Marc K. Landy

Ashland University
Edward & Louise Peterson Professor Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Marc Landy is the Edward and Louise Peterson Professor of American History and Government at Ashland University and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. With Sidney Milkis, he is the author of Presidential Greatness (2000) and a textbook, American Government: Enduring Principles, Critical Choices, now in its third edition (2014). He is an author of The Environmental Protection Agency From Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions (1994), with Stephen Thomas. He is an editor of Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics and Economics of Regulatory Reform (2007); Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century (2001); and The New Politics of Public Policy (1995). Articles include: “Terror and the Executive,” National Affairs, Spring 2010; EPA and Nanotechnology: The Need for a Grand Bargain?, in Christopher J. Bosso, ed., Governing Uncertainty: Environmental Regulation in the Age of Nanotechnology (Washington DC: RFF Press, 2010); (Sidney Milkis, co-author), The Presidency and the Political System, 11th Edition (2010); “Mega-Disasters and Federalism,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 68, Issue 6, October 2008; and “Great Presidents are Agents of Democratic Change,” in Richard Ellis and Michael Nelson, eds., Debating the Presidency, CQ Press, 2006.

Professor Landy’s newest work, co-authored with Dennis Hale, is Keeping the Republic: A Defense of the Constitution Order, (U. Kansas Press, forthcoming).

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