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Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management & Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Theodore (Ted) Marmor's scholarship primarily concerns welfare state politics and policy in North America and Western Europe. He particularly emphasizes the major spending programs, which is reflected in the second edition of The Politics of Medicare (Aldine de Gruyter, 2000) and the book written with colleagues Mashaw and Harvey in the early l990s, America's Misunderstood Welfare State (Basic Books, l992). The author or co-author of eleven books, Marmor has published over a hundred articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, as well as being a frequent op-ed contributor to U.S. and Canadian newspapers. Ted regularly writes op-ed essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer with long-time Yale law colleague, Jerry Mashaw.

Professor Marmor began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen (Secretary of HEW) in the mid-1960s. He was associate dean of Minnesota's School of Public Affairs, a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the head of Yale's Center for Health Services, a member of President Carter's Commission on the National Agenda for the 1980s, and a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the Presidential campaign of 1984. He has testified before Congress about medical care reform, social security, and welfare issues, as well as being a consultant to government and non-profit agencies.

Marmor lectures frequently on health policy, management issues, and law to both management and law students. He has been an expert witness in cases ranging from the constitutionality of the Canada Health Act to asbestos disputes and drug pricing fraud.  He has also been a commentator on a variety of television and radio programs. His hobbies include wine, squash, and flyfishing.

Consultancies
States of Kentucky, Delaware, Texas, Illinois, and Vermont
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Congressional Committee on Ways and Means
Urban Institute
President's Commission on Income Maintenance
National Institute for Mental Health
Office of Equal Opportunity
The Ford Foundation
Attorney-General, Canada

Boards
Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2000-present
International Advisory Board of The London School of Economics (Health), 1996-present
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policies Scholars Program, 1993-2003
Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, 1986-1998
National Academy for Social Insurance, 1986-1996
Editorial Board, Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 1976-present

Achievements and Awards
Centennial Visiting Professor at The London School of Economics, 2001-2003
Robert Wood Johnson Investigator in Health Policy Award, 2001
Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1998
Fellow, Institute of Medicine
Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 1987-1995 (Emeritus 1995- )
Editor, Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 1980-1985

Presentations
Theodore Marmor, "Wanting It All: The Challenge of US Health System Reform," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Annual Economic Conference Keynote Address, (June 2005).

Selected Books & Book Chapters
"Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting It Together Again" (with R. Klein), in The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, 2005

Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy, Fads and Fashions in Medical Care Policy and Politics, Rock Carling Lecture, London, TSO for The Nuffield Trust, 2004

The Politics of Medicare, 2nd Edition, Aldine de Gruyter, 2000

Understanding Health Care Reform, Yale University Press, 1994

America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities (with J. Mashaw and P. Harvey), Basic Books, Inc., 1992

Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis (with J. Mashaw), Princeton University Press, 1988

The Career of John C. Calhoun: Politician, Social Critic, Political Philosopher, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988

Political Analysis and American Medical Care: Essays, Cambridge University Press, 1983

Selected Articles
"The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope vs. Reality" (with J. Oberlander and J. White), Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 150, Issue 7, April 7, 2009

"Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, Affordability, And The 'Modernization' Of Social Security And Medicare" (with J. Mashaw), Health Affairs, March 26, 2006

"Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care" (with R. Freeman and K.G.H. Okma), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2005

"At Home Abroad: The Presidential Election of 2004, the Politics of American Social Policy, and What European Readers Might Make of these Subjects," eds. M. Powell, L. Bauld, and K. Clarke, Social Policy Review 17, 2005

"The US Medicare Programme in Political Flux," British Journal of Health Care Management, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2004

"Medicare Reform: Fact, Fiction and Foolishness" (with J. S. Hacker), Public Policy and Aging Report, Vol.13, No. 4, 2004

"National Values, Institutions and Health Policies: What Do They Imply for Medicare Reform?" (with K.G.H. Okma and S. R. Latham), Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Discussion Paper No. 5, July 2002

"Comparative Politics and Health Policy: A Review Essay," American Political Science Review, Vol. 96, No. 1, March 2002

"Medicare's Future: Fact, Fiction, and Folly" (with G.J. McKissick), The American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 2 & 3, Summer & Fall, 2000

"Managed Care in the 21st Century: A Critical Commentary" (with J. S. Hacker), Michigan Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 4, Summer 1999

"The Oregon Health Plan and the Political Paradox of Rationing: What Advocates and Critics Have Claimed and What Oregon Did" (with L. Jacobs and J. Oberlander), Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 24, No. 1, February 1999

"The Rage for Re-form: Sense and Nonsense in Health Policy," Daniel Drache and Terrence Sullivan, eds., Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure, London: Routledge, 1999

"The Comparative Politics of Contaminated Blood: From Hesitancy to Scandal" (with P. A. Dillon and S. Scher), eds. Ronald Bayer and Eric A. Feldman, Blood Feuds, Aids, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster, Oxford University Press, 1999

"Forecasting American Health Care: How We Got Here and Where We Might Be Going," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 23 No. 3, June 1998

"Rethinking Medicare Reform," Health Affairs, January/February, 1998

"Hope and Hyperbole: The Rhetoric & Reality of Managerial Reform in Health Care," Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1998

"The Procompetitive Movement in American Medical Politics," in Markets and Health Care: A Comparative Analysis, edited by Wendy Ranade, Addison Wesley Longman Publishers, 1998

"Cautionary Lessons From the West: What (not) to Learn From Other Countries' Experiences in the Financing and Delivery of Health Care" (with K. G. H. Okma), in The State of Social Welfare, 1997, Ashgate Publishers, 1998

"Societal Interventions Affecting Elderly Citizens: A Comparative Approach" (with K. G. H. Okma, R. Schulz, G. Maddox, and M. P. Lawton, eds.), in Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Vol. 18, 1998

"The Case for Social Insurance," The New Majority, 1997

Education
PhD Harvard University, 1966
Research Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford University, 1962
BA Harvard College, 1960