Eugene Lee

Eugene C. Lee is a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley and served as the director of the Institute of Governmental Studies from 1967 to June 1988. A former Vice President of the University, Professor Lee was also the first chairman of the Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy ("The Little Hoover Commission"). Prior to joining the University, he was assistant to the city manager of San Leandro, and served as executive assistant to the Democratic candidate for governor.

Lee received his B.A. degree from UCLA and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Berkeley, while also serving in the campus administration. Other university teaching and administrative posts were at University College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1984-1985, Lee was an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in London.

Lee has written extensively in the fields of state, regional, and local government and politics, and the administration of higher education. His books include The Politics of Nonpartisanship, and — co-authored — The Challenge of California, The Multicampus University, and Managing Multicampus Systems. Other writing has focused on the initiative and referendum, the politics of federal and state water project development in the American West, and intergovernmental relationships in the United States and England.