MPA

Program Guide

Master of Public Administration

Department of Public Administration and Policy The University of Georgia

DearProspectiveMPAStudent: WeareverypleasedthatyouareinterestedintheMasterofPublicAdministration(MPA) programintheDepartmentofPublicAdministrationandPolicyattheUniversityofGeorgia(UGA).The MPAprogramatUGAhasearnedanoutstandingnationalandinternationalreputationforacademic excellence.Wehaveanexceptionalfaculty,withparticularstrengthsinorganizationalanalysis,public finance,publicsectorhumanresourcesmanagement,andpublicpolicy.Weofferconcentrationsin theseandseveralotherfields,includinglocalgovernmentadministration,nonprofitadministration,and highereducationadministration.Weseekoutstandingstudentswhodesiregraduatestudyinpublic administrationtoprepareforprofessionalcareersinpublicserviceoradmissiontoadoctoralorother professionalprogram.Ourdepartmentoffersanumberofcompetitiveassistantshipsthatprovide significantstipendsandtuitionwaivers. Uponreceivingyourcompletedapplicationwithsupportingmaterialsanda$75application fee,theUGAGraduateSchoolwillforwardyourfiletoourdepartmentalGraduateCommitteeandyour applicationwillbeconsidered.Yourapplicationfilemustincludeacompletedapplicationform,official transcripts,officialGREscores,threelettersofrecommendation,andapersonalobjectivestatement. NonnativespeakersofEnglishmustalsosubmitofficialTOEFLorIELTSscores.International applicantswhowishtobeconsideredfordepartmentalteachingassistantshipsmustalsosubmitTOEFL orIELTSscores.Studentsareencouragedtoapplyforadmissionforfallenrollmentbutmayinspecial circumstancesapplyforspringandsummerterms.Thoseseekingtoapplyforassistantshipsmustapply byFebruary1.AssistantshipstypicallybegininthefallandarenormallyawardedbyApril1forthe followingacademicyear.Pleasebemindfulofthevariousdeadlinesthatmustbemetifyourfileistobe reviewedinatimelyfashion.Consultourdepartmentalwebsiteat http://padp.uga.edu/degrees_programs/prospective_applicants/formoredetailedinformationonthe applicationprocess. IfanyquestionsremainabouttheMPAprogram,pleasewrite,email,orcall.Welookforward toreceivingyourcompletedapplication,andweextendeverybestwishasyouseektofurtheryour education. Sincerely, VickyM.Wilkins AssociateProfessorand MPAProgramDirector

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Address: Department of Public Administration and Policy School of Public and International Affairs The University of Georgia 204 Baldwin Hall Athens, GA 30602-1615 Phone: (706) 542-9660 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Website: www.padp.uga.edu

Dr. J. Edward Kellough, Professor and Department Head Office: Baldwin Hall 204B Phone: (706) 542-9660 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email: kellough@uga.edu Dr. Vicky M. Wilkins, Associate Professor and MPA Program Director Office: Baldwin Hall 203C Phone: (706) 542-2648 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email: vwilkins@uga.edu Kyle Bower, Administrative Assistant Office: Baldwin Hall 204 Phone: (706) 542-9660 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email kbower@uga.edu Melody Herrington, Enrolled Student Services Coordinator Office: Baldwin Hall 104D Phone: (706) 542-3510 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email melodyh@uga.edu Heather Jensen, Business Manager Office: Baldwin Hall 204A Phone: (706) 542-1765 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email: hjensen@uga.edu Lisa Sperling, MPA, MPA Recruitment and Career Services Coordinator Office: Baldwin Hall 204C Phone: (706) 542-9583 Fax: (706) 583-0610 Email: sperling@uga.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The MPA Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National Recognition Partnership with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government MPA Advisory Council Location Tuition Libraries and Technology Assistantship Opportunities Placement 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2

Program Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Curriculum Outline Elective Courses Health Policy and Administration Higher Education Administration Local Government Administration Nonprofit Administration Public Budgeting and Finance Administration Public Management/Organization Theory Public Personnel Administration Public Policy Internship Requirement Internship/Professional Experience Paper Requirement Comprehensive Exam MPA/JD Joint Degree Program

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Academic Honesty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Admission to the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Academic Advising and Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Registration Guidelines Withdrawals Incompletes

