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 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 published seven books or symposia and over one-hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters including articles 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). Professor Feiock is recipient of the APSA’s 2005 Herbert Kaufman award and is a Fulbright Fellow in the Republic of Korea in Spring 2006. He has received multiple National Science Foundation research grants as well as grant awards from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Aspen Institute, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.


Recent Publications and Papers

“Turnover among City Managers: The Role of Political and Economic Change” with Barbara McCabe, James Clingermayer, and Christopher Stream, Public Administration Review 66 forthcoming 2006.

"Impact Fees, Growth Management and Development: A Contractual Approach to Local Policy and Governance" with Moon-Gi Jeong. Urban Affairs Review 41 forthcoming 2006.

“Structuring Debate on Consolidation: A Reply to Leland and Thurmaier,” with Jered Carr and Linda Johnson. Public Administration Review 66 (March/April) 2006.

“Political Institutions and Conservation by Local Governments” with Mark Lubell and Edgar Ramierez. Urban Affairs Review 40 (July) 40: 706-729, 2005.

"Factors Affecting Constitutional Choice: The Case of the Recall in Municipal Charters," with Seung-Bum Yang, State and Local Government Review 37 #1 (Winter): 40-48, 2005.

“Nested Levels of Institutions: State Rules and City Property Taxes in the Shadow of the Law,” with Barbara McCabe, Urban Affairs Review 40 (May) 634-654, 2005.

“Private Governments in Urban Areas: Political Contracting and Collective Action,” with Susan E. Baer, American Review of Public Administration, 35 #1: 42-56.

"Politics, Governance, and the Complexity of Local Land Use Regulation," Urban Studies, 41 #2 (February): 363-77, 2004.

“The Flypaper Effect Revisited: Intergovernmental Grants and Local Governance,” with Sang Seok Bae, International Journal of Public Administration 27 #8: 577-96, 2004.

“Contracting and Sector Choice for the Delivery of Local Health and Human Services” with James Clingermayer and Christopher Stream, State and Local Government Review, 35 #3 (Fall) 150-161, 2003.

“Credible Commitment and Council Manager Government: Implications for Policy Instrument Choice” with Moon-Gi Jeong, and Jaehoon Kim, Public Administration Review 63 #5 (September/October): 568-577, 2003.

“Contractor and Sector Choices for Delivery of Municipal Services” with Carl Dasse and James Clingermayer, Public Management Review (UK) Vol. 5 #2 (Spring): 1-14, 2003.

“Regulatory Reform and Urban Economic Development,” with Moon-Gi Jeong. State and Local Government Review 34 (Fall) 153-60, 2002.

“A Quasi-Market Framework for Local Economic Development Competition,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 24: 123-42, 2002.

“Who Becomes Involved in City-County Consolidation? Findings from County Officials in 35 Communities,” with Jered Carr. State and Local Government Review 34 (Spring): 78-94, 2002.

Recent Awards and Achievements

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.

Muskie Ph.D. Program Reviewer, Moscow Russia June 2001

Research Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2000

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