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James F. Guyot

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Yale University, Political Science, 1961.

A.M., Yale University, Political Science, 1954.

B.A., Michigan State College, Political Science, 1953.

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

CUNY Graduate Center, Professor, Political Science, 1979-present.

Baruch, CUNY, Professor, Public Affairs, 1979-present.

Baruch, CUNY, Associate Professor, Public Administration, 1973-79.

Columbia University, Associate Professor, Political Science, 1969-72.

Columbia University, Visiting Lecturer, Political Science, 1968-69.

U.C.L.A., Assistant Professor, Political Science, 1963-69.

University Rangoon, Research Stud., Commerce & Admin. Studies, 1961-62.

University Connecticut, Assistant Professor, Political Science, 1960-61.

Swarthmore College, Visiting Instructor, Political Science, 1959-60.

COURSES TAUGHT AT BARUCH

PUB 4000 Policy/Program Analysis and Evaluation

PUB 9117 Public Personnel and Human Resources Management

PUB 9119 Organization Theory

PUB 9182 Development Administration

PUB 9100 Political Setting of Public Administration and Public Policy

PUB 9190 Capstone Seminar (NURF)

PUB 9161 Business and Public Policy Formulation

PUB 9170 Research Design (MPA & XMPA)

BUS 9100 Social and Governmental Environment of Business

MGT 9370 Research Methodology in Organizations

P SC U713 Research Design

P SC 70000 Quantitative Analysis

PUB 3233 Political and Administrative Research

PUB 3500 Human and Fiscal Resources in PA

PUB 1250 Public Administration in Modern Society

BOOKS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

James F. Guyot and W. Howard Wriggins (eds). Population, Politics, and the Future of Southern Asia, Columbia, 1974: 402.

James F. Guyot and Ann Ruth Willner (eds). The Military as Political Elites in Asia, a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Administration, Sage, 1970: 114.

ARTICLES IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

"The Defining Moment for Gender Equity" The Chronicle Review," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 April 2001, B-15.

"The Feminization of Power Meets the Separation of Powers," The Public Manager, Fall 1998, 47-50.

'Representative Bureaucracy Recast," Public Administration Review, July/August 1998, 58/4, 376-7.

"Burma in 1997: From Empire to ASEAN," Asian Survey, February 1998, 38/2, 190-195.

with Philip Crewson, "Sartor Resartus: A Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Sector Entrant Quality Reanalyzed," American Journal of Political Science, July 1997, 41/3, 1057-1065.

"Whence Public Administration?" Public Administration Review, May/June 1997, 57/3.

"Burma in 1996: One Economy, Two Polities," Asian Survey, February 1997, 37/2, 1101-1106.

with Philip Crewson, "Reexamining the Quality 'Crisis'," Public Administration Times, 1 November 1996, 19/11, 11.

"Myanmar: Several Endings, No Clear Beginnings," Southeast Asian Affairs, 1996, 259-281.

"On Looking More Like America," PS: Political Science & Politics, June 1994, 27/2, 190.

"Is the Grade Half Empty or Over Full?" Public Administration Times, April 1994, 17/4, 11.

"Argument and Evidence in Ethnic Analysis: Hispanics in the Public Service," Public Administration Review, November/December 1993, 53/6, 567, 9.

"The Sinister Character of the Public Sector," The Bureaucrat: The Journal for Public Managers, Spring 1991, 20/1, 32.

"Myanmar in 1990: The Unconsummated Election," Asian Survey, February 1991, 31/2, 205-211.

with John Badgley, "Myanmar in 1989: Tatmadaw V," Asian Survey, February 1990, 30/2, 187-195.

"A Less Sanguine View of the Superiority of Presidential Management Interns," Public Administration Review, November/December 1989, 49/6, 585-6.

"Burma in 1988: Perestroika with a Military Face," Southeast Asian Affairs, 1989, 107-133.

"Probing PAR: Intriguing Silences of a Small Sample," Public Administration Review, July/August 1988, 48/4, 835.

with Seree Weroha, "National Development and the Supply of Legal Talent in Thailand," Thai Journal of Development Administration, April 1983, 23/3, 215-226.

with Carl J. Wiedemann, "New Polish for an Old Shoe: The Graduate Record Examination and MPA Admissions Decisions," Public Administration Times, 1 May 1982, 2/9, 5.

