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Journal Refereeing, Appointments, and Other Professional Activities
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

AYSPS faculty and research associates edited or co-edited 13 journals, served on advisory boards for 35 journals, and refereed for over 124 different journals. They served the profession with membership on numerous advisory and executive boards, and with peer reviewing of programs and faculty. They also served the public with numerous assignments on boards of directors and advisory councils to public and private agencies.

Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty

James Alm is Editor of Public Finance Review and Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry and Review of Economics of the Household.

Gary T. Henry is Editor-in-Chief for New Directions for Evaluation.

Julie L. Hotchkiss is Co-Editor of Southern Economic Journal and Associate Editor of Eastern Economic Journal.

Bruce Kaufman is Co-Editor of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (annual research volume).

Michael Rushton is Guest Editor of Public Finance and Management, symposium on “Culture and Public Finance.”

John Clayton Thomas is Editor of The American Review of Public Administration and Associate Editor of The Journal of Urban Affairs.

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Management and Associate Editor of The Review of Policy Research.

Yongsheng Xu is Guest Editor for Mathematical Social Sciences.

Other Professional Activities

James Alm

served as a referee for Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, Economica, European Economic Review, Fiscal Studies, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Finance Review, Review of Economics of the Household, State and Local Government Review, and the National Science Foundation.

, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Sally Wallace organized a conference on "The Hard to Tax: An International Perspective," held at Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain, Ga., May 2003.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Roy Bahl

is Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Economics.

served on the Editorial Boards of Cityscape: Journal of Policy Development and Research, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, and the American Review of Public Administration.

served as referee for the American Review of Public Administration, Growth and Change, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Publius, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Asian Economics, Public Finance Review, Scottish Journal of Political Science and Urban Studies, and was a World Bank peer reviewer.

served as a Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, and as a member of the Project Advisory Committee on International Commerce (PACIC).

served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky.

served as Faculty Associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., and on the Board of Directors, Lincoln Foundation and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taiwan.

served on the Advisory Council for the Ph.D. Program in Fiscal Studies, Lyceum of the Philippines, Manila.

was appointed an external examiner in the Applied Economics Programme at the University of Mauritius.

served on the Board of Directors and as Secretary of the American Foundation for the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Inc.

served as co-Project Director of a comprehensive review of Jamaica’s tax system.

is Honorary Professor at the School of Public Management and Administration, University of Pretoria.

served as Chair of the Finance Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs.

Grant Black**

served as consultant to the National Academy of Sciences for the Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program.

participated in the Scientific Workforce Project, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Jameson Boex**

served as a referee for the Journal of Economic Education and Public Finance and Management.

Richard Charles

continued to provide consulting services and assistance to several domestic and international aviation firms including Rockwell-Collins, Sagem, Lockheed-Martin, and others.

provided assistance for a start-up cargo airline project in Atlanta. Afra Air Cargo will be the first cargo airline in the world to provide regular scheduled non-stop service between the U.S. and the African continent. Operations are scheduled to begin in February 2004.

Marco Castillo

served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Ronald G. Cummings

served on the Editorial/Advisory Boards for Environmental and Development Economics and Natural Resources Journal.

served as referee for Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Land Economics, and Environmental and Development Economics.

Kelly Edmiston

served as referee for the National Tax Journal and the Journal of Regional Science.

Robert Eger III

served as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Public Policy.

served as the National Treasurer and Conference Coordinator for the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.

served as Board Member and Treasurer for Public Financial Publications, Inc.

served on the Advisory Committee and Transportation Workshop Planning Committee for the Midwestern Regional University Transportation Center (Region V DOTs).

served as referee for Public Budgeting and Finance, International Journal of Public Administration, and Congressional Quarterly.

reviewed Property Taxation and Local Government Finance, Wallace E. Oates (ed.), Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, for The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2003.

Paul G. Farnham

was a member of the review panel for applications for the Steven Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 2003.

served as a referee for Evaluation and Program Planning and Journal of Urban Health.

