Terry M. Moe

Terry M. Moe (born June 25, 1949) is the William Bennett Munro professor of political science emeritus at Stanford University, a senior fellow emeritus at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has been at Stanford for more than 40 years. He was chair of the political science department from 2004 to 2007.

Moe has a B.A. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota. Chubb, John E., and Moe, Terry M. 1990. Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press). Moe, Terry M. 1985. "The Politicized Presidency." In John E. Chubb and Paul E. Peterson, eds., The New Direction in American Politics (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press): 235–271. Moe, Terry M. 1989. "The Politics of Bureaucratic Structure." In John E. Chubb and Paul E. Peterson, eds., Can the Government Govern? (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press): 267–329. Moe, Terry M. 2011. Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press). Moe, Terry M., and Susanne Wiborg, eds. 2017. The Comparative Politics of Education: Teachers Unions and Education Systems around the World (New York: Cambridge University Press). Moe, Terry M. 2019. The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power (New York: Cambridge University Press). Howell, William G., and Moe, Terry M. 2016. Relic: Why the Constitution Undermines Effective Government—And Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency (New York: Basic Books). Howell, William G., and Moe, Terry M. 2020. Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Journal articles Moe, Terry M. 1984. "The New Economics of Organization." American Journal of Political Science 28: 739–777. Moe, Terry M. 1990. "Political Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6: 213–254. Moe, Terry M. 2005. "Power and Political Institutions." Perspectives on Politics 3 (2): 215–233. Moe, Terry M. 2015. "Vested Interests and Political Institutions." Political Science Quarterly 130 (2): 277–318. Anzia, Sarah F., and Moe, Terry M. 2015. "Public Sector Unions and the Costs of Government." Journal of Politics 77 (1): 114–127. Anzia, Sarah F., and Moe, Terry M. 2016. "Do Politicians Use Policy to Make Politics? The Case of Public Sector Labor Laws." American Political Science Review 110 (4): 763–777. Howell, William G., and Moe, Terry M. 2023. "The Strongman Presidency and the Two Logics of Presidential Power." Presidential Studies Quarterly 53: 145–168.