Faculty Directory
DR. ALFRED TAT-KEI HO
Dr. Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, Associate Professor and Director of Public Affairs Programs
Associate Professor and Director of Public Affairs Programs
OFFICE: BS 4076
PHONE: 317-278-4898
E-MAIL: altho@iupui.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Ho is an expert on performance measurement and budgeting, e-government, and state and local applied finance. Prior to joining the SPEA IUPUI faculty in 2004, Dr. Ho was an assistant professor of the public administration program at Iowa State University. In recent years, his has been working closely with Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China) and the China Development Research Foundation on joint projects related to the Chinese budgetary and administrative reforms.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Public Finance and Policy Analysis, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1998
- M.P.A., Public Finance and Policy Analysis, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1993
- B.S.S., Government, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2004-now
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, 1998-2004
- Research Assistant and Associate, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 1992-1998
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Research fellow, Center for Public Administration, Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- American Society for Public Administration
- Association for Budgeting and Financial Management
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- National Tax Association
MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
- Performance measurement and budgeting
- Applied public finance research
- Information technology management and e-government
INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
- Alfred T. Ho (2008). "Reporting Public Performance Information – the Promise and Challenges of Citizen Involvement." In Measurement beyond Managerialism, edited by Wouter van Dooren & Steven Van de Walle. Routledge.
- Ni, Anna, and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2008). "A Quiet Revolution or a Flashy Blip? The Real ID Act and U.S. National Identification System Reform." Public Administration Review, 68(5), 1063-1078.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2008). "State Highway Spending and the Economic Cycle." International Journal of Public Administration, 31(2): 101-116.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2007). "Engaging Citizens in Reporting Policy Results and Community Conditions: A Manager's Guide." Washington, D.C.: the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2007). "Exploring the Roles of Citizens in Performance Measurement." International Journal of Public Administration, 30(11): 1157-1177.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2007). "The Governance Challenges of the Government Performance and Results Act: A Case Study of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration." Public Performance & Management Review, 30(3), 351-368.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, Kurt Thurmaier, and Lilly Lu (2006). "Testing the Reluctant Professor's Hypothesis: Evaluating a Blended-Learning Approach to Distance Education." Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(1), 81-102.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2006). "Accounting for the Value of Performance Measurement from the Perspective of City Mayors." Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 16(2), 217-237.
- Premkumar, G., Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, and Pallavi Chakraborty (2006). "E-government evolution - an evaluation of online services." International Journal of Electronic Business, 4(2), 177-190.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Paul Coates (2006). "Public Participation in Performance Measurement & Budgeting." Handbook of Public Financial Management, edited by Howard Frank. NY: Taylor & Francis, 545-566.
- Ni, Anna and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2005). "Lessons for IT Managers from Two Information Kiosk Projects," Government Information Quarterly, 22:58-74.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei and Anna Ni. (2005). "Have Cities Shifted to Outcome-Oriented Performance Reporting? A Content Analysis of City Budgets," Public Budgeting & Finance, 25(2), 61-83.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Anna Ni (2004). "Explaining the Progressiveness of E-Government: A Case Study of Iowa County Treasurers' Offices." American Review of Public Administration, 34(2), 164-180.
- Coates, Paul, and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2004). "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward -- A Consolidation Attempt Without Power Deflation," Reshaping the Local Government Landscape, vol. II, edited by Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier. M. E. Sharpe.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei, and Paul Coates (2004). "Citizen-Initiated Performance Assessment - the Initial Iowa Experience," Public Performance & Management Review, 27(3), 29-50.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2003). "Perceptions of Performance Measurement and the Practice of Performance Reporting by Small Cities," State and Local Government Review, 35(3), 161-173.
- Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei (2002). "Reinventing Local Governments and the E-Government Initiative," Public Administration Review, 62(4), 410-420.
COURSES TAUGHT
- SPEA-V 560 Public Budgeting and Finance
- SPEA-V 526 Financial Management for the Non-for-Profit Sector
- SPEA-V 372 Public Budgeting and Finance
- SPEA-V 361/SPEA-H 352 Financial Management
- SPEA-V 600 Capstone
SERVICE
- Invited presentations before the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, the Local Government Efficiency Commission of the Indiana Legislature, the Guangdong Finance Department (People's Republic of China)
- Editorial board, Public Performance and Management Review, 2003–present; Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 2007–present; Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, 2008–present.
- Board member, Association for Budgeting & Financial Management, 2006–2008
- Board of Directors, Iowans for a Better Future, 2001
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- IUPUI Trustee Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008
- Recipient of the IBM Business of Government Grant. Report topic: "Partnerships with Citizens in Performance Measurement of Government."
- Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching
- Pi Alpha Alpha inductee