Bruce A. Wallin

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

339 Meserve Hall
(617) 373-4405
(617) 373-5311 (fax)
b.wallin@neu.edu
Vita

Areas of Study

Public Policy, Public Finance, American Government

Selected Publications

Symposium Editor, "Tax and Expenditure Limitations: A Quarter Century after Proposition 13," PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE, vol 24, no. 4, Winter 2004. Authored "The Tax Revolt in Massachusetts: Revolution and Reason," and co-authored "Tax and Expenditure Limitations: Introduction."
"Aligning Resources, Needs and Wants: Public Budgeting and Management," in Charles C. Euchner, ed., GOVERNING GREATER BOSTON, 2003 Edition (Cambridge: Rapporport Institute for Greater Boston, Harvard University, 2003)
"Forces Behind Centralization and Decentralization in the United States," Quebec Provincial Commission on Fiscal Imbalance, September 2002
"State Finances at the Millennium," PROCEEDINGS, NINE-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL TAX ASSOCATION, (Washington, DC: National Tax Association, 2000)
"State Budget Processes," Jane Gravelle and Joe Cordes, eds., THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TAXATION AND TAX POLICY, (Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1999)
From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998; Winner of the 1999 American Political Science Association award for Best Book on Urban Politics
"Revenue Sharing as Public Investment: Why Unrestricted Aid to Local Governments Will Stimulate Municipal Capital Expenditures" in Max Sawicky (ed) The End of Welfare? Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999
"The Need for a Privatization Process: Lessons from Development and Implementation," Public Administration Review, 57:1 (1997)
"What Would The Balanced Budget Amendment Mean for Massachusetts," The Twentieth Century Fund, 1997
"Federal Cutbacks and the Fiscal Condition of the States," Publius 26:3 (1996)
"Coercive Federalism and the Search for Constitutional Limits," with Michael C. Tolley, Publius, 25: 4 (Fall, 1995)

Selected Professional Activities

"City Fiscal Stress and Response," research project for the Brookings Institution 2002-2004
Fulbright Scholar Senior Specialist, 2004-
Review Committee, Central Europe, CIES/Fulbright Commission, 2001-2003
Executive Council, Organized Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Political Science Association
Faculty Associate, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Fulbright Lecturer, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2001
Visiting Professor, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
University Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 1997-1998

Courses 2006-2007

Fall 2006

POL U150 American Government
POL G303 Budgeting

Courses 2005-2006

Fall 2005

POL U335 Budgeting and Taxation
POL G303 Public Budgeting and Finance Mgmt.

Courses 2004-2005

Fall 2004

POL U335 The Politics of Budgeting and Taxation

Spring 2005

POL U150 American Government
POL G303 Public Budgeting