Deil S. Wright, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDeil S. Wright
American political scientist
Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1930
Date of Death: 30-Jun-2009
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Deil S. Wright
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- Wright (18 June 1930 – 30 June 2009) was an American political scientist, who specialized in public administration and spent much of his career as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- He was an expert on intergovernmental relations, and wrote a leading textbook on that subject.Wright was born in Three Rivers, Michigan in 1930, and attended the University of Michigan, where he completed a bachelor's degree in 1952, a Master of Public Administration in 1954, and a PhD in political science in 1957.
- His doctoral dissertation surveyed attitudes toward local government by residents of Detroit, and was called "The Prestige of the Public Service in a Metropolitan Community".Wright taught political science at Wayne State University, the University of Iowa, and UC Berkeley, before joining the University of North Carolina faculty, where he served as a professor from 1967 to 2002, when he took emeritus status.
- Wright was a major contributor to UNC's MPA program, and was its director from 1973 to 1979.
- He received the Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2000.Wright's published works included Public Administration and the Public (1958), Intergovernmental Action on Environmental Policy: The Role of the States (1967), Understanding Intergovernmental Relations (1978), and Globalization and Decentralization (1996).
- He also published more than 100 articles, in journals such as American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, and Publius: A Journal of Federalism.
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