David A. Rochefort

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Brown University

313 Meserve Hall
(617) 373-4399
(617) 373-5311 (fax)
d.rochefort@neu.edu

Areas of Study

Public Policy, Health and Mental Health Care, Social Welfare, Methodology, Community-Based Research, Student Leadership

Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS (editor) Washington DC: CQ Press, 2006
The New Politics of State Health Policy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001 (edited with R. Hackey)
From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care, 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997
The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994 (edited with R. Cobb)
Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989
American Social Welfare Policy, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986
“How Managed Care Is ‘Reinventing’ Medicaid and Other Public Health-Care Bureaucracies.” Public Administration Review 59 (September/October 1999) (with John Portz and Matthew Reidy)
“The Role of Anecdotes in Regulating Managed Care,” Health Affairs 17 (November/December 1999)

Beverly Visiting Professor, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, University of Toronto, 1999
President, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, 1996-98
Fulbright Research Award, University of Montreal, 1996
Library Trustee, Town of Seekonk, MA, 1995-98
Public Policy Consultant to State and Federal agencies

Fall 2007

Sabbatical