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Public Administration and Policy Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The MPA Program in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia
The central purpose of the MPA program at the University of Georgia (UGA) is to educate students for professional careers in public service including management and policy analysis in government and nonprofit organizations. The program is open to students without previous public service experience as well as students employed in the public sector who are seeking to advance their careers. While normally a terminal professional degree, some graduates of the MPA program have entered PhD or other programs and have assumed academic careers. National Recognition Over the past several decades, UGA has become a major center of excellence for public service education. A recent study in the Journal of Public Administration Education ranked the UGA Public Administration and Policy faculty first in the nation in research published in scholarly journals associated with the American Society for Public Administration. The most recent survey from U.S. News & World Report (2010 edition) ranked the Georgia MPA program as fourth in the nation among all programs and second in the nation among programs at public colleges and universities. The program is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Partnership with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government The MPA program is co-sponsored and supported by the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government (CVIOG), a service unit of the University which conducts research and provides direct assistance to state and local government organizations throughout Georgia. Selected faculty from the CVIOG offer courses in the program on topics ranging from human resources management, to local government administration, and survey research methods. This partnership also affords students the opportunity to get involved in the work of the Institute. The MPA Advisory Council The MPA Advisory Council, composed of public service professionals from government and nonprofit organizations, helps in evaluating curriculum needs and setting standards and goals. Members of the Council also serve as important resource contacts for internship and employment opportunities. Location The University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia approximately 65 miles northeast of Atlanta. Courses for the MPA program are offered on campus in Athens and at the University of Georgia Gwinnett Campus at 2530 Sever Road, Lawrenceville, Georgia. All Gwinnett classes are offered in the evenings to accommodate working professionals and classes in Athens are offered in the late afternoons and evenings. Tuition Tuition for the MPA program is set by The University System of Georgia Board of Regents. For more information on tuition and fees, please visit: www.busfin.uga.edu/bursar.

Libraries and Technology MPA students may utilize numerous campus resources while pursuing their programs of study. The Universitys library system includes the UGA Main Library, Law Library, and Science Library. The system contains vast holdings of periodicals and reference materials, is a government depository, and ranks among the leading research libraries in the country. Our department also provides a small specialized library and state-of-the art computer technology centers to assist students in their studies. The Gwinnett Campus also houses a small library. Assistantship Opportunities The Department of Public Administration and Policy offers a number of teaching and research assistantships that carry stipends for a nine-month academic year. The Graduate School also offers competitive assistantships and faculty members occasionally hire research assistants to work on funded research projects. Recipients of assistantships automatically receive a tuition waiver, regardless of their residency status. Students receiving assistantships and meeting departmental standards of performance in their academic work are eligible for up to four semesters of support for the MPA program. The deadline for applying for an assistantship is February 1 for the following academic year. The Graduate School also provides a limited number of out-of-state tuition waivers for non-Georgia residents. The availability of these awards is announced each spring. These waivers do not automatically renew from one academic year to the next. Placement Graduates of the MPA program have obtained administrative and management positions at all levels of government and in nonprofit agencies. The MPA Career Services Coordinator assists students in the placement process. For examples of specific locations where our graduates have accepted employment, please visit our website: http://padp.uga.edu/resources/career_services. CURRICULUM A total of 41 semester hours are needed for the completion of the MPA program. A mandatory socialization sequence and five core courses introduce the student to the various fields of public administration and the economic foundations of public policy. In addition, two required courses in research methods assist students in developing a familiarity with quantitative techniques in public decision making. Students must also select six courses from a number of available elective specializations to complete their degree. The following provides an outline of the MPA curriculum: 1. MPA Socialization Sequence (2 semester hours) PADP 6980 Socialization Seminar 2. Public Management Core (15 semester hours) PADP 6910 Public Administration and Democracy PADP 6920 Public Personnel Administration PADP 6930 Public Financial Administration PADP 6950 Economic Foundations of Policy Analysis PADP 6960 Organizational Theory 3. Research Methods Sequence (6 semester hours) PADP 7110 Research Methods in Public Administration

PADP 7120 Data Applications in Public Administration 4. Electives (18 semester hours) 5. Internship and Internship/Professional Experience Paper 6. Comprehensive Examination

Elective Courses A number of elective courses are offered. A student must choose either to specialize in a single specific area of study or to complete a generalist degree. Areas of specialization include the following: Health Policy and Administration Higher Education Administration Local Government Administration Nonprofit Administration Public Budgeting and Finance Administration Public Management/Organization Theory Public Personnel Administration Public Policy

