"A role model, inspiration, guide, and friend"

I was at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School from 1978 to 1990 and got together with Ted about once or twice a year, generally in Syracuse. We had plenty of enjoyable discussions disagreeing on whether federal agencies could become representative law- and policy making institutions consonant with the US Constitution. But, at least a few times, the mission wasn’t related to political science. It was to check out the discount stores selling men’s suits. We had a lot of fun with this. 

Ted wrote the introduction to one of my coedited editions of Classic Readings in American Politics and was good enough to contribute to a symposium in Public Administration Review while I was editor-in-chief in the 1990s. After I moved to American University in 1990, we corresponded and spoke by phone warmly though infrequently. For me, Ted was a role model, inspiration, guide, and friend. He was a major contributor, in many ways the major contributor, to my intellectual and professional development and career successes....

Since the late 1960s, Ted has often been and will continue to be in my thoughts.

<following from Federal Service and the Constitution: The Development of the Public Employment Relationship by David H. Rosenbloom; shared with permission of the author>

Acknowledgments

It is impossible to name or even remember all the colleagues and students who contributed directly and indirectly to the thinking and knowledge base on which this book relies. However, several are due special mention and thanks. The first edition might never have been published without a chance meeting with Professor Theodore Lowi. As a newly minted PhD on his way to an assistant professorship in political science at the University of Kansas, I was wandering around the exhibits at the 1969 American Political Science Association annual meeting in New York when Ted asked me if I was “peddling my manuscript” to the various editors present. My response was something like, “What? Am I supposed to be doing that?” Looking somewhat aghast at my cluelessness, he affirmed. So I got hold of a portable typewriter, typed up a short description of the manuscript, had several copies made, and visited as many publishers’ booths as seemed plausible. Thanks are also due to Bernhard Kendler of Cornell University Press, who took a look at the prospectus on the spot and asked me to send the manuscript along. The rest, as the saying goes, is history...

David H. Rosenbloom

Distinguised Professor of Public Administration, and

Editor-in-Chief, Routledge Public Administration & Public Policy Series

American University