Faculty & Staff

1. Core Faculty
2. Courtesy Appointments
3. Adjunct Faculty
4. Visiting Professors/Scholars
5. Lecturers
6. Emeriti Faculty
7. Staff
8. Advisory Board

Faculty & Staff

Core Faculty

Mary Marvel
Associate Professor

Mary K. Marvel is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University. Her research interests include policy formulation, implementation, and program evaluation. Professor Marvel has published in the Journal of Human Resources, Administration and Society, Policy Studies Review, Public Choice, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Education Finance, and Urban Affairs Review. She is on the Editorial Board of Evaluation Review. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan, and a Visiting Research Associate at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Research

"Government-to-Government Contracting: Stewardship, Agency, and Substitution" (with H.P. Marvel) International Public Management Journal, forthcoming.

"Outsourcing, Oversight: A Comparison of Monitoring for In-House and Contracted Services" (with Howard P. Marvel) Public Administration Review (May/June 2007): 521-530.

"The Ratio of Beef Cubes to Onions (6:1) om Hungarian Goulash and Public Sector Contracting: Market-Like or Market-Lite" (with Howard P. Marvel) Policy Currents 12 (Summer 2003): 2-4.

"Sources of Educational Funding and Input Decisions: Evidence from Ohio School Districts" (with Howard P. Marvel) 1999.

"Apples to Apples: Comparing Public and Private Contracting for Comparable Goods and Services (with Howard P. Marvel) 1999.

"An Equilibrium Model of Tax Abatement: City and Firm Characteristics as Determinants of Generosity," (with Patricia Byrnes and Kala Sridhar) Urban Affairs Review (July 1999): 805-819.

"Revenue Windfall and School Input Choices," (with Howard Fleeter) Journal of Education Finance (Spring 1997): 410-421.

Measuring the Impact of Alternative Regulatory Reforms (with Raymond W. Lawton, Edwin A. Rosenberg, and Nancy Zearfoss. 1994).

"The Economic Impact of Development: Honda in Ohio," Economic Development Quarterly (February 1993): 50-62.