Nathan, Richard P.

Biographical/Historical Note

• 1935: Born
• 1957: Bachelors degree, Brown University
• 1959: Masters degree in Public Administration, Harvard University
• 1959 - 1962 : Legislative assistant, U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating
• 1962 - 1964 : Director, Domestic Policy Research, National Campaign Staff, Nelson A. Rockefeller
• 1966: Doctorate of Philosophy, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
• 1967: Associate Director for Program Research, National Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
• 1968: Director, Domestic Policy Research, National Campaign Staff, Nelson A. Rockefeller
• 1969: Chair, Nixon Transition Task Force on Intergovernmental Relations Chair, Nixon Transition Task Force on the Poor
• 1969 - 1970 : Chair, Domestic Council Committee on Welfare Reform Planning
• 1969 - 1972 : Assistant Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
• 1972: Deputy Under Secretary for Welfare Reform, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
• 1972 - 1977 : Visiting professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government, University of Virginia
• 1972 - 1979 : Senior fellow, The Brookings Institution
• 1975: Author, The Plot that Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency Author, Monitoring Revenue Sharing, with Allen D. Marvel and others, The Brookings Institution
• 1977: Author, Revenue Sharing: The Second Round, with Charles F. Adams, Jr., and Associates, The Brookings Institution
• 1979 - 1989 : Professor of Public and International Affairs and Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• 1983: Author, The Administrative Presidency
• 1987: Author, Reagan and the States, with Fred C. Doolittle and others
• 1988: Author, Social Science in Government, Uses and Abuses
• 1989 - 2004 : Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York
• 1989 - 2009 : Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Rockefeller College, University at Albany, State University of New York
• 1993: Author, Turning Promises into Performance
• 1997 - 2001 : Advisor, U.S. Government Accountability Office
• 2003 - 2004 : President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
• 2003 - 2003 Present : Member, New York State Commission on Judicial Nominations
• 2005 - 2009 : Co-Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York

From the guide to the Richard P. Nathan papers, 1957-1979, (Hoover Institution Archives)