Education Radcliffe College (1962) | ||
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Died 12 January 2015, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Policymaking for social security, The politics of deregulation, Up In Smoke: From Leg, Keeping the Compoun, Agency under stress | ||
Martha Ann Derthick (June 20, 1933 – January 12, 2015) was an American public administration scholar and academic. She is most known for her work on social security programs, deregulation and federalism.
History
Martha Derthick was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on June 20, 1933. She graduated from Hiram College in Ohio in 1954 and in 1962 earned a doctorate in political science from Radcliffe College. She taught and researched at Harvard University between 1964 and 1970, followed by periods at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College. She then joined the Brookings Institution, where she was director of the government studies program from 1978 to 1983. From 1983 to 1999, she was the Julia Allen Cooper professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.
Derthick's research involved a focus on the unintended consequences of federal mandates for state welfare programs. Derthick favored federalism over centralized government. Among her best known works is Policymaking for Social Security (1979)
Among other awards, Derthick was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, plus was twice awarded the Louis Brownlow Book Award by the National Academy of Public Administration
Derthick died in Charlottesville, Virginia on January 12, 2015, following a series of strokes.