Curriculum Vitae Prof. Robert T. Nakamura Home: (518) 797-3720; Email: RNakamura@uamail.albany.edu January 2012 Prof. Nakamura has over twenty years of experience encompassing every phase of legislative development work from conducting six initial assessments, participating in designing eleven assistance programs, managing implementation as both a country chief of party and development center director, and evaluating the results of eleven projects. His work in over two-dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Region has been supported many international organizations and foundations. His published work includes a number of academic books on policy implementation, and widely used practitioner works on legislative development. He is on the vetted list of UNDP parliamentary consultants. He is currently Vincent O Leary Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Public Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller College, State University of New York, and Senior Resident Fellow at the Center for International Development SUNY. Education BA with honors (1967), MA (1968), PhD (1975) University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation title: "Information and the Policy Process: Experts and Decision Makers in California School Tax Legislation." The research for this dissertation was conducted on the California State Legislature and supported by the President s Commission on School Finance Reform. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Vincent O Leary Professor, University at Albany, SUNY, 2011 to present. Associate Professor to Full Professor, University at Albany, SUNY 1984 to 2011. Chair of Political Science Department, University at Albany, 1988-91. Visiting Scholar, Institute for Policy Science, Saitama National University, Saitama, Japan. Instructor to Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, 1972-1984. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1978, Spring 1979. Acting Instructor, University of California, Berkeley 1971-1972. Lecturer, San Francisco State College, 1969-71. DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE Summary of Legislative Development and Democratization Activities His most recent work includes evaluating the USAID Parliamentary assistance program for Bosnia and Herzegovina in September 2011, and a Parliamentary needs assessment in Jakarta in June of 2011. In, January of 2011, he co-authored a study of parliamentary representation in Micronesia and Polynesia for the Inter Parliamentary Union. In June of 2010, he was the team leader of the World Bank s assessment of the Turkish Grand National Assembly s implementation of their new financial management law and the capacity building program
design to further that effort. Prior to that, he was a member of the DFID Nigeria governance program design team, and he served as the National Democratic Institute s (NDI) Senior Resident Country Director for Nigeria. In this position was responsible for the second largest of NDI s worldwide democratic assistance programs. He was also the Director of the University at Albany s Center for Legislative Development from 2004 to 2007. He was a member of the USAID team developing an assessment approach for the Agency s legislative programs. He is a co-author (with John Johnson) of USAID s Handbook on Legislative Development, the UNDP s Legislatures and Good Governance and their How to Conduct a Legislative Needs Assessment. These works are listed among the basic references for legislative development practitioners at websites maintained by USAID, UNDP, CIDA, DFID, and others. In addition, Prof. Nakamura has done policy research and legislative development work in over thirty legislative bodies in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, the South Pacific and Europe as a consultant to international organizations and as a grantee of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency and others. He is the coauthor of five books and numerous articles including The Politics of Policy Implementation, a standard work on the subject, his two most recent books were published by the Brookings Institution Press. Prior to coming to Albany, he taught at Dartmouth College (1972 to 1984), held a research fellowship at Saitama National University in Japan (1983), and two visiting appointments at the University of California at San Diego. Administrative Appointments in Development Senior Resident Country Director, for Nigeria, National Democratic Institute 2007 to 2008. Director, Center for Legislative Development, University at Albany, State University of New York, 2004 to 2007. Parliamentary Needs Assessments USAID/Chemonics, Assessment of Indonesian Parliament (DPR) 2011. World Bank, Assessment for the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Support of the Implementation of the Public Financial Management Act, June 2010UNDP Liberian Congress (2006). USAID/CID Team Leader, Rwandan Transitional National Assembly (1999) USAID/CID Ugandan Parliament (1997) USAID, Development Associates, Bulgarian Parliament (1997) USAID/Thunder Associates, Ethiopian Parliament (1995) Planning Parliamentary Programs DFID, Design Team Member, Governance Program for Nigeria (2009) UNDP, Team Leader, Multi Country Reflection on Pacific Parliamentary Projects, lessons from four programs (2007). USAID workplan for assistance to the National Assembly of Haiti (2007) DFID and Parliament of Malawi (2006) USAID/CID, Parliament of Malawi (2006) USAID Haitian Parliament (2006) CID, Parliament of Zimbabwe (1999)