To achieve a concentration in an area of specialization, an MPA student must take four courses in that area. To complete a generalist degree, students must choose a minimum of two courses from within at least two of the specified areas of specialization. The areas of concentration are listed below. We have also provided a list of possible courses for each specialization. This list is fluid as courses are added or subtracted by our department and others. The courses listed may be available to MPA students. Courses not listed below may be taken with the approval of the Director of the MPA program. 1. Health Policy and Administration PADP 8610 Economics of Health Policy PADP 8640 Program Evaluation EHSC 7010 Fundamentals of Environmental Health Science HPAM 7010 Introduction to Health Policy and Management HPAM 7700 Public Health and Healthcare Ethics HPAM 8400 Policy and Economic Analysis in Public Health HPAM 8700 Management of Public Health Organizations HPAM 8800 Leadership in Public Health HPAM 8810 Health Policy Planning and Evaluation HPAM 8900 Special Topics in Health Administration HPRM 7070 Program Planning in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention HPRB 7270 Resource Development and Implementation in Health Promotion HPRB 7470 Program Evaluation in Health Promotion and Health Education HPRB 7500 Community Health 2. Higher Education Administration (students must take at least two classes from EDHI) PADP 7920 EEO, Affirmative Action, and Diversity

PADP 8420 Leadership in Public Service PADP 8640 Program Evaluation PADP 8670 Policy Analysis I PADP 8680 Policy Analysis II EDHI 7650 Applied Project in Higher Education EDHI 8000 History of American Higher Education EDHI 8010 Higher Education in the United States EDHI 8200 Institutional Research EDHI 8300 The Law and Higher Education EDHI 8400 Finance of Higher Education EDHI 8700 State Systems in Higher Education EDHI 9020 Critical Issues in Higher Education EDHI 9050 Organization and Governance in Higher Education EDHI 9210 Strategy and Management in Higher Education EDHI 9500 Policy Studies in Higher Education 3. Local Government Administration PADP 7500 Local Government Management PADP 7840 Budget Practicum PADP 7930 Human Services Administration PADP 8430 Public Financial Management PADP 8560 Special Topics in Urban Administration: Poverty PADP 8560 Special Topics in Urban Administration: Case Study in Seoul PADP 8580 Local Government Practicum PADP 8840 Metropolitan Fiscal Problems PADP 9200 Intergovernmental Relations PADP 9200 Economic Development Policy and Financing PADP 9200 State and Local Taxation GEOG 6370 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems GEOG 6630 Advanced Urban Geography GEOG 8630 Seminar in Urban Geography HIPR 6000 Introduction to Historic Preservation HIPR 6510 Preservation Economics/Grant Writing HIPR 6680 Community Design Charrettes 4. Nonprofit Administration PADP 7210 Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector PADP 7220 Nonprofit Governance and Management PADP 7900 Managing Volunteers in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors PADP 8210 Civil Society, Nonprofits, and Government PADP 8220 Special Topics in Nonprofit Management: Social Entrepreneurship PADP 8220 Selected Topics in Nonprofit Management: Grant Writing PADP 8220 Selected Topics in Nonprofit Management: NGOs PADP 8420 Leadership in Public Service MNPO 7060 Fundraising and Development for Nonprofit Organizations MNPO 7123 Theory and Management of Nonprofit Organizations MNPO 7423 Innovation and Change in Nonprofit Organizations 5. Public Budgeting and Finance Administration PADP 7840 Budget Practicum PADP 8430 Public Financial Management

PADP 8830 Seminar in Public Budgeting PADP 8840 Metropolitan Fiscal Problems PADP 8850 Quantitative Analysis for Public Decision-Making PADP 9200 Economic Development Policy and Financing PADP 9200 State and Local Taxation ACCT 6000 Financial Accounting 6. Public Management/Organizational Theory PADP 6490 Administrative Law PADP 7160 Survey Research Methods PADP 7360 Managing Government Performance PADP 7380 Ethics in Public Administration PADP 7900 Managing Volunteers in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors PADP 7920 EEO and Diversity PADP 7930 Human Services Administration PADP 8420 Leadership in Public Service PADP 8460 Organization Behavior PADP 8850 Quantitative Analysis for Public Decision-Making MGMT 7400 Strategic Management 7. Public Personnel Administration PADP 7900 Managing Volunteers in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors PADP 7920 EEO and Diversity PADP 8420 Leadership in Public Service PADP 8720 Seminar in Selected Problems in Public Personnel Administration: Labor Relations PADP 8720 Seminar in Selected Problems in Public Personnel Administration: Conflict Resolution MGMT 7010 Leadership Skills PSYC 6310 Industrial Psychology 8. Public Policy PADP 6490 Administrative Law PADP 7160 Survey Research Methods PADP 8620 Policy Process PADP 8630 Policy Implementation PADP 8640 Program Evaluation PADP 8650 Public Policy Seminar PADP 8670 Policy Analysis I PADP 8680 Policy Analysis II PADP 8850 Quantitative Analysis for Public Decision-Making SOWK 6011 Social Welfare Policy and the Social Work Profession SOWK 7106 Evaluation of Community and Institutional Practices SOWK 7206 Evaluation of Family-Centered Social Work Intervention SOWK 7411 Advanced Policy Analysis SOWK 8166 Qualitative Methods in Social Work Independent Study courses are available for content not offered through a regularly scheduled course. The use of Independent Study courses to fulfill elective requirements is limited and permitted at the discretion of the MPA Program Director. To request enrollment in an Independent Study course, students must download and complete the appropriate form from the

