NC State
Bruce D. McDonald, III

Journal Symposium Editor

“Social Spillovers of Defense.” Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review. Vol. 41. 2013.


Book Chapters

“Public Administration Perspectives in Pilgrimage.” In Warfield, H. (Ed.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Pilgrimage: Historical, Current, and Future Directions. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Publishing.

“History of Public Administration Education in the United States” (with William Hatcher and Michaela Abbott). In Bottom, K. A., Dunning, P., Elliot, I., & Diamond, J. (Eds.) Handbook on the Teaching of Public Administration. Cheltenham, UK. Edward Elgar Publishing. Forthcoming.

“To Accredit or Not to Accredit” (with J.W. Decker, Matthew D. Leigh, and Michaela Abbott). In Hamidullah, M. (Ed.) Undergraduate Public Affairs Education: Educating Future Generations of Public and Nonprofit Administrators. New York, NY: Routledge. Forthcoming.

“Using Case Studies in Public Budgeting and Finance” (with Meagan Jordan and Alfred Ho). In McDonald, B. D., & Jordan, M. (Eds.), Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance: A Guide for Teaching Professional Competencies. New York, NY: Routledge. Forthcoming.

“Incorporating Social Equity” (with Sean McCandless). In McDonald, B. D., & Jordan, M. (Eds.), Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance: A Guide for Teaching Professional Competencies. New York, NY: Routledge. Forthcoming.

“Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance” (with Meagan Jordan). In McDonald, B. D., & Jordan, M. (Eds.), Teaching Public Budgeting and Finance: A Guide for Teaching Professional Competencies. New York, NY: Routledge. Forthcoming.

“Managing Your Public Affairs Program” (with William Hatcher). In McDonald, B. D., & Hatcher, W. (Eds.), The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs (pp. 1-10). New York, NY: Routledge. 2020.

“Conclusion” (with William Hatcher). In McDonald, B. D., & Hatcher, W. (Eds.), The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs (pp. 259-266). New York, NY: Routledge. 2020.

“Consensus Forecasting” (with J. W. Decker). In Williams, D., & Calabrese, T. (Eds.), Handbook of Government Budget Forecasting (pp. 397-412). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.

“Forecasting Prison Populations” (with J. W. Decker and Matthew Hunt”. In Williams, D., & Calabrese, T. (Eds.), Handbook of Government Budget Forecasting (pp. 345-359). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.

“Cost Accounting for Government Grants” (with Robert J. Eger, III). In Mohr, Z. T. (Ed.), Cost Accounting in Government: Theory and Applications (pp. 81-99). London, UK: Routledge. 2017 .

“The Job Training of Veterans” (with Myung H. Jin, Susie Camilleri, and Vincent Reitano). In Hicks, L., Weiss, E. L., & Coll, J. E. (Eds.), The Civilian Lives of U.S. Veterans: Issues and Identities (Vol. 1, pp.113-136). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO. 2017.


Referred Conference Proceedings

“Staying Put: A Rebuttal to Tiebout.” In Meglich, P. (Ed.), Annual Proceedings of the National Business and Economics Society. Miami, Florida: North American Business Press. 2010.

“The Professionalization of Public Administration: The Impact of the Bureau of Municipal Research on the Development of Public Administration.” In Xiao-ning, Z. & Shu-rong, Z. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Public Administration (pp. 703-711). Chengdu, China: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Press. 2008.


Other Publications

“Book Review: Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions.” Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs. Forthcoming.

Book Review: Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry.” Public Integrity. Forthcoming.

“COVID-19 is an Unfolding Health and Financial Crisis for US Local Governments” (with Sarah E. Larson). U. S. Centre, London School of Economics. 2020.

“Why States Should Concentrate on Job Creation Schemes Over Other Forms of Business Incentives” (with J. W. Decker and Brad A. M. Johnson). U. S. Centre, London School of Economics. 2020.

“Protecting and Promoting JPAE’s Legacy” (with William Hatcher). PA Times. 2018.

“New Research in Public Administration: The ‘Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs’” (with Shayne Kavanagh). Government Finance Review, 31(2), 8. 2015.

“An Introduction to Dirty Forecasting.” Government Finance Review, 29(5), 57-60. 2013.

“Book Review: The Values of Presidential Leadership.” Public Integrity, 10(3), 291-293. 2008.

Report: Charging Indigent Floridians Civil Court Filing Fees Raises Questions of Cost Efficiency and Equal Access to the Florida Court System. Tallahassee, FL: Florida TaxWatch Research Institute. 2008.


Refereed Papers Presented at Conferences and Symposia

“Moving Toward Comparability: Assessing per-Student Costs in K-12” (with Robert J. Eger, III). Presented at the Annual Research Conference of the American Accounting Association’s Forensic and Investigative Accounting Section. Baton Rouge, LA: May 7 – 8, 2010.

“The Professionalization of Public Administration: The Impact of the Bureau of Municipal Research on the Development of Public Administration.” Presented at the International Conference of Public Administration. Minneapolis, MN: September 24 – 26, 2008.


Invited Paper Presentations

“You Don’t Always Get What You Want: The Effect of Financial Incentives on State Fiscal Health.” Presented at the Department of Political Science, University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL: February 28, 2019.

“Local Governments: Fiscal Health and the Legal Implications.” Presented at the School of Law, University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: November 9, 2018.

“The Role of Governance in Economic Emergence.” Presented at the Department of Economics, Abdou Moumouni University. Niamey, Niger: September 14, 2018.

“Measuring the Fiscal Health of Municipalities.” Presented at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s International Conference on Municipal Fiscal Health. Detroit, MI: May 22, 2018.

“Dirty Forecasting Comes Clean.” Presented at the Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Minneapolis, MN: August 21, 2014.

“Dirty Forecasting.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Government Finance Officers Association. Chicago, IL: June 11, 2012.