National Academy of Public Administration

David Weimer is the Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy. His research focuses broadly on policy craft and institutional design. Although most of his recent research has addressed issues in health policy, he has done policy-relevant research in the areas of energy security, natural resource policy, education, criminal justice, and research methods.

Professor Weimer is the author of Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation and Behavioral Economics for Cost-Benefit Analysis. He is co-author of Organizational Report Cards, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice (sixth edition), and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (fourth edition). His edited volumes include Institutional Design, The Political Economy of Property Rights, and Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies. His recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Health Economics, the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, Health Services Research, Medical Care, and the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.

In 2006, Weimer served as president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Position	Division	Organization	Start	End
Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy	Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs	University of Wisconsin- Madison	2000	Present
Field Chair	Political Methodology	University of Wisconsin- Madison	2003	2015
Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professorship		University of Wisconsin- Madison	2000	2005
Field Chair	American Politics	University of Wisconsin- Madison	2000	2002
Distinguished Visiting Professor		University of Wisconsin- Madison	1989	1990
Acting Director	Public Policy Analysis Program	University of Rochester	1996	2000
Director of Graduate Studies	Department of Political Science	University of Rochester	1991	1993
Research Fellow	Rochester Center for Economic Research	University of Rochester	1989	Present
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy		University of Rochester	1986	2000
Associate Professor of Political Science		University of Rochester	1982	1986
Deputy Director	Public Policy Analysis Program	University of Rochester	1982	1989
Assistant Professor of Political Science		University of Rochester	1978	1982
Instructor in Political Science		University of Rochester	1977	1978
Visiting Professor	Faculty of Social Sciences	Lingnan College, Hong Kong	1994	1995
Director	Center for Public Policy Studies	Lingnan College, Hong Kong	1994	1995
Economist	Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis	U.S. Department of Energy	1980	1981
Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant	Graduate School of Public Policy	University of California-Berkeley	1975	1977

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Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy

Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs