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Associate Professor of Politics and Management

Professor Koppell's research concerns the design and administration of complex organizations. He has focused on hybrid organizations, government-created entities that operate in the marketplace to achieve public policy goals. Koppell has examined the challenges and tradeoffs of this approach by studying well-known hybrids such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and more obscure entities like government-backed venture capital funds.

Currently he is writing a book concerning the structure and management of "global governance organizations" like the International Telecommunications Union, World Health Organization, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Such regulators and rule-makers are unusual for their boundary-spanning jurisdiction and, like many of the hybrids about which Koppell has written, these entities often blur public and private. By giving great power to companies, interest groups and unelected individuals, global governance organizations raise fundamental questions about accountability and due process.

In the classroom, Koppell recently introduced a new course on the challenge of "Managing Social Ventures," businesses that seek to integrate a social mission and pursuit of profits. He teaches core classes on organizational politics and the strategic environment of management. He was the faculty leader of the emerging markets study trip to India.

Koppell is director Yale's Working Group on Global Governance.

Academic Publications
"Political Control for China's State-owned Enterprises," Governance, April 2007

"Pathologies of Accountability: ICANN and the challenge of 'Multiple Accountabilities Disorder,'" Public Administration Review, January-February, 2005

"The Effects of Ballot Position on Election Outcomes" (with J. Steen), Journal of Politics, February 2004

The Politics of Quasi-Government, Cambridge University Press, September 2003

"Hybrid Organizations and the Alignment of Interests: The Case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," Public Administration Review, June-July, 2001

Selected Other Publications
"Follow the Loan Money," The New York Times, December 26, 2004

"Your Ad Here," The Industry Standard, February 5, 2001

"Governed from Cyberspace," The Australian Financial Review, November 20, 2000

"Some States Are More Equal Than Others," Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2000

"No 'There' There," The Atlantic Monthly, August 2000

"Security and the Internet," The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2000

"On the Internet, There's No Place to Hide," The Industry Standard, June 19, 2000

Education
PhD University of California, Berkeley
MA University of California, Berkeley
AB Harvard College