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Robert Eger Associate Professor Ph.D., Kentucy, Public Administration
M.P.A., Kentucky B.A., Wyoming, Social Science Specializations: Government and Non Profit Accounting; Financial Management; Methodology |
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Robert J. Eger III joined the Reubin O’D. Askew School of
Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University as an
Associate Professor in Fall 2007. His teaching interests are in the
areas of public financial management, government and nonprofit accounting,
applied quantitative analysis, taxation, and policy analysis. His
research incorporates an array of public financial institutions including
public authorities, municipal government boards, county governments,
transit agencies, and state transportation departments. His pursuit
of the development and application of accounting, budgeting, and finance
principles to public entities has rewarded him with opportunities
to work with an assortment of organizations including the development
of two new cities, the City of Chattahoochee Hill County, GA and the
City of South Fulton, GA. Dr. Eger has developed and completed financial
management projects for the City of Sandy Springs, GA, City of College
Park, GA, Atlanta Public Schools, Gwinnett County, GA, Fulton County,
GA, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Georgia Public Health Department,
County of Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage District, , Georgia Department of Transportation, Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet, Kentucky Transportation Center, Council of
State Governments, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Dr. Eger has published on topics that include defense spending, public
health financing, financing and accounting in government infrastructure,
outsourcing in government, tax strategies and complexities, the generational
differences and perceptions of municipal board members, tax evasion
and auditing activity, and managing intergovernmental revenues. Dr.
Eger’s commentaries on government accounting and financial structures
have appeared in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times newspapers
along with several local newspapers. “Hofferbert in Transit: A Dynamic Stages Model of the Urban
Policy Process” (with Justin Marlowe), Review of Policy Research
23 (2), 413-431 March 2006. “Brownfields, Crime and Tax Increment Financing” (with
Deborah A. Carroll), American Review of Public Administration 36 (4),
455-477 December 2006 “Procedural Complexity of Tax Administration: The Road Fund
Case” (with Sharon Cox), Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting,
and Financial Management 18 (3), 259-283 Fall 2006. “Motor Fuel Taxes and Farm Use” (with Sharon Cox), State
Tax Notes November 27, 2006. “Policy Instruments in Injury Crashes: Traffic Law Enforcement
and Alcohol Prohibition”, Transportation Research Record, No.
1969: 45-49, 2006. “Fiscal Illusion: Implications of Rational Information Seeking
Behavior” (with Craig Maher), Korean Journal of Public Policy,
2006 “Local Public Health Budgeting and Performance Measurement:
Structuring a Framework to Promote Flexibility and Accountability”
(with Valerie Hepburn, Jungbu Kim, and Catherine Slade), Journal of
Public Health Management and Practice 13 (2), 173-179 March 2007. “Financing Infrastructure: Fixed Price v. Price Index Contracts”
(with Hai Guo), Journal of Public Procurement 7 (4), 2007 “Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Transportation: Practices,
Problems, and Proposals” (with Amanda Wilsker), Public Budgeting
& Finance 27 (1) 104-116 Spring 2007. >> back to top |
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