New Editorial Board Members 2012 (United States of America and Canada)
Raymond W. Cox III is a professor of public administration and urban studies at the University of Akron. He also has extensive applied experience having served on the Akron city council and as a chief of staff for the lieutenant governor of New Mexico. His research on public sector ethics, public administration education, strategic planning, and other topics has been published in Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly, and many other journals. He has written or edited several books including Public Administration in Theory and Practice (second edition) with Susan Buck and Betty Morgan that was published in 2011. He received his PhD in public administration and public affairs from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1983.
Ann O’M Bowman is a professor and holds the Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy endowed chair in government and public service in the Bush School at Texas A&M University. She was previously on the faculty at the University of South Carolina. Her research on state and urban politics and administration, federalism and intergovernmental relations, and environmental policy has been published in the Urban Affairs Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and many other journals. She has written or edited several books including the nineth edition of State and Local Government (with Richard Kearney) that will be published in 2012. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Florida in 1979.
Saundra K. Schneider is a professor of political science at the Michigan State University, where she directs the masters of public policy program. Her research on intergovernmental relations, state government, crisis management, public management, and other topics has been published in Publius, Public Administration Review, State Politics and Policy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and many other journals. The second edition of her book Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations was published in 2011. She received her PhD in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1980.
Beth Walter Honadle is a professor of planning at the University of Cincinnati. Her research on intergovernmental relations, public finance, economic development, civic engagement and participation, financial management, rural development policy, and various aspects of local government management has been published in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Public Administration Review, Publius, and many other journals. She has written or edited three books. She received her PhD in public administration from Syracuse University in 1979.
Robert Hebdon is a professor of management at the McGill University. His research on labor relations, contracting for services, and various aspects of local government management has been published in Industrial and Labor Relations, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Economic Review, Relations Industrielles, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, and other journals. He has written six books and monographs including Industrial Relations in Canada that will be published in 2012. He received his PhD in Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto in 1992.
Ian M. Coyle is a county administrator for Livingston County, New York. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public administration at several institutions including Ottawa University and the Charter Oak State College. He is professionally very active and makes frequent presentations on issues related to local government management including “Introduction to Budgeting and Finance” that was presented at the 2012 New York State Association of Counties Annual Legislative Conference. He is an ICMA Credentialed Manager (ICMA-CM) and is currently pursuing a doctorate in public administration at the Valdosta State University.
Daryl J. Delabbio is the administrator/controller for Kent County, Michigan. He has also taught courses on local government administration at several institutions including Wayne State University and Western Michigan University, and currently teaches courses on ethics, organizational behavior, and leadership at the Davenport University. He has written several articles on various aspects of local government management that have been published in Public Management and the Michigan Municipal Review. He makes frequent presentations on intergovernmental collaboration and best practices to professional associations and organization, including the Michigan Public Employer Labor Relations Association, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, and Michigan Association of Counties. He received his PhD in Higher Educational Leadership from the Western Michigan University in 2006.
P. Edward French is an associate professor and a graduate coordinator in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Stennis Scholar for Local Government with the Stennis Institute at Mississippi State University. His research on public sector ethics, human relations management, performance measurement, and other topics has been published in Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Administration Review, Politics and Policy, International Journal of Public Administration, and other journals. He received his PhD in public policy and administration from the Mississippi State University in 2001.
Richard C. Kearney is a professor and director of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, East Carolina University, and the University of South Carolina. His research on human relations management, public administration, and state and local politics and administration has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, Administration and Society, Publius, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, and many other journals. The nineth edition of his book (with Ann O’M Bowman) State and Local Government will be published in 2012. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Oklahoma in 1977.
New Editorial Board Members (International, Appointed July 2011)
Gabriella D’Amore is a research fellow in public management at Parthenope University, Naples Italy. She also has applied experience and serves as a public officer in the Campania Regional Government. Her research focuses on regional governance issues, transportation policy, and the impact of outsourcing on local government service provision and performance, and has appeared in a variety of journals, book chapters, and symposia proceedings papers. In addition to receiving her PhD in business and public management from the University of Parthenope in 2010, she spent one year (2009) at the Cornell University’s Department of City, Community, and Regional Planning as a visiting postgraduate student.