Paul Ferraro

served as a referee for Oryx, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Land Economics, World Development, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

was the invited reviewer of two chapters in the Response Options volume of the report for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project, a $21 million comprehensive review of the state and management of the planet's ecological resources.

served as advisor to a Chinese research team engaged in EEPSA-funded project, “Evaluation of an environmental program using experimental economics methodologies: Case study of the Land Conversion Program (LCP) in Yangtze River basin of China.”

was one of a dozen scientists, each representing a different discipline, invited to participate in a workshop sponsored by the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). The workshop was organized to develop an international program of research on the human dimensions of biodiversity, National Academies, Washington, D.C., October 5-6, 2003.

advised Conservation International on establishing a research agenda on the costs of compensating communities for regulatory takings of local ecosystems.

advised the Doris Duke Foundation on incorporating research on direct payments into their funding portfolio (specifically, the establishment of a global network of “experts”).

met with Arthur M. Blank Foundation representatives to discuss the future of environmental research in Georgia.

Atef Ghobrial

served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Air Transport and Civil Aviation Magazine, the latter published by the Ministry of Aviation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

served as a referee for the Journal of Aeronautical and Aerospace Education and Research (JAAER) and Transportation Research.

Shiferaw Gurmu

served on the Board of Editors of the Atlantic Economic Journal.

served as a referee for the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometrics Journal, and Atlantic Economic Journal.

Carol D. Hansen

served as referee for the Academy of Management Journal, Cutting Edge, Human Resource Development Review, International Human Resource Development Journal, and the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference.

Amy Helling

served on the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council, Division on Engineering and the Physical Sciences, attending board meetings in Irvine, Calif., March 2003; Woods Hole, Mass., June 2003; and Washington, D.C., November 2003. She also reviewed reports for the National Research Council.

served as a referee for the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of the American Planning Association, Policy Studies Review, and Social Science Research.

reviewed proposals to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

served as a reviewer of papers for the Transportation Research Board annual conference.

Laura W. Henderson

served on the Georgia Early Childhood Comprehensive System Enhancement Initiative, Early Child Care and Education Work Group, 2003-2004. The purpose of the initiative is to support State Maternal and Child Health Agencies and their partner agencies and organizations as they work together to develop a more comprehensive early childhood system.

Gary T. Henry

served as a Board Member for the American Journal of Evaluation.

served on the Evaluation Checklists Editorial Board for the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University.

served as referee for American Journal of Evaluation, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economics of Education Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Journal of Politics.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Monica Herk

convened a work group and developed a concept paper to bring a Building Strong Families marriage support site to Georgia. Building Strong Families is a project to evaluate the effectiveness of programs that are designed to improve child well-being by helping unwed parents interested in marriage to enter and sustain healthy marriages. It also aims to help couples not interested in marriage to maintain positive relationships that benefit their children. As a result of Dr. Herk’s advocacy, the Governor’s Office supports GSU’s effort to bring a Building Strong Families site to Georgia.

worked together with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget to attempt to link administrative data sets held by the Georgia Department of Labor and the Georgia Division of Public Health. The linked data set will allow GSU economists to explore the effect on women’s lifetime wages and earnings of a teen birth.

represented Georgia State University at the Consortium of Programs in Child and Family Policy, Durham, N.C., December 4-5, 2003.

Julie L. Hotchkiss

served as referee for Kluwer Press, the Environmental Protection Agency (through Environomics), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Human Resources, and Eastern Economic Journal.

served as Member on the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, and Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Bill Kahnweiler

served as Co-chair of The American Society for Training and Development’s Dissertation of the Year Award Expert Review Panel.

served as referee for International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Organization Development Journal, and Human Resource Development Quarterly.

served as book manuscript reviewer for Berrett-Koehler Publishers and MCB University Press.

served on the Research Committee of the American Society for Training and Development, which works to bridge the interests of human resource development researchers and practitioners. He also served as an expert reviewer for the American Society for Training and Development’s Year 2003 Excellence in Practice Awards. He evaluated candidates in the change management category.

served as Chair of the Research Committee of The Organization Development Institute.