"Giving Internships the Benefit of the Doubt," Public Administration Review, March/ April 1980, 40/2, 201.

"Arithmetic and Inference in Ethnic Analysis: EEO in the Federal Service," Public Administration Review, March/April 1979, 39/2, 194-7.

"Management Training and Post-Industrial Apologetics," California Management Review, Summer 1978, 22/4, 84-93.

"How Do We Know Which Training is Good Medicine for Managers?", Public Administration Review, November/December 1977, 37/6, 698-705.

"Data Don't Speak for Themselves: They Only Answer Questions," Public Administration Review, September/October 1977, 37/5, 565-6.

"Prescription Drugs and Placebos: A New Perspective on Management Training," Personnel, May/June 1977, 54/3, 67-72.

"Efficiency, Responsibility, and Equity in Military Staffing: The Ethnic Dimension in Comparative Perspective," Armed Forces and Society, winter 1976, 2/2, 291-304.

"The Puerto Rican Population of New York City: Who Counts Depends on How You Count," New York City Perspectives, Spring 1975, whole issue.

"Science and Arts in Malaysia's Plural Society," 29th Triennial Congress of Orientalists, Paris, July 1973, in Chinois d'Outre-Mere, L'Asiatique, Paris, 1976.

"The National Identity Problem in Burma and Malaysia," Bucknell Review, Fall 1971, 19/2, 67-84.

"Political Involution in Burma," Journal of Comparative Administration, November 1970, 2/2, 299-322.

"Several Modest Proposals Regarding the Independence of Hearing Officers," Administrative Law Bulletin, Office of Administrative Procedure, California, January 1966, 1966/1, 2-4.

"Government Bureaucrats are Different," Public Administration Review, December 1962, 22/4, 195-202.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

"Burma," in Norma Mahmood (ed), Rethinking Political Development in Southeast Asia, University of Malaya Press, 1994: 17-37.

"Burmese Praetorianism," in Uta Gaertner & Jens Lorenz (eds), Tradition and Modernity in Myanmar, LIT Verlag, 1994: 129-148.

"Management Training and Post-Industrial Apologetics," reprinted in Fred E. Schuster (ed), Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management, Prentice-Hall, 1980: 361-371.

"Ethnic Segmentation in Military Organizations: Burma and Malaysia," in Catherine Kelleher (ed), Political-Military Systems: Comparative Perspectives, Sage, 1974: 27-37.

"Who Gets What When Education is Deformalized?" in Brembeck & Thompson (eds), New Strategies for Education Development, Heath, 1973: 129-135.

"Creeping Urbanism and Political Development in Malaysia," in Robert T. Daland (ed), Comparative Urban Research, Sage, 1969: 124-161.

"The 'Clerk Mentality' in Burmese Education," in Robert O. Tilman (ed), Man, State, and Society in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Praeger, 1969: 212-227. Reprinted in Joseph Fischer (ed), The Social Sciences and the Comparative Study of Educational Systems, International Textbook Co., 1970.

"Bureaucratic Transformation in Burma," in Ralph Braibanti & Associates, Asian Bureaucratic Systems Emergent from the British Imperial Tradition, Duke, 1966: 354-443.

REPORTS/MONOGRAPHS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

James Guyot and Pisan Suriyamongkol, Between Two Coups: The Continuing Institutionalization of Democracy in Thailand, Occasional Paper No. 19, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, December 1989.

James Guyot and Pisan Suriyamongkol, The Bureaucratic Polity at Bay, Public Administration Study Document No. 51, Graduate School of Public Administration, The National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, 1986.

James Guyot and Chira Hongladarom, The Changing Occupational Role of Women in the Political Economy of Thailand, Human Resource Institute, Thammasat University, Bangkok, June 1983.

James Guyot and Sheffer, Succoso, and Lane, A Pilot Evaluation of Public Service Internships: The University Year for ACTION and New York City Urban Corps, Office of the Mayor, New York, November 1977.

"A Year of Layoffs for Civil Servants," Report B of The Costs of Savings in New York City's Fiscal Crisis, New York State Legislative Institute, Baruch CUNY, August 1976.

"The Effects of Layoffs on the Civil Servants Laid Off: A Pilot Study," Report A of The Costs of Savings in New York City's Fiscal Crisis, New York State Legislative Institute, Baruch CUNY, January 1976.

