Guide to the Hugh Heclo government policy collection, 1901-1991 Hugh Heclo government policy C0074

Guide to the Hugh Heclo government policy collection, 1901-1991

A Collection in
Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number C0074


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Repository
George Mason University. Special Collections and Archives.
Collection number
C0074
Title
Hugh Heclo government policy collection 1901-1991
URL:
http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/
Physical Characteristics
14 linear feet (29 boxes)
Creator
Heclo, Hugh
Language
English
Abstract
Research materials relating to the executive branch of the United States federal government. Several presidential administrations beginning with the 1932 Roosevelt Administration are represented. Materials include documents pertaining to cabinet posts and functions, federal bureaus, foreign and domestic policy.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Hugh Heclo government policy collection, Collection #C0074, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.

Acquisition Information

Collection donated by Hugh Heclo in 2005.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed in February 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.

Biographical Information

Born in Marion Ohio on March 10, 1943 Hugh Heclo is a recognized expert on American democratic institutions as well as the international development of modern welfare states. He has received national awards for his books including Comparative Public Policy; A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington; and Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden. Professor Heclo is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he has served in the White House and as a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He chaired the Ford Foundation research advisory committee, which published The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future, and is co-author of the 1998 Urban Institute volume, The Government We Deserve. Hugh Heclo is senior editor and contributor to the 2003 volume, Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America and a member of the Scholars Council advising the Librarian of Congress. Also in 2003, he wrote Ronald Reagan and the American Public Philosophy, chapter one in The Reagan Presidency and the chapter, The Political Ethos of George W. Bush, in The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment. In 2002 he received the American Political Science Association's John Gaus Award honoring exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Each year, Heclo teaches introductory courses on Democracy and on American Government, and he leads interdisciplinary senior seminars on the Philosophy of History and on Religion and Politics in America.

Scope and Content

Research materials relating to the executive branch of the United States federal government. Several presidential administrations beginning with the 1932 Roosevelt Administration are represented. Materials include documents pertaining to cabinet posts and functions, federal bureaus, foreign and domestic policy.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically by folder title and subject.

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds other political collections, particularly on Northern Virginia politics and government.

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