Editors-in-Chief of the Urban Affairs Review: 1965 - present

Marilyn J. Gittell (1965-1970)

Peter Bouxsein (1970-1973)

Louis H. Masotti (1974-1980)

Albert Hunter and Robert L. Lineberry (1980-1981)

Margaret T. Gordon, Albert Hunter and Robert L. Lineberry (1981-1982)

Margaret T. Gordon and Albert Hunter (1982-1984)

Albert Hunter (1984-1985)

Dennis R. Judd and Donald Phares (1985-1992)

Dennis R. Judd (1992-2002)

Susan E. Clarke, Gary L. Gaile and Michael A. Pagano (2002-2009)

Susan E. Clarke and Michael A. Pagano (2009-2013)

Peter Burns, Jered B. Carr, Annette Steinacker, and Antonio Tavares (2014 – Present)

Introducing Our Assistant Managing Editor: Aleea Perry

Aleea Perry is a PhD candidate in public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as Assistant Managing Editor of the Urban Affairs Review. Her research interests are organizational development, public policy, public finance, and public management. Prior to starting her PhD program, she was the Director of Grant Development at two community colleges and had her own grant writing business. She is a MPA graduate of Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Introducing Our Editors: António Tavares

António Tavares is associate professor, Director of the Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences, and Chair of the Department of International Relations and Public Administration at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. He is co-editor of the Urban Affairs Review, the journal affiliated with the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. His research interests comprise topics in the fields of local government and urban politics, including territorial reforms, regional governance, service delivery, and political and civic engagement. His research has been published in a wide range of journals in political science, public administration and urban affairs, including Journal of Urban Affairs, Local Government Studies, Policy Studies Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Management Review, and European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. Tavares is editor of Research and Teaching of Public Administration in Portugal (in Portuguese) (Lisbon, Escolar Editora, 2006). Tavares received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Minho, Portugal, and a B.A. in Organizational Sociology from the University of Minho, Portugal. He served as Director of the B.A. in Public Administration at the University of Minho between November 2005 and February 2008. He teaches Local Government, Theories of the Policy Process, and Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation and is involved in professional training for upper level civil servants in the fields of public policy and administration.

Introducing Our Editors: Annette Steinacker

Annette Steinacker, PhD is the Director of the Urban Affairs and Public Policy Program at Loyola University Chicago.  Her research primarily focuses on issues of urban economic development and metropolitan governance.  She has done work on changes in the number and types of jobs available in central cities, factors that influence the location decisions of businesses, and the role of property tax abatements as part of a local economic development strategy.   Dr. Steinacker has also studied the impact that local government organization has on public policy outcomes and the political feasibility of changing these structures.  Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, several private foundations, and local government agencies.

Dr. Steinacker received her PhD in political science from the University of Rochester, a Masters of Public Administration from Texas A & M University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She previous taught at Columbia University, Texas A & M University, Georgetown University, University of Miami, and Claremont Graduate University.  She was Director of the Public Policy program at Claremont for ten years prior to joining Loyola University Chicago and served as Associate Provost for Faculty Development at Claremont Graduate University.

http://www.luc.edu/politicalscience/faculty.shtml

Introducing Our Editors: Jered B. Carr

Carr received his Ph.D degree in public administration from the Askew School at Florida State University and an M.A. in economics and B.A. in finance from Florida Atlantic University.

His dissertation, “The Political Economy of Local Government Boundary Change: State Laws, Local Actors, and Collection Action,” received the 2001 Leonard White Award from the American Political Science Association.

Carr is co-editor of City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape (ME Sharpe, 2004). His research has been published in a wide range of journals in public administration and urban affairs, including the American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Urban Affairs, Local Government Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Publius, State and Local Government Review, Urban Affairs Review and Urban Studies.

Previous to joining UIC, Carr was a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Wayne State University, the College of Charleston and worked as a policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. He is an active member in the American Political Science Association, the Urban Affairs Association and the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of the American Society for Public Administration.

Jered B. Carr is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Carr’s teaching and research interests are in intergovernmental management, metropolitan governance, and local government administration. He teaches courses in intergovernmental management, public administration, urban policy and local government administration. He has ongoing research programs focused on effective metropolitan governance, public services contracting, risk perceptions in intergovernmental service collaborations, the effects of city size and density on civic and political engagement.

Many of Carr’s published articles can be downloaded from the research network website ResearchGate (http://www.researchgate.net/) and a full list of his published research is included in his CV available on the main faculty page at http://cuppa-pa.uic.edu/the-department/faculty/dr-carr/

Introducing Our Editors: Peter Burns

Peter Burns is professor of political science at Loyola University New Orleans.  He is co-author of Can the Big Easy be Reformed: Rebuilding New Orleans (under contract at Cornell University Press).  He is author of Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics (SUNY Press, 2006).  Burns is a member of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association.  He has served on the executive council of the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association.  Burns co-organized the urban politics panels for the American Political Science Association and Southern Political Science Association.  Burns’ research has appeared in Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, and Social Science Quarterly.

http://css.loyno.edu/polisci/bio/peter-burns

Welcome Message from Jered Carr, Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review

This blog provides news about research published in the Urban Affairs Review (UAR). For more than 50 years, scholars have turned to UAR for the latest research on the politics, governance, and public policies of urban and regional settings. The UAR Blog summarizes recently published articles, links to podcasts about recently published articles, publishes book notes, and provides article compilations from the first 50 years of UAR.

UAR Blog Editors

Jered B. Carr, Co-Editor and Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review

Professor and Department Head, Department of Public Administration

University of Illinois at Chicago

[Link to his introductory post]

Aleea Perry, Assistant Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Public Administration

University of Illinois at Chicago

[Link to her introductory post]

About UAR

UAR is an outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on the politics, governance, and public policies of urban and regional settings throughout the world. We welcome research employing any methodological approach and comparative analyses are of particular interest. Research focused on specific settings, events, or policies must have some general theoretical significance.

UAR welcomes papers on any topics relevant to the urban themes of politics, governance, and public policy. Common topics in recent years include: urban policy; urban economic development; residential and community development; governance and service delivery; comparative/international urban research; and social, spatial, and cultural dynamics.

UAR’s four co-editors-in-chief are (listed alphabetically):

Peter Burns, Department of Political Science, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, pburns@loyno.edu

[Link to his introductory post]

Jered B. Carr, Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, jbcarr@uic.edu

[Link to his introductory post]

Annette Steinacker, Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago, USA, asteinacker@luc.edu

[Link to her introductory post]

Antonio Tavares, Department of International Relations and Public Administration, University of Minho, Portugal, atavares@eeg.uminho.pt

[Link to his introductory post]

Contact UAR

Learn more about Urban Affairs Review, including submission information, here:

http://uar.sagepub.com/

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