Professor Ed Clynch, now retired, focused on public administration, and specializes in budgeting and financial management, public administration education, and the executive branch. He received his PhD from Purdue University, and has been at MSU since 1981. Professor Clynch taught specialized courses in Public Budgeting and Financial Management, and the Chief Executive, directs the Public Administration Internship, and introductory classes in American Government. He has published extensively on budgeting at the state and national level. Clynch was previously the Graduate Coordinator and PhD Coordinator of the department, and directed the department's highly successful graduate internship program.
Clynch spearheaded the creation of our PhD degree in Public Administration, as well as our graduate public administrative intensive semester program which serves our state's public managers. He has been a leader of MSU's nationally-recognized Truman Scholarship Program, mentoring our bright undergraduate students. Clynch is a nationally-recognized scholar in public administration, active in the American Society for Public Administration, and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He is co-author of Governors, Legislators and Budgets: Diversity Across the American States, and has published widely in such recognized journals as Public Administration Review, The Bureaucrat, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly, and State and Local Government Review.
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