Aptitudes and Academic Performance in a Sample of Malay and Chinese Students at the University of Malaya, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, January 1970.

BOOK REVIEWS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

One or more in: American Political Science Review; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; Thai Journal of Development Administration; Crosswinds.

PRESENTATIONS

"How Can We Achieve Gender Equity If Males Run to Extremes?" 14 June 2001,
Gender, Women, & Development, The United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok.

"How Men Run to Extremes in Law," 25 January 2001,
School of Law, Indiana University.

"The Use and Abuse of Theory in Comparative Politics," 19 May 2000.
CUNY Political Science Conference on Theory.

"The Closing of the Frontier for Women in Law," 25 February 2000,
School of Public Affairs, CUNY. (also Rutgers Graduate School of Public Administration, 11 April 2000.)

"Researching Gender," 15 October 1999.
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.

"Two Roads to the Feminization of Power," 18 April 1999,
Leonia Reads.

"Markets and Hierarchies as Modes of Advancement for Women in Public Office," 12 November 1998,
panel on Women in Office, Northeast Political Science Association, Boston.

"Acquiring and Relinquishing: Fait Accomplis and Negotiation in Border Disputes," 8-10 September 1998,
Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu.

"Indonesia and the Burma Impact" 16 May 1998,
Voice of America.

"Cultural Lenses for Reading a Closed State," December 1997,
[Burma] Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College, Carlisle PA, 9-11.

"World News: Asia" [Burma] CNN, 18 February 1997.

"On the Line," 22 November 1996,
[Thailand] WNYC AM.

"Comparative Advantage and Fair Gender Shares in the Professions," May 1995,
CUNY Political Science Conference.

"The Rangoon-Jakarta-Bangkok Triangle," April 1994,
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"Conflict of Interest, Quotas, and Quasi-Governments: A Case Study of Accountability," 9-15 August 1993,
Society for Values in Higher Education, Bowdoin College.

"Praetorian Economics in a Marketizing World: Burma Tries Capitalism," April 1993,
CUNY Political Science Conference, New York.

"Quotas and Quasi-Governments: The Enforcement of Diversity by Accrediting Agencies," March 1992,
CUNY Political Science Conference, New York.

"SLORC and Society: A Persisting Political Form in Burma," October 1991,
Armed Forces and Society, Baltimore.

"Praetorian Cycles in Burma," 18 July 1991,
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Cornell University.

"Bogyoke Asoya and the SLORC: A 20-Year Epicycle in Burmese History," September 1990,
Burma Studies Group Biennial Conference, DeKalb IL. Also at the Burma Seminar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University, September 1990.

"International Media and a Closed State: Burma in Revolt," October 1989,
New York State Conference on Asian Studies, Syracuse University. Revised version at the Seminar on Tradition and Change in South and Southeast Asia, Columbia University, December 1989.

"Managerial Women in the New, Industrializing Thailand," April 1989,
Conference on Gender and Industrialization in Southeast Asia, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University.

"Perestroika and Glasnost' on the ASEAN Periphery: The Cases of Burma and Vietnam," March 1989,
New York State Political Science Association, New York.

"Phaya Krut and the Chinthe: A Demographic Detective Story in 20th Century Southeast Asia," October 1988.
25th Anniversary Conference, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

with Anek Laothamatas, "The Structure of the Field of Extrabureaucratic Forces," April 1987,
Association for Asian Studies, Boston.

"Burma and Thailand: Comparing Gender Roles," August 1985.
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

"Women in the Managerial Revolution in Thailand," August 1985,
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

"Between Managerial Revolution and Political Evolution: Strains on the Military Role in Thailand," April 1985,
Northeast Region Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Albany.

with Lowell Wolf, "Military Disintervention and Democratic Institutionalization in Thailand," December 1984,
CUNY Political Science Conference, New York.

with Seree Weroha, "American Management Training and Japanese Management Practice in the Transformation of Family Firms in Thailand," March 1984,
Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC.

"Public and Private: A Distinction that Makes a Difference," September 1979,
American Political Science Association, Washington DC.

"The Convergence of Public and Private Sector Bureaucracies," September 1979,
American Political Science Association, Washington DC.

"Technological Imperatives for Bureaucratic Convergence," April 1978.
American Society for Public Administration, Phoenix.

