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Dennis L. Dresang
Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Director, Center on State, Local, and Tribal Governance
Office: 402 North Hall
Phone: (608) 263-1959
Fax: (608) 265-3233
E-mail:
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1211
Dennis Dresang is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Center on State, Local, and Tribal Governance. He is also founding Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on state politics, public personnel management, and community issues. He has contributed to public service in a variety of ways: directing a research and public service seminar of La Follette School students examining community health issues and youth violence, chairing two major gubernatorial task forces, and serving on numerous tribal and local government commissions on human resource management issues. He is research director for a policy initiative of Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor to improve the status of women. For his research and public service on pay equity, he has received distinguished service awards from the Women's Political Caucus and the Wisconsin Equal Rights Council.
Professor Dresang is co-author of Politics and Policy in American States and Communities, fifth edition, and author of Public Personnel Management and Public Policy, fourth edition. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Public Personnel Management, and Journal of Public Personnel Administration.
He received his doctorate in Political Science at the University of California - Los Angeles.
Curriculum vitae
Center for Public Policy and the Status of Women
Courses
PA 875 Public Personnel Administration: fall 2007
PA 878 Public Management: spring 2008, spring 2007