website and obtain signatures of the course instructor and the MPA Program Director: http://padp.uga.edu/resources/forms. Internship Requirement Before graduating, the student must complete a public service internship and submit a paper on the experience. Internships must be completed at a public sector government agency or nonprofit organization that is non-partisan and non-sectarian in scope. This requirement helps to ensure that the degree candidate can perform responsibly and proficiently at a professional or managerial level. Additionally, the internship provides students with an experiential basis for linking their course work to their future careers as public service professionals. Students must intern for a minimum of 300 hours at the same agency. Students will not receive course credit for completing an internship and cannot count as an internship any experience for which they received course credit. Students have completed internships in a wide variety of federal, state, and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations. For examples of specific locations, please visit our website: http://padp.uga.edu/resources/career_services. Students with prior successful experience in a position at a professional or managerial level at a government agency or nonprofit may seek a waiver from the internship requirement. Students desiring such an exemption should complete the Internship Waiver Form (http://padp.uga.edu/resources/forms) and submit it to the MPA Program Director, justifying the waiver. The Program Director will decide whether the applicants experience meets departmental requirements. Exemption from the internship does not, however, eliminate the requirement of an internship/professional experience paper (see below). Students who must complete an internship should consult with the MPA Career Services Coordinator, who will assist the student in arranging to satisfy the requirement. Internship/Professional Experience Paper Requirement After the internship work requirement has been completed or waived, students must submit a paper describing their internship/professional experience and relating their course work to that experience. The paper provides an opportunity for the student to demonstrate both analytical ability and writing skills, and should consist of three parts: 1. a description of the students work, including tasks performed, responsibilities assigned, and projects attempted; 2. a comparison of what the student learned from his or her work with what was learned in course work; 3. and a statement of the students conclusions about the efficacy of the MPA program, and any recommendations to improve it. The paper should be approximately 15-20 pages in length. A hard copy of the paper must be delivered to the MPA Program Director two weeks after the MPA Comprehensive Examination in fall and spring semesters and one week following the comprehensive exam for the summer term. Fax or email submissions will not be accepted. Comprehensive Examination A comprehensive examination, administered during the students last semester, provides students with an opportunity to display an understanding of the discipline of Public Administration. Students must be able to integrate all course work into their answers. The comprehensive examination may not be taken prior to the last semester of course work.

The MPA comprehensive examination is given once each semester and during the summer. Students should apply to take the examination in advance, normally during the first two weeks of the semester/term in which they desire to take the examination. The exam will be taken in a Departmental Computer Lab unless other arrangements are made beforehand with the MPA Program Director. Each exam will be graded by two professors, and the students answers will be assigned one of three grades: pass with distinction, pass, or fail. Students failing the MPA comprehensive examination on the first attempt may retake it a second and final time. The examination is three hours in length. It is usually given on the tenth Friday of each semester, counting from the first full week of classes, and on the fourth Friday of the Summer thru-session. MPA/JD Joint Degree Program A joint MPA/JD degree is available through the Department of Public Administration and Policy and the School of Law. Students must meet the admissions requirements of both academic units to enroll. The joint program allows a student to earn both degrees in four years, eliminating approximately one year of academic work. Applicants must take both the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) to be considered for admission. The typical student admitted to the joint program takes the first year in either the MPA program or the Law School and the second year in the other academic unit. In their third year, students take classes primarily in the Law School. The fourth year students finish up their requirements in both academic units. If a MPA/JD student is on assistantship with the Department of Public Administration and Policy, s/he is eligible to receive the tuition waiver benefit for the two academic years in which s/he is enrolled in MPA coursework. In order to do so, however, the student must register in OASIS under the Graduate program level, rather than the Undergraduate/Professional program level, even if s/he is enrolled in one or more law school courses. This applies up to and includes the summer term following the last year of MPA coursework. A MPA/JD student may not receive a tuition waiver for terms in which s/he is enrolled in law school courses only. During these terms the student must choose the Undergraduate/Professional program level and pay the law school tuition. ACADEMIC HONESTY The Department of Public Administration and Policy expects all students to follow UGA regulations on academic honesty. All academic work must be performed without plagiarism, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, or receiving unauthorized or illegitimate assistance. Details on the University policy on academic honesty are located at www.uga.edu/honesty. ADMISSION TO THE PROGRAM To be considered for admission to the MPA program, students must hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and must demonstrate potential for excellence in the study of public administration and policy. MPA students come from diverse backgrounds and fields of study. Visit the MPA student profiles section of our departmental website for more information (http://padp.uga.edu/people/grad_students/mpa_students). Application deadlines for students from the United States are July 1 for fall semester and November 15 for spring semester. International applicants must apply by April 15 for fall semester and October 15 for spring semester.

