Background
Schneider, Mark was born on October 28, 1946 in New York City. Son of Irving and Ida (Schwartz) Schneider.
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The Competitive City: The Political Economy of Suburbia (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
( This timely and important book, which won a special cit...)
This timely and important book, which won a special citation from the American Political Science Association’s Urban Affairs Section for its “major theoretical development,” analyzes the effect of competition among suburban communities to attract residents and business with the best public services and the lowest taxes. Using data from a large sample of suburban cities, Mark Schneider offers a theoretical extension of the Tiebout-Peterson approach to understanding public policies and integrates this perspective with recent work on the power of bureaucrats to control budgets.
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Public Entrepreneurs
( Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transfor...)
Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they identify are most often mayors, city managers, or individual citizens. These entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas and implement new service and tax arrangements where existing administrative practices and budgetary allocations prove inadequate to meet a range of problems, from economic development to the racial transition of neighborhoods. How do public entrepreneurs emerge? How much does the future of urban development depend on them? This book answers these questions, using data from over 1,000 local governments. The emergence of public entrepreneurs depends on a set of familiar cost-benefit calculations. Like private sector risk-takers, public entrepreneurs exploit opportunities emerging from imperfect markets for public goods, from collective-action problems that impede private solutions, and from situations where information is costly and the supply of services is uneven. The authors augment their quantitative analysis with ten case studies and show that bottom-up change driven by politicians, public managers, and other local agents obeys regular and predictable rules.
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Mark Schneider
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Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, U. North Carolina, 1974.
Career
Assistant professor political science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1973-1974; assistant professor political science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1974-1978; associate professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1978-1985; professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, since 1985; department chairman, State University of New York, Stony Brook, since 1986. Fulbright senior lecturer, India, 1980-1981.
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The Competitive City: The Political Economy of Suburbia (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
( This timely and important book, which won a special cit...)
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Public Entrepreneurs
( Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transfor...)
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The Competitive City: The Political Economy of Suburbia (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
Membership
Member American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association.
Connections
Married Susan Roth, June 27, 1986. Children: Johanna, Elizabeth.
