Research
Municipal Finance and Budgeting
20 publications
Economic Development
- Shared trajectory: Community Development Block Grants, 4 publications, 2023 to 2025.
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Rethinking Development and Redistribution Policy: Testing the Local Expenditure Assumption using the Community Development Block Grant Program
Journal Article · Journal of Urban Affairs · 2025
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Towards Housing Equity: The Role of CDBG Grants
Journal Article · Urban Affairs Review · 2025
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Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds
Journal Article · Urban Affairs Review · 2024
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50 Years as the 4th Pillar of Public Administration: A Polycentric Extension of the Social Equity Framework
Journal Article · Public Administration · 2023
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Emergent Patterns in Local Economic Development in Light of COVID-19
Journal Article · State and Local Government Review · 2022
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Budget Volatility and Economic Base Composition in Local Governments
Journal Article · Municipal Finance Journal · 2022
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Institutional Collective Action During Covid-19: Lessons in Local Economic Development
Journal Article · Public Administration Review · 2020
- Shared trajectory: Public-Private Partnerships, 2 publications, 2014 to 2016.
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Assessing the Contributions of Collaborators in Public-Private Partnerships: Evidence from Tax Increment Financing
Journal Article · The American Review of Public Administration · 2016
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The Great Recession's Impact on Credible Commitment: An Analysis of Private Investment in Tax Increment Financing Districts
Journal Article · State and Local Government Review · 2014
Municipal Competition
- Shared trajectory: Market Differentiation and Municipal Competition, 4 publications, 2017 to 2020.
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Vertical and Horizontal Tax Competition in the USA
Book Chapter · Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration (Springer) · 2020
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Investigating Sales Tax Revenue Competition among Principal Cities and Their Neighboring Cities in Texas
Journal Article · International Journal of Public Administration · 2020
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Market Differentiation and the Adoption of Economic Development Strategies: Explaining Policy Adoption in Metropolitan Areas
Journal Article · The Review of Regional Studies · 2018
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Sorting Through the Determinants of Local Government Competition
Journal Article · The American Review of Public Administration · 2017
Budgeting
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Theoretical Foundations of Public Budgeting: The Road to Entrepreneurial Budgeting and Beyond
Book Chapter · The Research Handbook on Public Finance · 2023
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A Century of Budget Innovations
Magazine Article · PM Magazine · 2020
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A Budgeting Guide for Local Government
Book · ICMA Press · 2019
Forecasting
- Shared trajectory: Sales Tax Revenue Forecasting, 3 publications, 2017 to 2025.
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Is There a Gold Standard or Need for a City-Centric Approach for Sales Tax Revenue Forecasting
Journal Article · Public Finance Journal · 2025
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Modeling Approach Matters but not as Much as Preprocessing: Comparison of Machine Learning and Traditional Revenue Forecasting Techniques
Journal Article · Public Finance Journal · 2024
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Early Payments, Late Payments, and Revenue Volatility in Texas Cities
Journal Article · Public Money & Management · 2017
General PA
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Book Review of the Public Affairs Faculty Manual
Book Review · Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs · 2021
Data Science and AI
6 publications
Data Science
- Shared trajectory: Data Science Literacy, 2 publications, 2022 to 2023.
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Transforming research methods education through data science literacy
Journal Article · Teaching Public Administration · 2023
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Data Science Literacy: Towards a Philosophy of Accessible and Adaptable Data Science Skill Development in Public Administration Programs
Journal Article · Teaching Public Administration · 2022
- Shared trajectory: Administrative Informatics, 2 publications, 2022 to 2023.
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Administrative Informatics: A Roundtable on the Conceptual Foundations of a Public Administration-Centered Data Science Subfield
Journal Article · Journal of Behavioral Public Administration · 2023
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Public Data Primacy: The Changing Landscape of Public Service Delivery as Big Data gets Bigger
Journal Article · Global Public Policy and Governance · 2022