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Education | Research and Professional Interests | Experience | Recent Courses Taught | Selected Recent 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
Experience2011-present
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
2009-2010
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 325 – Public Policy Analysis
UAPP 606 – Local Economic Development
UAPP 668 – Government Budgets and Fiscal Federalism
UAPP 694 – Financial Management
UAPP 829 – Taxation and Fiscal Policies
Selected Recent PresentationsSkelcher, C., C. Durose, and J. B. Justice, organizers. 2011. ESRC seminar: Beyond the state: Third party government in comparative perspective, Birmingham, U.K., June 9-10, 2011.
Justice, J. B., J. G. McNutt, and E. S. Smith, Jr. 2011. Holding governments accountable for the public purse What institutional, organizational, and environmental factors promote fiscal transparency? Paper presented at the First Global Conference on Transparency Research, Newark, N.J., May 19, 2011.
McNutt, J. G., J. B. Justice, and E. S. Smith, Jr. 2011. State fiscal transparency, e-government performance and social capital. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Urban Affairs Association, New Orleans, La., March 17, 2011.
Justice, J. B. 2011. Fiscal stewardship and democratic administration: Uneasy bedfellows? Presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Baltimore, Md., March 12, 2011.
Haberkorn, J., and J. B. Justice. 2010. Doing as well as teaching diversity: Cultural competence in a school of public affairs. Presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, San Jose, Calif., April 13.
Justice, J. B. 2010. East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District moving on. Paper presented at the conference Business Improvement Districts and the Evolution of Urban Governance, Philadelphia, Pa., January 22.
Peng, 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.Selected PublicationsJustice, J. B., and E. A. Scorsone. Forthcoming. Measuring and predicting local government fiscal stress: Theory and practice. In Handbook of local government fiscal health, ed. H. Levine, J. B. Justice, and E. A. Scorsone. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett.
Dubnick, M. J., J. B. Justice, and D. Bearfield. Forthcoming, 2011. Imagining and managing organizational evil. In The foundations of organizational evil, ed. C. L. Jurkiewicz. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.
Miller, G. J., and J. B. Justice. Forthcoming, 2011. Debt management networks. In Government budgeting and financial management in practice: Logics to make sense of ambiguity, by G. J. Miller. Boca Raton, Fla.: Taylor & Francis.
Miller, G. J., and J. B. Justice. 2011. Debt management networks and the proverbs of financial management. Municipal Finance Journal 31 (4): 19-40.
Justice, J. B., and G. J. Miller. 2011. Accountability and debt management: The case of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. American Review of Public Administration 41 (3): 313-328.
Justice, J. B. 2010. Moving on: The East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District. Drexel Law Review 3 (1): 227-41.
Justice, 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. 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.
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, Fla.: CRC Press.
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.
Justice, J. B., and S. Simon. 2002. Municipal bond insurance: Trends and prospects. Public Budgeting and Finance 22 (4): 114-37.
