John F. Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University, John J. Dilulio, Jr., Director, Partnership for Research on Religion and At Risk Youth (PRRAY), Philadelphia, PA
John J. Dilulio, Jr. is director of the Partnership for Research on Religion and At Risk Youth (PRRAY) at Public/Private Ventures; a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University; Douglas Dillon Nonresident Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Management; and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His research interests include public managment, social policy, and U.S. politics.
He is coauthor with William J. Bennett and John P. Walters of Body Count (Simon and Schuster, 1996); coauthor with Donald F. Kettl of Fine Print: The Contract with America, Devolution, and the Administrative Realities of American Federalism (Brookings, 1995); coauthor with Gerald Garvey and Donald F. Kettl of Improving Government Performance: An Owner's Manual (Brookings, 1993); editor of Deregulating the Public Service: Can Governments Be Improved? (Brookings, 1994); coeditor with Richard P. Nathan of Making Health Reform Work: A View From the States (Brookings, 1994); and coeditor with Donald F. Kettl of Inside the Reinvention Machine: Assessing Governmental Reform.
A winner of the David N. Kershaw Award of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Leonard D. White Award of the American Political Science Association, he is also the author of Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management (Free Press, 1987), and No Escape: The Future of American Corrections (Basic Books, 1991); coauthor with James Q. Wilson of American Government: Policies and Institutions (D.C. Heath, sixth edition); and editor of Courts, Corrections, and the Constitution: The Impact of Judicial Intervention on Prisons and Jails (Oxford University Press, 1990). Among other books, he is presently at work on Rediscovering Government: Leadership, Administration, and Culture in the Federal Bureaucracy (a Twentieth Century Fund book).
In addition to articles in scholarly journals, he has written numerous op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other major newspapers, and numerous articles for popular magazines including The New Republic, The National Review, The Washington Monthly, Commentary, and many more. He is also a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard. He has chaired the APSA's standing committee on professional ethics, and has served as a consultant to federal, state, and local governments on public managment and criminal justice issues. He has testified frequently before the U.S. Congress.
His core professional and civic work however, is director of PRRAY. PRRAY has three overlapping missions; (1) assessment--the timely production and wide dissemination of cutting-edge empirical research on the relationship between religious faith, faith-based activities, and faith-based organizations on the one side, and various measures of socioeconomic well-being and the vitality of civil society on the other; (2)assistance--providing financial and technical assistance to inner-city faith-based organizations that put responsible adults into the lives of at-risk youth; and (3)education--devising and administering training programs and courses for clergy who are committed to working with at-risk youth.
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