CURRICULUM VITAE STEPHEN H. LINDER, Ph. D. Office: The ...

Office: The University of Texas
School of Public Health
Houston, Texas 77225
EDUCATION
CURRICULUM VITAE
STEPHEN H. LINDER, Ph. D.
The University of Iowa, Ph.D., Political Science, December, 1976
The University of Iowa, M.A., Political Science, December, 1973
The University of Massachusetts at Boston, B.A., Politics, June, 1972
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law, Trained Mediator, July, 2000
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Academic Leadership Development
Program, 2002
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law, Training in Resolving Public Policy Conflict,
July 2006
EMPLOYMENT
2003-present Interim Director, Institute for Health Policy
1987-present Associate Professor, Division of Management, Policy and Community (primary);
Division of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences (secondary)
1984-1987 Research Associate Professor of Health Policy, Environmental Sciences; Health
Services Organization and the Center for Health and Manpower Policy Studies,
School of Public Health, The University of Texas, Houston Health Science
Center, Houston, Texas
1978-1984 Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Department of
Political Science, Newcomb College, and the Center for Public Policy Studies,
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1976-1978 Lecturer, Political Science and Public Administration; Department of Political
Science, University of California, Los Angeles
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Awards:
2004 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, San Antonio,
Texas
1999 John P. McGovern Award for Teaching Excellence
Dean’s Teaching Excellence/Outstanding Faculty (7 years);
Finalist for the campus-wide President’s Scholar Award for Teaching (1995,
1999, 2003);
Nominee, The University of Texas Academy of Health Educators (2005)

External Appointments:
Consultations:
2000-2003 Board of Directors, El Centro de Corazon, Houston, TX
1995-1998 EMF Health Effects Project Review Panel, Electric Power Research Institute,
Palo Alto, CA
1989-2002 Steering Committee, Health Services Research and Development Field Program,
U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, TX
1991-1995 EMF Health Studies Program Scientific Advisory Committee, Electric Power
Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
1987-1992 Editorial Board, Accident Analysis & Prevention
1989-1991 Committee on Health Effects of Electro-Magnetic Fields, Texas Public Utility
Commission, Austin, TX
1988-1991 Institutional Ethics Committee, Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX
1988-1990 Study Group on Risk Communication, Institute for Health Policy Research and
Education, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1987 Steering Committee on Public Health Training and Education, The Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
1987 Community Advisory Group on Interpersonal Violence/UT Health Science
Center Standing Committee on Interpersonal Violence
1986 Joint Texas Department of Health/School of Public Health Working Group,
Texas 1990 Objectives For Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
2005-present Bureau of Air Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Houston, TX
2005 Texas Task Force on Indigent Care, Austin, TX
2004-present Center for Health Data, Texas Department of Health and Human Services,
Austin, TX
2004-present Texas Strategic Health Partnership, Austin, TX
1997-present Episcopal Health Charities, St. Luke’s Health System, Houston, TX
1996 Bureau of Infectious Diseases, City of Houston Health Department, Houston,
Texas
1991-1993 Texas State Task Force on the Crisis in Health Care, Austin, TX
1992 Office of Planning, City of Sugar Land, Texas
1988-90 Study Group on the Technological Extension of Life, Institute for Health Policy
Research & Education, UT Health Science Center, Houston
Consultations (cont’d):
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1987-90 Bureau of Health Planning, Texas Department of Health
1988-89 Texas State Task Force on AIDS
1988 Texas Legislature, Special Committee on Post-Secondary Medical, Dental and
Allied Health Education
1986-87 A.I.D. Project on Population Control in Latin America, Tulane University
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1987 Texas Legislature, Select Committee on Higher Education
1987 Texas Rural Medical Education Board
1986 Law Firm of Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson, Boisfontaine, Nathan & Winn
1985-86 Inter-institutional Health Policy Committee, UTHSC-H
1986 Committee Staff, Texas State Senate
1985 Bureau of Health Professions, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1983-84 Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency; Office of Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans
Recent Peer Review Activity:
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Policy Sciences; Leadership and Non
Profit Management; International Political Science Review; Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management; Accident Analysis & Prevention; Journal of
Public Policy; Policy Studies Review; American Journal of Political Science;
Health Affairs; Social Problems; State and Local Government; Journal of Public Health
Management and Practice; Nonprofit Management and Leadership
Panels, Conferences and Workshops:
Planning Team, Fourth Annual Health Policy Forum, Roundrock, TX, January 18, 2006.
