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John Samples
in 2021 John Curtis Samples (born c. 1950s) is an American political theorist, author, and vice president of the Cato Institute. , he serves as a member of Facebook's independent Oversight Board. Samples received a B.A. in political science and government from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1984. As a graduate student in political science at Rutgers in the 1970s, Samples met Michael T. Hayes, who remembered Samples as "one of the very best students I had encountered during my years there"; Samples later directed Hayes on the writing of the 2001 book The Limits of Policy Change: Incrementalism, Worldview, and the Rule of Law. After completing his Ph.D., Samples taught for various periods at institutions including Texas State University, Rutgers, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University, while also serving in other professional capacities. He was Vice President for Programs and Program Officer of the Twentieth Century Fund from 1987 to 1992, and then director of the Georgetown University Press until 2000. In that year, he joined the Cato Institute, a "U.S. libertarian think tank" as director of its Center for Representative Government, and in 2012, he became Vice President of the Cato Institute.…
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in 2021 John Curtis Samples (born c. 1950s) is an American political theorist, author, and vice president of the Cato Institute. , he serves as a member of Facebook's independent Oversight Board. Samples received a B.A. in political science and government from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1984. As a graduate student in political science at Rutgers in the 1970s, Samples met Michael T. Hayes, who remembered Samples as "one of the very best students I had encountered during my years there"; Samples later directed Hayes on the writing of the 2001 book The Limits of Policy Change: Incrementalism, Worldview, and the Rule of Law. After completing his Ph.D., Samples taught for various periods at institutions including Texas State University, Rutgers, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University, while also serving in other professional capacities. He was Vice President for Programs and Program Officer of the Twentieth Century Fund from 1987 to 1992, and then director of the Georgetown University Press until 2000. In that year, he joined the Cato Institute, a "U.S. libertarian think tank" as director of its Center for Representative Government, and in 2012, he became Vice President of the Cato Institute.…
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