"Client Orientation versus Colleague Orientation in Applied Research in an Academic Setting," April 1977,
American Society for Public Administration, Atlanta.

"Ethnic Representation in American Civil and Military Bureaucracies," September 1976.
American Political Science Association, Chicago.

"Constituency Communication," April 1975,
New York State Legislative Institute Seminar on Information Technology, Albany.

"The Political Consequences of Census Counting for Ethnic Minorities," New York, 1974,
Population Association of America.

"The Women at the Bridge: Class and Clientelism in a Modern Bureaucracy," March 1973,
Seminar on the State, Columbia University. Revised version at the American Society for Public Administration, Los Angeles, April 1973.

"Urbanization and Inequality," December 1971,
Clark University Colloquium in International Urbanization.

"Political Succession and Political Development in Burma and Malaysia," March 1969,
Association for Asian Studies, Boston.

"The Two Cultures and Malaysia's Development Revolution," March 1968,
Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia.

"The Clerk Mentality in Post-colonial Educational Systems," March 1968,
American Society for Public Administration, Boston.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

"A Nike Swoosh for Women Judges: Will the Curve Continue Upward?"

"Navigating the River in a Fog: The Assessment of Race-Sensitive Admissions in College and Law School," School of Public Affairs, CUNY, 16 February 2001.

“Frontier Women at MIT: Attempting a Partial Replication,” School of Public Affairs, CUNY, December 1999.

"The Historical Setting," Burma: A Country Study, Research Branch, The Library of Congress, [final draft accepted 1996].

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS

John F. Kennedy Foundation - Fulbright Professor, Thailand, 1982-83.

Professor of the Year, Pi Sigma Alpha, UCLA, 1967.

Fulbright Research Student, University of Rangoon, 1961-62.

Falk Fellow, Yale University, 1954-56.

Cowles Fellow, Yale University, 1953-54.

GRANTS-IN-AID

US ACTION, Office of the Mayor, NYC, 1976-77.

Rockefeller Foundation, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia Univ., 1968-70.

Human Ecology Fund, Burma & Japan, 1962-63.

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

Chair of Crossfield Exam Committee, PhD in Political Science Program, GS&UC, CUNY 1997.

School of Public Affairs P&B Committee, fall 1997.

College Academic Review Committee, 1996-97.

School Academic Review Committee, 1995-96.

Executive Committee, Graduate Faculty, 1991-93.

Chair, School of Business Ad Hoc Committee on Middle States, 1990-93.

Chair of the Admissions Committee, PhD in Political Science Program, GS&UC, CUNY 1979-82.

Supervisor of the MPA Program 1977-80

Director of the Survey Research Service, NY State Legislative Institute, 1975-77

Executive Committee, School of Business in the 1980s.

OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Executive Committee: Comparative Administrative Group, ASPA, 1967-70.

Elected member: Southeast Asia Committee, Association for Asian Studies, 1968-71.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE

Professor promotion evaluation for the Department of Political Science, Marquette University, August 1998.
National Community Service.

Selection Committee for Supplemental Education Grants, Burma Project, Open Society institute, 1998.
National Community Service.

Expert Panel [Burma], Cohen & Woods International surge training exercise, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College, 1997.
National Community Service.

National Selection Committee for Southeast Asia, Institute of International Education (Fulbright), 1995-96.
National Community Service.

Ambassador Designate Briefing [Burma], US Department of State, 1991.
National Community Service.

Vice-Chairman, Environmental Commission, Leonia NJ, 1987-90. Elected Trustee, Board of Education, Leonia NJ, 1979-82.
Local Community Service

Institute of Public Administration, NYC, Indonesia Project, 1983.
National Community Service.

New York City Police Department, Personnel, 1979-82.
National Community Service.

American Express Company [Southeast Asia], 1976.
National Community Service.

Columbia University Encyclopedia, Southeast Asia, 1971-73.
National Community Service.

US Department of State [Postwar Vietnam], 1971-72.
National Community Service.

Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Administration, 1969-73.

US Agency for International Development, Chair, Political Development Seminar of Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, 1967-70.
National Community Service.

Memberships [current]

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Civil Liberties Union
American Political Science Association
American Society for Public Administration
Amnesty International
Asia Society
Association for Asian Studies
Yale Russian Chorus

Referee for manuscripts:
Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Business Studies.