USAID/CID, Parliament of Uganda, development plan work (1998) CID, Parliament of Pakistan (1997) USAID/CID Bolivian Congress (1993) USAID/CID/CEAL, Chilean Congress (1993) Evaluation of Parliamentary Development Programs USAID, Evaluator, Case Study of Parliamentary Oversight using External Audit Data, Bosnia-Herzegovina (2011) DFID, Team Leader, The SNAP Program and the Nigerian National Assembly (2007) UNDP, Team Leader, Fiji Parliamentary Support Project (2007) UNDP, Team Leader, Solomon Islands Parliamentary Support Project (2007) UNDP, Team Leader, Marshall Islands Parliamentary Support Project (2007) UNDP, Team Leader, Papua New Guinea Parliamentary Support Project (2007) UNDP, National Assembly, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (2006) Asia Foundation/USAID, Indonesian lower house of parliament (2006) USAID/CID, Kenyan Parliament (2000) USAID/CID, Ugandan Parliament (2000) UNDP Ethiopia (2001) Inter-American Development Bank, Peruvian Congress (1994) Training SUNY CID, Training for the leadership of the Parliamentary Staff of Ghana in Strategic Planning, (2010) SUNY CID and the University of Bologna, Lecturer in a course on evaluation, Bologna, Italy (2010) USAID/SUNY CID Workshop for Afghan Parliament members and staff, Istanbul (2008) NDI Workshop with Lagos Assembly (2007) World Bank Institute, Sri Lanka parliamentary staff (2005) USAID Kosovo, Civil Society parliamentary analysis (2005) USAID Rwandan Transitional National Assembly Staff, 2003. USAID, Lectures on Legislative Functions to the lower House of the Parliament of Ethiopia (1995) Technical assistance CID/USAID, Jordanian Parliament (2005) CLD, Lebanon Project (2004) Consultant to the Speaker, New York State Assembly Staff Reorganization (1989) Selected Papers and Conference Activity Co-author, Success Where You Least Expect It: Parliamentary Oversight in Bosnia- Herzegovina, paper accepted for presentation at the International Political Science Association Meeting, Madrid, July 2012. Co-author, Parliamentary Representation in Four States of Melanesia and Polynesia, ISA Regional Conference, Brisbane, Australia, September 29-30 2011. Author, The Implementation of Constituency Development Funds, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (2011)
Co-author, State of Parliaments in the Pacific Region, paper commissioned by the Inter- Parliamentary Union (2011). Chair, Roundtable on Constituency Development Funds, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2010. Presenter, Paper on Strategies for Legislative Development, World Bank Workshop on Legislative Development, Washington, DC, 2009. Presenter, Parliamentary Developments in the Southern Pacific, Pacific Islands Parliamentary Association, Annual Meeting, December 2009, Aukland, New Zealand. Author, Implementing Legislative Assistance Programs, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Sept. 2008. Research Committee of Legislative Specialists (an affiliate of the International Political Science Association), Co-Chair, Research Conference on Legislative Oversight, Albany, 2007. UNDP Pacific Region, paper comparing parliamentary development programs (2007) World Bank Institute, Parliaments in Post Conflict Societies, Chapter on Rwanda (2007) World Bank Institute, handbook for new members of parliament (2006) UNDP papers on post-conflict parliaments (2004 and 2006) USAID Legislative Development Handbook (1998) UNDP papers on legislatures and good governance (1999) Program Evaluation and Supported Research Grantee, Hudson River Foundation, the NY Power Plant Siting Process (2003) Consultant, National Academy of Public Administration, Superfund (2001) Grantee, US EPA, European Hazardous Waste Practices (1994) Grantee, Business Roundtable, European Waste Programs (1993) Consultant, US General Accounting Office, Superfund Transaction Costs (1993) Grantee, Clean Sites, Superfund (includes cases in six states) (1992) Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education supported study of Japanese import promotion policies, (1984) Consultant, National Institute of Education, collective bargaining studies in five American states (1980) Grantee, Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, studies of the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions, (1976) Contractor, National Institute of Education, Implementation Study of an educational program in Washington DC (1974) Researcher, supported by the President s Commission on School Finance, Study of California Legislative Politics of Education, 1970-1972. OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Chair, Nominating Committee, Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, 2010. Chair, Anderson Prize Committee for the best dissertation in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Political Science Association, 2007-2008. Member, steering committee, Research Committee of Legislative Specialists of the International Political Science Association, 2007-. Member, Editorial Board, State University of New York Press, 1990-1994.
