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Faculty
Accomplishments
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Current activities of AYSPS Faculty
Department of Economics
Ron Cummings (Environmental Policy Program) received $150,000 from the Georgia Research Alliance for the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center; a $561,600 renewal grant for the Agricultural Water Policy Program; and a $718,127 renewal grant for Innovative Water Policies.
Paul Ferraro and co-author R. D. Simpson, “The Cost-effectiveness of Conservation Payments,” was selected as one of ten publications that exemplify a good environmental economics and policy paper by Land Economics 2002.
Susan Laury (Environmental Policy Program) received first year funding from the National Science Foundation for the “Impact of Insurance Markets on Biases.”
Bruce Seaman was invited to serve on the planning committee and make a presentation at the annual Wichita conference on property tax appraisal for public utilities, sponsored by the National Tax Association.
Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies
Atef Ghobrial received a grant from the Southeastern Transportation Center to develop a multimedia course on intermodal transportation safety and security for use at public and private transportation agencies in the U.S.
Karen Minyard (Georgia Health Policy Center) has led the center’s participation in a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) State Planning Grant administered through the Governor’s Office of the Consumer’s Insurance Advocate to develop plans for providing access to affordable health insurance coverage to all Georgia citizens.
Ross Rubenstein was awarded the 2002 Miriam K. Mills Award from the Policy Studies Organization as the “outstanding young person in the policy studies field” at the American Political Science Association conference in September.
Charlotte Steeh was awarded a $176,000 National Science Foundation grant to assess the extent to which wireless communication devices are likely to change telephone surveys.
David Van Slyke received the 2002 Best Article Award from the Academy of Management Public-Nonprofit Division for, “Understanding Interorganizational Cooperation: Public-Private Cooperation in Regulating Financial Market Innovation,” with co-authors David McCaffrey and Sue Faerman (Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY), published in Organization Science in 2001.
Bill Waugh has been asked to serve on the editorial board of the new Journal of Emergency Management.
Funds to Katherine Willoughby from the GSU Research Initiation Grant have supported: with co-author Gregory Streib, “Local Governments as E-Governments: Meeting the Implementation Challenge.” Public Administration Quarterly, forthcoming; with co-author Gregory Streib, “Local Governments Becoming E-Governments: Getting the Sizzle, Avoiding the Fizzle,” in H. George Frederickson, ed. Ideal and Practice in Council-Manager Government, 3rd Edition.
Department of Economics
James Alm and co-authors Jill Ann Holman and Rebecca M. Neumann, “Globalization and State/Local Government Finances” in State and Local Finance Under Pressure, David Sjoquist, ed., (Edward Elgar Publishing), forthcoming.
Kelly Edmiston, “Fostering Subnational Autonomy and Accountability in Decentralized Developing Countries: Lessons from the Papua New Guinea Experience.” Public Administration and Development, 22(3), August, pp. 221-234.
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and coauthor Robert McNab (recent AYSPS-earned Ph.D.), “Fiscal Decentralization, Economic Growth, and Democratic Governance,” World Development, forthcoming; and coauthor Mark Rider “Multiple Modes of Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence,” National Tax Journal, forthcoming.
Ragan Petrie and co-authors James Andreoni and Marco Castillo,” What Do Bargainers’ Preferences Look Like? Experiments with a Convex Ultimatum Game,” American Economic Review, forthcoming.
Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies
Carol Hansen and co-author Sheila Margolis, “A Model for Organizational Identity: Exploring the Path to Sustainability During a Merger,” Human Resources Development Review, September 2002.
William M. Kahnweiler, and co-authors Michael Workman (AYSPS HRD Ph.D.) and William Bommer (GSU Robinson School of Business), “The Effects of Cognitive Style and Media Richness on Commitment to Telework and Virtual Teams,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, forthcoming; co-author Mary Langley (AYSPS HRD Ph.D. ), ”The Leadership Role of the Pastor in the Sociopolitically Active Afro-American Church.” Organization Development Journal, forthcoming.
Glenn M. Landers and co-authors James P. Cooney, Jr. and Julianna M. Williams, “Hospital Executive Leadership: A Critical Component for Improving Care at the End of Life,” Hospital Topics, forthcoming.
Theodore H. Poister and co-author Gregory Streib, “The Use of Strategic Planning in Municipal Governments,” The Municipal Year Book 2002, pp. 18-25.
Ross Rubenstein and co-author Catherine Freeman,
“Do Local Sales Taxes for Education Increase Inequities? The Case
of Georgia’s ESPLOST,” Journal of Education Finance, expected
Winter 2003.
David Van Slyke and co-author Charles A. Hammonds, “The Privatization
Decision: Do Public Managers Make a Difference?” The American Review
of Public Administration, forthcoming.
Bill Waugh and co-author Richard T. Sylves, “Organizing the War on Terrorism.” Public Administration Review, Special Issue, September 2002, pg. 145-153.
Department of Economics
Roy Bahl presented “Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and World Bank Activity in South Asia,” at the Decentralization in South Asia meeting at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., September.
Rebecca Curtis (Program For Rehabilitation Leadership) conducted a three-day seminar at Goodwill Industries entitled “Process and Practice: Rehabilitation 201” in Savannah, Ga, September.
Susan Laury presented “Risk Aversion, Reflection, and Incentives” at the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar at Harvard, September.
Sally Wallace and Roy Bahl were invited to lecture in the World Bank’s program on Statistical Capacity Building, Bucharest, Romania, October.
Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies
Sal Alaimo (PTI) conducted workshops at the 2002 Georgia Conference on Service and Volunteerism, “Getting Results from your Events” and “Risk Management in your Volunteer Program” in September; and one on nonprofits and consultants at The Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s annual conference in October.
Lloyd Nigro and co-author J. Edward Kellough (UGA) presented a paper on “Georgia Civil Service Reform” at the 2002 APSA Conference, Boston, Mass., late August-September.
Ben Scafidi presented “Racial Segregation in Georgia Public Schools, 1994-2001: Trends, Causes and Impact on Teacher Quality” co-authored with David Sjoquist and Catherine Freeman at the conference, “The Resegregation of Southern Schools,” sponsored by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C., August.
Gregory Streib, Mark Rivera and Katherine Willoughby presented the third of four reports to the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA), “Understanding the Consumer Information Needs of Georgia’s Hispanic Population: A Protocol for Study” in July. Funding from the OCA supported the AYSPS’ first focus group in Spanish involving members of the metropolitan Atlanta Hispanic and Latino communities.
David Van Slyke with Janet L. Johnson,
“Giving, Volunteering, and Social Capital: Changes Post-911”
at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action (ARNOVA) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November; with Christopher
Horne, “What if Faith-Based Organizations are More Active in Delivering
Publicly Funded Social Services? The Potential Impact on Private Giving
and Volunteering” at the Association for Public Policy Analysis
and Management (APPAM) Conference, Dallas, Texas, November.
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