James Douglas

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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Scholar, February 2016—Present, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.

  • Periodic affiliation where I work with TUT faculty on research projects, give lectures to students, and serve on doctoral committees.

Plenary Speaker at the annual conference of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). Topic: Public Administration’s Mission and Goals for the Achievement of the SDGs.  Prague, Czech Republic. May 24, 2019.

Speaker at the Center for Advanced Academic Studies (University of Zagreb), Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 2017.

  • Gave talks on fiscal federalism in the USA and Public Administration education in the USA.

Fulbright Scholar, February 2014—July 2014. Served as a Fulbright Scholar at Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn, Estonia.

International Consultant for the Center of Governance and Public Management (CGPM) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. March 2013—2015.

  • Served on the CGPM Advisory Board.
  • Participated in trainings of senior government officials regarding fiscal decentralization.
  • Provided feedback on LUMS training modules regarding public financial management.

Lecturer and Speaker at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. 2011-2012.

  • Invited to give a research presentation to the faculty and graduate students at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance.
  • Taught Introductory Statistics to MPA students.

Lecturer and Advisor for the Chinese University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in Xuzhou, China. 2006-2008.

  • Advised CUMT faculty members regarding the development of their MPA curriculum.
  • Participated in several lectures for undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Taught Research Design to MPA students.

Lecturer for the University of Oklahoma’s Advanced Programs in Kadena, Okinawa. 1999.

  • Taught Introductory Statistics to MPA students in an accelerated format.

Lecturer for the University of Oklahoma’s Advanced Programs in Tokyo, Japan. 1998.

