| Professor
Office: 300 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-626-9877
E-mail: brand002@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: social policy; state finance; education policy; politics
John E. Brandl is interested in state government politics and finance, as well as social policy and education policy. In the federal government, he has worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the Economic Development Administration. Before coming to the Institute he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. For twelve years Brandl was a member of the Minnesota Legislature, on partial leave from his professorship at the Institute.
Brandl has held faculty positions at Boston College, Harvard University, St. John's University (Minnesota), the University of Wisconsin, the University of Philippines, and the Sydney University. He has been president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and of the Citizens League of the Twin Cities.
Brandl has received the American Evaluation Association's President's Prize for Outstanding Career Contributions to the Understanding of Evaluation and Politics, and the National Governors Association Award for Distinguished Service to State Government. His book, Money and Good Intentions Are Not Enough, was published by the Brookings Institution Press in 1998.
He earned master's and doctorate degrees in economics at Harvard University.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to
the instructor.
Fall 2007
PA 5001-1 - Intellectual Foundations of Public Action
PA 5022-1 - Economics for Policy Analysis II: Public Services Redesign
Spring 2007
PA 5022-13 - Economics for Policy Analysis and Planning II: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Fall 2006
PA 5022-1 - Economics for Policy Analysis and Planning II: Public Services Redesign
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