Doug Brook is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Defense Management Reform in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. He served as Dean of of the NPS Business School from 2002 until 2005. Dr. Brook teaches Defense Budgeting and Financial Management Policy and is coordinator of a seminar in Problem Analysis and Ethical Dilemmas. His current research interests focus on management reform in the Federal Government and the Department of Defense. In the Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, Brook served as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management) and as Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Articles
Business Management Reform in the Department of Defense in Anticipation of Declining Budgets (with Philip J. Candreva), Public Budgeting & Finance (2007)
Business management reform efforts have been part of the U.S. Defesne department agenda for decades....
Civil Service Reform as National Security (with Cynthia L. King), Public Administration Review (2007)
The events of 9/11 haver influenced policy making in public administration. The Homeland Security Act...
Meta-Strategic Lobbying: The 1998 Steel Imports Case, Business and Politics (2006)
In 1998, the domestic steel industry in the United States devised and executed a complex...
Dumping and Subsidy Cases at the ITC: Voting Discretion and Commissioner Attributes, The International Trade Journal (2005)
In antidumping and countervailing duty cases, why do commissioners of the International Trade Commission vote...
Trade Policy Strategies and Enforcement Choices: An Examination of the 1992 Steel Antidumping Cases, International Trade Journal (2003)
This paper explores the use of U.S. antidumping statutes by the domestic integrated steel industry....
Books
The Future of Merit: Twenty Years After the Civil Service Reform Act (with James P. Pfiffner) (2006)
The editors felt that the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Civil Service Reform...
Contributions to Books
Steel: Trade Policy in a Changed Environment, Constituent Interests and U. S. Trade Policies (1998)
This paper identifies the trade policy objectives currently sought by the integrated steel industry. It...
Other
Effective Communications Practices during Organizational Transformation (with Cynthia L. King and Tim D. Hartge) (2007)
This study explores effective communication practices during organizational transformation, change, and turnarounds. Leadership and management...
Benchmarking Best Practices in Transformation for Sea Enterprise (with Bryan J. Hudgens) (2006)
THis report presents a brief recent history of management reform within the Department of Defense...