Richard C. Feiock (Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1986) is the Augustus B. Turnbull Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Affiliate Professor of Political Science. He directs Florida State University's newly established Sustainable Energy & Governance Center. He was founding director of the DeVoe Moore Center's Program in Local Governance and served as the Ph.D. Program Director for the Askew School from 1999-2005. He has been principal investigator on multiple National Science Foundation research grant awards and has received grant awards from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Aspen Institute, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Professor Feiock has published six edited books and monographs and over one-hundred journal articles. His work appears in the leading scholarly journals of political science, public administration, and urban affairs. His recent books include Institutional Constraints and Local Government: An Exploration of Local Governance (SUNY Press 2001), City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives (M.E. Sharpe 2004) and Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation, (Georgetown University Press 2004). His most recent work in collaboration with John Scholz is an edited book Self-organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas published by Cambridge University Press in Summer 2009.
Recent Publications
and Papers
"Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth ," with Mark Lubell and Edgar Ramirez, American Journal of Political Science forthcoming, July 2009.
“Policy Networks Among Local Elected Officials: Information, Commitment, and Risk Aversion,” with In-Won Lee, Hyung Jun Park, Keon Hyung Lee, and Jongsun Park, Urban Affairs Review 45 (2) forthcoming, 2009.
"City Adoption of Environmentally Sustainable Policies in California's Central Valley," with Mark Lubell and Susan Handy, Journal of the American Planning Association , forthcoming, July 2009.
“Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development Policy in U. S. Municipal Governments,” with Myungjun Kwon and Frances Berry, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19, forthcoming, 2009.
“The Role of Nonprofits in Local Service Delivery,” with Heesoun Jang, Public Administration Review 70, (July/August) 2009.
“ County Limits: Policy Types and Expenditure Priorities” with Sang Ok Choi, Sang-Seok Bae and Sung-Wook Kwon, American Journal of Public Administration . forthcoming 2009.
“Institutional Collective Action and Joint Ventures for Economic Development, with Annette Steinacker and Hyung-Jun Park Public Administration Review 69, (March/April) 2009.
“Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Collective Action,” Urban Affairs Review 45 (3) January, 2009.
"Policy Instrument Choices for Growth Management and Land Use Regulation" with Antonio Tavares and Mark Lubell Policy Studies Journal 36 (3): 461-480, 2008.
"Examining Local Government Service Delivery Arrangements over Time" with Scott and Meeyoung Lamothe, Urban Affairs Review 44(1) (September): 27-56 (recipient of the APSA Herbert Kaufman award), 2008.
"The Impact of Leadership Turnover on Local Officials Time Horizons: Municipal Borrowing Decisions, with James Clinger and Barbara McCabe and Hyung Jun Park, The American Review of Public Administration , 38 (1): (June) 380-386, 2008.
“Turnover among City Managers: The Role of Political and Economic Change” with Barbara McCabe, James Clinger, and Christopher Stream, Public Administration Review (March/April) 68 (2): 380-387, 2008.
“Is the World 'Flat,' or 'Spiky'? Rethinking the Governance Implications of Globalization for Economic Development” with M. Jae Moon and Hyung Jun Park, Public Administration Review (January/February) 68 (1): 24-35, 2008.
“Public and Private Funding Reliance of Nonprofit Organizations: Implications for Interorganizational Collaboration,” with Hee-Soun Jang, Public Productivity and Management Review 31 (2): (December) 2007.
“Rational Choice and Regional Governance” Journal of Urban Affairs 29, (Winter) 1: 49-65, 2007.
Recent Awards and Achievements
Best Poster Presentation Award, Harvard Networks in Political Science Conference June 13-14, 2008.
Fulbright Research Fellowship, J. William Fulbright Scholar Program, 2006.
Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association, 2005.
Augustus B. Tunrbull Named Professorship, 2005.
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