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 2008-2009
Spring 2009
- POL U150 American Government
- POL U335 Budgeting and Taxation
Fall 2008
- POL U150 American Government
- POL G303 Public Budgeting
Courses 2007-2008
Spring 2008
- POL U335 Budgeting and Taxation
- POL G303 Public Budgeting
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.