Mark D. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. He conducts research and teaches in the area of public budgeting and finance. His research focuses on public preferences for taxing and spending, and on public debt. He presently serves on the board of Public Financial Publications, Inc; the publisher of Public Budgeting and Finance. He has also served as technical adviser to the Government Finance Officer’s Association’s Debt Committee, on the Commission for Peer Review and Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, and on the Government Accounting Standard Board’s Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council representing the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. Robbins received his Master’s degree from the University of Oregon, and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public finance administration and management, Public policy, Public administrative theory, Not-for-profit management, Quantitative research methods, Policy implementation, Debt management, Citizen participation techniques

EDUCATION EXPERIENCES

Ph.D., The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Public Administration, 1998

M.A., University of Oregon, Public Affairs, 1994

B.A., Gordon College, Wenham, MA, Psychology, 1984

Papers

• “Citizen perceptions of public school efficiency: evidence from the US” 2023. Public Management Review. (with Eric Brunner and Bill Simonsen).

• “Attachment to Government and Support for Government Debt” 2022. International Journal of Public Administration.  (with Eric Brunner and Bill Simonsen).

• “Experimental Evidence about Property Tax Word Aversion.” 2021. Public Budgeting and Finance (41)4: 50-70 with Eric Brunner and Bill Simonsen.

• “Fiscal Implications of Covid-19 in Connecticut.” 2020. Municipal Finance Journal. 41(2):13-23 with Bill Simonsen.

• “State of Florida Preparation and initial response to COVID-19 recession.” 2020. Municipal Finance Journal 41(2):25-36 with Hai (David) Guo.

• “Property Tax Information and Support for School Bond Referenda: Experimental Evidence.” Public Administration Review. Vol 81(3):488-499 with Eric J. Brunner and

• Bill Simonsen.

• “State of Connecticut Budgeting After the Great Recession”. 2019. Municipal Finance Journal. (40):2 with Bill Simonsen.

• “Information, Tax Salience, and support for School Bond Referenda” 2019. Public Budgeting and Finance (38)4: 52-73 with Eric Brunner and Bill Simonsen.

• “Social Class: reality and perception.” 2019. International Journal of Public Administration. (42)1: 55-65. with Jennifer Dineen and Bill Simonsen).

• “Experimental evidence about deficit reduction strategies: Bias in measuring tax and spending preferences.” 2017. Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management. 29 (1), 78-103 (with Jennifer Dineen and Bill Simonsen).

Books

• Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation.2000. Boulder, CO. Westview Press. Series: Urban Policy Challenges. Editor: Terry Nichols Clark. (With Bill Simonsen)

• 2004. Jesse Burkhead award for best paper published in Public Budgeting and Finance. (with Daehwan Kim)