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Charles Wise

Faculty Emeritus and Founding Director, John Glenn School of Public Affairs

Charles Wise is the founding director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He previously served as associate dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs of Indiana University, and was a full professor of public affairs there.

Wise has served as president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, and is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has also served in the United States Department of Justice, first as special assistant for policy analysis in the Office of Legislative Affairs and then as director of Intergovernmental Relations for the department.

He is the former managing editor of the Public Administration Review. He has three times been awarded the William and Frederick Mosher Award (for 1985, 1991 and 1992) by the American Society for Public Administration for the best academic article to be published in the Public Administration Review for the year. He is the only recipient of the award to have received it three times.

From 1994 to 2013, Wise served as the project director of the Parliamentary Development Project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assist the Parliament of Ukraine in developing as a democratic institution.

The Courts and the President
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
May 22, 2024

Charles Wise explores how US Presidents have long issued presidential directives to federal agencies to adopt and implement programs to advance presidential priorities, both pursuant to statutes passed by Congress and outside of them.

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Ukraine's parliament in war: the impact of Russia's invasion on the Verkhovna Rada's ability and efforts to legislate reforms and join the European Union
The Theory of Practice of Legislation
January 08, 2024

Dean Trevor Brown and Founding Director Charles Wise published a study of the impact of Russia's invasion on the changing political dynamics that spurred Ukraine's Parliament to pursue compliance with EU requirements.

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Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention
American Review of Public Administration
January 04, 2022

This research explores the nature of the accountability dilemma in collaborative programs and analyzes and illustrates them in the context of wildland fire prevention in the United States.

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