Office: Physics Building, Room 5916
Phone: (414) 229-5916
e-mail: percy@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/~percy
Degrees:
Ph.D., Indiana University
A.B., Hamilton College
Research Interests:
Urban politics, public policy and implementation, and urban service delivery
Current Projects:
Ongoing empirical study of the public choice model of metropolitan governance, with particular attention to the Tiebout model's assumption about the behavior of rational citizen consumers and their impact on governance.
Selected Publications:
"Education for Empowerment: Creating a Community Action Scholars Program," with Daniel Folkman and Kalyani Rai, Metropolitan Universities, Volume 8, No. 4 (Spring), 1998.
"School Choice in Milwaukee: Privatization of a Different Breed," with Peter E. Maier, Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter), 1996, 649-665.
"Residential Community Associations and the American Intergovernmental System," with Brett W. Hawkins and Stephen R. Montreal, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 27, No. 3 (Summer), 1997, 1-14.
American Government: The Political Game, with Gordon P. Whitaker. Dubuque, Iowa: Brown and Benchmark Publishers, 1994.
Disability, Civil Rights and Public Policy: The Politics of Implementation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1989. Paperback Edition, with new introduction, 1992.
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