Gregory S. Allison is a teaching professor at the School of Government, where he lectures and provides technical support in the field of governmental accounting and financial reporting. He has been on the faculty since 1997 and is director of the School’s Municipal and County Administration course. He was an assistant director with the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada in Chicago, Illinois; former finance director for the City of Morganton, North Carolina; and an auditor with the international accounting firm Deloitte and Touche. He is also co-author of the 8th and 9th Revised and 10th editions of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, published by Prentice Hall.
Allison was awarded the Outstanding Conference Speaker Award for both 2000 and 2001, the Outstanding Chapter Speaker Award in 2005, the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, and 2015, the 5.0 Discussion Leader Award in 2014, and the 2014 R. Donald Farmer Award by the NC Association of Certified Public Accountants. He was awarded the Association’s Outstanding Member in Government Award for 2000–2001. He was also recognized as the Albert and Gladys Hall Term Lecturer for Teaching Excellence for 2002–2004, and the Term Faculty Achievement Award for 2010–2012.
Whitney Afonso is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Whitney’s research focuses on state and local public finance with an emphasis on local sales taxes. Whitney won the Burkhead Award for best manuscript published in Public Budgeting and Finance in 2015 and the Curro Award for best student paper in 2010. She also has served on the executive committee of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management since 2018. In addition to her traditional research and teaching, her position at UNC engages her with elected officials and practitioners within the state. She is the liaison for the North Carolina Local Government Budget Association. Whitney received her bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, completed a master’s program at Texas A&M University, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.
Selected Publications
Afonso, Whitney B., 2019. “The Barriers Created by Complexity: A State-by-State Analysis of Local Sales Tax Laws in Light of the Wayfair Ruling,” National Tax Journal, National Tax Association; National Tax Journal, vol. 72(4), pages 777-800, December.
Afonso, W.B. (2019), “The Impact of the Amazon Tax on Local Sales Tax Revenue in Urban and Rural Jurisdictions.” Public Budgeting & Finance, 39: 68-90.
Spreen TL, Afonso W, Gerrish E. “Can Employee Training Influence Local Fiscal Outcomes?” The American Review of Public Administration. 2020;50(4-5):401-414.
Nelson, K.L. and Afonso, W.B. (2019), “Ethics by Design: The Impact of Form of Government on Municipal Corruption.” Public Admin Review, 79: 591-600.
“Citizens Engaging Government: The Case of Participatory Budgeting in Greensboro” 2017. Public Administration Quarterly 41(1): 7-42.
“Time to Adoption of Local Option Sales Taxes: An Examination of Texas Municipalities.” 2016. Public Finance Review. DOI: 10.1177/1091142116673147
“The Effect of Connecticut’s Income Tax Adoption on Migration.” 2016. Journal of Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X16000234
“The Equity of Local Sales Tax Distributions in Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Tourism-Rich Counties in North Carolina.” 2016. Public Finance Review 44(6): 691-721.
“Leviathan or Flypaper: Earmarked Local Sales Taxes for Transportation.” 2015. Public Budgeting & Finance 35(3): 1-23.[1]
“State Income Taxes and Military Service Members’ Legal Residency Choices.” 2015. Contemporary Economic Policy 33(2): 334-350.
“Fiscal Illusion in State and Local Finances: A Hindrance to Transparency.” 2014. State and Local Government Review 46(3): 219-228.
“Local Sales Taxes as a Means of Increasing Revenues and Reducing Property Tax Burdens: An Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching.” 2014. Public Budgeting & Finance 34(2): 24-43.
Amy Wade serves as the Director of the Faculty Network for the MPA program at the School of Government, where she is responsible for the hiring, on-boarding, and continued support of live session faculty, ensuring the MPA program engages in high-impact teaching practices to maximize student learning. Recently, Amy also served as a team member for the School’s Opioid Response Project, where she facilitated the development and implementation of collective impact approaches for opioid prevention and treatment in ten communities across North Carolina and served as a liaison for two of the larger urban centers within the state, Mecklenburg and Forsyth counties. Amy has over ten years of progressive work in nonprofit management and consulting experience in strategic planning, strategic fund development, database and dashboard development, and program design, implementation, and evaluation. During her work in the nonprofit field, Amy received a College Board CollegeKeys Compact Innovation Award for a program she designed to help low-income students and parents get ready for college. She also supported the receipt of a Kresge Foundation Award for the successful development of a program to help low-income high school students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). She obtained a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in public administration, and a doctorate of philosophy in higher education policy and leadership from The Ohio State University.
Jonathan Morgan joined the School of Government in 2003, where he teaches, advises public officials, and conducts applied research on economic development. His research has focused on industry cluster-based development, the role of local government in economic development, business incentives, development impact analysis, and innovative, homegrown approaches to job creation. His articles have been published in leading journals such as Economic Development Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and Community Development. Morgan directs the Basic Economic Development Course at UNC, which is accredited by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). Prior to joining the School of Government, he worked for Regional Technology Strategies, Inc., an economic and workforce development consulting firm located in Carrboro, NC. He has also served as Director of Economic Policy and Research for the NC Department of Commerce, and Research and Policy Director for the NC Institute of Minority Economic Development. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, an MPA from Clark Atlanta University, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from North Carolina State University.
Selected Publications
Regional Clusters and Jobs for Inner City Workers: The Case of Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics. 2012. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society vol. 43, no. 4: 492-511.
State-of-the-Art Measures in Economic Development (with David Ammons). Public Management (PM), vol. 93, no. 5, June 2011.
Governance, Policy Innovation, and Local Economic Development in North Carolina. 2010. Policy Studies Journal vol. 38, no. 4: 679-702.
Analyzing the Benefits and Costs of Economic Development Projects, Community and Economic Development Bulletin, No. 7, April 2010.
Optimizing the Use of Economic Development Incentives, Municipal Lawyer, vol. 51, no. 1, 2010.
Additional Publications
Book Chapters
Community Development and Affordable Housing, Chapter 8 (with Anita Brown-Graham), in Managing Local Government Services, Carl Stenberg, ed., International City/County Management Association, 2006.
Articles, Monographs, and Bulletins
State-of-the-Art Measures in Economic Development (with David Ammons). Public Management (PM), vol. 93, no. 5, June 2011.
Small Towns, Big Ideas: Local Ingredients for Innovation in Rural Economic Development (with Will Lambe). Rural Research Report (Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs), vol. 21, no. 3, Winter 2010.
The Role of Local Government in Economic Development: Survey Findings from North Carolina. Special Report published by the UNC School of Government, 2009.
Find a Way or Make One: Lessons Learned from Case Studies of Small Town Economic Development (with Will Lambe). Economic Development Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, 2009.
Homegrown Responses to Economic Uncertainty in Rural America (with Will Lambe and Allan Freyer). Rural Realities, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009.
Using Economic Development Incentives: For Better or for Worse. Popular Government, vol. 74, no. 2, 2009, 14 pages.
Questions about Tax Increment Financing in North Carolina (with Joseph Blocher). Community and Economic Development (CED) Bulletin, No. 5, August 2008.
Clusters and Competitive Advantage: Finding a Niche in the New Economy, Popular Government, Spring/Summer 2004, vol. 69, no. 3.
Legislative Action in Community and Economic Development (with Anita Brown-Graham). Community and Economic Development Bulletin, No. 2, 2004.
Refereed Academic Articles
Governance, Policy Innovation, and Local Economic Development in North Carolina. 2010. Policy Studies Journal vol. 38, no. 4: 679-702.
The Relationship between Industry Clusters and Metropolitan Economic Growth and Equality. 2007. International Journal of Economic Development 9(4): 307-375.