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Rick Feiock is internationally recognized for his expertise in local government and local democratic institutions. He is the Augustus B. Turnbull Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the Askew School and Affiliate Professor of Political Science. He directs the DeVoe Moore Center's Program in Local Governance and served as the Ph.D. Program Director for the Askew School from 1999-2005. He has lectured in Moscow, Seoul, Bejing and throughout the U.S. He is a Fulbright Fellow in South Korea in Spring 2006. He has received National Science Foundation research grants as well as grant awards from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Aspen Institute, and the Fulbright Scholar Program. He received his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University, and his M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Professor Feiock has published seven books or symposia and over one-hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in the leading scholarly journals of political science, public administration, and urban affairs. His recent books include Institutional Constraints and Local Government: An Exploration of Local Governance (SUNY Press 2001), City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives (M.E. Sharpe 2004) and Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation, (Georgetown University Press 2004).