G. Calvin Mackenzie is the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard. Mackenzie is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on American government, including THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS, THE HOUSE AT WORK, AMERICA'S UNELECTED GOVERNMENT, THE IN-AND-OUTERS, THE IRONY OF REFORM AND BUCKING THE DEFICIT, INNOCENT UNTIL NOMINATED and SCANDAL PROOF: CAN ETHICS LAWS MAKE GOVERNMENT ETHICAL? Mackenzie has been a consultant to Congress and to several federal departments and has been a participant in the work of many national reform commissions. His own public service includes stints as chair of Maine's Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, as chair of Maine's Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, and as a soldier with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. In 1999-2000, he was the John Adams Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London and in 2005 he was a Fulbright Professor in the People's Republic of China. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
