Professor Warner’s work focuses primarily on local government service delivery and new community development models for addressing human services. Her work shows potential for market based solutions in public service delivery but also raises cautions about the uneven incidence of markets in depressed inner city and rural areas. Dr. Warner's research explores the issues of privatization, devolution and economic development.
She has received major research grants from the USDA National Research Initiative and Hatch program to look at the impacts of devolution and privatization on local government service delivery, and from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to explore the regional economic impacts of child care. She has won national awards from the American Planning Association and the Community Development Society for her working linking child care and economic development.
She consults widely on economic development policy, local government and child care issues at the local, state and national levels. She has worked closely with local government groups in the US including the International City County Management Association and the National Association of Counties. She has consulted with local governments around the world and been a featured speaker in Australia, Canada, Ecuador, New Zealand, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Spain.
Previously she served as a program officer with the Ford Foundation for three years and as Associate Director for nine years of Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute where she brought policy makers, community development practitioners and academics together to explore new approaches to community development. She was a visiting scholar with the Economic Policy Institute in 2005 and currently leads a major collaboration on care work and economic development with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Dr. Warner is author of five edited volumes and more than 100 refereed articles, book chapters, extension and consulting reports. A complete listing of Dr. Warner’s publications and electronic copies of many are available on her
website.
A sampling of recent publications includes:
Articles in peer-refereed journals
Warner, Mildred E. 2008 (forthcoming). “(Not)Valuing Care: A Review of Recent Popular Economic Reports,”
Feminist Economics.
Warner, Mildred E. and Amir Hefetz. 2008. “Managing Markets for Public Service: The Role of Mixed Public/Private Delivery of City Services,”
Public Administration Review. 68(1):150-161.
Warner, Mildred E. and Germà Bel. 2008 (forthcoming). "Competition or Monopoly? Comparing U.S. and Spanish Privatization,"
Public Administration: An International Quarterly. 86.
Bel, Germà and M. E. Warner. 2008. “Challenging Issues in Local Privatization,”
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 26(1):104-109, editorial overview to special issue.
Hipp, Magdalena and Mildred Warner. 2008. “Market Forces for the Unemployed? Training Vouchers in Germany and the U.S.”
Social Policy and Administration. 42 (1):77-101.
Warner, Mildred E., 2007. "Child Care and Economic Development: Markets, Households and Public Policy,"
International Journal of Economic Development. 9(3-4).
Bel, Germà, Robert Hebdon, and M. E. Warner. 2007. “Local Government Reform: Privatization and Its Alternatives,”
Local Government Studies. 33(4):507-515, editorial overview to special issue.
Morrissey, Taryn and M. E. Warner 2007. “Why Early Care and Education Deserves as Much Attention, or More, than Prekindergarten Alone,”
Applied Developmental Science. 11(2):57-70.
Kay, David L., James E. Pratt and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. "Role of Services in Regional Economy Growth,"
Growth and Change. 38(3):419-442.
Hefetz, Amir and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. “Beyond the Market
vs. Planning Dichotomy: Understanding Privatisation and its Reverse in U.S. Cities,”
Local Government Studies. 33(4):555-572.
Gerbasi, Jennifer and M. E. Warner 2007. “Privatization, Public Goods and the Ironic Challenge of Free Trade Agreements,”
Administration and Society. 39(2):127-149.
EDITED VOLUMES
Bel, Germá and M. E. Warner eds. 2008. Challenging Issues in Local Privatization, special issue Environment and Planning C – Government and Policy, 26(1).
Warner, M. E. editor, 2007. Special Issue: Child Care and Economic Development, International Journal of Economic Development, 9(3-4).
Bel, Germá, R. Hebdon and M. E. Warner eds. 2007. "Local Government Reform: Privatization and Public-Private Cooperation," special issue
Local Government Studies. 33(4).
PROFESSIONALlY REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Warner, M. E. and George Haddow, 2007. “Child Care: An Essential Service for Disaster Recovery,” Save the Children Issue Brief #3, June 2007.
Warner, M. E., Kristen Anderson and George Haddow, 2007. “Putting Child Care in the Picture: Why this service is a critical part of community infrastructure,”
Planning. (June 2007):16-19.