Please note that some application materials must be sent to the UGA Graduate School and other materials must be mailed directly to the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Misdirected application materials will slow the application process. Please follow the steps outlined below. For further details, please consult our website at http://padp.uga.edu/degrees_programs/prospective_applicants. 1. Complete the online application located at the UGA Graduate School website at www.applyweb.com/apply/ugagrad/ and pay the required application fee, which is $75 for domestic applicants and $100 for international applicants. 2. Send the materials listed below to the UGA Graduate School: Office of Graduate Admissions The University of Georgia 320 E. Clayton Street Suite 400 Athens, GA 30602-4401 Allow 10-14 days for receipt and processing of these materials by the Graduate School Admissions Office, which are then forwarded to the department. Official Transcripts - Send two official transcripts from all institutions attended even if no degree was conferred and/or credits are listed on other transcripts. Official Test Scores - The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is required of all applicants. For more information on the GRE, including how to register for the test, visit www.ets.org/gre.Additional requirements for international applicants can be found on the Graduate School website at www.uga.edu/gradschool/admissions/int_supplements.html. 3. Send remaining materials to the Department of Public Administration and Policy: Department of Public Administration and Policy Attn: Admissions Office 204 Baldwin Hall The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-1615 Statement of Purpose Personal Objective Form Three Reference Forms/Letters of Recommendation (It is highly recommended that you submit these online.) Assistantship Application Resume The Forms referenced above are available at http://padp.uga.edu/degrees_programs/prospective_applicants. The Department of Public Administration and Policy Graduate Committee reviews all completed applications and makes decisions regarding admissions. Applicants receive official written notification of admissions decisions from the UGA Graduate School. New student

orientation sessions are held prior to the beginning of each academic term and attendance is mandatory. ACADEMIC ADVISING AND REGISTRATION New students receive academic advising during the orientation period at the beginning of their first term. Continuing students are advised typically during October and March of each academic year. Online registration using the UGA OASIS system occurs after advising. Registration Guidelines The Graduate School enforces the following registration guidelines: Students who receive an assistantship and/or a tuition waiver must register for a minimum of 12 hours in the fall and spring. Such students who choose to enroll during the summer and maintain the waiver must register for at least nine hours. Students must be registered for at least three hours during the term in which they complete degree requirements. Students pursuing graduate degrees at UGA must maintain continuous enrollment from matriculation until completion of all degree requirements. Continuous enrollment is defined as registering for a minimum of three credits in at least two semesters per year (Fall, Spring, Summer) until the degree is attained. Students may apply for a leave of absence for well-documented causes that interfere with the ability to undertake graduate study. An approved leave of absence stands in lieu of registering for the minimum of three credits for each semester for which the leave of absence is granted. Students who fail to achieve continuous enrollment, or apply for a leave of absence, will become "inactive", and must reapply for admission. If it becomes necessary to add a class after the established deadline for registration, the MPA Program Director may approve a request for late registration within a reasonable amount of time. Specific guidelines for this process are available at www.bursar.uga.edu/late%20add.pdf .

