Using the "Narcotrafico" Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity Between the Us and Mexico

"This book collects chapters written by leading experts working in the trenches of U.S.-Mexico policy issues. Topics covered include immigration, drug flow and conflict, gun-running, money-laundering, and the economic and cultural impacts on both sides.The book shows how the current situation of drug trafficking and violence, on top of the other existing perceptions and conditions, create a real opportunity for the U.S. to build relationships with its Mexican counterparts at state, local, national, andNGO levels. The book offers concrete, long-term solutions for cooperation and shared public administrative capacity on both sides of the border. "--

Dr. Marilyn Marks Rubin is a Professor of Public Administration and Economics at John Jay College of the City of New York where she teaches courses in Fiscal Policy, Economics and Research Methods and is Director of the College’s MPA Program. She has served as a consultant on fiscal policy, revenue forecasting, economic development and strategic planning for municipal, state and federal entities as well as Moody’s Investors Service, the United Nations and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Dr. Rubin is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Board to the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee and the Property Tax Advisory Board to the New York City Department of Finance. She has authored several publications on fiscal policy and budget-related issues and has served as advisor to the Korean Women’s Development Institute on gender budgeting; the government of Thailand on performance evaluation; and in Ecuador under the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program where she worked to establish the country’s first MPA program. She has also been a visiting professor at a number of universities outside the U.S. A former Chairperson of The Association for Budgeting and Financial Management of the American Society for Public Administration, Dr. Rubin is a member of the editorial board of Public Budgeting and Finance. She is a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and winner of a Distinguished Research Award from the American Society for Public Administration.

Dr. Katherine Willoughby is a Professor of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, where she has been conducting research and teaching for the past 23 years. Her primary focus of research is on state government budgetary and fiscal management. Her book, Policy and Politics in State Budgeting, coauthored with Dr. Kurt Thurmaier, examines the relationship between budgeting and policy development as seen through the eyes of analysts employed in executive budget offices in 11 U.S. state governments in the South and Midwest. She served as the grading team leader in the area of budget and financial management for the 2005 and 2008 Government Performance Project, a national effort funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and its Center on the States. Her most current research examines performance budgeting laws and effects in the American states. Other recent research focuses on the fiscal health of the City of Atlanta. Applied projects include the impact of the incorporation of the City of Dunwoody on DeKalb County finances; collaboration with GASB in the study of state government performance measurement applications; assessment of the development of statewide immunization registries and their implications for individual privacy; and assistance with the development of an applied knowledge assessment tool for local government managers. For over a decade, she has been a research associate with the Andrew Young School’s International Center for Public Policy, providing training and consulting support to budget, finance and other government officials and staff from countries around the world.