Faculty

William T. Bluhm
Nora Bredes
Kevin Clarke
Alexandre Debs
Richard Dees
John Duggan
Richard Fenno
Mark Fey
Edward Fiandach
Gerald Gamm

Hein Goemans
Ewa Hauser
Gretchen Helmke
Thomas Jackson
Bruce Jacobs
James Johnson
Stuart Jordan
Tasos Kalandrakis
Mark Kayser
Bonnie Meguid
Richard Niemi
Michael Peress
Charles Phelps
G. Bingham Powell
Lynda Powell
David Primo
Peter Regenstreif
Lawrence Rothenberg
Joel Seligman
Curtis Signorino
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Randall Stone

  Bruce Jacobs
Professor of Political Science

Vice Provost and
University Dean of Graduate Studies

bruce.jacobs@rochester.edu
Harkness Hall 337
585-275-5319

PhD, Harvard, 1979. Public policy, organizational behavior. Research focuses on domestic social policy in the areas of aging, housing, poverty, and higher education. Recently named Vice President/President Elect of the Association of Graduate Schools. He is on the Board of Directors of the Graduate Record Examination and has previously served on the Board of the Council of Graduate Schools. Publications include The Political Economy of Organizational Change (Academic, 1981); "Aging and Politics," in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (Academic, 1990); "Using Home Equity to Finance Long-Term Care" (with William Weissert), Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (1987); and "Converting Home Equity into Income," in The Columbia Retirement Handbook(Columbia University Press, 1994). Teaches courses in the field of public policy.
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Courses:
PSC 237 Domestic Social Policy
PSC 245/445 Aging and Public Policy

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