Hugh Heclo is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University. He was born in Marion, Ohio in 1943 and educated at George Washington University (A.B.), Manchester University (M.A.), and Yale (Ph.D.). Prior to assuming a professorship at Harvard in 1980, he was a Congressional fellow, faculty member at the University of Essex and M.I.T., and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has been a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In the 1980s he chaired the Ford Foundation research advisory committee on Social Welfare and the American Future as well as its grant program for presidential studies. Dr. Heclo has received national book awards for his publications, Modern Social Politics in Britian and Sweden; A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington; and Comparative Public Policy. He co-authored (with Aaron Wildavsky) The Private Government of Public Money in 1982 as well as The Government We Deserve published by the Urban Institute in 1998. Most recently he is contribution editor of Refurbishing the Public Square: Religion and Public Policy.