Kent Weaver
R. Kent Weaver is Professor of Public Policy and Government at Georgetown University and senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His major fields of interest and expertise are comparative public policy and comparative political institutions.
Weaver is the author of Ending Welfare As We Know It (Brookings, 2000), Automatic Government: The Politics of Indexation (Brookings, 1988) and The Politics of Industrial Change (Brookings, 1985). He is also the editor of numerous volumes, including The Collapse of Canada? (Brookings, 1992) and Do Institutions Matter?: Government Capabilities in the U.S. and Abroad, (with Bert Rockman, Brookings, 1993). He is currently writing a volume on the reform of public pension systems in six OECD countries.
Weaver received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.A. and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.