“DTC Marketing and FDA Regulation” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk
Analysis, Orlando, FL, December 3-5, 2005.
Facilitator, UTHSC Leadership Summit, Houston, TX, October 21, 2005.
Co-Director and Moderator, BioTexas Summit, Austin, TX, June 7-8, 2005.
Keynote Address, Texas Strategic Health Partnership Summit, Austin ,TX,
September 22, 2004.
Director, Media Science Forum: Prevention Research in the News, Houston, TX, October 20, 2004.
Panels and Workshops (cont’d):
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Panelist, The Sustainability of Houston Scenario Building Workshop Rice University Shell Center for
Sustainability.Houston, TX Dec 7-10, 2004.
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Stephen Linder, “Linking Policy and Evidence in Health Services
Research: Understanding and Assuring a Role for Public Health Leadership in Policy-Making” APHA
annual meeting, November 3, 2004 , Washington DC
Linder, Stephen H. and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, "For-Profit versus Nonprofit Nursing Hopes: A
Comparative Performance Assessment,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health
Association, November 19, 2003, San Francisco, CA.
“The Transformation of “Global Warming” from Public Policy Problem to Cultural Sign, and Back
Again” Presented at Does Discourse Matter? Haus Rissen, International Center for Politics and
Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, July 2003
“Global Warming as Cultural Sign” Presented at the Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment
VIII, Invitational Workshop, Snowmass, CO, July, 2002.
“Reflecting on Methodologies” Presented at the Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment VIII,
Invitational Workshop, Snowmass, CO, August, 2002.
“Exploring Scholarship,” A Lecture Series, Texas Woman’s University, Houston, TX, May, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003.
“Policy Tools and Government Performance” U.S. General Accounting Office, April 11-12, 2002.
“The Politics of Health Behavior,” Presented at the Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment
VII, Invitational Workshop, Snowmass, CO, July, 2001.
"For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Health Care: Past, Present, and Future,” Presented at the 128 th Annual
Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, November, 2000 (with Pauline
Rosenau).
“On the Design and Deployment of Public-Private Policy Partnerships: The Reconstruction of Public and
Private,” Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings,
Washington, D.C., 1999 (with Pauline Rosenau).
“The Definition of Community,” Invited Speaker, Public Health/Medicine Initiative. UT-Houston, 1999.
“On the Nature of Public Problems,” Presented at the Southern Political Science Meetings, Atlanta, GA,
1998
“Deconstructing the Public-Private Partnership,” Presented at the American Political Science Meetings,
Boston, MA, 1998
Discussant, Communication and Policy Design Panel, Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1997
“Interpretive Policy Analysis,” Presented at the Western Political Science Meetings, San Francisco, CA,
1996
Panels and Workshops (cont’d):
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“The Social and Political Construction of Risk,” Presented at the American Political Science Meetings,
Washington, D.C., 1995
“On the Construction of EMF As A Public Problem,” Presented at the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1994
Panel Chair, Health Policy Reform, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, D.C.,
1993
Participant, Roundtable on Public Policy and Foreign Policy Fields, American Political Science
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1993
Discussant, Problems, Values, Means and Ends, Panel at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management Meetings, Denver, CO, 1992
“The Study of Policy Instruments,” Invited Workshop on Instruments for Public Policy, Erasmus
Universiteit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1992
“Defining the Risk from Electric and Magnetic Fields,” Presented at the 1992 Law Week Program, South
Texas College of Law, Houston, TX, 1992
Group Leader, Community Exposure Workshop, Sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute,
Memphis, TN, 1991
“Understanding Policy Design: How Experts View Government’s Tools,” Presented at the Association
for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, Bethesda, MD, 1991
Panel Chair, Roundtable on the Relevance of Theory to Policy Inquiry, American Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1990
“Problems with Risk Communication,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of Texas Associated Press
Broadcasters, Fort Worth, TX, 1990
“The Integration of Perspectives on Policy Design,” Presented at the American Political Science
Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA, 1989 (with B. Guy Peters).
