Bio

Dr. Moore received his B.A. in International Relations from Knox College and earned an M.A. and PhD. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His primary area of interest is the study of public organizations, wherein the tensions and conflicts within (and among) public agencies constitute substantive policy arenas in their own right.  This interest is reflected in several publications on “street-level bureaucracy” and several papers under revision which broaden the foci of organizational policy processes.

Dr. Moore’s current research interest includes the politics of property taxation in Colorado. This project emphasizes the historical institutional development of the Colorado property tax (and tax protests) from the post WWII assessment reforms through the wholesale legislative reforms of the late 1960’s, the “Gallagher Amendment” in 1982 and the taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR).

Based on his interests in state and local fiscal development, Dr. Moore has been a regular participant in the Western States Budget Roundtable, which annual reports are published by the University of Utah Center for Public Policy and Administration. [available - www.cppa.utah.edu/westernstatesbudgets/]

Courses :

• POLS103 State & Local Politics and Government [next:  Spring 2014]
• POLS351 Public Administration [next: Fall 2013]
• POLS550 Advanced Public Administration [next: Fall 2013]
• POLS652 Public Organization Theory
• POLS103 [Online]  [Next: Spring 2014]

Dr. Moore is the Department’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator