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Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago

Affiliated Faculty, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
412 South Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7064

Email:gbeam@uic.edu

PhD., University of Michigan, 1963, Political Science
M.A., University of Pittsburgh,1957, Philosophy
B.A., Westminster College, 1956, Bible, Philosophy, and Psychology

Publications

The Problem With Survey Research, Transaction, 2012 (Routledge, 2017)
QUALITY Public Management: What It Is and How It Can Be Improved and Advanced, Rowman and Littlefield (Burnham), 2001
Political Action: The Key To Understanding Politics (co-author), Swallow Press, 1980
Strategies for Change: How To Make the Political Dream Work (co-author), Swallow Press, 1976
Usual Politics: A Critique and Some Suggestions for an Alternative, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970
Readings on American Government: Concepts in Context (co-editor), Wadsworth, 1968

Book Review: "Ethics in Public Administration: Thinking and Doing", The American Review of Public Administration, June, 1992
"The Parkinson-Peter Pasquinade", The Bureaucrat (now, The Public Manager), Summer, 1980

Conference Papers and Conference Activities

Social Science Guidelines for Survey Research, 70th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 12-15, 2012
Chair and panel discussion leader, Employee Attitudes and Job Satisfaction, 70th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 12-15, 2012
Discussion leader, Ask an Expert Discussion Circle, The Problem with Survey Research and What to Do about It, Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, March 2-6, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada
Poster Session on the limits of survey research, 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 22-25, 2010
Develop Performance Metrics that Don't Rely on Surveys, American Society for Quality, 22nd Quality Management Division Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4-5, 2010
The Problem with Survey Research and What to Do About It, 2010 Annual Conference of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 4-5, 2010
What Ethics Commissions Do: The Case of the City of New York Conflicts of Interest Board and the Chicago Board of Ethics, Conference on the Study of Government Ethics, Park City, Utah, 1992
Ethics and Ethics Boards, 53rd National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Chicago, Illinois, 1992
Public Service Academies in Chicago: Building Coalitions for Teaching Public Administration and Improving the Public Sector Workforce, Fifteenth National Conference on Teaching Public Administration, Charleston, South Carolina, 1992
Three papers at the Seminar on Public/Private Ethics and Conflicts of Interest, Riga, Latvia, 1992:
- Codes of Ethics and Laws against Corruption: Examples from New York City and Chicago
- Financial Disclosure: An Instrument for Combating Corruption in Municipal Governments
- Enforcing Laws against Corruption: The Role of the New York City and Chicago Boards of Ethics
Kafka’Castle Image of Bureaucracy: The Myth of Bureaucratic Unresponsiveness, Third International Conference on the Historical, Comparative, and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, Zurich, Switzerland, 1984
America’s Bureaucratic Elite, First International Conference on the Historical, Comparative, and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, Zurich, Switzerland, 1982
Toward a Methodology for the Study of Political Action (co-author), 37th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1979
Building Organizations for Fundamental Change (co-author), 9th World Conference of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden, 1978

Workshops, Seminars, Courses

I have developed continuing education proposals and programs, and have conducted workshops, presented seminars, and delivered courses, mostly in various aspects of public management, including quality management and government ethics but, also, in American politics and political theory. Places where these activities have taken place include Riga (Latvia), Spertus College of Judaica (Chicago), West Side Veterans Administration Hospital (Chicago), Quad-Cities (Illinois) Graduate Center, and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Also, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I delivered one-day seminars—"American Public Administration and Ethics"—to delegations of public managers and executives from Beijing.

Administrative Positions and Activities

Head, Department of Public Administration
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Public Administration
Acting Head, Department of Political Science
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science
Program Developer, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service

Grant Proposal Activity

2011 Application for Campus funds to Support Tenure Faculty Scholarship, $1000; funded
2010 Application for Campus funds to Support Tenure Faculty Scholarship, $1000; funded
Proposal submitted (1998) through the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) to the Paul Douglas Foundation for the development of an ethics in public administration course; not funded.
Two Curriculum Development proposals submitted (1995 and 1996) to UIC Academic Affairs, $8000 each; not funded
Proposal for $193,000 (co-investigator) submitted (1994) to the United States Information Agency; not funded
Proposal for $78,000 submitted (1993) to the Chicago Community Trust; not funded
Proposal for $2000 submitted (1992) to the Illinois Association of Graduate Programs in Public Administration; not funded
Proposal for $1700 submitted (1991) to the UIC Campus Research Board; not funded

Manuscript Reviewer for:

Jones & Bartlett, and Sage

Committee Activity

Master of Public Administration Coordination Committee
Executive Committee, Department of Political Science
Library Committee, Department of Political Science
Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science
Faculty Search committees, Public Administration and Political Science
Chair, Reinventing Government Round Table for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Inauguration
Unit Heads Committee, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Strategic Planning Committee, Steering, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Strategic Planning Committee, Student, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Hearing Panel of the UIC Senate Student Judiciary
Search Committee for the Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Admissions Committee, Department of Public Administration
Research Committee, University of Illinois Senate, UIC
Other ad hoc and standing committees of the Department of Political Science, the Department of Public Administration, and College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Elected to the UIC Senate

Honorary Associations and Awards

Phi Kappa Phi
Pi Sigma Alpha
Pi Alpha Alpha, founding member of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Chapter, and Faculty Advisor of the Chapter

University of Illinois Alumni Association Flame Award for Teaching Excellence, 1999
Nominated for the Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989