Withdrawals Students who are considering withdrawal from a class after the established dates for registration should first discuss that decision with their instructor. Withdrawal is initiated through the OASIS system. To receive a grade of W, a student must withdraw before the midpoint of the semester; all withdrawals after that point receive grades of WF. The instructor retains the prerogative of assigning a WF for withdrawals that occur at any point. Incompletes Under certain circumstances, an instructor may decide to grant a student an Incomplete in a course, which puts a hold on the course grade until the student completes the required coursework. When an Incomplete is granted, the student has a maximum of three terms (one year) in which to satisfy the requirements and convert the grade. If the grade is not converted after three terms, it automatically converts to an F. All Incompletes must be converted before graduation.

FACULTY
The faculty of the department of Public Administration and Policy includes scholars of national and international repute in public administration and policy analysis. Barry Bozeman, Regents' Professor and Ander Crenshaw Chair of Public Policy (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1973). Bozeman's research focuses on public management and organization theory, science and technology policy, and higher education policy. Before joining the University of Georgia, he was Regent's Professor of Public Policy and founding Director of Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy (1993-2003). From 1978-1993, he was on the faculty of the Maxwell School, Syracuse University and was founding director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy. Bozeman's practitioner experience includes positions at the National Science Foundation's Division of Information Technology and Japan's National Institute for Science and Technology Policy. Bozeman has served as a consultant to, among others, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the United Nations, the National Academy of Science and the Institute of Medicine. He has served as a science policy adviser to the national planning or policy organizations of France, Canada, Israel, Finland, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, and Japan, among others. Currently, he serves on the scientific council of L'Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation et Socit (IFRIS), the French university consortium supporting research on innovation. He is also research evaluation advisor to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Bozeman's research has been supported by grants and contracts from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His most recent book is Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism (Georgetown University Press, 2007). Email: bbozeman@uga.edu. W. David Bradford, Busbee Chair in Public Policy (Ph.D., Economics, Louisiana State University, 1991). He was formerly the Director and founder of the Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and has been a visiting faculty member at Yale Medical School and a tenured faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Bradford has numerous publications (both in peer-reviewed outlets and in book chapters) and professional presentations and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Economics Letters. He is also on the editorial board for the journal Health Economics, serves on the editorial board of the newsletter of the American Society of Health Economists, and is on the oversight boards for both the American Health Economics Conference and the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Health Economics Association. Dr. Bradford has significant experience with funded research, serving or having served as Principal Investigator on 19 extramurally funded research projects, and is currently a permanent member of the Health Services Organization and Delivery study section for the National Institutes of Health. A significant component of Dr. Bradford's current research involves the role of time preferences on health care related decisions. This includes several projects that assess time preferences of individuals and determines the effect of those time preferences on the demand for preventative health care. His other primary current research area involves evaluating the impact of FDA regulatory action, direct to consumer advertising (DTC), and other public information on the market for prescription pharmaceuticals. These NIH-funded projects assess how FDA influence on drug labels, warnings to clinicians, and DTC for various drug classes impact social welfare, treatment adherence, and health outcomes. Email: bradfowd@uga.edu. Gene A. Brewer, Adjunct Professor (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2001), is an internationally recognized public management scholar who publishes in the top-ranked journals in the field. His current research interests include public sector reform, policy implementation, governmental performance improvement, comparative administration, and bureaucratic accountability in democratic political systems. He is currently the case editor of Public Administration Review and a consultant and advisor on several domestic and international research projects and consortiums. Dr. Brewer has more than thirty-five years of work experience in the public and nonprofit sectors and regularly lectures, consults and conducts research in the United States and internationally on a wide range of topics related to public administration, management, and the policy process. He is Visiting Professor of Public Management at Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands; an International Scholar at the Georgian Institute of Public Administration in Tbilisi the Republic of Georgia; and an Overseas Advisor for the Advanced Institute of Management Research at Cardiff University in Wales (UK). In addition, Dr. Brewer is the North American Vice President of the International Research Society for Public Management. He recently co-edited Public Service Performance: Research Directions (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Email: cmsbrew@uga.edu. Deborah A. Carroll, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004), specializes in public financial management. Her research focuses on state and local government taxation and revenue structures, as well as the fiscal implications for state and local governments of the nonprofit sector. Dr. Carroll currently serves on the editorial board for Urban Affairs Review. Her research appears in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, and Urban Affairs Review among other journals. Dr. Carroll teaches public financial administration, public financial management, data applications, and special topics courses on state and local taxation and economic development. Email: dcarroll@uga.edu.