Bruce Kaufman

served as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Labor Research, and Human Resource Management Review.

served as Meeting Organizer for the Annual Meeting of the “IR Theory and IR as a Field” Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

served as Symposium Organizer, “What Do Unions Do? The Evidence Twenty Years Later,” 22 papers to be published in the Journal of Labor Research.

served as referee for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Social Economics, Labor Studies Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Labor Research, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Human Resource Management Review.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Susan K. Laury

served as referee for American Economic Review and Journal of Public Economics.

Lyle Letteer

authored a Safety Management Program adopted by the U.S. Air Force that is used throughout the United States.

served on the M.S. thesis committees for three students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and as Center Academic Advisor for ERAU.

Gregory B. Lewis

served as Editorial Board Member for the American Review of Public Administration and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

served as referee for Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and State and Local Government Review.

Deon Locklin

was appointed to the Research Committee of the Bobby Dodd Institute in Atlanta.

served on the National Rehabilitation Leadership Institute Advisory Board, an executive leadership development initiative sponsored by San Diego State University and George Washington University.

and Chip Kenney served on the Planning and Evaluation Committee for the mid-year national conference of the Consortium of Administrators of Native American Rehabilitation.

in affiliation with Dale Verstegen of the University of Tennessee, provided technical assistance to the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department Training Centers.

completed a qualitative research project for the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, “The Adoption and Implementation of Servant Leadership as a Guiding Philosophy.”

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

served as Editorial Board Member for Public Budgeting and Finance.

served as Visiting Fellow, 2003-2004, at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Ministry of Finance, Spain.

served as Visiting Professor at the Economics Department Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

served as referee for Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, IMF Staff Papers, World Bank Peer Reviewer, Southern Economic Journal, National Tax Journal, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Comparative Economic Studies, Economics of Governance, and Finance India.

see also James Alm.

Mikhail I. Melnik**

served as reviewer of Economics for Management by R.J. Michaels for Thomson Higher Education Publishing, 2003.

served as reviewer of Public Finance by Jonathan Gruber for Worth Publishers, 2003.

Wasseem Mina**

was a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund Institute, May-June 2003.

Karen Minyard

is a Founding Member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Community Health Leadership Network, an organization working to achieve no less than every community offering 100 percent access to quality health care resulting in zero health disparities.

served on the review panel for FY 2003 Rural Health Network Development Grants, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) Objective Review Committee, Washington, D.C., January 28-30, 2003.

Robert E. Moore

served as Member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, International Economics and Finance Society, and the Economic Development Association.

served as referee for the Southern Economic Journal.

Harvey K. Newman

served as Editorial Board Member of Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.

served as referee of Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, Economic Development Quarterly, and Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.

served as Institutional Representative to the Urban Affairs Association.

received appointment to faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as Director of the Faith and the City Program.

wrote a book review of The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate, by Oliver Gillham, Washington: Island Press, for Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 22, pp. 435-6, Summer 2003.

wrote a book review of Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979, by Christopher MacGregor Scribner, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, for Business History Review, pp. 135-6, Spring 2003.

Lloyd G. Nigro

served on the Editorial Boards of Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Review of Policy Research, and International Journal of Public Administration.

served as Chair for the Gaus Award Selection Committee, American Political Science Association, and as Chair for the Section on Public Administration, APSA.

served as referee for Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and American Review of Public Administration.

Judith M. Ottoson

served as Board Member on the American Evaluation Association membership committee.

served on the Council of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association.

was nominated by local affiliates of the American Evaluation Association to serve as part of a steering committee to liase with the national association in planning an affiliate collaboration.

served as conference organizer, and wrote a proposal to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on behalf of the affiliates of the American Evaluation Association to structure the relationship among the affiliates and between the affiliates and the AEA. Proposal currently is under review.

consulted with SRI International on an evaluation logic model for evaluation of National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2003.

Ragan Petrie

served as referee for Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, National Science Foundation, and Southern Economic Journal.

