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Marvin Hoffman

hoffman

Current Position

Professor of Government and Justice Studies.
Director of the MPA Program.
Graduate Faculty

Areas of Expertise & Interest                                                   

Local government management
P ublic safety issues
Telecommunications
Disaster planning

 

Phone and Email
(828) 262-3075
hoffmanmk@appstate.edu

Campus Mailing Address
Appalachian State University
Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice
ASU Box 32107
Boone, NC  28608

Office Location 1003 Old Belk Library Building

Website
www.pscj.appstate.edu/faculty/hoffman2.html

Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia, Political Science, 1971
M.A., University of Georgia, Political Science, 1969
B.A., Rutgers University, Political Science, 1967


Courses Taught
MPA Capstone Course (graduate-level)
Public Budgeting and Financial Administration (graduate-level) Internship in Public Affairs
American National Government
State and Local Government
Introduction to Public Administration
Local Government Administration
Emergency Management

Publications

Fulbright Fellow, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia Fall 2007

“NASPAA Faculty and Their Involvement in Distance Education”, with Dragan Stefanovic’, Public Voices, Volume 5, Number 3 (2002), pp. 15-30.

“Current Trends in the Use of Technology for Improved Teaching And Access to Non-Traditional University Students in the United States”, with Dragan Stefanovic, a chapter in Nauczanie na Odleglosc:  Wyzwania-Tendenje-Applicajie (Distance Education: Challenges, Trends and Practices, authored by Professors Stanslaw Wrycza  and Jerzy Wojtowiaka, published by the University of Gdansk Press, Gdansk, Poland, 2002 (ISBN 83-7326-064-1).

“Wzmacnianie roli samorzdau localnego w procesie rozwoju ekonomicznego”, with Marian Turek, in Stanyslawa Dolata, Funcjonowani Samorzad Terytorianlego – Diagnozy I Perpektywy (Opole: University of Opole Press, 1997), pp. 407- 417.

“Prywatyzacja drog w USA.  Tendencje I doswiadczenia” with Marian Turek in M. Miecznikowski (ed) – Przemiany wlasnocieowe w transprocie. GTN, Gdansk, 1997). ISBN82-85843-73-6.  This chapter dealt with constructing and financing toll highways as a means of meeting Poland’s infrastructure needs.

“A Cross-National Survey of Public Opinion on the Environment, Government, the Media and Education:  The United States, East Germany, Poland and Hungary”, with Daniel B. German, in Geogy Cspeli, Laszlo Keri, Istvan Stumpf, and Daniel German, editors, Subject to Citizen: Options and Trajectories of Political Socialization and Education in Eastern Europe, (Budapest, Hungary: Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Science, 1994).

“A State-Wide Survey of North Carolina Public Opinion Toward the Environment, Government and the Media:  The Effects of Educational Attainment, Educational and Political Education, and the Media”, with Daniel B. German, in Russell F. Farnen, editor, Reconceptualizing Politics, Socialization and Education:  International Perspectives for the Next Century (Oldenburg, Germany:  Bibliotheks und Informations-system der Universitat Oldenburg, 1993).

“North Carolinians’ Concerns About the Environment”, with Daniel B. German, Popular Government, Volume 57 (Spring, 1992), pp. 15-20.

“Symposium on Urban Architecture, Planning and Politics: Structuring Human Environments”, edited with Daniel B. German, in Occasional Papers From Appalachian State University, Volume 1 (1991), Boone, NC: Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies and Research.

The Dynamics of Public Choice, Supplemental Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science – SETUPS #7 (Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 1975).

“The Independent Effect of Region on State Government Expenditures”, with James E. Prather, Social Science Quarterly, June, 1972, pp. 52-65.

“Spurious Correlation in Aggregate Data Analysis Using Index Variables”, with James E. Prather, Georgia Political Science Association Journal, Volume 1 (1973), pp. 102-111.

“The Development of Racial Differences in Children’s Orientations Toward the Legal System”, with Daniel B. German, Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 21 (1975), pp. 1-12.