Gelase Mutahaba is a professor of Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and concurrently an extraordinary professor of Public Management in the School of Public Managements at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His current research interests are local government and decentralization, public service reform, and human resource management. Professor Mutahaba has authored and edited seven books that examine issues related to the above areas and published more than fifty journal articles in world class journals, including Public Administration and Development, the European Journal of Development, and the African Journal of Public Administration and Management. He received his PhD in political science in 1973 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Masao Kikuchi is an associate professor of public policy and management at Meiji University, Japan. His research on performance management, financial administration, and environmental policy has been published in the Public Administration Review, the Asian Review of Public Administration, the Journal of Regional Studies and Development, and other chapters and monographs. He received his PhD in political science from Meiji University in 2008.
Hans Th. A. Bressers is a professor of policy studies and environmental policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where he founded in 1988 the Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development. He received his PhD from the same university in 1983. In his role as a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Dutch Social Economic Council, he regularly advises the Dutch government. His research, which has focused on a wide range of topics related to environmental policy and water management, has been published in the Journal of Public Policy, Policy Studies Journal, Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Business Strategy and the Environment, Environmental Science and Policy, Water Policy, and many other journals as well as numerous other chapters and reports. He has written or edited alone and with others more than a dozen books, including recently Governance and Complexity in Water Management: Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning (with Kris Lulofs 2010) and Complex and Dynamic Implementation Processes: Analyzing the Renaturalization of the Dutch Regge River (with Cheryl de Boer 2011).
Jeremy John Richardson is an emeritus fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and also a research professorial fellow at the National Centre for Research in Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research on policy making, environmental politics, political participation, and other topics has been published in Parliamentary Affairs, Public Administration, Political Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Local Government Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Policy and Politics, and many other journals. In addition, he has written or edited more than twenty books. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Manchester in 1970.
Hyung Jun Park is an associate professor of public administration and governance at Sungkunkwan University in Korea, where he directs the Institute of Governance and Policy Evaluation. His research on policy networks, public finance, economic development, regionalism, and other topics has been published in Urban Affairs Review, Public Administration Review, International Review of Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Local Government Studies, Modern Society and Public Administration, International Journal of Economic Development, Korean Policy Studies Review, and many other journals. He received his PhD in public administration and public policy from the Florida State University in 2005.
Frederick Martin Uys is an associate professor of public management at the University of Stellenbosch, the Republic of South Africa. He also has extensive applied experience and served as a senior personnel officer in the South African Commission for Administration. His research on local government management, performance management, intergovernmental relations, and other topics has been published in Administratio Publica, Journal of Public Administration, Politeia, as well as numerous chapters in books. He received his PhD in public management from the University of Stellenbosch in 1994.
Juan de Dios Pineda Guadarrama is a professor in the Institute of Government and Strategic Development at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. His research on public sector employee professionalization, public policy, education, mentoring, and transportation and water systems at the state and local levels in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America has been published in The Civil Service Journal (Mexico), The Journal of International Culture and Education (Germany), Journal of Latino Education (United States), and in numerous technical reports for Mexican and other government entities. He has been a columnist on local public affairs for the weekly periodicals The Sun and The Mexican Diary and Review and is the former President of the Mexican College of Political Science and Public Administration. He is the author or principal editor of twenty-five books. He received his PhD in Education from the University of New Mexico in 2007.
Rita Grandinetti is a professor of Political Science and International Relations at the National University of Rosario, Argentina where she is the director of the Institute for Municipal Management and chairs the Certificate in Public Organizational Technology, Planning, and Management. Her research on innovation, organization, and development in local- and state-level governments has been published in the Social Science Journal, CLAD Review, and in numerous technical papers for the U.N., IDB, and Argentine state and local governments, as well as the author of various book chapters. In addition, she is the principal editor of four books. She received her doctorate in Territorial Innovation and Development in 2012 from the Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain.