  • Taught Public Budgeting and Finance to MPA students in an accelerated format.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Douglas, James W, Justin Conrad, and Joseph A. Frederick. “Budgeting for the Human-Made Disaster of War: U.S. Aid to Ukraine.” Public Money & Management. Early view: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2339320
  • Raudla, Ringa, Zachary Mohr, and James W. Douglas. 2024. “Which Managerial Reforms Facilitate Public Sector Innovation?” Public Administration, Vol. 102, No. 2, 771-788.  https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12951
  • Douglas, James W., and Ringa Raudla. 2024 “Do Balanced Budget Practices of U.S. States Make Sense? Alternatives from the Eurozone.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, Vol. 36, No. 2, 217-233.  https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-09-2023-0168
  • Douglas, James W., and Robert S. Kravchuk. 2023. “Creating the Executive Budget Process: What Was Congress Thinking?” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3, 407-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12828
  • Raudla, Ringa, and James W. Douglas. 2022. “Fiscal Councils as Watchdogs: How Loud Do They Bark?” Public Money & Management, Vol. 42, No. 4, 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1795998
  • Raudla, Ringa, James W. Douglas, and Zachary Mohr. 2022. “Exploration of the Technocratic Mentality Among European Civil Servants.” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 88, No. 4, 1013-1031.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0020852321996421
  • Raudla, Ringa, James W. Douglas, and Muiris MacCarthaigh. 2022. “Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks: Credible Instrument or Mirage?”  Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 42, No. 3, 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12316
  • Raudla, Ringa, and James W. Douglas. 2022. “Austerity and Budget Execution: Control versus Flexibility.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 2, 292-309. Recipient of a 2023 Emerald Literati Award for best article in PBAFM. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-01-2021-0018
  • Raudla, Ringa, James. W. Douglas, and Jason H. Windett. 2021. “Comparative Analysis of Financial Bureaucracies of Europe: The Influence of Policy Sector vs Administrative Tradition on the Attitudes of Finance Officials.” Lead article in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 4, 393-415.   https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1820867
  • Mohr, Zachary, Ringa Raudla, and James W. Douglas. 2021. “Comparing Cost Accounting Use Across European Countries: The Role of Administrative Traditions, NPM Instruments, and Fiscal Stress.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, 299-307.  https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13162
  • Raudla, Ringa, James. W. Douglas. 2021. “Structural Budget Balance as a Fiscal Rule in the European Union – Good, Bad or Ugly?” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 41, No. 1, 121-141.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pbaf.12279
  • Raudla, Ringa, and James W. Douglas. 2020. “This Time was Different: The Budgetary Responses to the Pandemic-induced Crisis in Estonia.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, & Financial Management, Vol. 32, No. 5, 847-854.  https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-07-2020-0094
  • Douglas, James W., and Ringa Raudla. 2020. “What is the Remedy for State and Local Fiscal Squeeze During the COVID-19 Recession? More Debt, and that is Okay.” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 50, No. 6-7, 584-589.  
  • Douglas, James W., and Ringa Raudla. 2020. “Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Debt? A Modern Money Theory Perspective on Federal Deficits and Debt.” Lead article in Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 40, No. 3, 6-25.
  • Piatak, Jaclyn S., James W. Douglas, and Ringa Raudla. 2020. “The Role Perceptions of Governmental Professionals: The Effects of Gender, Educational Field, and Prior Job Sector.” Public Management Review, Vol. 22, No. 10, 1515-1534.
  • Raudla, Ringa, Mohsin Bashir, and James W. Douglas. 2019. “The Punjab Revenue Authority: Meeting the Challenges of a New Institution.” Public Administration and Development, Vol. 39, No. 2, 78-88.
  • Douglas, James W., Ringa Raudla, Tinna Randma-Liiv, and Riin Savi. 2019. “The Impact of Greater Centralization on the Relevance of Performance Information in European Governments during the Fiscal Crisis. Lead article in Administration & Society, Vol. 51, No. 7, 1020-1050.
  • Mohr, Zachary, Ringa Raudla, and James W. Douglas. 2018. “Cost Accounting Practices in Europe: A Tale of Two Organizational Levels.” Public Performance and Management Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 696-722.
  • Douglas, James W. 2018. “Maintaining Higher Taxes and Spending More with the Line-Item Veto: Uncommon Events that Sting.”  Lead article in Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 38, No. 2, 3-22.
  • Raudla, Ringa, James W. Douglas, Tiina Randma-Liiv, and Riin Savi. 2017. “Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts: The Influence of Public Management Practices on Cutback Strategies in Europe.” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 47, No. 3, 376-394.
  • Raudla, Ringa, James W. Douglas, Külli Taro and Cherlin Agu. 2016. “The Impact of Performance Audit on Public Sector Organizations: The Case of Estonia.” Public Organization Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, 217-233.
  • Douglas, James W., Ringa Raudla, and Roger E. Hartley. 2015. “Shifting Constellations of Actors and their Influence on Policy Diffusion: A Study of the Diffusion of Drug Courts.” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4, 484-511. Winner of the award for best article in the social sciences by a scholar at the Tallinn University of Technology.
