Recent DPAP Faculty Articles and Papers

Anna Amirkhanyan

• Monitoring across sectors: Examining the effect of nonprofit and for profit contractor ownership on performance monitoring in state and local government contracts. Public Administration Review. 2010.
• Demographic Change and Its Public Sector Consequences. Public Administration Review. 2010.  

Karen Baehler

• Planning Committee for APPAM sponsored international conference on Improving the Quality of Public Services, Moscow, June 2011. Project includes a forthcoming book with Douglas Besharov , Oxford University Press.
• Justice as Collective Capability, in Jonathan Boston, editor, Ethics and Public Policy: Contemporary Issues. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press. 2011.

Robert Durant

• Global Crises, American Public Administration, and the ‘New Interventionism’ Revisited. Administration & Society. 2011.
• Faithful Infidelity: 'Political Time,' George W. Bush, and the Paradox of 'Big Government' Conservatism. Review of Public Personnel Administration 2010. With William Resh and Ed Stazyk.
• Politics, Bureaucratic Dynamics, and Public Policy. With John Marvel. Donald Menzel and Harvey White, The State of Public Administration: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities. New York: M.E. Sharpe. 

Lewis Faulk

• Nonprofit Competition in the Philanthropic Marketplace: Exploring the Relationship Between Nonprofit Financial Health and Grant Amount. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 2010.
• Franchises and Federations: The Economics of Multi-site Nonprofit Organizations. In Bruce A. Seaman and Dennis R. Young, eds. Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management. Edward Elgar Publishers. 2010.

Dan Fiorino

• Explaining National Environmental Performance: Approaches, Evidence, and Implications. Policy Sciences, forthcoming.
• Implementing Sustainability in Federal Agencies: An Early Assessment of President Obama’s Executive Order 13514. Funded ($20,000 grant) and published by The IBM Center for the Business of Government. Featured on Federal News Radio (WTOP). 

Seth Gershenson

• Research presented at the Association for Education Finance & Policy. 2011, 2010.

Tamara Hafner

• Environmental Policy vs. public Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternatife Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry. Research Policy. 2011. (Also available as NBER Working Paper No 13499).
• Has Aid or AIDS Raised all Health Funding Boats? JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome. 2009. With Jeremy Shiffman.

Bradley Hardy

• Earnings Volatility in America: Evidence from Matched CPS. Labour Economics. 2011.
• Black Female Earnings and Income Volatility. The Review of Black Political Economy. 2011.

Alison Jacknowitz

• Birth Weight Effects on Children’s Mental, Motor, and Physical Development: Evidence from Twins Data. Maternal and Child Health Journal, forthcoming.
• The Effect of Attending Full-Day Kindergarten on English Learner Students. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2011.

Jocelyn Johnston

• Government Contracts and Managing the Market: The Implications of Strategic Management Responses to Weak Vendor Competition. With Amanda Girth. Administration and Society. 2011.
• The Impact of Local School Property Tax Reductions on City and County Revenue Decisions: A Natural Experiment in Kansas. Public Finance and Management, forthcoming. With Justin Marlowe, David Matkin, and Michael Hayes.

Laura Langbein

• Controlling Federal Agencies: The Impact of External Controls on Worker Discretion and Productivity. The International Public Management Journal. 2010.
• Economics, Public Service Motivation and Pay for Performance: Complements or Substitutes? International Public Management Journal. 2010. 

Robert Marshak

• Toward a Discourse-Centered Understanding of Organizational Change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 2011.
• Images of Organization Development: The Role of Metaphor in Processes of Change. In D. Boje, B. Burnes & J. Hassard (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change, Routledge, London. 2011.

Taryn Morrissey

• An exploratory study of the impacts of an employer-supported child care program. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2011
• Maternal employment, work schedules, and children’s body mass index. Child Development. 2011.
• Research profiled in over 250 media outlets, including NPR, Good Morning America, Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, Time, U.S. News and World Report, and appearances on Tell Me More, Wake Up Canada

Howard McCurdy

• U.S. Civil Space Policy. Invited address to Seminar on Science and Technology Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC. 2010. 
• Space and Science Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Invited address to U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 2010
• Interviewed for On Point, Science Friday, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Radio. 2010.

Dan Mullins

• State and Local Revenue Yield and Stability in the Great Recession. State Tax Notes. 2010.
• Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management? The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy (Robert Durant, ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010.

Stephanie Newbold

• Connecting the Past with the Present: Moses Maimonides’ Contribution to Democratic Theory, Public Administration, and Civil Society. Administration and Society. 2010.
• Toward a Constitutional School for American Public Administration. Public Administration Review. 2010.
• Federalist 27: Is Transparency Essential for Public Confidence in Government? Public Administration Review. 2011.

David Pitts

• Representation of lesbians and gay men in federal, state, and local bureaucracies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2011.
• A little less conversation, a little more action: Using empirical research to promote social equity. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2011.
• So hard to say goodbye? Turnover intention among U.S. federal government employees. Public Administration Review. 2011. With Sergio Fernandez and John Marvel.

Beryl Radin

• Co-edited an e-virtual edition of JPART honoring the 20th anniversary of the journal and the contributions of George Frederickson to the founding and development of JPART.
• Led a discussion at the National Academy of Public Administration on “Overhead Agencies and Permanent Government: The Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration.

David Rosenbloom

• Federalist No. 10: Factions, an Energetic, Unified Executive and the President as Administrator in Chief. Public Administration Review 71, forthcoming 2011.
• Public Administrators' Liability for 'Constitutional Torts in Norma Riccucci, ed., Public Personnel Management, 5/e. New York: Longman, 2012. Pp. 104-119. With Joshua Chanin.

Jeremy Shiffman

• Holding Health Providers in Developing Countries Accountable to Consumers: A Synthesis of Relevant Scholarship. Health Policy and Planning. 2011.
• Stillbirths: Why they Matter. The Lancet. 2011.

Ed Stazyk

• The Benefits of Bureaucracy: Public Managers’ Perceptions of Political Support, Goal Ambiguity, and Organizational Effectiveness. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2011.
• Myths, Markets, and the ‘Visible Hand’ of American Bureaucracy. In R. F. Durant (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010.

Sonja Walti

• Introduction, Handbook of Multilevel Governance, Henrik Enderlein, Sonja Wälti, and Michael Zürn (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-13.
• Multilevel Environmental Governance. in Handbook of Multilevel Governance, Henrik Enderlein, Sonja Wälti, and Michael Zürn (eds.). Cheltenham: 2010.
• Kincaid, John, Alan Tarr, and Sonja Wälti (eds). 2012. Federalism and the Global Financial Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (accepted)