1. J. Edwin Bentonis a professor of political science and public administration at the University of South Florida. His current research focuses on county, municipal, and township revenue policy, local government budgeting in times of fiscal stress, and the role of counties in the intergovernmental system. He is coeditor of Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (Greenwood Press 1987), author of Counties as Service Delivery Agents: Changing Expectations and Roles (Praeger 2002), and editor of the...
2. Jacqueline Byersis director of research and outreach for the National Association of Counties. Prior to coming to NACo in 1996, she was assistant director at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, where she directed the research center. In 2003, she was part of a Michigan State University delegation that published a guide and conducted training sessions on federalism and governance for local officials in Ghana and Malawi.
3. Beverly A. Cigleris a professor of public policy and administration at Penn State at Harrisburg. She specializes in state-local relations and local governance, emphasizing alternative service delivery, land use, emergency management, and public finance. She is coauthor of Fiscal Health for Local Governments: An Introduction to Concepts, Practical Analysis, and Strategies (Elsevier 2004).
4. Kenneth A. Klaseis an associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he is also the MPA director. Public budgeting and finance and public financial management are among his teaching and research interests. His recent research focuses on budget execution, performance budgeting, fiscal stress, and cutback management in state and local governments.
5. Donald C. Menzelis emeritus professor at Northern Illinois University and president of Ethics Management International. He served as the 2005–6 president of the American Society for Public Administration. His recent publications include The American County: Frontiers of Knowledge (University of Alabama Press 1996) and Ethics Management for Public Administrators: Building Organizations of Integrity (M.E. Sharpe 2007).
6. Tanis J. Salantfounded the Institute for Local Government at the University of Arizona. She currently teaches a graduate seminar on local government in the School of Public Administration and Policy Institute and is president of Project Arizona Civic Education. Among her research and consulting interests are county home rule, county-state relations, county-tribal relations, U.S.-Mexico border counties, county structure, municipal home rule charters, and regional governance. Her work has been published in...
7. Gregory Streibis a professor of public administration at Georgia State University specializing in public management and applied research methods. His work addresses a variety of public management topics, including strategic planning, pay-for-performance, health-care cost reduction, performance measurement, reinventing government, and the implementation of e-governance initiatives.
8. James H. Svarais a professor in the School of Public Affairs and director of the Center for Urban Innovation at Arizona State University. His research interests include local government leadership roles, local government structure, and innovation in local government. He is the author of The Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Jones and Bartlett 2007) and “Leadership by Top Administrators in a Changing World: New Challenges in Political-Administrative Relations”...
9. William L. Waugh Jr.is a professor of public administration at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is a specialist in the area of building local capacities to deal with disasters and intergovernmental, multiorganizational, and intersector coordination and collaboration. He has written books and articles on terrorism, emergency management, and state and local tax policies. He serves on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program Commission and is editor-in-chief of...