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8:24 a.m., March 6, 2008--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Publications

Joseph Pika, professor of political science and international relations, Politics of the Presidency, seventh edition, CQ Press.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “The Spoils of War: U.S. Federal Government Finance in the Aftermath of the War for Independence, 1784-1802,” in War, State and Development: Fiscal-Military States in the 18th Century, pages 133-156, Rafael Torres, editor, EUNSA, Pamplona, Spain.

Richard T. Sylves, professor of political science and international relations, “U.S. Disaster Policy and Management in an Era of Homeland Security,” pages 142-160, in Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management, David A. McEntire, editor Charles C. Thomas Publishers; “Presidential Disaster Declaration Decisions, 1953-2003: What Influences Odds of Approval?” with Zoltan Buzas, in State and Local Government Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pages 3-15; “Budgeting for Local Emergency Management and Homeland Security,” pages 299-318, in Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, second edition, Kathleen Tierney and William L. Waugh Jr., editors, International Management Association, Washington, D.C. 2007; symposium editor for special issue, “Emergency Preparedness of State and Local Governments,” in State and Local Government Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2007; and “Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979 to 2001,” pages 111-160, in Emergency Management: The American Experience, edited by Claire B. Rubin, Public Entity Risk Institute, 2007.

Presentations

Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, “International Migration to Europe: Past, Present and Future,” at U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute, Feb. 27, Washington, D.C.; and “International Migration and Development: Continuing the Dialogue, Legal and Policy Perspectives,” at conference sponsored by the International Organization for Migration and the Center for Migration Studies, Jan. 17, New York City.

Maria Aristigueta, director of the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, “Civil Society in Cuba,” at Rutgers University, Feb. 28, Newark, N.J.