Dr. David Matkin is an Assistant Professor in the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. Dr. Matkin has served in a number of practitioner positions before completing his Ph.D. He worked as an immigration officer at the Canadian border, trained and helped implement TANF and workforce policies in Utah, and served as the Assistant Ethics Administrator for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.

Dr. Matkin’s research examines multiple areas of public financial management, including: internal control and accountability, debt financing, budget reform, interlocal cooperation, and economic development through state tax credits.

Dr. Matkin received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. His dissertation examined the management of state corporate income tax incentives, and Dr. George Frederickson was his major professor. Dr. Matkin has an MPA from the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University.



Recent Publications and Papers
"In the Shadow of Corporate Scandal: The Use of Audit Committees in Local Government" Forthcoming in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management.

"Metropolitan Governance: Institutional Roles and Interjurisdictional Cooperation" (2009) in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 31 (1): 45-66, with H. George Frederickson.

“Public Leadership as Gardening” (2007) In Transforming Public Leadership in the 21st Century, edited by Ricardo Morse, Morgan Kinghorn and Terry Buss, National Academy of Public Administration in partnership with M.E. Sharpe, with H. George Frederickson.

“The Use of Corporate Income Tax Credits in Kansas” (January 2007). Technical report produced for the Kansas Department of Revenue.

Recent Awards and Achievements

2009 Faculty of the Year Award from the Askew School graduate student association (PAGA)

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