Member, Harold Lasswell Prize for Best Dissertation in Public Policy, American Political Science Association, 1993. Chair, Nominating Committee, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1992. Chair, 1991 Pressman Prize Committee, Policy Studies Organization. Member of the Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1987-1991. Member, program committees for the APPAM 1991 and 1992 research conferences. Book Review Editor, POLITY (Journal of the Northeast Political Science Association), 1985-88. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, MIT Press Public Policy Series, 1978. Books Co-author (with Thomas Church), TAMING REGULATION: Superfund and Regulatory Reform, The Brookings Institution Press, 2003. Co-author (with Thomas Church), CLEANING UP THE MESS: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING SUPERFUND, Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution Press, 1993. Co-editor (with Gerald Benjamin), REDRESSING THE BALANCE: An Oral History of the Modern New York Legislature (Rockefeller Institute, 1992). Co-author (with Frank Smallwood), THE POLITICS OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION (New York: St. Martins', 1980). Co-author (with Denis Sullivan and Richard Winters), HOW AMERICA IS RULED (New York: John Wiley, 1980). Co-author (with Arnold Meltsner, Gregory Kast, and John Kramer), THE POLITICAL FEASIBILITY OF SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM IN CALIFORNIA (New York: Praeger, 1973). Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters Author, The Case of Rwanda, in Frederick Stapenhurst and Mitchell Olson, Parliaments in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies (2007). Co-author (with Thomas Church), "The Reinvention of Superfund: A Report to the National Academy of Public Administration." NAPA 2001. This was part of a series of studies supporting a report to Congress on national environmental programs published as Environment.Gov. Co-author (with Thomas Church), "Assessing Environmental Risk," Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 2, Number 3, September 1994. pp. 136-145.
Co-author (with Thomas Church), "Beyond Superfund: Hazardous Waste Cleanup in Europe and the United States," Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Volume VII, Issue 1, Fall, 1994. pp. 15-57. Author, Superfund, The Encyclopedia of Conservation and Environmentalism, Robert Paehlke, Editor (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995). Co-author with Thomas Church, "A Blip on the Radar Screen: The Formulation and Implementation of the Medical Waste Tracking Act", JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS, POLICY AND LAW. 1992. Co-author with Thomas Church and Phillip Cooper, "Environmental Dispute Resolution and Hazardous Waste Cleanups: A Cautionary Tale," JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Spring 1991. Co-author with Sally Friedman, "The Representation of Women on U.S. Senate Committee Staffs," LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY, August, 1991. Author, "Convention Delegates Should be Bound," Gary Rose, ed., CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991). Author, "The Japan External Trade Association and Import Promotion: A Case Study in the Implementation of Symbolic Policy Goals in Dennis Palumbo and Donald Calista, eds. Implementation and the Policy Process, Greenwood, 1990. Author, "The Textbook Policy Process," Policy Studies Review (Autumn, 1987). Author, "The Reformed Nominating System: Its Critics and Uses," PS, Fall-Winter, 1983-84 Author, "Coalition Formation and Policy Development," in Robert Eyestone, ed., POLICY FORMULATION, JAI Press (1985). Co-author (with Denis Sullivan), "Neo-Conservatism and Presidential Nominations," CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY, Fall-Winter, 1982-83. Author, "Strategies for Defining Policy During Implementation," in John P. Crecine, ed., RESEARCH IN PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Vol.1, (Conn.: JAI Press, 1981). Author, "Beyond Purism and Professionalism: Styles of Convention Delegate Followership," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, May, 1980. Co-author (with Dianne Pinderhughes), "Changing Anacostia: Definition and Implementation," POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL, Special Issue No. 3, 1980.
Co-author (with Denis Sullivan), "Party Democracy and Democratic Control," in Walter Dean Burnham and Martha W. Weinberg, eds., AMERICAN POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978). Author, "Impressions of Ford and Reagan," POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, Fall- Winter 1977-78. Co-author (with Denis Sullivan, Jeffrey Pressman, Christopher Arterton, and Martha Weinberg), "Issues, Candidates, and Caucuses: The Democratic Convention of 1976," in Louis Maisel, ed., THE IMPACT OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977). Co-author (with Arnold Meltsner), "The Political Implications of Serrano," in John Pincus, ed., SCHOOL FINANCE IN TRANSITION (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1975). Author, "Congress Confronts the Presidency," in Robert Paul Wolff, ed., 1984 REVISITED (New York: Random House, 1974). References Frederic Stapenhurst, retired from the World Bank. Prof. Frank Thompson, Professor of Public Administration, Rutgers, Newark. fjthomp@newark.rutgers.edu. Former Dean of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, SUNY and past president of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration. Prof. Dianne Pinderhughes, Prof. of Afro American Studies and Political Science, dpinderh@nd.edu. Past President, American Political Science Association.