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Areas of expertise: Public expenditure management; political economy of transition; public management |
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| Campus e-mail: | jstraussman@albany.edu | ||||
| Campus phone: | (518) 442-5244 | ||||
| Biography: In 1992, Jeffrey D. Straussman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences where he taught public management and policy analysis and assisted Hungarian faculty in the development of a public affairs department. He has returned to Hungary many times since 1992. Straussman has taught and consulted internationally on subjects including managing for performance, leadership, public budgeting, and public affairs education and has spent considerable time in developing and transitional countries. His work has taken him to Macedonia, Israel, Venezuela, The Czech Republic, the Peoples' Republic of China, Bulgaria, Brazil, Portugal, Malaysia, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Straussman has published widely in the areas
of public finance and budgeting and
administrative reform in transitional countries.
His work appears in a variety of professional
journals such as Public
Budgeting & Finance, Administration & Society,
Public Administration and Development, and
Public Administration Review. His books
include The Limits of
Technocratic Politics (Transaction
Publishers, 1978), Public
Management Strategies (Jossey-Bass Inc.,
Publishers, 1990) and
Public Administration, 2nd edition
(Longman Publishers Group, 1990).His interest in
the political economy of transition has produced
several publications including articles
translated into Hungarian, Russian, and
Ukrainian. Straussman received his bachelor's from Hofstra University, a master's in political science from Hunter College, and his doctorate in political science from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. |
