GWIPP Research Professors
Dr. Patricia Atkins' study of and involvement with regional governance systems spans her career, beginning in 1969 with a regional think tank in the Detroit metropolitan area. Her four decades of experience parallel the growth of regional goverance organizations in the United States. She has cultivated a role as a boundary-crosser, moving between academia where she taught at the University of Baltimore in fields of government, media, politics, and urban affairs; and the practitioner arena, including work at the National Association of Regional Councils and the Prince George's County Budget Office. She has conducted extensive research on regional councils, regional governance networks, urban growth patterns, and various policies for governmental cooperation.
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Dr. Michael Bell is President of MEB Associates, Inc. and Executive Director of the Coalition for Effective Local Democracy. Dr. Bell is also a Research Professor at the George Washington University Institute for Public Policy. Dr. Bell's background is in public finance, with a specific focus on state and local finances and intergovernmental relations. He has recently been involved in projects to strengthen the capacity of local self-government in newly emerging democracies through in-country workshops, internships, study tours, expert missions and research projects. Recent projects in South Africa have focused on strengthening local democratic governance by encouraging greater citizen participation and strengthening local property tax administration. Dr. Bell is a member of the Transportation and Economic Development Committee of the Transportation Research Board and a member of the editorial board of Public Works Management and Policy . Prior to forming MEB Associates, Inc., Dr. Bell was Principal Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies' and taught in the Institute's Masters in Policy Studies Program (MAPS). Dr. Bell has edited five books and published articles in several journals including National Tax Journal, Public Finance, Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Economics, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Public Budgeting and Finance, and the Regionalist.
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David Brunori, Esq. is a journalist, author, educator, and lawyer who specializes in tax and government issues. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the United States on the subject of state and local tax policy. Brunori is Contributing Editor of State Tax Notes magazine and the author of The Politics of State Taxation, a weekly column focusing on state tax and budget politics. He also writes a regular column on state and local taxes for Governing magazine. Brunori serves as Research Professor of Public Policy at The George Washington University, where he also teaches state and local tax law at the law school. He edited The Future of State Taxation (Urban Institute Press), and has published articles in the National Tax Journal and the State and Local Government Review. His book, State Tax Policy: a Political Perspective, (Urban Institute Press) won the 2001 Choice Award for the best public finance book. His latest work, Local Tax Policy: A Federalist Perspective has recently been published by the Urban Institute Press. Prior to joining State Tax Notes , he served as an appellate trial attorney with the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced with a Washington DC law firm. He has been a David C. Lincoln Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy since 2001.
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Dr. Andrea Sarzynski is an assistant research professor at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy. Her research interests include urban land use, transportation, energy, and environmental policy. Most recently, she worked at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, researching recent demographic, economic, energy, and environmental trends in the United States. She also analyzed carbon footprint data for large metropolitan areas and evaluated state, local, and international climate policies for insight into upcoming federal climate discussions. She previously worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the environmental law practice at Sidley Austin, and taught environmental policy, politics and policy, and research methods at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has published reports for Brookings and in academic journals in policy, planning, and geography. Andrea has a Ph.D. in public policy from the George Washington University and a B.S. in natural resources from Cornell University.
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Dr. Clarence N. Stone is Research Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the George Washington University . During the academic year 2001-2002, he was a Visiting Fulbright Professor in Denmark . Stone is the author or co-author of three award-winning books, the most recent of which is Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools. He is a past president of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and was also accorded the section's Distinguished Career Award. Stone has served on a variety of task forces, most recently the Annenberg Institute's Design Group for School Communities That Work. His current research interests include the politics surrounding human-capital policies. Through a recently awarded a Fulbright Alumni grant, Stone is also working with a small team of North Americans and Europeans on developing a curriculum for comparative local politics. The project is a joint effort of the University of Southern Denmark and the George Washington Institute of Public Policy.
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Dr. Michael Wiseman is a Research Professor of Public Policy, Public Administration, and Economics at The George Washington University and Visiting Scholar in the Office of Disability and Income Assistance Policy at the Social Security Administration. He is a consultant on program management and evaluation to the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services and has served as consultant on policy and evaluation for the Department of Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom as well as for various federal and state agencies. Before moving to GWU, he was Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley (18 years), Professor of Public Affairs, Urban and Regional Planning, and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (10 years) and Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington (2 years). He is an affiliated scholar with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest book, The Welfare We Want: The British Challenge for American Reform (co-edited with Robert Walker) was published by Policy Press in May 2003.
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