Theodore H. Poister

served on the Editorial Boards of Public Productivity and Management Review and Public Works Management and Policy.

conducted a national survey for the Transportation Research Board on strategic planning and decision making in state departments of transportation.

served as referee for and reviewed numerous manuscripts for Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Transportation Research Record, and State and Local Government Review.

presented two-day professional development programs on performance measurement in the public and nonprofit sectors for the Evaluator’s Institutes conducted in San Francisco (January 2003) and Washington, D.C. (July 2003), as well as a four-day professional development program on statistics for program evaluators at the Evaluator’s Institute in Washington, D.C. (July 2003).

served on an experts' panel providing guidance to a research team that is examining the relationship between strategic planning and asset management in state departments of transportation, Transportation Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago.

served as Chair of the committee to select the 2003 winner of the Wholey Award presented by the Center for Accountability and Performance of ASPA.

Mark Rider

served as referee for the National Tax Journal.

Felix Rioja

served as referee for Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics.

Mark D. Rivera

served as Assessment Project Director of GSU’s local government manager professional assessment and reporting activities on behalf of the International City/County Management Association. Participants have included approximately 1,800 City and County Managers from across the nation and assessments developed through this partnership include the Applied Knowledge Assessment and Performance-Based Assessment.

served as the newsletter Editor for the Atlanta Area Evaluation Association.

Christine H. Roch

served as a referee for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Michael Rushton

served as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics.

served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

served as referee for the Journal of Cultural Economics, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Public Budgeting and Finance, and Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council of Canada.

wrote a review of “Creative Destruction” by Tyler Cowen, for Journal of Cultural Economics, forthcoming.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Bruce A. Seaman

served as referee for The Journal of Socio-Economics and Journal of Cultural Economics.

served as External Reviewer for a grant application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

served as Immediate-Past President of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, 2002-2004; as Executive Board Member of the Association for Cultural Economics, International; and participated in an international meeting of the Executive Board, Bruges, Belgium, June 2003.

served as Member of a Planning Committee for the 2003 Wichita Workshop on an Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties, National Tax Association.

was invited to be listed as an Expert in several areas of cultural economics on the “Cultural Commons” Web page of the Center for Arts and Culture, Washington, D.C.

wrote The Economic Impact of the New World of Coca-Cola and The Georgia Aquarium, in cooperation with Coca-Cola, Inc., the Marcus Foundation, and The Georgia Aquarium Foundation.

Sally Siewert

sponsored the New Supervisors Institute, a three-part program for new field supervisors in state vocational rehabilitation agencies throughout the southeast; 20 participants completed the program in August 2003.

sponsored a Tennessee New Supervisors Institute, a three-part program for new field supervisors of the Tennessee Division of Rehabilitation Services; 16 participants completed the program in March 2003.

coordinated an Organizational Leadership Program, a three-part program for emerging leaders in the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department.

sponsored an Organizational Leadership Program for the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Kentucky Department for the Blind, targeting emerging leaders within these two state agencies.

David L. Sjoquist

served as a Member of the Board of Editors at the National Tax Journal.

served as referee for Journal of Urban Economics, National Tax Journal, and Journal of Economic Education.

Tina Anderson Smith

developed national technical assistance strategies for reforming local and state health systems in partnership with federal agency representatives, national organizations and experts such as HRSA, the Access Project at Brandeis University, United Way, the International Association of City and County Managers, National Association of Counties, and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

was a Founding Member of Communities Joined in Action, an organization working to improve local health systems and creating a healthcare system whereby 100% of the population has access to healthcare with zero disparities.

Charlotte Steeh

served as referee for Public Opinion Quarterly and American Journal of Sociology.

Paula Stephan

was the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Professor Award at Georgia State University.

was member of the Scientific Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research; Social, Behavioral and Economics Advisory Committee with the National Science Foundation, 2001-2004; and Academic Advisory Board of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO).

served as referee for Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Labor Economics, Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, Economics of Education Review, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Max Plank Institute, and Managerial and Decision Economics.

served as referee for the National Research Council (two reports), National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators, and grant proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation.

Gregory Streib

served as referee for Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Sage Publications and Wadsworth Publishing.

Laura O. Taylor

served as Board Member on the Board of Directors, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

served as Editorial Council Member of Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Erdal Tekin

served as referee for Review of Economics of the Household.

