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Associate Professor of Public Policy / NYU Wagner
Biography
Dennis C. Smith, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Professor Smith earned his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University. In January, 2006, he was also appointed Professor in Residence in the New York State Assembly Internship Program. He teaches policy formation and program evaluation, Performance Management,. Comparative Federalism, and the International Capstone. Professor Smith has conducted research on the performance management of public and nonprofit agencies, and has written on the problems of measuring the success of reforms in public sector organizations. He has also studied the non-emergency use of New York City's ambulance service (EMS) and has written on strategies for managing the demand for emergency services. His analysis of Compstat, written with former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, appeared in Forsythe, ed.,Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Managing Performance in American Government (2001). See more here.