Norma M. Riccucci

Norma Margherita Riccucci is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University in Newark. She is a scholar in the field of Public Administration. An authority on issues related to social equity, affirmative action and public management, Riccucci is widely known for her work in the area of diversity management in government employment.

Education Riccucci is a graduate of Newington High School and earned a Bachelors of Public Administration from Florida International University in 1979. She holds a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Southern California Los Angeles (1981) and received a PhD in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1984. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Unions And The Employment Patterns Of Women And Minorities In Local Government Work Forces and her thesis advisor was David H. Rosenbloom. Other awards include the H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Management Research Association (2020) and the Herbert Simon Award from the Midwest Political Science Association (2021). In 2022, Riccucci was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa from IDHEAP Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration.

Works Critical Race Theory: Exploring its Application to Public Administration. Cambridge Elements Series, Cambridge University Press, 2022. Managing Diversity in Public Sector Workforces. New York: Routledge, 2nd edition, 2021. Policy Drift: Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy. New York: New York University Press, 2018. Public Administration: Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010 How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005 Managing Diversity in Public Sector Workforces. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002 Unsung Heroes: Federal Execucrats Making a Difference. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995 Personnel Management in Government, 6th ed. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2007. 600 pp. Coauthor: Katherine Naff; Contributing coauthors, Jay Shafritz and David H. Rosenbloom. Fifth Edition. NY: Marcel Dekker, 2001. 587 pp. Coauthors: Jay Shafritz, Katherine Naff, David H. Rosenbloom, Albert Hyde. Fourth Edition, 1992, 553 pp. Coauthors, Shafritz, Hyde, and David H. Rosenbloom. Translated into Chinese as Guo Wai Xing Zheng Xue Jing Dian Yi Cong. Beijing,: J.D. Publishers, 1997. Personnel Management in Government: Current Concerns, Future Challenges, Sixth Edition, edited. New York: Routledge, 2018. Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, edited. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2007