Mailing address
Littauer
79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Arnold Howitt
Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Faculty Affiliate
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 495-4571
Fax: (617) 496-1722
Email: arnold_howitt@harvard.edu
Experience
Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, chairs executive training programs in Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness, and directed its Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness. He has served on the Governor's Bioterrorism Coordinating Council in Massachusetts and as Executive Director of the Cooperative Mobility Program, an international transportation research program based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Howitt specializes in state and local public management and intergovernmental relations. He is the author of Managing Federalism, a study of the federal grant-in-aid system, co-author and co-editor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building, and co-editor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness. He is a contributor to Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions; Going Private; and Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy.
Dr. Howitt earned a B.A. from Columbia University (1969) and an M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1976) in Political Science from Harvard University. He has served in faculty and administrative positions at Harvard continuously since 1976, receiving the Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award from the Harvard Extension School in 1993. He has extensive experience in public sector executive education and has consulted with public agencies in several states and the federal government.
September, 2003
Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness
Book
By Arnold Howitt, Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Faculty Affiliate and Robyn Pangi, Research Specialist
The United States now knows that it is vulnerable to terrorist attacks. In Countering Terrorism, experts from such disparate fields as medicine, law, public policy, and international security discuss institutional changes the country must make to protect against future attacks. In these essays, they argue that terrorism preparedness is not just a federal concern, but one that requires integrated efforts across federal, state, and local governments.