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Robert K. Christensen, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2007), specializes in public management, law, and nonprofit studies. At the institutional level, he is interested in courts and the relationship between courts and public/nonprofit agencies. At the behavioral level, he is interested in the impact of anti- and pro-social attitudes/actions on public and nonprofit work groups and organizations. His work appears in such journals as The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, International Public Management Journal, and Administration & Society. Email: rc@uga.edu Delmer D. Dunn, Vice President for Instruction and Regents Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1967), specializes in American government and public administration. His book, Politics and Administration at the Top: Lessons from Down Under (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), won the Charles H. Levine Book Prize, given by the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association, for the best book in the fields of public policy and administration. His research has appeared in several journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Social Science Quarterly, and others. His current research interest focuses on accountability and responsibility of the public service in democratic countries. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, a Research Associate at The Brookings Institution, Director of the Institute of Higher Education, and Director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Email: ddunn@uga.edu. Angela Fertig, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Brown University, 2001), specializes in health policy and economics. She formerly held a joint appointment with UGA's College of Public Health and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Prior to joining the UGA faculty, she was an assistant professor of economics at Indiana University in Bloomington and a post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University. Her research focuses on issues related to maternal and child health and the connection between health and economic status. Current projects include studying prenatal smoking and alcohol exposure, mental health and socioeconomic status, and the impact of homelessness on health. Her research has been published in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Economics of the Household, Social Service Review, among others. She teaches courses in health policy, health economics, introductory microeconomics, and statistics. Email: afertig@uga.edu. Chao Guo, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003), specializes in nonprofit sector studies. His research interests focus on the community and democratic role of nonprofit organizations and, more specifically, representation in nonprofit organizations. He also conducts research on nonprofit governance, collaboration within and across sectors, social entrepreneurship, and volunteerism. His research has appeared in such journals as Administration and Society, American Review of Public Administration, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Policy Forum, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Performance and Management Review, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. He currently serves on the editorial board of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He has lectured in China and Singapore. Email: cguo@uga.edu. Yilin Hou, Stanley W. Shelton Professor of Public Finance (Ph.D., Syracuse, 2002), specializes in public finance and budgeting. His research has focused on budgetary and fiscal institutions, state and local taxation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and intellectual development of public budgeting and governance capacity. In particular his research has focused on how government can better weather revenue fluctuations due from economic cycles in order to smooth public service provision. This line of research has extended into explorations of balanced budget requirements and into the revenue side taxes and intergovernmental grants for their effects on the stability of service provision during downturns. In the past few years he conducted a joint international project to examine the inter-governmental fiscal relations in a large transitional country. His research appears in Public Choice, Public Finance Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, among other journals. He teaches core as well as elective courses: 6930 Public Financial Administration, 8840 Metropolitan Fiscal Problems (Public Finance), and 8830 Budgeting Seminar. Email: yihou@uga.edu. J. Edward Kellough, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Administration and Policy (Ph.D., Miami 1987), specializes in public personnel management. Dr. Kellough has been a member of the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and a member of the NASPAA Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Section on Public Administration of the American Political Science Association and is a past Chair of that Section. His most recent books include Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice (Georgetown University Press, 2007); The New Public Personnel Administration, sixth edition, with Lloyd G. Nigro and Felix A. Nigro (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007); and Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the SubNational Level, edited with Lloyd G. Nigro (State University of New York Press, 2006). His research has appeared in Public Administration Review, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, The Review of Public Personnel Administration, The American Review of Public Administration, Public Personnel Management, Social Science Quarterly, The American Journal of Political Science and many other journals. He has lectured or made

