Martha Derthick

Martha Derthick (June 20, 1933 - January 12, 2015) was an American public administration scholar and academic. She is most known for her work on Social Security, deregulation, and federalism.

Derthick taught at an impressive number of leading American universities including Dartmouth, Stanford, Harvard, Boston College, and the University of Virginia where she was the Julia Allen Cooper professor of Government from 1983 to 1999.[1]

Derthick famously testified in Congress about the Clinton health care plan of 1993, saying of the plan, "In many years of studying American social policy, I have never read an official document that seemed so suffused with coercion and political naivete [...] with its drastic prescriptions for controlling the conduct of state governments, employers, drug manufacturers, doctors, hospitals and you and me." [2]

References

  1. ↑ http://contemporarythinkers.org/martha-derthick/biography/
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901875.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
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