John Bartle University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE, USA

John R. Bartle is the David Scott Diamond professor of public affairs at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His research on public budgeting and finance has been published in Municipal Finance Journal, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly, State and Local Government Review and many other professional publications. His book, Sustainable Development for Public Administration (with Deniz Leuenberger) was published in 2009. He is co-editing for ICMA, Management Policies in Local Government Finance, (6th edition) that will be out later this year. He is very active in professional organizations and has served on the executive council for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the national council for the American Society for Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. in public policy and management from The Ohio State University in 1990.