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Dr. Karen A. Mossberger
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Assistant Professor of Public Administration Baccalaureate: B.A. with major in Honors Political Science (Summa Cum Laude) Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, December 1991 Graduate: M.A. Political Science Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, December 1992 Ph.D. Political Science Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, December 1996
Economic Development Policy, Urban Policy, Decision-making, Policy Diffusion, Comparative Public Policy, Intergovernmental Networks, Policy Learning
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS: Kent State University, 1997 to present: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, teaching Economic Development, Public Policy, Administrative Theory and Behavior, and Intergovernmental Relations. Eastern Michigan University, 1996-97: Lecturer, full-time, teaching American Politics, Urban Politics, Municipal Government, and Health Policy (graduate course). University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1992-93: Academic Visitor (teaching and research). Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, June - December 1990: Drafted two manuals on strategic planning for commercial revitalization for a pilot program funded by the State of Michigan. OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE: City of Detroit, Employment and Training Department, January 1994-August 1995: Senior Social Planning and Development Assistant. Grantwriting, program and policy planning. Writer for Detroit's successful Empowerment Zone application. (Leave of absence for Rumble Fellowship, September 1994-May 1995.) City of Detroit, Recreation Department, February 1991-January 1994: Technical Aide, Social Science. Grantwriting, policy research. (Leaves of absence for full-time study and for year in Scotland.) PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS: Book: The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of the Enterprise Zones. (Forthcoming, Fall 2000) Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Journal Articles: Mossberger, Karen (Forthcoming) "State-Federal Diffusion and Policy Learning in a Federal System: From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment Zones, " Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Mossberger, Karen and Stoker, Gerry (1997) "Inner-City Policy in Britain: Why It Will Not Go Away," Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 32, No. 3. Stoker, Gerry and Mossberger, Karen (1994) "Urban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective," Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 12, pp. 195-212. Book Chapters: Karen Mossberger (1999) "The Administration of State Economic Development: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty," in Handbook of State Administration, Jack Gargan, ed. Marcel-Dekker. Stoker, Gerry and Mossberger, Karen (1995) "The Post-Fordist Local State: The Dynamics of Its Development," in Local Government in the 1990's, John Stewart and Gerry Stoker, eds. London: Macmillan. Review Essay: Karen Mossberger (September 1998) "Toward a Comparative Agenda for Urban Research," Urban Affairs Review. Conference Papers/Presentations: "Information Diffusion in an Intergovernmental Network: The Implementation of School-to-Work Programs," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 1999, Atlanta. "Upward Diffusion and Policy Learning in a Federal System? From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment Zones," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998, Boston. "Comparing Cities Cross-Nationally: Promise and Problems," presented at the Michigan Political Science Association Conference, October 11, 1996, Detroit. Stoker, Gerry and Mossberger, Karen. "The Dynamics of Cross-National Policy Borrowing: Frameworks for Analysis in the Urban Setting," presented at the Urban Affairs Association Conference, March 2-5, 1994, New Orleans. Mossberger, Karen and Stoker, Gerry. "Urban Policy in Britain: Why It Won't Go Away," co-presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 1993, Washington, D.C. Stoker, Gerry and Mossberger, Karen. "The Post-Fordist Local State: the Dynamics of Its Development," co-presented at the conference on Post-Fordism and the Welfare State, September 1992, Middlesbrough, England. TEACHING INTERESTS: Public Policy Development; Urban Public Policy; Comparative Public Policy; Economic Development; Administrative Theory and Behavior; American Politics; Intergovernmental Relations; Urban Politics; Municipal Government RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic Development Policy, Urban Policy, Decision-making, Policy Diffusion, Comparative Public Policy, Intergovernmental Networks, Policy Learning GRANT AWARDS: United States Information Agency, 1999. Participant in Kent State University project, teaching and research in Russia on regional economic development (projected for Summer 2001). Ohio Urban University Program 1999. For research on the role of business organizations and employer participation in school-to-work programs in Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown. Summer Research and Creativity Grant, Kent State University, 1998. For research on information diffusion in intergovernmental networks, focusing on school-to-work programs. HONORS/AWARDS: Merit Scholarship, Program for Women Scholars, Wayne State University, 1988-1991 Tudor Award, Political Science Department, Wayne State University, for a policy analysis of Inequality in School Finance in Michigan, 1990 Government Administrators Association Scholarship, First Place Award in a state-wide competition for both graduate and undergraduate students, 1990 Government Administrators Association, Honorable Mention, for The Distribution of Benefits in Strategic Planning for Communities, 1991 Smith Prize, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University, for The Community Reinvestment Act: Results and Prospects, 1991 Sarasohn Award, Political Science Department, Wayne State University, outstanding undergraduate major, 1991 Pi Sigma Alpha, National Honor Society of Political Science, 1991 Rumble Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1994-1995 European Summer School on Local Government, Odense University, Denmark, July 1995, with financial support for participation awarded by Odense University/European Union and Wayne State University Dissertation Fellowship, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, 1995-96 |
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