Resume

Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA)
412 South Peoria Street, Room 141
Chicago, IL 60607-7064

Phone: 312.413.2288
Fax: 312.996.8804
Email:gbeam@uic.edu

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Political Science
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy
B.A., Westminster College

Publications

  • QUALITY Public Management: What It Is and How It Can Be Improved and Advanced, Rowman and Littlefield (Burnham), 2001
  • Political Action: The Key To Understanding Politics (co-author), Swallow Press, 1980
  • Strategies for Change: How To Make the Political Dream Work (co-author), Swallow Press, 1976
  • Usual Politics: A Critique and Some Suggestions for an Alternative, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970
  • Readings on American Government: Concepts in Context (co-editor), Wadsworth, 1968

  • Book Review: "Ethics in Public Administration: Thinking and Doing", The American Review of Public Administration, June, 1992
  • "The Parkinson-Peter Pasquinade", The Bureaucrat (now, The Public Manager), Summer, 1980

Research Conference Papers

  • What Ethics Commissions Do: The Case of the City of New York Conflicts of Interest Board and the Chicago Board of Ethics, Conference on the Study of Government Ethics, Park City, Utah, 1992
  • Ethics and Ethics Boards, 53rd National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Chicago, Illinois, 1992
  • Public Service Academies in Chicago: Building Coalitions for Teaching Public Administration and Improving the Public Sector Workforce, Fifteenth National Conference on Teaching Public Administration, Charleston, South Carolina, 1992
  • Three papers at the Seminar on Public/Private Ethics and Conflicts of Interest, Riga, Latvia, 1992:
    • Codes of Ethics and Laws against Corruption: Examples from New York City and Chicago
    • Financial Disclosure: An Instrument for Combating Corruption in Municipal Governments
    • Enforcing Laws against Corruption: The Role of the New York City and Chicago Boards of Ethics
  • Kafka’Castle Image of Bureaucracy: The Myth of Bureaucratic Unresponsiveness, Third International Conference on the Historical, Comparative, and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, Zurich, Switzerland, 1984
  • America’s Bureaucratic Elite, First International Conference on the Historical, Comparative, and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, Zurich, Switzerland, 1982
  • Toward a Methodology for the Study of Political Action (co-author), 37th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1979
  • Building Organizations for Fundamental Change (co-author), 9th World Conference of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden, 1978

Workshops, Seminars, Courses

  • I have developed continuing education proposals and programs, and have conducted workshops, presented seminars, and delivered courses, mostly in various aspects of public management, including quality management and government ethics but, also, in American politics and political theory. Places where these activities have taken place include Riga (Latvia), Spertus College of Judaica (Chicago), West Side Veterans Administration Hospital (Chicago), Quad-Cities (Illinois) Graduate Center, and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Also, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I delivered one-day seminars—"American Public Administration and Ethics"—to delegations of public managers and executives from Beijing.

    • Administrative Positions and Activities

    • Director, Graduate Program in Public Administration (now, Department of Public Administration)
    • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Public Administration
    • Acting Head, Department of Political Science
    • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science
    • Program Developer, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service

    Grant Proposal Activity

    • Proposal submitted (1998) through the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) to the Paul Douglas Foundation for the development of an ethics in public administration course; not funded.
    • Two Curriculum Development proposals submitted (1995 and 1996) to UIC Academic Affairs, 8000 each; not funded
    • Proposal for $193,000 (co-investigator) submitted (1994) to the United States Information Agency; not funded
    • Proposal for $78,000 submitted (1993) to the Chicago Community Trust; not funded
    • Proposal for $2000 submitted (1992) to the Illinois Association of Graduate Programs in Public Administration; not funded
    • Proposal for $1700 submitted (1991) to the UIC Campus Research Board; not funded

    Committee Activity

    • Master of Public Administration Coordination Committee
    • Executive Committee, Department of Political Science
    • Library Committee, Department of Political Science
    • Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science
    • Faculty Search committees, Public Administration and Political Science
    • Chair, Reinventing Government Round Table for the CUPPA Inauguration
    • Unit Heads Committee, CUPPA
    • Strategic Planning Committee, Steering, CUPPA
    • Strategic Planning Committee, Student, CUPPA
    • Hearing Panel of the UIC Senate Student Judiciary
    • Search Committee for the Dean, CUPPA
    • Admissions Committee, Department of Public Administration
    • Research Committee, University of Illinois Senate, UIC
    • Other ad hoc and standing committees of the Department of Political Science, the Department of Public Administration, and CUPPA

    • Elected to the UIC Senate

    Professional Association Activity

    • American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS), member
    • American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), member
    • American Society for Quality (ASQ), member
    • Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), member
    • Society of Midland Authors, member
    • As Director of the Department of Public Administration, attended annual meetings of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)
    • Chair of the committee that organized the Illinois Political Science Association’s annual meeting, Chicago, 1987
    • Panel chairperson, The Study of Political Action, Midwest Political Science Association meeting, 1979

    Honorary Associations and Awards

    • Phi Kappa Phi, member
    • Pi Sigma Alpha, member
    • Pi Alpha Alpha, founding member of UIC’s Chapter, and Faculty Advisor of the Chapter

    • University of Illinois Alumni Association Flame Award for Teaching Excellence, 1999
    • Nominated for the Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence, UIC, 1989