John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.

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. was an American political scientist who was Professor Emeritus at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at

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. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S.

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in relationship to civil servants and

public administration Public administration, or public policy and administration refers to "the management of public programs", or the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day",Kettl, Donald and James Fessler. 2009. ''The Politics of the ...

. He also received the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2002 for contributions to the literature and leadership of public administration. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and Fellow of the National Academy of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. One of Rohr's argument is that the

pervades American society. Rohr wrote the book, ''Prophets Without Honor,'' which talked about the issue of Selective Conscientious Objection to war, detailing both the pros and cons of the possibility of such a policy. While not a Straussian in the sense of, say, Harvey Mansfield, Rohr was a student of

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and Herbert Storing during a famous period of political theory training at the

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that heavily influenced his future work and legendary seminar teaching style. He died in

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, in 2011.John Anthony Rohr; ''Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014''

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