Beth Walter Honadle, Ph.D.
Biography:
Beth Walter Honadle has been Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati since 2004. As Director, she provides overall strategic direction to the IPR and contributes to its research and outreach mission as a member of its research staff. She is charged with enhancing and expanding the IPR’s role as a research and education partner with UC faculty, staff and students by continually developing and promoting innovative approaches to public policy research. Professor Honadle is responsible for hiring and providing direction to IPR’s professional staff and oversight of IPR’s budget.
Before coming to UC, Honadle directed the Center for Policy Analysis & Public Service and was a Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Honadle was previously a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota where she was also and Adjunct Professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She worked for eleven years in the Federal government in Washington, DC where she was National Program Leader for Economic Development for the nationwide Cooperative Extension System and was leader of the Organization and Delivery of Local Services Project in the State and Local Government Section of U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. She taught “Intergovernmental Relations” at the American University in Washington, DC.
Honadle is a former member of the North Branch (MN) Area Public Schools board, Treasurer of the Town of Oakmont (MD) special taxing district, and board member of Minnesota’s Government Training Service. Honadle has testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the South Carolina Higher Education Commission, committees of the Minnesota and Ohio legislatures, and the Minnesota Municipal Board. She consulted with the City of Nikopol, Ukraine on public finance, decentralization, economic development, and citizen participation and with the Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute (AERDRI) of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture on action-oriented, practical studies. She chaired the Branch-North Branch (MN) Consolidation Study Commission, which led to Minnesota’s first citizen-led municipal consolidation.
She has published articles in Chicago Policy Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, International Journal of Public Administration, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, the Journal of the Community Development Society, National Civic Review, Public Administration and Development, Journal of Public Budgeting and Finance, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Public Management, and Public Productivity Review. She has also written numerous book chapters and has authored or co-edited two books.
She was lead author of the 2004 book, Fiscal Health for Local Governments: An Introduction to Concepts, Practical Analysis, and Strategies (Academic Press/Elsevier). This book was, in part, an outgrowth of her research and technical assistance for local governments in Minnesota and Ohio in the area of measuring local fiscal health and developing strategies to strengthen their financial condition. Honadle is former chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management.
Honadle has secured research funding from the Federal government, nonprofit organizations, and local governments. Representative examples of sponsors include The Area 12 Workforce One Investment Board of Southwest Ohio, the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Association of Minnesota Counties.
Honadle’s research interests include workforce development, economic development, substate regionalism, regional governance, program evaluation, and public finance. In 2006, Honadle gave a talk, “State-Local Relations in Ohio: Implications for Legislators,” at the Ohio Legislative Service Commission’s New Member Orientation in Columbus.
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