“Access to Affordable Health Care,” The Institute of Religion Semi-Annual Workshop on Biomedical
Issues, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, 1989
“Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care,” Hermann Hospital Series on Biomedical Ethics, Texas Medical
Center, Houston, TX, 1989
“The Design of Instruments for Public Policy,” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association
Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1988 (with B. Guy Peters).
“The Ethics and Public Policy of Organ Transplantation,” Presented at People as Products:
Altruistic vs Commercial Motives in the Use of Body Parts and Processes, The University of Texas
School of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1988.
Discussant, Health Policy Issues in the Southwest, Southwestern Social Science Association Meetings,
Houston, TX, 1988
Panels and Workshops (cont’d):
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Panel Chair, Linking Implementation with Policy Formulation, American Political Science Association
Meetings, San Francisco, CA, 1987
“The Profession as a Focus for Assessing the Future of Public Health,” Presented to the Institute of
Medicine Conference on Training and Education for the Future of Public Health, Houston, 1987.
“Design, Implementation and the Chances of Policy Failure,” Presented at the American Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987 (with B. Guy Peters).
“How Not to Formulate Policy,” Presented at the American Political Science Association Meetings,
Chicago, 1987 (with B. Guy Peters).
“Policy Formation and the Challenge of Conscious Design,” Presented at the Association for Public
Policy Analysis and Management Meetings, 1986 (with B.G. Peters)
Panel Chair, Policy Design, Association for Policy Analysis and Management, Chicago,
IL, 1986
Panel Chair, Policy Design, Association for Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., 1985
“A Design Approach to Policy Implementation,” Presented at the Western Political Science Association
Meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1985 (with B.G. Peters)
“Policy Design and the Education of Public Administrators,” Presented at the European Political Science
Association Meetings, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1985 (with B.G. Peters)
“The Design of Analysis or the Analysis of Design,” Presented at the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management Meetings, 1985 (with B. Guy Peters)
“The Public Health Workforce,” Presented at the American Public Health Association Meetings, 1985
(with F. Moore, V. Kennedy and D. Smith).
Discussant, Government as Contract State, International Political Science Association, Structure and
Organization of Government Group Meeting, Madrid, Spain, 1985
“Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire: the Relevance of Theory for Policy Design,” Paper presented
at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1984 (with B.G. Peters).
“Synthesizing Perspectives on Injury,” Paper presented at the Houston Conference on Injury Prevention,
1984.
Panel Chair, Policy Design, Southern Political Science Meetings, Atlanta, GA, 1982
Panel Chair, Policy Design, American Political Science Association Meetings, New York, NY, 1982
“Self-Certification and Regulatory Reform,” Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management Meetings, 1982.
Discussant, The Political Economy of State Action, American Political Science Association Meetings,
Chicago, IL, 1981
Panels and Workshops (cont’d):
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“Enforcement Costs and Regulatory Reform,” Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1981 (with M. McBride)
Invitee, Sloan Foundation Workshops in Public Policy Curriculum Development:
Dartmouth, 1979; Tulane, 1980; MIT, 1981
Participant, Workshop in Ethics and Public Policy, Hastings Center/University of Maryland, 1980
“The Structure of Public Tradeoffs,” Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association
Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1980.
“Clean Air and New Industry,” Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management Meetings, 1979 (with G. Suchanek).
“A Measurement-Theoretic Approach to Model Testing,” Paper presented at the Midwest Political
Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, 1979.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Linder, Stephen H., and Gerry Suchanek, A Second Best Mechanism for Marketing Emissions Offsets,
Policy Science, 13 (April, 1981): 195-203.
Linder, Stephen H., Perceptions of the Policy-Making Environment, Human Relations, 35 (June, 1982):
463-490.
Linder, Stephen H., Decision Rules and Regulatory Reform, Journal of Public Policy, 2 (October, 1982):
379-394.
