Terry M. Moe is a professor of political science
at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He writes on public bureaucracy, the presidency, and political institutions
generally, as well as on the politics of education. His books include
The Organization of Interests (1980), Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools
(1990, with John E. Chubb), and Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public
(2001). Among his articles are “The New Economics of Organization,”
“The Politicized Presidency,” “The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure,” “Political
Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story,” “Presidents, Institutions,
and Theory,” “The Presidency and the Bureaucracy: The Presidential Advantage,”
“The Institutional Foundations of Democratic Government: A Comparison of
Presidential and Parliamentary Systems” (with Michael Caldwell), and “The
Presidential Power of Unilateral Action” (with William Howell).