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Susan Webb Yackee
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Office: 205 La Follette School, Observatory Hill Office Building
Phone: 608-265-6017
Fax: 608-265-3233
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La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Susan Webb Yackee is an assistant professor of public affairs and political science. Her research and teaching interests include bureaucratic politics, social policy and the policymaking process. Her work has been published in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Policy Studies Journal.
Yackee won the 2008 Paul Volcker Endowment Junior Scholar Research Grant from the American Political Science Association's Public Administration Section. She also received ASPA's 2007 "Emerging Scholar Award" from its Political Parties and Organizations Section; and the Midwest Political Science Association honored her for the "Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar" Award for her 2007 presentation.
From 2003-05, Dr. Yackee was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has served as a Smith Richardson Domestic Policy Fellow and a Harry S. Truman Scholar. Before beginning her academic training, she worked as a legislative research assistant in the U.S. Senate.
Curriculum vitae
Courses
PA 869 -
Workshop in Public Affairs, Domestic Issues: spring 2008
PA 878 Public Management: fall 2007