Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Smith is co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services. He is also co-editor of Public Policy for Democracy. He is the editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He received an M.S.W. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.