Linder, Stephen H., and Mark McBride, Enforcement Costs and Regulatory Reform, Environmental
Economics and Management, 11 (December, 1984): 327-346.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, From Social Theory to Policy Design, Public Policy 4 (1984):
237-259.
Linder, Stephen H., Better Compliance Through Environmental Auditing, Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management, S (Spring, 1986): 590-593.
Linder, Stephen H., and Virginia Kennedy, An Inquiry into Physician Manpower in Texas, Texas
Medicine, 82 (May, 1986): 22-27.
Kennedy, Virginia, and Stephen H. Linder, Influencing Physician Distribution in the Southern States,
Southern Medical Journal, 79 (1986): 1242-1247.
Linder, Stephen H., Integrating Perspectives on Injury Prevention, A Preface to Policy Development
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 19 (February, 1987): 1-2.
Linder, Stephen H., Injury As Metaphor: Toward An Integration of Perspectives, Accident Analysis &
Prevention, 19 (February, 1987): 3-12.
Refereed Journals (cont’d):
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Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, A Design Perspective on Policy Implementation:
the Fallacies of Misplaced Prescription, Policy Studies Review, 6 (February, 1987): 459-475.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Relativism, Contingency and the Definition of Success in
Implementation Research, Policy Studies Review, 7 (Autumn, 1987): 116-127.
Linder, Stephen H., On Cogency, Professional Bias and Public Policy: An Assessment of Four Views of
the Injury Problem, Milbank Ouarterly, 65 (1987): 1-27.
Kennedy, Virginia C., Stephen H. Linder, and William D. Spears, Estmating the Impact of State
Manpower Policy: A Case Study of Reducing Medical School Enrollments, Journal of Health Politics.
Policy and Law, 12 (Spring, 1987): 299-311.
Bertrand, Jane, T., Roberto Santiso, Stephen H. Linder, and Maria Antonieta Pineda, Evaluation of a
Communication Program to Increase Adoption of Vasectomy in Guatemala, Studies in Family Planning,
18 (Nov/Dec 1987): 361-370.
Bertrand, Jane, T., Roberto Santiso, Stephen H. Linder, and Maria Antonieta Pineda, How Should
Vasectomy be Promoted in Guatemala? A Response, Studies in Family Planning, 19 (July/August 1988):
248-249.
Linder, Stephen H., Managing Support for Social R&D: Research Goals, Risk and Policy Instruments
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 7 (Fall, 1988): 621-642.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, The Analysis of Design or the Design of Analysis?, Policy
Studies Review, 7 (Summer, 1988): 738-750.
Slater, Carl H., and Stephen H. Linder, A Reassessment of the Additive Scoring of Health Practices
Medical Care, 26 (December, 1988): 1216-1227.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Implementation as a Guide to Policy Formulation: A Question of
When, Not Whether, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 55 (1989): 631-646.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, La Mise en Oeuvre Comme Guide de la Formulation des
Politiques: “Quand” plutot que “si”, RISA 4 (1989): 741-764. (Re-publication of Implementation as a
Guide to Policy Formulation, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 55 (1989): 631-646.)
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, La Ejecucion Como Guia para la Formulacion de la Politica: Una
Cuestion mas del Cuando que del Cual, Revista Internacional de Ciencias 56 (Diciembre, 1989): 107-130.
(Re-publication of Implementation as a Guide to Policy Formulation, International Review of
Administrative Sciences, 55 (1989): 631-646.)
Linder, Stephen H., Social R&D as a Relational Contract: Strategies for Governing Transactions in
Knowledge, Knowledge in Society, 2 (Fall, 1989): 25-41.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Instruments of Government: Perceptions and Contexts, Journal of
Public Policy, 9 (1989): 35-58.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Policy Formulation and the Challenge of Conscious Design
Evaluation and Program Planning, 13 (1990): 303-311.
