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Donald J. Devine (born 1937) is an American political scientist, author, former government official and politician who has studied, written and promoted the philosophy of conservative fusionism as taught to him by the U.S. philosopher Frank Meyer. ==Personal life== ‘’The Washington Post’’ labeled Donald Devine as Ronald Reagan’s “terrible swift sword of the civil service” when he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during President Reagan’s first term, The New York Times called him “the Grinch,” and the Federal Times titled him the “Rasputin of the reduction in force – all because he helped cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and save over $6 billion reducing generous benefits.〔Caryle Murphy, “The Boss: Donald Devine: The man federal workers love to hate,” The Washington Post Magazine, April 15, 1984, cover, pp. 10-14; Donald Devine, Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword, Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1991, 1〕 Before and after his government service he has been an academic, teaching 14 years as associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and for a decade as a professor of Western civilization at Bellevue University. He is currently Senior Scholar for The Fund for American Studies, an adjunct scholar at The Heritage Foundation, a writer and a Washington policy consultant.〔Who’s Who in America, 2011, Marquis Who’s Who, September 15, 2010〕 He also serves as a Trustee of the Philadelphia Society. Donald Devine was born in Bronxville, New York to Frances Phelan Devine and John Devine. He was raised by his mother in his grandfather Frank Phelan’s home in Brooklyn and educated at Catholic schools in New York. He lives in Shady Side, Maryland and is married to the former Ann Smith. Devine and his wife have four children and fourteen grandchildren.〔Murphy, p. 11〕 He graduated from St. John’s University New York with a B.B.A. in management and economics in 1959. He was granted a MA in Political Science from Brooklyn College City University of New York in 1965. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in1967. He served as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve from 1960–1966. He is the author of eight books, ''The Attentive Public,'' ''The Political Culture of the United States,'' ''Does Freedom Work?,'' ''Reagan Electionomics,'' ''Reagan's Terrible Swift Sword,'' ''Restoring the Tenth Amendment,'' ''In Defense of the West,'' and ''America’s Way Back.''〔Murphy, p. 11〕 An interviewer commented upon Devine’s mix of academics and politics this way: “You served President Ronald Reagan in a way that saved billions for us taxpayers while reinforcing the better federal employees. Yet you come out of the University and, while respecting theory, wrote a semi-memoir that is so full of political reality as to scramble the pro-business notions of the right and the pro-bureaucracy tendencies of the left.” 〔Frank Gregorsky “Author Profile, 2009: Donald J. Devine,” http://www.exactingeditor.com/DonDevine.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald J. Devine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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