Michael Lipsky

Michael Lipsky, based in Washington, D.C., is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.  Michael came to Demos from the Ford Foundation, where he worked for 12 years in the Peace and Social Justice program. Responsible for the foundation's portfolio on "government performance and accountability," he helped assemble the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a national network of organizations devoted to budget transparency and accountability, and the International Budget Partnership of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Prior to Ford, Michael taught political science at the University of Wisconsin, and, for 21 years, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his books are Protest in City Politics, Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting (with S.R. Smith), and the award-winning Street-Level Bureaucracy.  In 2010, a 30^th Anniversary edition of Street-Level Bureaucracy was published with a new chapter and revised preface.  He holds degrees from Oberlin College and Princeton University