Refereed Journals (cont’d):
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Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, An Institutional Approach to the Theory of Policy Making: The
Role of Guidance Mechanisms in Policy Formulation, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2 (Spring, 1990):
59-83. (Reprinted in the International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Comparative
Public Administration, Volume 1, edited by Moshe Maor and Jan-Erik Lane (Hampshire, UK, Ashgate
Publishing Ltd)
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, The Logic of Policy Design, Knowledge and Policy, 4
(Spring/Summer, 1991): 125-151.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Instrumentos de Goblerno: Percepciones y Contextos, Gestion Y
Politica Publica 5 (December, 1993): 5-34. (Re-publication of The Instruments of Government:
Perceptions and Contexts, Journal of Public Policy 9 (1989) 35-58.)
Linder, Stephen H., Ambiguous Evidence and Institutional Bias: An Alternative View of the EMF
Debate, Journal of Health Politics. Policy and Law, 19 (Spring, 1994): 165-190.
Linder, Stephen H., Contending Discourses in the Electric and Magnetic Fields Controversy: The Social
Construction of EMF as a Public Problem, Policy Sciences, 28 (May, 1995): 209-230.
Aday, Lu Ann and Stephen H. Linder, Community as the Ideal for Health Care Reform, Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law, 22 (February, 1997): 231-243.
Linder, Stephen H., Coming to Terms with the Public-Private Partnership, A Grammar of Multiple
Meanings, American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (September, 1999): 35-51. Reprinted in Pauline
Vaillancourt Rosenau (ed.) Public-Private Policy Partnerships, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000, 19-36;
and in Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn Lewis (eds.) The Economics of Public Private Partnerships,
International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Volume 183, Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar,
2005, 75-91.
Linder, Stephen H., An Inquiry into Dialogue, Its Challenges and Justification, International Journal of
Public Administration, 24 (July/August, 2001): 651-678.
Linder, Stephen H., “The Politics of Policy Development,” Journal of Public Health Management and
Practice, 8 (1) (Spring, 2001): 113-115.
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Stephen H. Linder, “The Comparative Performance of For-Profit and
Nonprofit Home Health Care Services in the U.S.,” Home Health Care Services Quarterly: Journal of
Community Care, 20 (2) ( December, 2001): 47-59.
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Stephen H. Linder, “A Comparison of the Performance
of For-Profit and Nonprofit U.S. Psychiatric Inpatient Care Providers Since 1980,”
Psychiatric Services, 54 (2) (February, 2003): 183-187.
Linder, Stephen H., “Assessing Alternative Medicine: Methodological and Research
Policy Concerns,” International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 19
(2) (Spring, 2003): 431-441.
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Stephen H. Linder, “Two Decades of Research Comparing For-Profit
and Nonprofit Health Provider Performance in the United States,” Social Science Quarterly, 84 (2) (June,
2003): 219-224.
Refereed Journals (cont’d):
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Linder, Stephen H. and B. Guy Peters, "Coming to Terms with Intramural Disputes over Policy
Frameworks," Policy Sciences, 39 (1) (March, 2006): 19-40.
Linder, Stephen H. "Cashing In on Risk Claims: The Commercial Inversion of Signifiers for Global
Warming," Social Semiotics, 16 (1) (April, 2006): 103-132.
Articles in Refereed Books:
Linder, Stephen H., Administrative Discretion, Accountability, and External Controls, in S. Greer, et al.,
(eds.) Accountability in Urban Society: Public Agencies Under Fire. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews,
Volume 4, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, CA, 1978, pp. 144-158.
Linder, Stephen H., Efficiency, Multiple Values, and Moral Claims, in W. Dunn, (ed.), Policy Analysis:
Concepts and Methods, Public Policy Studies: A Multi-Volume Treatise, Volume 6, JAI Press,
Greenwich, CT, 1986, pp.281-300.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, Research Perspectives on the Design of Public Policy, in D.
Palumbo and D. J. Calista, (eds.) Implementation: What We Have Learned and Still Need to Know,
Contributions in Political Science # 252, JAI Press, New York, 1989, pp.51-66.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, The Design of Instruments for Public Policy, in S. Nagel (ed.)