  • Raudla, Ringa, James W. Douglas, Tiina Randma-Liiv, and Riin Savi. 2015. “The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Decision-Making Processes in European Governments: Dynamics of a Centralization Cascade.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 75, No. 6, 842-852.
  • Krause, George A, David E. Lewis, and James W. Douglas. 2013. “Politics Can Limit Policy Opportunism in Fiscal Institutions: Evidence from Official General Fund Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 32, No. 2, 271-295.
  • Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2013. “The Collective Wisdom of Policymaking Commissions: Organizational Structure and the Quality of Consensus Group Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 57, No. 1, 135-149.  
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2011. “The Fly Ball Effect: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Impacts of Short-Term Seed Grants.” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 31, No. 4, 74-92. Recipient of the Jesse Burkhead Award for the best article published in Public Budgeting & Finance.
  • Douglas, James W., and Helen King Stockstill. 2008. “Starving the Death Penalty: Do Financial Constraints Limit Its Use?” Justice System Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, 326-337.
  • Douglas, James W., and Aimee L. Franklin. 2006. “Putting the Brakes on the Rush to Spend Down End-of-Year Balances: Carryover Money in Oklahoma State Agencies.” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 26, No. 3, 46-64.
  • Krause, George A, David E. Lewis, and James W. Douglas. 2006. “Politicization, Professionalism, and Bureaucratic Competence: Organizational Balancing and Gubernatorial Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 50, No. 3.
  • Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2006. “Does Agency Competition Improve the Quality of Policy Analysis? Evidence from OMB and CBO Fiscal Projections.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 25, No. 1, 53-74.
  • Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2005. “Institutional Design versus Reputational Effects on Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from US Government Macroeconomic and Fiscal Projections.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 15, No. 2, 281-306.
  • Douglas, James W. 2005. “Judicial Administration at the University of South Carolina.” Justice System Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, 198-203.
  • Douglas, James W., and Kim U. Hoffman. 2004. “Impoundment at the State Level: Executive Power and Budget Impact.” American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 34, No. 3, 252-258.
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2004. “Sustaining Drug Courts in Arizona and South Carolina: An Experience in Hodgepodge Budgeting.” Justice System Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 75-86.
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2003 “Budgeting for State Courts: The Perceptions of Key Officials Regarding the Determinants of Budget Success.” Lead article in Justice System Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, 251-263.
  • Raadschelders, Jos C.N., and James W. Douglas. 2003. “The Doctoral Graduate in Public Administration: Apprentice or Master?” Lead article in Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 9, No. 4, 229-244.
  • Franklin, Aimee L., and James W. Douglas. 2003. “Revolving Funds as Budgeting Tools: An Examination of Oklahoma State Agencies.” State and Local Government Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 90-101.
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2003. “The Politics of Court Budgeting in the States: Is Judicial Independence Threatened?”  Public Administration Review, Vol. 63, No. 4, 441-454.
  • Douglas, James W. 2002. “Court Strategies in the Appropriations Process: The Oklahoma Case.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, 117-136.
  • Douglas, James W., and Ronald Keith Gaddie. 2002. “State Rainy Day Funds and Fiscal Crises: Rainy Day Funds and the 1990-1991 Recession Revisited.” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, 19-30.
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2001. “State Court Strategies and Politics in the Appropriations Process.” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 21, No. 1, 35-57.
  • Douglas, James W., and Roger E. Hartley. 2001. “State Court Budgeting and Judicial Independence: Clues from Oklahoma and Virginia.” Administration and Society, Vol. 33, No. 1, 54-78.
  • Douglas, James W. 2000. “Budget Reform Theory: A Guideline for Successful Budget Reform.”  International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 23, No. 11, 1967-1996.
  • Brewer, Gene A., James W. Douglas, Rex L. Facer II, and Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. 1999. “What’s in a Name? Comparing DPA and Ph.D. Programs.” Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 5, No. 4, 309-317.
  • Brewer, Gene A., James W. Douglas, Rex L. Facer II, and Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. 1999. “Determinants of Graduate Research Productivity in Doctoral Programs in Public Administration.” Lead Article Public Administration Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, 373-382.
  • Douglas, James W. 1999. “Redirection in Georgia: A New Type of Budget Reform.” American Review of Public Administration. Vol. 29, No. 3, 269-289.
  • Douglas, James W., and Gene A. Brewer. 1999. “Supervisors’ Perceptions of the Performance of Cooperative Education Employees in Federal Agencies.”  Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 19, No. 2, 50-60.
