Mark K. Cassell

Mark K. Cassell is Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. He is a public policy and public administration scholar whose work focuses on the use of public/private hybrid entities to pursue public goals. He also works in the field of comparative political economy, drawing comparisons between alternative banking structures in the United States and Germany. His work has appeared in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Governance, Public Administration Review, Economic Development Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. He has also authored several of books including Banking on the State: The Political Economy of Public Savings Banks (Columbia University Press/Agenda Publishing. 2020), Mission Expansion and the Federal Home Loan Bank System (SUNY Press, 2010), and How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (Georgetown University Press, 2003).