Rick Feiock

Richard Feiock
Augustus B. Turnbull Professor

Ph.D., Kansas, Political Science
M.P.A., Kansas
B.A., Penn State, Political Science

Specializations: local government, public policy, and institutions and organizations

Phone: (850) 644-7615
Email: rfeiock@fsu.edu
Office: 642 Bellamy
   

Richard C. Feiock (Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1986) is internationally recognized for his expertise in local government and local democratic institutions. He is the Augustus B. Turnbull Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Affiliate Professor of Political Science. He was founding director of the DeVoe Moore Center's Program in Local Governance and served as Ph.D. Program Director for the Askew School from 1999-2004. He currently directs the Sustainable Energy & Governance unit of FSU's Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability. In that role he directs research investigating the role of government and governance institutions in shaping sustainable energy outcomes.

Professor Feiock has lectured in Moscow (Russia and Idaho), Lisbon, Seoul, Mexico City, Beijing, and throughout the U.S. and was a Fulbright Fellow in South Korea in 2005-06. He has been principal investigator on four National Science Foundation research grant awards and has received grant awards from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Aspen Institute, IBM Center for the Business of Government, and the Fulbright Scholar Program. Professor Feiock has written or edited six books over one-hundred refereed journal articles. His work appears in the leading scholarly journals of political science, public administration, and urban affairs. His most recent work in collaboration with John Scholz is an edited book Self-organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.



Recent Publications and Papers

“Competitors and Cooperators: A Micro-Level Analysis of Regional Collaboration Networks,” with In-Won Lee and Youngmi Lee, Public Administration Review 71, forthcoming, 2011.

Richard C. Feiock “Transaction Cost, Exchange Embeddedness and Interlocal Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply,” with Manoj Shrestha, Political Research Quarterly Quarterly 64 (3: 573-87, 2011.

“Politics, Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: City Decisions Leading to Inventoried  Green House Gas Emissions,” with Jungah Bae, Carbon Management 2(4): 443-453, 2011.

“Joint Ventures, Economic Development Policy, and the Role of Local Governing Institutions,”  with Christopher Hawkins,  American Review of Public Administration 41: 329-347, 2011.

“Overcoming the Barriers to Cooperation: Intergovernmental Service Agreements,” with Sung-Wook Kwon,  Public Administration Review 70 (6): 876-885, 2010 (recipient of the Marshall E. Dimock Award for the best lead article),  2010.

"Collaboration Networks Among Local Elected Officials: Information, Commitment, and Risk Aversion" with In Won Lee, Hyung Jun Park, and Kyong-Hyung Lee.  Urban Affairs Review 47 (2): 241-62, 2010.

"City Managers' Policy Leadership in Council-Manager Cities,"  with Yahong Zhang,  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20: 461 – 476, 2010.

 Self-organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas. edited book with John Scholz, Cambridge University  Press, 2010.

Recent Awards and Achievements

Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Florida State University, 2011.

Marshall E. Dimock Award for the best lead article in Public Administration Review 2010.

Donald C. Stone Award for Scholarship on Intergovernmental Administration and Management, American Society for Public Administration, SIAM, 2010.

Manning J. Dauer Award career achievement award, Florida Political Science Association, 2009

William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academician in Public Administration Review, 2009.Best Poster Presentation Award, Harvard Networks in Political Science Conference June 13-14, 2008.

Fulbright Research Fellowship, J. William Fulbright Scholar Program, 2006.

Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association, 2005.

Augustus B. Tunrbull Named Professorship, 2005.


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