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RUI SUN, Ph.D.

Department of Public Administration Office: SBS-D314 College of Business Administration and Public Policy Tel: (310) 243-3331 California State University, Dominguez Hills Fax: (310) 601-4593 1000 E. Victoria Street Email: rsun@csudh.edu Carson, CA 90747 Web: http://www.csudh.edu

EDUCATION:

• University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Policy Studies, 08/2004-08/2009 • Auburn University, Alabama, MPA, 08/2002-08/2004 • Peking University, Beijing, China, M.A. International Relations, 09/1998-07/2001 • Peking University, Beijing, China, B.A. International Relations, 09/1994-07/1998

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

• Assistant Professor—Department of Public Administration, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 08/2013 – present

• Assistant Professor—School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, 08/2011 – 08/2013

• Assistant Professor—Department of Political Science, Georgia Southern University, 08/2009 – 05/2011

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Fiscal Federalism • State and Local Government Finance • Nonprofit Financial Management • Economic Development

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Department of Public Administration, California State University, Dominguez Hills: • PUB500 Environment and Practice of Public Administration (graduate face-to-face or online

course) • PUB502 Administrative Theory and Behavior (graduate online course) • PUB510 Public Budgeting (formerly known as “Public Financial Management”) (graduate face-

to-face or online course) • PUB592 Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration (graduate online course) • PUB595 Special Topics in Public Administration: Public and Nonprofit Financial Management

(graduate online course)

School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida: • PAD6207 Public Financial Management (graduate online or mixed-mode course) • PAD6700 Research Methods in Public Administration (graduate mixed-mode course) • PAD6701 Analytic Techniques for Public Administration (graduate face-to-face or mixed-mode

course)

Department of Political Science, Georgia Southern University: • PBAD7232 Public Sector Financial Management (graduate face-to-face course) • PBAD7230 Budgeting in the Public Sector (graduate face-to-face course) • PBAD7530 Research Methods for Public Administration (graduate face-to-face course)

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• POLS2130 Scope and Methods in Political Science (undergraduate face-to-face course) • POLS4131 Public Policy (upper-level undergraduate face-to-face course)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• Presenter: “Service Learning” and “Engaging Students in Active Learning” at the Innovative Teaching Symposium, CSUDH, November 13, 2015

• Quality MattersTM Workshop (for online and hybrid courses), CSUDH, October 2, 2015 • The 8th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium, Dallas,

Texas, April 22-24, 2015 • Faculty Learning Community: Service Learning, CSUDH, Spring 2015 • Affordable Learning Solutions Workshop Series, CSUDH, Spring 2015 • Follett Discover Course Adoption Faculty Workshop, CSUDH, April 2015 • Active Learning Classroom Workshop Series, CSUDH, 2014-2015 • E-Academy: Online Course Design Workshops (2 days), CSUDH, September 2014 • Professional Training Workshop: Enhancing Verbal Communication and Listening Skills,

CSUDH Human Resource Management, July 2014 • Blackboard Training Workshops: Blackboard CollaborateTM and Turnitin, CSUDH, Fall 2013 • UCF IDL6543: Interactive Distributed Learning for Technology-Mediated Course Delivery, 2011 • UCF ADL5000: Advance Distributed Learning for Technology-Mediated Course Delivery, 2011 • Certificate in Online Teaching, Georgia Southern University, 2010

GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

• Interdisciplinary RSCA Grant ($14,066), California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2015-2016: Sun Rui (Principal) & Bing Xu (Co-Principal). “Social Media Use and Marketing in Nonprofit Organizations.”

• Faculty RSCA Grant ($9,999), California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2014-2015: Sun Rui (Principal). “Globalization and Subnational Debt.”

• Recognition of Research and Scholarly Activities, CSUDH, April 2015 • Certificate of Affordable Learning Solutions, CSUDH, 2014, 2015 • Contract ($5,500), August 2012-May 2013: Sun, Rui & Michael Able. “Cocoa Beach City

Pension Study.” • In-House Grant ($2,500), University of Central Florida, FY2012: Sun, Rui (Principal). “Property

Tax Limitations and Residential Mobility: Florida Amendment One.” Awarded by the College of Health and Public Affairs.

• Faculty Research Internal Grant ($9,047), Georgia Southern University, 2011: Sun, Rui (Principal) & Hua Wang (Co-Principal). "Mathematical Modeling of the Allocation of State Aid."

• Faculty Professional Travel Grant, Georgia Southern University, Spring 2010

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: • Liu, Gao & Rui Sun (2015). Economic Openness and Subnational Borrowing. Public Budgeting

& Finance (forthcoming).

• Sun, Rui, Hugo Asencio, & Julie Reid (2015). Enhancing Organizational Capacity through the Use of Social Media. In Hugo Asencio and Rui Sun (Eds.), Cases on Strategic Social Media Utilization in the Nonprofit Sector (pp. 262-300). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

• Sun, Rui (2014). Reevaluating the Effect of Tax and Expenditure Limitations: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Public Finance Review, 42(1), 92-116.

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• Dunn, Nathan, Mary E. Edwards, Rui Sun, & Hua Wang (2013). Modified Network Flow Algorithm in Modeling Financial Distribution. Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences. Special Volume on Financial Management, Issue IV, 323-332.

