Hugh Heclo

professor, public affairs, George Mason

Formerly a professor of government at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Hugh Heclo is a recognized expert on American democratic institutions as well as the international development of modern welfare states. He has received national awards for his books including *Comparative Public Policy*, *A Government of Strangers*, and *Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden*. Professor Heclo is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hugh Heclo is senior editor and contributor to the 2003 volume, *Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America* and a member of the Scholar's Council advising the Librarian of Congress. In 2002 he received the American Political Science Association's John Gaus lifetime achievement award honoring exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.