Policy Theory and Policy Evaluation, Contributions in Political Science # 258, Greenwood Press, New
York, 1990, pp.103-122.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, A Meta-Theoretic Analysis of Policy Design, in W. Dunn and R.
Kelly (eds.) Advances in Policy Studies. 1950 - 1990, Policy Studies Review Annual, Volume 10,
Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992, 201-238.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, The Two Traditions of Institutional Designing: Dialogue Versus
Decision, in D. Weimer (ed.) Institutional Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995, 133-
160.
Linder, Stephen H., The Social and Political Construction of Risk, in S. Kamieniecki, G. Gonzalez, and
R. Vos (eds.) Flash Points in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability,
SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1997, 63-82. (Winner of the Lynton Caldwell Award for the Best Book
Published on Environmental Issues in the Last 3 Years, American Political Science Association)
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, The Study of Policy Instruments: Four Schools of Thought, in B.
Guy Peters and F. von Nispen (eds.) Public Policy Instruments: Evaluating the Tools of Public
Administration, Edward Elgar, New York, 1998, 33-45.
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, An Institutional Approach to the Theory of Policymaking, in
Moshe Maor and Jan-Erik Lane (eds.) Comparative Public Administration, International Library of
Politics and Comparative Government, Volume 1, Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, UK, 1999, 79-91. (A
reprint from Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2 (Spring, 1990): 59-83).
Linder, Stephen H. and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Mapping the Terrain of Public-Private Policy
Partnerships, in Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau (ed.) Public-Private Policy Partnerships, MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2000, 1-18.
Refereed Books (cont’d):
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Linder, Stephen H., Coming to Terms with the Public Policy Partnership: A Grammar of Multiple
Meanings, in Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau (ed.) Public-Private Policy Partnerships, MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2000, 19-36. (A reprint from American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (September, 1999): 35-
51).
Linder, Stephen H., Beth E. Quill and Lu Ann Aday, Academic Partnerships in Public Health Practice, in
Lloyd Novick, Georges Benjamin and Glen Mays (eds.) Public Health Administration: Organization and
Strategy for Population-Based Management, Aspen Publishers, Aspen CO, 2001, 521-538.
Linder, Stephen H. and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Health Care Policy in Gillian Peele, et al., (eds.)
Developments in American Politics IV, Palgrave, London, UK, 2002, 222-233.
Linder, Stephen H., Roots of Dialogue, in Nancy C. Roberts, (ed.) The Transformative Power of
Dialogue, Research in Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 12, JAI Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2002,
53-74.
Linder, Stephen H., The Adoption of Adaptation Measures, in Kris Ebi, Joel Smith and Ian Burton, (eds.)
Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change, Taylor and Francis, London UK, 2005,
242-257.
Linder, Stephen H., Grounds for Convergence, in Kris Ebi, Joel Smith and Ian Burton, (eds.) Integration
of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change, Taylor and Francis, London UK, 2005, 270-281.
Linder, Stephen H., Coming to Terms with the Public Private Partnership, in Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn
Lewis (eds.) The Economics of Public Private Partnerships, The International Library of Critical Writings
in Economics, Volume 183, Edward Elgar, Northhampton, MA, 2005, 75-91. (Second reprinting from
American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (September, 1999): 35-51).
Newsletter Essays:
Linder, Stephen H., and B. Guy Peters, “The Study of Policy Instruments,” Policy Currents, 2 (May,
1992): 1-7.
Book Reviews:
Linder, Stephen H , “Robert Blank, Health Care Politics,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 17
(Spring, 1992)
Linder, Stephen H , “William Leiss and Christine Chociolko, Risk and Responsibility,” Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law, 20 (Winter, 1995): 1075-1078.
Linder, Stephen H , “Robert Goodin and Phillipe Petit, eds., The Theory of Institutional Design,”
Australian Journal of Political Science, 33 (March, 1998): 152-153.
Linder, Stephen H , “Lok Sang Ho, Principles of Public Policy Practice,” Journal of Comparative Public
Policy, 2003, 5 (March, 2003): 79-81.
