Dan Smith
Associate Dean for the Social Sciences
Professor of Public Policy & Administration
University of Delaware
4 Kent Way
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2793
Biography
Dan Smith is associate dean for the social sciences in the College of
Arts & Sciences and professor of public policy and
administration in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy &
Administration. He previously served as associate director of the Biden
School and director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA)
program. He also has served as president of the College of Arts &
Sciences Faculty Senate and as a member of the University Faculty Senate
Budget Committee.
Smith’s scholarship focuses on state
government budgeting and financial management, especially fiscal
institutions, the implications of how states accumulate and use fund
balances, and how states strategically plan for long-term fiscal health.
His research appears in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
(JPAM), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART),
Public Administration Review (PAR), Public Budgeting & Finance and
Public Choice, among others. In addition, he is on the editorial boards
of Public Administration and State & Local Government Review, has
been co-editor of JPART, has served on the editorial board of PAR and
several other journals and is co-author of two widely adopted
textbooks: Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit
Organizations (Sage/CQ Press), and Government and Not-for-Profit
Accounting: Concepts and Practices (Wiley).
Extramurally, Smith
is a member of the Commission on Peer Review & Accreditation
(COPRA), the Council for Higher Education Accreditation
(CHEA)—recognized accreditation body for master’s degree programs in
public policy, administration, and affairs, globally. Previously, he
served on the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council
(GASAC), and he is a past chair of the Association for Budgeting and
Financial Management (ABFM).
Smith earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration at The University of Georgia.
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