Richard C. Feiock Florida State University, USA

Richard C. Feiock is director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Governance and the August B. Turnbull Professor in the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. His research on urban administration, collaborative governance, economic development, and other topics has been published in Urban Affairs Review, Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Journal of Political Science, and other journals. He has written and edited several books, including Institutional Constraints and Local Government: An Exploration of Local Governance (State University of New York Press 2001), City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives (M.E. Sharpe 2004), and Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Georgetown University Press 2004). His most recent book (with John Scholz), Self-Organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action, will be published in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kansas in 1986.