Agency Types, Leadership, and Performance in a Politicized Era. Bill is currently at work on another monograph entitled The Parallel State—How Privatization and Political Favoritism Erode American Democracy.
Curriculum Vita
William Resh- CV.pdf