Past Monroe-Paine Distinguished Lecturers
- Eric Greitens, Chairman, Center for Citizen Leadership "The Next Generation of American Leadership" March 13, 2008
- Joel Waldfogel, Professor and Chair, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want" October 29, 2007
- Congressman Ike Skelton "Thinking in Terms of History" September 14, 2007
- Martin Frost, Fox News Commentator and Former Congressman "Congress ’07: Is There Anything Other Than Iraq?" April 9, 2007
- Carl J. Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation "The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America’s Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World" February 6, 2007
- James A. Morone, Professor of Political Science Brown University "Hellfire Nation: Politics, Sin and the USA" November 16, 2006
- Frank J. Chaloupka, Distinguished Professor and Director-UIC Health Policy Center, University of Illinois at Chicago "The Economics of Tobacco Taxation" October 24, 2006
- Carolyn J. Heinrich, Professor and Associate Director, Institute for Research on Poverty, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Evidence-based Policy and Performance Management: Complementary or Colliding Movements?" October 12, 2006
- Joel D. Aberbach, Director, Center for American Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy-UCLA "The George W. Bush Administration in Perspective: Presidential Power in the Contemporary Era" April 13, 2006
- Martha Farnsworth-Riche, "Rich Community or Poor, Women Leaders Make a Difference" March 20, 2006
- Arthur C. Brooks, Associate Professor and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program, the Maxwell School at Syracuse University "Why Does Charity Matter?" January 26, 2006
- James L. Perry, Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs, and Director of the American Democracy Project, Indiana University "Democracy and the New Public Service" November 11, 2005
- Helen Ladd, Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics and Associate Director of the Sanford Institute, Duke University "Racial Equity in Education: How Far Has South Africa Come?" February 25, 2005
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director Congressional Budget Office "Budget and Policy Priorities in the 21st Century" November 4, 2004
- Ted D. Morse, Retired Foreign Service Professional "Prospects and Problems in International Conflict Resolution" April 26, 2004
- Vamik D. Volkan, Erik H. Erikson Scholar in Residence Austen Riggs Center "Human Security After Societal Trauma" March 5, 2004
- Lester M. Salamon, Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Civil Society Studies-Institute of Policy Studies Johns Hopkins University "Reconstituting the State: The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action" November 6, 2003
- Len Nichols, Director Center for Studying Health System Change October 9, 2003
- Larry D. Terry, Associate Provost, Professor of Public Affairs, and Editor in Chief, Public Administration Review The University of Texas at Dallas "How Hollow is the Hollow State? Thin Institutions in an Era of Governmental Reform" September 18, 2003
- Kenneth J. Meier, Professor of Political Science and Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts Texas A & M University "Public Management and Organizational Performance: A Progress Report in a Research Agenda" April 23, 2003
- Rebecca M. Blank, Dean Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan "What Have We Learned From Welfare Reform?" March 31, 2003
- The Honorable John Hume, Member of the British and European Parliaments and 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient "The Theory and Practice of Peace Making" January 23, 2003
- Thomas Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution "Presidential-Congressional Conflicts in the Bush Administration" September 27, 2002
- Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director of Governmental Studies Brookings Institution "Government’s Greatest Achievements of the Past Half Century: From Civil Rights to Homeland Defense" March 11, 2002
- Robert F. Rich, Professor of Law, Political Science, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Community Health, Communications Research, and Health Policy & Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Federalism at a Cross-Roads: The Case of Health Care" November 16, 2001
- James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy Peperdine University "Crime and Public Policy" September 11, 2001
- Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Faith-Based Organizations and Public Obligations to the Poor" April 26, 2001
- Michael Gurstein, Research Fellow Technical University of British Columbia "Public Policy" September 14, 2000
- Dan Balfour, Scholar in Residence Grand Valley State University "Corrosion of Character and the Civil Servant: The Human Consequences of the New Public Management" September 15, 2000
- Richard P. Nathan, Distinguished Professor and Director Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government University of Albany "The Devolution Revolution in American Domestic Policy: A Really New Federalism" November 8, 1999