Deborah Anne Stone, a leading public policy scholar, has been appointed the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute.

Stone, whose two-year appointment runs from Sept. 1, 1997, through Aug. 31, 1999, is an international expert in the development and implementation of social policy, in particular the areas of care giving and health care.

"We are delighted that Deborah Stone will be working with us over the next two years to help carry forward our research and policy initiatives in the area of work, family, and community integration," said Radcliffe Public Policy Director Paula M. Rayman.

Stone has been the David R. Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University since 1986. She is also a senior editor of American Prospect magazine and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.

She is the author of The Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Norton, 1996), The Disabled State (Temple University Press, 1984), and The Limits of Professional Power: National Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany (University of Chicago Press, 1980). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow in ethics and the professions at Harvard University, and a fellow in law and political science at the Law School.

Stone was an associate professor of political science and director of the public policy program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1986. She was an assistant professor of political science at M.I.T. from 1977 to 1980 and an assistant professor of policy sciences and political science at Duke University from 1974 to 1977. She has also been a visiting professor at Yale and Tulane universities and the University of Bremen, Germany. She received a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1976 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Russian studies in 1969.

At the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, Stone will focus on developing new measures of efficiency and productivity that reflect the changing nature of the economy. "My research in developing analytic tools for policy analysis and design fits well with the Institute's objective to measure the things that we truly value as a society," said Stone.

The Radcliffe Public Policy Institute works to engage women and men as full partners in shaping policy on important national, social, political, and economic issues. By bringing together constituencies from business, labor, government, academia, the media, and community organizations, the Institute creates new strategies and contributes effective solutions for selected public policy problems.

The Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Radcliffe was established in honor of former Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, and is supported in part by an endowment from the Latsis Foundation.