William T. Gormley is a University Professor at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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 and the interim dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Georgetown Public Policy Institute

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. Gormley, a scholar of child care and education, is also the co-director of the Center for Research on Children. Gormley is an advocate of Pre-kindergarten

Pre-Kindergarten

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, and has extensively studied programs in Oklahoma, calling it a "beacon for early childhood advocates."

Biography

Gormley grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 and received his B.A from the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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 in political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 in 1972. In 1976, he received his Ph.D.

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 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, also in political science. He then taught at the State University of New York

State University of New York

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 and the University of Wisconsin, from 1980 to 1990. In 1991, Gormley became a Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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, where he still teaches. Gormley's wife is a professor at George Mason University

George Mason University

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, and he has a stepson and a daughter.

Books

• Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance with Steven Balla (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2nd ed., 2008, 1st ed. 2004): Analysis of bureaucracy centered "around four prominent social theories: bounded rationality
  Bounded rationality
  Bounded rationality is the idea that in decision making, rationality of individuals is limited by the information they have, the cognitive limitations of their minds, and the finite amount of time they have to make a decision...
  
  , principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory
  Network theory
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• Politics and Public Policy with Carl Van Horn and Donald Baumer (Washington, D.C.:Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001, 3rd edition).
• Organizational Report Cards with David Weimer (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)).
• Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995).
• Privatization and its Alternatives edited (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991): Presents 14 different perspectives on privatization. Gormley provides a "unifying framework" in his introduction.
• Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
• The Midwest Response to the New Federalism edited with Peter Eisinger (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).
• The Politics of Public Utility Regulation (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983).
• The Effects of Newspaper-Television Cross-Ownership on News Homogeneity (Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, 1976).