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ABFM 2002 AWARD
WINNERS
Aaron Wildavsky Award
The
Aaron Wildavsky Award is an honor given to an individual for
outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of public budgeting
and financial management.
The
winner of the 2002 award is John
L. Mikesell,
professor of public finance and policy analysis at the School of
Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
Professor Mikesell’s work has had enormous influence in
the public finance and budgeting community, particularly in the
areas of state and local government finance, and sales and
property taxation. He is the author of Fiscal
Administration, one of the most widely used texts in the
field, and of Sales Taxation:
State and Local Structure and Administration, with John F. Due, a
leading work on the sales tax.
Professor Mikesell was Chair of ABFM from 1992-1993 and has
also been active in the National Tax Association, serving on the
Board of Directors from 1989-1992.
Professor
Mikesell has also actively worked on fiscal studies for several
states, and for World Bank projects in the Kyrgyz Republic, the
Republic of Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan.
He has also served as a visiting scholar at the U.S.
Congressional Budget Office.
He is currently editor-in-chief of Public
Budgeting and Finance, the journal of ABFM and the American
Association for Budget and Program Analysis.
Professor Mikesell holds a doctorate in economics from the
University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree from Wabash
College. He is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
For
Information About the 2003 Aaron Wildavsky Award Nomination
Process, please contact Paul Posner, PosnerP@gao.gov.
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S.
Kenneth Howard Award
The
S. Kenneth Howard Award is presented annually to recognize the
exemplary work and professional integrity of an individual who has
devoted a significant part of his or her public service career to
the advancement of public budgeting and financial management.
G.
Edward DeSeve,
Professor of the Practice and Director of the Management, Finance
and Leadership program at the University of Maryland School of
Public Affairs, is the 2002 winner.
DeSeve has had a distinguished career in government
financial management. At
the federal level, Professor DeSeve’s career appointments
include Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Controller of the Office of Management and
Budget, and Deputy Director for Management in the Executive Office
of the President, Office of Management and Budget, from 1997 to
1999. Professor
DeSeve’s state and local experience includes assignments as
Director of Finance for the City of Philadelphia and Special
Assistant to the Governor of Pennsylvania.
In 1995, Professor DeSeve was elected a fellow and is a
board member of the National Academy of Public Administration.
His publications include A
Financial Management Handbook for Mayors and City Managers.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and
a Master of Government Administration from the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania.
For
Information About the 2003 S. Kenneth Howard Award Nomination
Process, please contact
John Forrester, Forresterj@gao.gov
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ABFM
Best Student Paper Award
The
ABFM Best Student Paper Award honors the best public budgeting or
financial management graduate student paper from among those
nominated by faculty members.
The
2002 ABFM Student Paper Award went to Deborah
A. Knudson,
a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for her paper, "Tax
Increment Financing: Policy Manipulation or An Effective Economic
Development Tool?" The
paper was nominated by Dr. Robert Eger.
Using data on property values in Milwaukee, Knudson shows
that capital investment in public infrastructure significantly
affects the level of economic growth within TIF districts.
Knudson’s paper was viewed by the committee as an
important contribution to the literature on TIF policy.
For
information about the 2003 ABFM Best Student Paper Award
Nomination Process, please contact Aimee Franklin, alfranklin@ou.edu.
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Jesse
Burkhead Award
The
Jesse Burkhead Award honors the best article by a practitioner in
the journal Public
Budgeting & Finance.
This
year’s award is shared by Gail
E. Makinen
for his article “An Independent Central Bank and an Independent
Monetary Policy: The Role of the Government Budget – the Case of
Poland 1924-26,” and by Paul
L. Posner
and Bryon S. Gordon
for their article, “Can Democratic Governments Save? Experiences
of Countries with Budget Surpluses.”
The
Makinen article, which appeared in the Spring 2001 issue (Vol. 21:
pp.22-34), examines the conventional wisdom that an independent
central bank is essential to a successful monetary policy that
achieves price stability. Using
the case of Poland from 1924-26 as an illustration, Makinen argues
that government policy enforcing fiscal discipline and a balanced
budget may be as important in maintaining low inflation as central
bank independence. The article is seen as an important
contribution to the contemporary debate regarding central bank
independence and the role of currency boards.
The
Posner and Gordon article, which appeared in the Summer 2001 issue
(Vol. 21: 1-28), examines the competition in democratic countries
between forces for continued fiscal constraint during periods of
budget surplus, and forces for spending increases and tax cuts
during such periods. Drawing upon the experiences of six OECD nations, it argues
that several advanced democratic nations have reached consensus on
sustaining a surplus (rather than zero budget balance) as
acceptable fiscal policy and identifies the conditions for
achieving and sustaining the political acceptability of such a
policy. This article
was cited as one of the few serious studies of the politics of
budget surpluses, and as such offers insights for the political
prospects of sustained surpluses in the United States.
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