About: Donald Moynihan

Donald P. Moynihan is an Irish-American political scientist. He is the McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, having previously worked at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) and Texas A&M University. While at UW–Madison, his book The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform was named best book by the Academy of Management's Public and Nonprofit Division and received the Herbert Simon award from the American Political Science Association. His book with Pamela Herd, Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means was published in 2018 by the Russell Sage Foundation, and has won awards from the National Academy of Public Administration, the American Society of Public Administration, and the Academy of Manag