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presentations in Australia, China, Denmark, The Republic of Georgia, The Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Ukraine, The United Arab Emirates, and other countries. Email: kellough@uga.edu. Thomas P. Lauth, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse, 1976), specializes in public budgeting and finance. Dean Lauth was Head of the Department of Political Science from 1988 until 2001, interim dean of SPIA 2001-02, and was appointed dean of SPIA in 2002. He was president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and served as chair of the NASPAA Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and the recipient of a lifetime scholarly achievement award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. He is the coauthor of Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (1982), and The Politics of State and City Administration (1986); and the coeditor of Governors, Legislatures, and Budgets: Diversity Across the American States (1991), and Budgeting in the States: Institutions, Processes, and Politics (2006). His research has appeared in Administration and Society, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Productivity Review and numerous other journals. He has lectured in China, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Ukraine. Email: tplauth@uga.edu. Jerome S. Legge, Jr., Associate Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, Professor (Ph.D., Emory, 1975). His most important works are Abortion Policy: An Evaluation of the Consequences for Maternal and Infant Health (SUNY, 1985), Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain (Pittsburgh, 1991), and Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers: The Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). His primary current interests are in the areas of immigration policy, ethnic politics, comparative privatization with an emphasis on Europe, and on the attitudes of Europeans toward genetically modified foods. His articles have been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Administration and Society, Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Review, Social Science Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and numerous other journals. Dr. Legge has taught or lectured in Estonia, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, China, and Canada. Email: jlegge@uga.edu. Laurence J. OToole, Jr., Margaret Hughes and Robert T. Golembiewski Professor of Public Administration (Ph.D., Syracuse, 1975) and also Distinguished Research Professor. He specializes in public administration, public management, policy implementation, and intergovernmental relations. He has worked at the International Institute of Management in Berlin, Germany, and has conducted research for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Kingdoms Economic and Social Research Council, the Danish Council for Strategic Research, and the European Commission. He is author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Implementation Theory and Practice, American Intergovernmental Relations, Advancing Public Management, Bureaucracy in a Democratic State, and Public Management: Organizations, Governance, and Performance. His articles have been published in Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration (UK), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Journal, Governance, American Journal of Political Science, and European Journal of Political Research, as well as many other journals. He is recipient of the Burchfield, Levine, Mosher, and Waldo awards from the American Society for Public Administration, as well as the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government. He is past president of the Public Management Research Association and serves on the editorial boards of eight journals. Email cmsotool@uga.edu. Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor and Director of the PhD Program (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1978), teaches public administration and organizational theory and behavior, and conducts research on those topics. His book, Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, is in its 4th edition, and in Chinese and Russian editions. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He received the Charles Levine Award for Excellence in Public Administration, conferred jointly by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. In 2009 he received ASPAs Dwight Waldo Award for career contributions to scholarship in public administration. He is the 2011 recipient of the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association, that honors the recipients lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint traditions of political science and public administration. His research has appeared in such journals as Administration & Society, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and Social Science Quarterly. Email: hgrainey@uga.edu. Jeffrey B. Wenger, Associate Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina, 2000) specializes in public policy analysis. His current research examines the labor market effects of unemployment insurance, social security, and welfare policy, the role of pensions on retirement savings decisions, and the use of proxy reporting on wage measurement. He is currently writing a book with Dr. Vicky Wilkins on how deservingness shapes social policy and the extent that notions of desert comprise a fundamentally flawed bases for policy making. His work has been published in Journal of Policy Analysis

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& Management, Health Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and The Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Wenger was a research economist for the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC. He teaches econometrics, policy analysis, and micro-economics. Email: jwenger@uga.edu. Andrew Whitford, Professor (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1997), specializes in public management, public policy, and research methodology. His papers have appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, World Development, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the American Journal of Political Science, and the British Journal of Political Science, among others. His recent book is Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda: Constructing the War on Drugs, on Johns Hopkins University Press. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, a Rotary International Scholar in Singapore, and Hallsworth Visiting Professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Email: aw@uga.edu. Joseph W. Whorton, Jr., Director of the Fanning Institute and Associate Professor (Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany, 1980), specializes in public administration, local government policy, and policy related to poverty and the economy. He is the author of Measuring Community Performance. His articles have been published in Public Administration Review, Social Indicators Research, Academy of Management Review, and other journals. Email: jwhorton@uga.edu. Vicky M. Wilkins, Associate Professor and MPA Program Director (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2004), specializes in public personnel administration. She teaches Public Administration and Democracy, Public Personnel Administration, and several personnel electives. She also leads the study abroad program to Seoul, South Korea. Her research interests include representative bureaucracy; bureaucratic discretion; gender and race issues; political institutions and human resource management. She is particularly interested in understanding the impact that female and minority bureaucrats have on the implementation of policies in public organizations. Her research appears in the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Administration & Society, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Email: vwilkins@uga.edu. Brian N. Williams, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Georgia, 1995), specializes in public administration and local law enforcement. His research interests explore issues related to race, policing, and the co-production of public safety and public order. His research has appeared in leading journals in the fields of public administration, education, community psychology, and police studies, including Administration & Society, Journal of Community Psychology, Police Quarterly, Policy Sciences, Public Administration Review, and Teachers College Record, and in book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and governmental reports. He is the author of Citizen Perspectives on Community Policing: A Case Study in Athens, Georgia (State University of New York Press), and currently serves on editorial board of the Journal of Public Management & Social Policy. He has served as a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of the Professoriate, on the editorial board of Police Quarterly and as a reviewer for other academic journals, including Justice System Quarterly, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Administration Review, Crime & Delinquency, Political Research Quarterly, and Qualitative Sociology. Email: bnwillia@uga.edu.

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