  • Douglas, James W. 1999. “Agency Strategies and Determinants of Agency Success Under Redirection in Georgia.” State and Local Government Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, 31-42.
  • Brewer, Gene A., James W. Douglas, Rex L. Facer II, and Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. 1998. “The State of Doctoral Education in Public Administration: Developments in the Field’s Research Preparation.” Journal of Public Affairs Education, Vol. 4, No. 2, 123-136. 
  • Douglas, James W. 1997. “Former Governors’ Perceptions of a Presidential Line-Item Veto.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, 745-759.
  • Douglas, James W. 1996. “Faculty, Graduate Student, and Graduate Productivity in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs: 1986-1993.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 56, No. 5, 433-440.
  • Luo, Huaping, and James W. Douglas. 1996. “Revenue Effort of Local Governments: Determinants, Impacts, and Policy Implications.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, 47-68. 
  • Lauth, Thomas P., and James W. Douglas 1995. “Fiscal Dependence of Local Governments in the United States.” The Korea Public Administration Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4, 145-164. 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Douglas, James W., and Ringa Raudla. 2019. “CBO Updated Forecasts: Do a Few Months Matter?” In: Williams D., Calabrese T. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Government Budget Forecasting. Palgrave Studies in Public Debt, Spending, and Revenue. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 133-152.
  • Raudla, Ringa, and James W. Douglas. 2017. “Cost Accounting in European Countries.” In Cost Accounting in Government: Theory and Practice. Editor: Zachary Mohr. New York, NY: Routledge: 115-132.
  • Douglas, James W., Ringa Raudla and Robert Kravchuk. 2016. “Reforming the Fiscal Constitution: Holding Politicians Accountable Through Greater Transparency.” Law and Economics in Europe and the U.S. Editors: Alain Marciano and Giovanni Ramello. Springer. pp. 75-88.
  • Hays, Steven W., and James W. Douglas. 2007. “Judicial Administration: Modernizing the Third Branch.” Handbook on Public Administration, third edition. Editors: Jack Rabin, W. B. Hildreth, G. J. Miller. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press: 983-1028.
  • Douglas, James W. 2003. “Revenue Structures for State and Local Governments.” In South Carolina Government: A Policy Perspective, edited by Charlie B. Tyer. Columbia, SC: Institute of Public Service and Policy Research. University of South Carolina, 105-122.
  • Douglas, James W. 2002. “State Budgeting and Finance in South Carolina.” In South Carolina Government: An Introduction.  Edited by Charlie B. Tyer.  Columbia, SC: Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, University of South Carolina, 303-320.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Douglas, James W., and Ringa Raudla. 2024. “Debate: The intricacies of cutback management during the Covid 19 pandemic.” Debate article: Public Money & Management, Vol. 44, No. 5, 345–346.  https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2328453.
  • Raudla, Ringa, and James W. Douglas. 2024. “Editorial: Debts, Deficits, and Inflation: Prescriptions for the Future.” Introduction to Symposium. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Vol. 36, No. 2, 195-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-04-2024-206
  • Douglas, James W. 2023. Book Review of The Politics of Fiscal Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective by Tonya E. Thornton and F. Stevens Redburn for Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 43, No. 2, 82-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12343
  • Douglas, James W., and Robert S. Kravchuk. 2020. “Introduction to Symposium: Modern Money Theory and Public Budgeting and Finance.” Public Budgeting & Finance, Vol. 40, No. 3, 3-5.
  • Douglas, James W., Ringa Raudla, and Roger E. Hartley. 2016. “How Getting the Right Actors Involved Can Help Successful Local Policies Spread Across the Country.” The London School of Economics US Centre’s Daily Blog on American Politics and Policy. January 4: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
  • Douglas, James W. 2005. “Funding State Courts: Introduction and Overview.” Transcript of presentation before the American Judicature Society. Judicature, Vol. 88, No. 4, 159-162.
  • Hartley, Roger E., and James W. Douglas. 2004. “Making the Case for Court Funding: The Important Role of Lobbying.” The Judges’ Journal, Vol. 43(Summer): 35-37.
  • Douglas, James W. 2003. Book Review of Policy and Politics in State Budgeting by Kurt M. Thurmaier and Katherine G. Willoughby for The Journal of Politics, Vol. 65(August): 938-940.
  • Douglas, James W. 1997. “Response to Guyot, Rohrbaugh, and Anderson.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, 273(1).

 

Specialties

  • Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Judicial Administration
  • Public Administration
  • Comparative Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Comparative Public Administration

Courses Taught

  • Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Money and Public Policy
  • Research Applications
  • Applied Economics for Public Administrators
  • MPA Capstone
  • Global Connections
  • Politics of Taxing and Spending
  • Introduction to Public Administration

Biography
James W. Douglas is a professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Current research interests focus on federal, state, local, and international budgeting practices. Fulbright Scholar in Estonia (Tallinn University of Technology), Spring & Summer 2014. Advisory Board member for the Center of Governance and Public Management at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2013 to 2015.