Mark K. Cassell
Biography
Mark K. Cassell, Professor of Political Science at 5X社区, teaches public policy and administration courses, European politics, comparative public policy, and urban politics. Professor Cassell also directs the Washington Program in National Issues (WPNI), Kent State's internship program in Washington DC, which has given Kent State undergraduates to work in the nation's capital for nearly 50 years. His scholarship is mainly concerned with understanding public sector transformations.
Professor Cassell's scholarship includes a number of books, including his most recent work, . The book examines how Germany's public savings banks survive and thrive in the too-big-too fail world of global finance. The book includes a chapter on the United States' efforts at establishing public banking alternatives. Cassell and his co-author, Susan Hoffmann, published (SUNY Press, 2010). The book explores the history and development of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. And finally, Cassell also published the award-winning book, (Georgetown University Press, 2003). The book compares the Resolution Trust Corporation with Germany's Treuhandanstalt, the agency charged with taking over, managing, and privatizing the industrial assets of former East Germany. The book received the 2003 Charles H. Levine Award for the best book in public policy and administration. The book was also revised and translated into Russia in 2016, 袣邪泻 袩褉邪胁懈褌械谢褜褋褌胁邪 袩褉懈胁邪褌懈蟹懈褉褍褞褌: 袩芯谢懈褌懈泻邪 袪邪蟹芯斜谢邪褔械薪懈褟 胁 小芯械写懈薪械薪薪褘褏 楔褌邪褌邪褏 懈 袚械褉屑邪薪懈懈 (Moscow: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy).
In addition to book publications, Professor Cassell has published a number of recent articles on a variety of topics in comparative public policy including: "Urban challenges and the gig economy: How German cities cope with the rise of Airbnb" 2020 German Politics, 29(3) with Michelle Deutsch and "Explaining Germany鈥檚 Position on European Banking Union. 2020 German Politics, 28(4):1鈥21, with Anna Hutcheson.
Dr. Cassell's work also appears in Public Administration Review, German Politics, Journal of Banking Regulation, International Public Management Journal, Social Science Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, State and Local Government Review, and Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions.
Dr. Cassell holds a Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MPA from the Robert LaFollette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). Though he's most proud of his accomplishment on the tennis court. He was an NCAA All American in 1986 at UCSC. Go slugs.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Books
(Columbia University Press/Agenda Publishing. 2020).
(SUNY Press, 2010), with Susan Hoffmann.
(Georgetown University Press, 2003).
Articles
2020 German Politics, 29(3) with Michelle Deutsch.
2019 . German Politics, 28(4):1鈥21, with Anna Hutcheson.
2018 . PS: Political Science and Politics 52(2):1-7.
2016 Journal of Banking Regulation, Vol 17: 73-89.
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy 6(3), with Odeh Halaseh.
2012 When Smaller Governments Open the Window: A study of website creation, adoption and presence among smaller local governments in northeast Ohio State and Local Government Review 44(2): 91-100, with Sarah Mallaly.
Book Chapters
2019 The Global Economy and the 鈥淕reat Recession in K. Larres & R. Wittlinger (eds.) Global Politics: Actors and Themes. Understanding International Affairs (Routledge Press).
2016. 鈥淕ermany鈥檚 Approach to the Financial Crisis: A Product of Ordo-Liberalism鈥 in: Konrad H. Jarausch/Harald Wenzel/Karin Goihl (eds), Different Germans, Many Germanies. New Transatlantic Perspectives, New York: Bergman.
2010. 鈥淓ngaging Citizens on the Internet: An Assessment of Local Governments in Ohio,鈥 in Chris Reddick (ed.)Citizens and E-Government: Evaluating Policy and Management. Hershey, PA: IGA Global Publishers, with John Hoornbeek (reprint of the journal article in International Journal of Electronic Government Research on Citizens and E-Government).
2009. 鈥淲hen Local Governments Choose Open Source Technology,鈥 in Chris Reddick (ed.) Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies. Hershey, PA: IGA Global Publishers.
Education
M.A. in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
M.P.A. in Public Policy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
B.A. in Politics and Economics, University of California, 1987
Expertise
political economy
Economic Development
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