Jay Eungha Ryu is Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. He has his undergraduate degree in political science from Seoul National University, Korea in 1986. He has his MPA degrees from Seoul National University (1988) and the George Washington University (1998). He has his Ph.D. from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia (2003).

His areas of specialization are public administration and public budgeting and finance. He has been especially interested in how to improve the productivity of the public sector with a focus on public values. His current research areas have been focused on budget theories and organizational performance.

Publications

• Ryu, J. E. 2009. Exploring the Factors for Budget Stability and Punctuations: A Preliminary Analysis of State Government Sub-Functional Expenditures. Policy Studies Journal 37(3)
• Ryu, J. E., and H. G. Rainey. 2009. Collaborative Public Management and Organizational Design: One-Stop Shopping Structures in Employment Training Programs. In The Collaborative Public Manager, edited by Rosemary O’Leary and Lisa B. Bingham, 177-194. Washington D. C.: Georgetown University Press.
• Fernandez, S., J. E. Ryu, and J. L. Brudney. 2008. Exploring Variations in Contracting for Services among American Local Governments: Do Politics Still Matter? American Review of Public Administration 38(4)
• Ryu, J. E., C. J. Bowling, C. Cho, and D. S. Wright. 2008. Exploring Explanations of State Agency Budgets: Institutional Budget Actors or Exogenous Environment? Public Budgeting and Finance 28(3)
• Ryu, J. E. 2007. Federal Highway Assistance Funds in the State Infrastructure Bank (SIB) Programs: Mechanisms, Merits, and Modifications. Public Budgeting and Finance 27(4)
• Ryu, J. E., C. J. Bowling, C. Cho, and D. S. Wright. 2007. Effects of Administrator’s Aspirations, Political Principals’ Priorities, and Interest Groups’ Influence on State Agency Budget Requests. Public Budgeting and Finance 27(2)
• Ryu, J. E. 2006. Fiscal Impacts of an Innovative Highway Financing Alternative on State Highway Expenditures: The Case of Federal Assistance Funds in the State Infrastructure Bank (SIB) Programs. Public Works Management and Policy 11(1)
• Brudney, J. L., S. Fernandez, J. E. Ryu, and D. S. Wright. 2005. “Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(3)
• Rainey, H. G., and J. E. Ryu. 2004. Framing High Performance and Innovativeness in Government: A Review and Assessment of Research. In The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration, edited by Patricia W. Ingraham and Laurence Lynn, 20-45. Washington D. C.: Georgetown University Press.

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