• Sun, Rui & Changhoon Jung (2012). Does User-Charge Financing Reduce Expenditure Levels

for the Charge-Financed Services? The American Review of Public Administration, 42(2), 170-185.

• Jin, Yinghua & Rui Sun (2011). Does Fiscal Decentralization Improve Healthcare Outcomes?

Empirical Evidence From China. Public Finance and Management, 11(3), 234-261. • Jung, Changhoon, Tae Ho Eom, Juchan Kim, & Rui Sun (2009). Longitudinal Effects of User

Charges on the Expenditure Level of Charge-Financed Services: The Georgia Case (1990-2007). Municipal Finance Journal, 30(3), 1-28.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• Asencio, Hugo & Rui Sun (Eds.) (2015). Cases on Strategic Social Media Utilization in the Nonprofit Sector. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

• Sun, Rui (2014). Book Review: Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities. The American Review of Public Administrations, 44(1), 124-127.

• Sun, Rui (2013). Property Tax Administration in the United States. Boao Review: A Journal of Economic Commentaries for the Asia-Pacific Region, No.6, pp. 54-55. October 2013.

• Abels, Michael & Rui Sun (2013). Municipal Pension Plan Study: A Survey Analysis of Central Florida Cities. Report presented to the City of Cocoa Beach, Florida.

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

• Sun, Rui & Sheri Empeno (2015, Oct.). Participatory Budgeting in California: Experience and Trend. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), Charleston, SC.

• Asencio, Hugo & Rui Sun (2015, April). The Effects of Transactional and Transformational Leadership on Employee Trust in Leaders: A Longitudinal Investigation in the U.S. Federal Sector. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL.

• Sun, Rui & Gao Liu (2015, April). Globalization and Subnational Debt. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of Western Social Science Association (WSSA), Portland, OR.

• Sun, Rui & Hugo Asencio (2015, March). Leadership and Trust: A Longitudinal Study of U.S.

Federal Agencies. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Chicago, IL.

• Sun, Rui (2015, March). Participatory Budgeting: Engaging the Community on Setting Budget

Priorities. Paper presented at the ASPA’s Section for Public Management Practice “Good Governance Worldwide Pre-Conference Forum,” Chicago, IL.

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• Sun, Rui (2014, June). Fiscal Decentralization in the U.S. Paper presented at the Good Governance International Forum, Brasov, Romania.

• Sun, Rui (2014, March). Citizen Participation in the Tax Policymaking: A Case Study of Florida 2012 Amendments. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Conference of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Washington, D.C.

• Sun, Rui (2013, October). Property Tax Limitations and Residential Mobility: The Impact of Florida Amendment One. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), Washington, D.C.

• Sun, Rui & Gao Liu (2013, March). The Impact of Economic Openness on Sub-National

Borrowing. Paper presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), New Orleans, LA.

• Sun, Rui & Gao Liu (2012, November). Markets, Laws or Regulations? The Impact of

Institutions on Sub-Sovereign Debts. Paper presented at the 2012 Annual Conference of Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Baltimore, MD.

• Sun, Rui & Evelyn Hernandez (2012, October). Integration of Sustainability and Economic Development in Local Governments. Paper presented at the 2012 Annual Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), Coral Springs, FL.

• Jin, Yinghua & Rui Sun (2012, March). Does Fiscal Decentralization Improve Healthcare Outcomes? Empirical Evidence from China. Paper presented at the 2012 Annual Conference of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Las Vegas, NV.

• Li, Hui & Rui Sun (2011, October). An Empirical Analysis of the Revenue and Expenditure

Effects of the Municipal Income Tax in America’s Largest Cities. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), Washington, D.C.

• Sun, Rui & Yinghua Jin (2011, October). Does Fiscal Decentralization Promote Economic

Growth? A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), D.C.

• Sun, Rui (2011, September). Constraining or Augmenting? Reevaluation of the Impact of Tax

and Expenditure Limitations on Municipal Finances. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), New Orleans, LA.

• Li, Hui & Rui Sun (2011, April). Municipal Income Tax: An Empirical Analysis of Its Revenue

and Expenditure Effects. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of Western Social Science Association (WSSA), Salt Lake City, UT.

• Sun, Rui & Yinghua Jin (2011, April). Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in the U.S.:

Evidence from the Metropolitan Areas. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of Western Social Science Association (WSSA), Salt Lake City, UT.

• Sun, Rui (2010, October). Recent Development of User Charges and Fees in Georgia Local

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Governments: A Content Analysis. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), Wilmington, NC.

• Sun, Rui (2010, October). Utilization of Local User Charges and Fees: Lessons from Georgia.

Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), Omaha, NE.

• Sun, Rui (2010, April). Another Leviathan? The Effects of Tax and Expenditure Limitations on

Municipal Government Finance. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of Western Social Science Association (WSSA), Reno, NV.

• Sun, Rui (2009, September). Reevaluating Tax and Expenditure Limitations: An Instrumental

Variable Approach. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), Washington, D.C.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

• American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) • Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) • Chinese-American Association for Public Affairs (CAAPA) • Western Social Science Association (WSSA)

HONOR SOCIETIES:

• Pi Alpha Alpha (Public Affairs and Administration Honor Society) • Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society)