Douglas Alan Brook | Scholars@Duke

Douglas Alan Brook
Visiting Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy

Douglas A. Brook is Visiting Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also Emeritus Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. At NPS he was Dean of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Defense Management Research.

Brook has served in four presidentially-appointed positions. While on leave from NPS he served a 14-month tour in the Pentagon serving first as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller) and later as Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer. From 1990 to 1992 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management). In 1992 he was Acting Director of the U. S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Brook holds a B.A. degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Michigan. In 2001 he earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy at George Mason University.

He and his wife, Mariana, reside in Elon, N.C.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Visiting Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2017

Contact Information

doug.brook@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., George Mason University 2001
- M.P.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1967
- A.B., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1965
Duke Appointment History
- Visiting Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2013 - 2017
Recognition
In the News
- AUG 8, 2016 the News & Observer
  
  Christie’s Unneeded Hit List of Political Appointees
- AUG 8, 2016 The News & Observer
  
  Douglas A. Brook: Christie's unneeded hit list of political appointees to purge
- MAY 19, 2016 The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  Douglas Brook: Management is key to a good presidential transition
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Pfiffner, JP, and Brook, DA. The Future of Merit Twenty Years After the Civil Service Reform Act. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, September 12, 2000.
- Book Sections
  - Brook DA, , and King, CL. "Legislating Innovation in Human Capital Management: Lessons from The Department of Homeland Security." In Innovations in Human Capital Management, edited by H Sistare and T Buss,277-291. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. (Chapter)
  - Brook, DA. "Merit and The Civil Service Reform Act." In The Future of Merit: Twenty Years After the Civil Service Reform Act, edited by JP Pfiffner,1-11. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000.
  - Brook, DA. "Steel: Trade Policy in a Changed Environment." edited by AV Deardorff,133-144. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. (Chapter)
- Journal Articles
  - Brook, DA. "Leading Change in Public Organizations." Public Administration Review 76, no. 6 (November 2016): 977-981. Full Text
  - Brook, DA. "Asking the Right Question: Cost Awareness Policy in the Department of the Army." Public Manager (2015): 47-50.
  - Brook, DA. "Audited Financial Statements in the US Federal Government: The Question of Policy and Management Utility." Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 25, no. 1 (2013): 135-157.
  - Brook, DA. "Budgeting for National Security: A Whole of Government Perspective." Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 24, no. 1 (2012): 32-57.
  - Brook, DA. "Audited Financial Statements: Identifying Uses and Users." Armed Forces Comptroller 57, no. 3 (2012): 11-15.
  - Brook, DA, and King, CL. "Enactment and Implementation of the National Security Personnel System: Policy Made and Policy Unmade." Public Administration Review (2011): 900-908.
  - Brook, DA. "Exploring the Value of Financial Statement Audits." Journal of Government Financial Management (2011): 38-43.
  - Brook, DA. "Audited Financial Statements in the Federal Government: Intentions, Outcomes and On-Going Challenges for Managers and Policy-Making." Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 22, no. 1 (2010): 52-83.
  - Brook, DA. "Whither the Defense Budget? Countervailing Pressures and Process Challenges." Journal of Government Financial Management (2009): 10-15.
  - Candreva, PJ, and Brook, DA. "Transitions in Defense Management Reform: A Review of the Government Accountability Office’s Chief Management Officer Recommendation and Comments for the New Administration." Public Administration Review 68, no. 6 (November 2008): 1043-1049. Full Text
  - Brook, DA, and King, CL. "Federal Personnel Management Reform." Review of Public Personnel Administration 28, no. 3 (September 2008): 205-221. Full Text
  - Brook, DA, and King, CL. "Civil Service Reform as National Security: The Homeland Security Act of 2002." Public Administration Review 67, no. 3 (May 2007): 399-407. Full Text
  - Brook, DA. "Meta-Strategic Lobbying: The 1998 Steel Imports Case." Business and Politics 7, no. 01 (April 2005): 1-24. Full Text
  - Brook, DA. "Dumping and Subsidy Cases at the ITC: Voting Discretion and Commissioner Attributes." The International Trade Journal xix, no. 4 (2005): 309-336.
  - Brook, D. "TRADE POLICY STRATEGIES AND ENFORCEMENT CHOICES: An Examination of the 1992 Steel Antidumping Cases." The International Trade Journal 17, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 81-100. Full Text
  - Brook, DA. "Administrative Reform in the Federal Government: Understanding the Search for Private Sector Management Models -- An Annotated Bibliography." Public Administration and Management 7, no. 2 (2002): 117-165.
  - Brook, DA. "Civil Service Reform as National Security." Public Administration Review .
  - Brook, DA. "The Chief Management Officer in the Department of Defense: Does It Matter?." Public Manager Summer 2015: 38-41. Open Access Copy
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- PUBPOL 890: Advanced Special Topics in Public Policy 2018
- PUBPOL 590: Advanced Topics in Public Policy 2017

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Selected Publications

Books

Book Sections

Journal Articles

Recent Courses