Laura Jensen

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1996
• M.P.A., Public Affairs, University of Connecticut, 1991
• M.F.A., Music Composition, Princeton University, 1979
• B.A., Music, Wellesley College, 1977

• Public policy
• Social welfare policy
• Government contracting and accountablility
• State development
• American political developmennt

• PAPA 5014: Concepts and Approaches in Public Administration
• PAPA 6014: Theory and Context of Public Administration
• PAPA 6254: Advanced Topics in Public Policy: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy
• PAPA 6264: Advanced Topics in Policy Systems: Federalism and Intergovernmental Management
• PAPA 6294: Doctoral Research Seminar
• PAPA 6394: Doctoral Writing Seminar

Books

• Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 

Articles

• “The Twentieth-Century Administrative State and Networked Governance,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 27 (3) (2017): 468-484.
• “Is Public Management Neglecting the State?” (with Brint Milward, Alasdair Roberts, Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna, Veronica Junjan, René Torenvlied, Arjen Boin, H.K. Colebatch, Donald Kettl, and Robert Durant). Governance 29 (3) (2016): 331-34. 
• “Fiduciary Responsibilities to Whom? Federal Grant Recipients’ Perceptions of the Public Interest” (with Emily Brock and Meredith Hundley),” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management 28 (1) (2016): 72-102.

• New Deal – Cold War outsourcing
• Path dependency theory
• Narrative in procurement contracts

• Development of the American welfare state and welfare policy
• Social construction of citizens and groups of citizens in public policy
• Political development
• Government contracting
• Conditions attached to grants and entitlement programs