Conference Proceedings:
Linder, Stephen H., The Profession as a Focus for Assessing the Future of Public Health, in K. Yordy
(ed.) Proceedings of the Conference on Education. Training, and the Future The Institute of Medicine,
Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 27-40.
Research Reports:
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A Model Air Emissions Offset Policy For New Orleans, Prepared for U.S.Environmental Protection
Agency and Office of Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans, 1980 by the Tulane Center for Public
Policy Studies.
A Survey of Citizen Knowledge and Attitudes on Environmental Issues, Prepared for U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and Office of Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans, 1980, Tulane Center for
Public Policy Studies.
Physician Manpower in Texas 1970-2000, Prepared for Texas State Legislature, 1985, UTSPH Center for
Health Manpower Studies.
A Texas Health Policy Institute, Prepared for the President, the University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston, 1986.
Analysis of the Public Health Workforce, Prepared for U.S. DHHS, 1985, UTSPH Center for Health
Manpower Studies.
Health Effects of Exposure to Powerline - Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields, Prepared for the
Texas Public Utility Commission, 1991, Texas PUC Scientific Review Committee.
Code Red: The Critical Condition of Health Care in Texas, Appendix E, Education and Health, Prepared
for the Statewide Task Force on Indigent Care, 2005, UTSPH Institute for Health Policy.
Report of the Mayor’s Task Force on the Health Effects of Air Pollution
Prepared for the Mayor of Houston, 2006, Task Force on the Health Effects of Air Pollution and the
UTSPH Institute for Health Policy.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Academic Governance:
School of Public Health Positions:
Member, Ad Hoc Committees (9)
Chair, Ad Hoc Committees (2)
Member, Search Committees (4)
Chair, Search Committees (2)
Chair, School of Public Health Policy Committee (1991-92)
Chair, School of Public Health Faculty (1993-94)
Convener, Management and Policy Sciences (1998-2000)
Member, Dean’s Executive Committee (1992-95)
Member, Dean’s Executive Council (2003-present)
Campus-wide Positions:
Chair, The President’s Performance Evaluation of the Dean of Nursing (1995)
Member, Health Science Center Ad Hoc Committees (6)
Member, Presidential Task Forces (4)
Member, The University Tenure and Promotions Committee (1993)
Member, The Health Science Center Board (1990)
Member, The University of Texas Board of Regents’ Faculty Advisory Group (1990)
Chair, Interfaculty Council (1989-90)
Courses Introduced at SPH:
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“Ethics and Public Health” (with L. Aday and
C. Begley)
“Health Policy Analysis”
“Health Policy in the U.S.”
“Advanced Policy Theory”
“Seminar in Policy Research”
“Introduction to Risk Analysis” (with C. Hacker
and T. Downs)
“Seminar in Policy Theory”
“Seminar in Systems Theory” (with O. Mikhail)
“Seminar in Policy Design”
“Health Policy Research” (with J. Glasser, and
C. Begley)
“Health Policy in Texas” (with V. Kennedy)
“Post-Modern Currents in Policy and
Management Theory”
“Seminar in Institutional and Policy Design”
“Ideology, Values and Community”
“Interpretive Policy Inquiry”
“Critical Policy Inquiry”
“Health Care Policy in the 50 States” (with P.
Rosenau)
Tutorials, Dissertations and Theses at SPH:
“Social Theories and Health” (with M. Ross and
L. Aday)
“Communicative Action”
“Reforming Governance”
“Law, Ethics and Institutional Reform”
“The Third Way”
“Dialogue, Deliberation and Democracy”
“Social Epidemiology and Social Justice (with
B. Amick)
“Qualitative Policy Analysis”
“Globalization and Well-Being”
“The New Public Health”
“The Paradox of Community”
“The Definition of Public Problems”
“Culture, Coercion and Control”
“Images and Inquiry”
“Power”
“Translating Research into Policy”
“Reason, Rhetoric and Argument”
“Propaganda and Policy”
“Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory”
Supervised 80 “Individual Studies” Courses on topics ranging from “Risk Communication” to “Religion and
Health Policy.” Directed 19 Doctoral Dissertations (4 more in progress) and 22 Masters Theses (2 more in
progress)
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