John Clayton Thomas

served as referee for Public Administration Review, State and Local Government Review, and Urban Affairs Review.

served as Member of the Governing Board, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public Administration.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Benno Torgler

served as referee for Journal of Socio-Economics, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, and Kyklos (book reviews).

wrote a review of Political Extremism and Rationality, Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe (eds.), for KYKLOS, Vol. 56, pp. 112-115, 2003.

Geoffrey Turnbull

served as Editorial Board Member for Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance, and Economics and Real Estate Economics.

served as referee for Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, Economics Letters, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Finance Review, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.

organized a conference on “Current Research in Urban and Real Estate Economics,” Urban and Regional Analysis Group, Georgia State University, September 19, 2003.

Neven Valev

served as referee for Review of Economics and Statistics and Comparative Economic Studies.

David M. Van Slyke

served as referee for Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Policy Studies Review, and International Journal of Public Administration.

served as Best Book Award Chair for the 2004 Annual Conference of the Public/Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.

served on the 2003 Best Paper Committee and the 2003 Best Conference Paper Committee for the 2003 Academy of Management Annual Conference, Public/Nonprofit Division.

was a Member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Membership Committee, 2002-2003.

Mary Beth Walker

served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Journal of Econometrics, and Review of Economics and the Household.

Sally Wallace

served as Project Director of a comprehensive review of Jamaica’s tax system.

served as Board Member of the National Tax Association.

served as Editorial Board Member of Public Budgeting and Finance.

served as Board Member of the Internal Revenue Service Consultant’s Panel.

served as Advisory Committee Member for the Urban Institute, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.

served on the Treasury IRS panel.

served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, State and Local Tax Review, Public Finance Review, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Eastern Economic Review.

served as reviewer for Public Finance Text prospectus, Worth Publishers, and for Tax Systems and Tax Policy in New EU Members prospectus, Routledge Press.

see also James Alm.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

served on the national Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Commission, International Association of Emergency Managers, and was reappointed for a second three-year term.

served on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Commission, Council of State Governments.

served as Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Emergency and Crisis Management.

served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Economic Development, Public Organization Review, Journal of Emergency Management, and Journal of the Academy of Strategic e-Commerce.

served on the Executive Council of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Public Administration Research.

wrote book reviews for Perspectives on Political Science and International Criminal Justice Review in 2003.

served on the Advisory Board of two Annual Editions: Violence & Terrorism and Homeland Security, Duskin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill.

served as a referee for the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Natural Hazards Journal, and Delmar/Thompson Publishers.

served twice as a program reviewer for the Distance Education and Training Council’s Accreditation Commission.

coordinated GSU’s participation in Ohio State University’s Program for International and Homeland Security.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Verna J. Willis

served on the Editorial Board of the new journal, Action Learning: Research and Practice.

served as Content Expert and external reviewer for a Fielding Graduate Institute dissertation, "Action Learning: Set Member Learning Experiences" by Mark Van Schuyver.

served as referee for Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, Action Learning: Research and Practice, and Papers for the Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Academy of Human Resource Development.

continued testing of a new survey instrument that studies perceptions of members in an action learning set, and provides anonymous, collective feedback to each participant. The instrument allows for "course correction" of group behaviors. The test of the Action Learning Team Process Questionnaire has been further validated for 2004 distribution.

Katherine G. Willoughby

served as referee for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration Review, and State and Local Government Review.

participated as Expert Witness to the U.S. GAO in their study for the Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Technology, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, to assess the state of the knowledge base in comprehensive indicator systems in the U.S. and internationally. The project frames options for Congress as it considers whether and how to develop a national indicator system. Given her work in performance measurement application at the state and local levels in the United States, the GAO asked to talk with her about possible applications at the federal level at the U.S. GAO – Atlanta Field Office, October 15, 2003.

Yongsheng Xu

served as referee for Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Economics of Governance, International Journal of Business and Economics, Economica, Metroeconomica, The National Science Foundation, and Quarterly Journal of the Belgian, French and Italian Operation Research Societies.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

 

 

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