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Professor
Andrew Reschovsky's studies are cited in Education Week's examination of the
nation's school financing problems. "From fiscal 2002 to fiscal 2004, Mr.
Reschovsky estimates, 35 states have failed to give schools increases that
kept up with enrollment increases and inflation..." (Full
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La Follette International Reputation Soars
“It hasn’t happened before, it won’t last long, and it won’t happen again.”
That is how Don Nichols, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, describes the academic coup of housing the top two international journals in the fields of public policy and economics.
Professor Graham Wilson is co-editor of Governance, An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. Professor Charles Engel is co-editor of the Journal of International Economics.
Professor Wilson learned this week that Governance ranks first out of 24 journals as the most frequently cited journal in the field of public administration, based on Thomson ISI, which has helped provide information access to scholars and researchers worldwide for almost 50 years. Based on citation analysis, ISI can say reliably what is the hottest journal with the highest impact in any particular field. Right now, that is Governance in public administration.
Nichols said the presence of the two journals reflects the reputation of the outstanding faculty who teach in the school’s fledgling Master’s in International Public Administration (MIPA) degree.
“Though our international program is brand new, our strategy is a good one,” said Nichols, explaining that La Follette houses faculty who share appointments in many of the highly ranked social science disciplines on campus.
“We are already a high quality program with some of the best faculty in the field,” said Nichols. “But hiring faculty jointly between La Follette and other departments makes us even stronger.”
About Governance: Governance is published under the auspices of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government. Governance is an international journal devoted to the study of executive politics, public policy, administration and the organization of the state. The editors are Graham Wilson at UW-Madison La Follette School, where the editorial offices are housed, and Bert Rockman at Ohio State University’s School of Public Policy and Management. (About Professor Wilson)
About the Journal of International Economics: The Journal of International Economics is intended to serve as the primary outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international economics. These include: trade patterns, commercial policy, international institutions, exchange rates, open economy macroeconomics, international finance and international factor mobility. ( About Professor Engel)
La Follette Assistant Professor Clark Miller Awarded $400,000 NSF Grant
La Follette Assistant Professor Clark Miller and his colleagues at Harvard University have been awarded a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the globalization of environmental policy. They will examine how the public and private sectors, civil society, and scientific communities are adapting to new global-policy initiatives.
NPR (National Public Radio) recently featured the grant on their news program. (NPR Audio Clip) (Full Release)
CBS Correspondent Rita Braver Joins Board of Visitors
CBS News correspondent Rita Braver has joined the Board of Visitors for the La Follette School and Political Science Department. She will join the 24 other alumni who will meet on campus next March to advise on development, research, teaching and student affairs. (Braver Biography) (Board of Visitors)
Former Commission Chairs Don Kettl, Tim Sheehy to Co-Host Local Government Summit
At a signing ceremony for legislation to help reduce the costs of local government, Governor Jim Doyle announced today that he will convene a Local Government Summit on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 to focus on innovative ways to hold the line on property taxes and help local governments become more efficient. Don Kettl and Tim Sheehy, past local government task force chairs, will co-host the Summit, which will be held at UW-Milwaukee's Student Union, 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard at 10:00 a.m. (Full Release)
Jody Kusek of the World Bank
Speaks to La Follette Students About Her Work
in Sub-Saharan Africa
On Monday, November 3, Jody Kusek, an advisor at the World Bank's Africa Region in Washington, DC, spoke with La Follette School students and answered questions about her work helping Sub Saharan African countries design results-based management systems to better monitor and manage their development goals. Her work also strengthens efforts by World Bank project teams to design systems assessing the effectiveness of World Bank aid programs in Africa.
Jody Kusek recently served as Senior Evaluation Officer at the World Bank, helping build results-monitoring and evaluation systems in Kyrgystan, Romania, and Albania. Prior to joining the World Bank, she served as Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, advising on new management reforms. She has also served as Director of Strategic Planning and Performance Management with the U.S. Department of the Interior. Kusek has published numerous articles and book chapters on project management in development countries.
Donald Kettl Receives
Prestigious Book Award
La Follette Professor Donald Kettl's book, The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century, has received the National Academy of Public Administration's 2003 Louis Brownlow Award for the best book in the field. The award will be given at the Academy's fall meeting in November. (Full Release)
Eric Tempelis, La Follette Student, Cited in a July 18 General Accounting Office Report: Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways.
"Amid projections that freight traffic will increase 65 percent by 2020 and that traffic congestion will worsen, many transportation officials are concerned about the challenge of maintaining and improving the condition and performance of the nation’s highway infrastructure..." (Full Report)
Carolyn Heinrich is 2003 Grant Award Winner of the IBM Center for the Business of Government
Professor Heinrich has been working with the U.S. Department of Labor since the beginning of the year to analyze performance data from States' implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Her research project is producing information on the implications of new design features of the WIA performance management system that will help to inform and guide the WIA reauthorization debates and decisions that are presently underway. Heinrich will be presenting the findings of her research in Washington, DC in October.
Edward Fouhy Selected as La Follette Political Writer in Residence, Fall 2003
Ed Fouhy is the executive director of the Pew Center on the States, an Internet-based research and information service established to report on innovative public policy issues at the state level. Fouhy previously was founder and, for five years, executive director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. (Read More)
NATO
Political Affairs Expert Comes Back To La Follette
Daniel Speckhard, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, shakes hands with his former economics professor, Donald Nichols, who is Director of La Follette School of Public Affairs. A La Follette alumnus, he gave a presentation to the public at the State Historical Society on August 25 and participated in La Follette Orientation events.
Robert Haveman, Fulbright Distinguished Siena Chair in Economics
La Follette Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman held the Fulbright Distinguished Siena Chair in Economics, which took him to Siena, Italy from March 15th to June 15th. While there he pursued his research, taught a mini-course to PhD students and lectured at several places in Europe.
He was also a Visiting Professor for two weeks at the University of Bristol (UK), where he gave two seminar/lectures, including one at the London School of Economics.
Early Retirement May Increase Risk of Old-Age Poverty
Professors Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, and Barbara Wolfe of the La Follette School and Kathryn Wilson of Kent State University studied financial outcomes for a sample of 6,200 men and women who began receiving benefits from Social Security in 1980-81 and were re-interviewed ten years later. During the decade following retirement, the early retirees were more likely to have incomes below poverty, and the gap between early and late retirees grew...(Full Release)
Donald Kettl - A Breath of Fresh Air
Professor Donald Kettl chaired a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration in authoring a report on reviving the New Source Review program under the Clean Air Act. (Summary Report) (Full Report)
He also recently wrote an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, titled "Wheeze and Bear It," on the subject of Bush Administration air policies. (View Editorial)
Kettl will also co-chair the 2005 American Society for Public Administration conference.