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Education | Research and Professional Interests | Experience | Recent Courses Taught | Selected Presentations | Selected Publications
EducationPhD, Rutgers University–Newark, 2003, Public Administration
MPA, Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York, 1994
BA, Swarthmore College, 1983, Ancient Greek
Research and Professional Interestspublic budgeting and finance, fiscal transparency, public-sector accountability and decision making, non- and quasi-governmental public administration, local economic development
Experience2009-present
Associate Professor, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
2003-2009
Assistant Professor, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
2005-2006
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Local Government Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
2002
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration, Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J.
1998-2002
Excellence Fellow, Teaching Assistant, and Dissertation Fellow, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
1989-1998
Program Coordinator and Senior Program Coordinator, New York City School Construction Authority, Long Island City, N.Y.
1987-1989
Project Officer and Senior Project Officer, Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, Jersey City, N.J.
1985-1987
Business Improvement District Coordinator, Flatbush Development Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Recent Courses TaughtUAPP 606 – Local Economic Development
UAPP 666 – Studio in Main Street Preservation and Revitalization
UAPP 829 – Taxation and Fiscal Policies
UAPP 833 – Financial Management
Selected PresentationsPeng, J., and J. B. Justice. 2009. Municipal bond insurance, credit ratings, and capital finance in the Wake of the Financial Crisis. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Washington, D.C., September 24.
Justice, J. B., and F. J. Tarimo. 2009. NGOs holding governments accountable: Civil-society "budget work" at home and abroad. Paper presented at the Fifth Transatlantic Dialogue on Public Administration, Washington, D.C., June 11.
Scorsone, E., Justice, J. B., and Bradshaw, N. 2008. Simulation Analysis of a Fiscal Stress Measurement System: The Case of Michigan. Paper presented to the Association for Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Chicago, Ill., October 23.
Justice, J. B. and Gerald J. Miller. 2008. Debt networks and accountability: The case of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital program and debt restructuring. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Dallas, Tex., March 9.
Justice, J. B. 2007. Helping smaller jurisdictions “manage for results”: Adapting the GPP [Government Performance Project] framework. Presentation at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Washington, D.C., March 25.
Selected PublicationsJustice, J. B., and C. Skelcher. 2009. Analyzing democracy in third-party governance: Business improvement districts in the U.S. and U.K. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33 (3): 738-53.
Justice, J. B., and C. Skelcher. 2009. Business improvement districts and the design of third-party governance: Framing business leadership in urban subdistrict regeneration. In Public sector leadership: International challenges and perspectives, ed. J.A. Raffel, P. Leisink and A. Middlebrooks, 196-213. Edward Elgar.
Justice, J. B., and C. Dülger. 2009. Fiscal transparency and authentic citizen participation in public budgeting: The role of third-party intermediation. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 21 (2): 254-88. (Invited article.)
Justice, J. B., S. Condliffe, and L. J. Interlante. 2008. Intergovernmental aid under the radar? Assessing the redevelopment of the Wilmington, Delaware riverfront. Municipal Finance Journal 29 (2): 21-46.
Justice, J. B., and R.W. Goldsmith. 2008. Private governments or public policy tools? The law and public policy of New Jersey's special improvement districts. In Business Improvement Districts: Research, controversies, and theories, ed. G. Mörçol, L. Hoyt, J. Meek and U. Zimmerman, 161-95. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Justice, J. B. 2008. Budgets and accountability [completely rewritten]. In Encyclopedia of public administration and public policy, ed. E. M. Berman and J. Rabin, vol. 1, 209-16. 2nd ed. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Justice, J. B., J. Melitski, and D. Smith. 2006. E-Government as an instrument of fiscal accountability and responsiveness: Do the best practitioners employ the best practices? American Review of Public Administration 36 (3): 301-22.
Dubnick, M. J., and J. B. Justice. 2006. Accountability and the evil of administrative ethics. Administration and Society 38 (2): 236-67.
Miller, G. J., J. B. Justice, and I. Illiash. 2004. Practice as interpretation in public financial management. In Financial management theory in the public sector, ed. A. Kahn and W. B. Hildreth, 89-114. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Justice, J. B., and S. Simon. 2002. Municipal bond insurance: Trends and prospects. Public Budgeting and Finance 22 (4): 114-37.
