Recent Faculty Books

Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, & Opportunities

Edited by Robert Durant & Jennifer Durant

Informed by a "5 R" framework (reconceptualizing purpose, redefining rationality, recapitalizing human assets, reengaging resources, and revitalizing democratic constitutionalism), this book is a 'one stop shop' for cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-professional exchanges on the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public administrators today. About Durant

Public Program Evaluation: A Statistical Guide

Laura Langbein

Far more than a cookbook of statistical techniques, the book begins with the overall context for successful program evaluations and carefully explains the statistical methods that correspond to each evaluation design. Langbein then presents a variety of approaches to program analysis and advises readers on how to select the mix of methods most appropriate for the evaluation at hand. About Langbein

The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy

Edited by Robert Durant 

One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. This book affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. About Durant

Space and the American Imagination

Howard McCurdy

This book examines the role that imagination and popular culture played in the formulation of national space policy that eventually sent Apollo astronauts to the moon in 1969. About McCurdy

Handbook on Multi-level Governance

Henrik Enderlein, Sonja Wälti, & Michael Zurin

This accessible handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts. About Wälti

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

Anna Amirkhanyan

• Closer than "arm's length": Understanding the factors influencing the development of collaborative contracting relationships, American Review of Public Administration (with H. Kim & Kristina Lambright)

Karen Baehler

• Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition. New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, 2013. Co-edited with Douglas Besharov.
• “Justice as Collective Capability,” in Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David Eng, editors, Ethics and Public Policy: Contemporary Issues. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. 2011.
• Adding Value to Policy Analysis and Advice. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press. 2010. Coauthored with Claudia Scott.
  

Robert Durant

• The Paradox of Administrative Reform: American Progressivism, Corporate Capitalism, and the 'Compensatory State,' Public Organization Review (with Susannah Bruns Ali)
• Repositioning Public Administration to Engage Citizens? The New Governance, Civic Society, and the Disarticulated State, Public Administration Review (with Susannah Bruns Ali)
• Global Crises, American Public Administration, and the 'New Interventionism' Revisited, Administration & Society
• 'Wicked' Policy Problems, New Governance Models, and the Triumph of the 'New Associationalism' in the Post-Obama Era, The Public Interest
• Robert F. Durant and Susannah Bruns Ali, “Repositioning Public Administration? The New Governance, Civic Society, and the Disarticulated State,” Public Administration Review (on-line early view 2012).
• Jerome S. Legge, Jr., and Robert F. Durant. 2012. “Stem Cell Research, Regulatory Regimes, and Citizens’ ‘Calculus of Consent’ in the European Union,” Public Organization Review, vol. 12 (2): 191-207.
  

Lewis Faulk

• Faulk, Lewis, Lauren Hamilton Edwards, Gregory B. Lewis, and Jasmine McGinnis. “An Analysis of Gender Pay Disparity in the Nonprofit Sector: An Outcome of Labor Motivation or Gendered Jobs?” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, published online 10 September 2012. DOI: 10.1177/0899764012455951.

Daniel Fiorino

• Explaining National Environmental Performance: Approaches, Evidence, and Implications. Policy Sciences . 2011.
• Sustainability as a Conceptual Focus for Public Administration. Public Administration Review, 2010.

Seth Gershenson

• How do substitute teachers substitute? An empirical study of substitute-teacher labor supply, Economics of Education Review

Tamara Hafner

• The Emergence of Global Attention to Health Systems Strengthening, Health Policy and Planning (with Jeremy Shiffman)
• Environmental Policy vs. Public Pressure: Innovation and diffusion of alternative bleaching technologies in the pulp industry, Research Policy (with David Popp & Nick Johnstone)

Bradley Hardy

• Decomposing Rising Income Volatility: The 'Wild Ride' at the Top and Bottom. Economic Inquiry (with James Ziliak)
• Earnings Volatility in America: Evidence from Matched CPS, Labour Economics (with James Ziliak & Christopher Bollinger)
• Black Female Earnings and Income Volatility, The Review of Black Political Economy

Alison Jacknowitz

• The Effect of Attending Full-Day Kindergarten on English Learner Students, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (with Jill Cannon & Gary Painter)

Jocelyn Johnston

• Outsourcing Public Service Delivery: Management Responses in Noncompetitive Markets, Public Administration Review (with Amanda Girth, Amir Hefetz, & Mildred Warner)
• Government Contracts and "Managing the Market": The Implications of Strategic Management
• Responses to Weak Vendor Competition, Administration & Society (with Amanda Girth)
• The Impact of Local School Property Tax Reductions on City and County Revenue Decisions: A Natural Experiment in Kansas, Public Finance and Management (with Justin Marlowe, David Matkin, & Michael Hayes)

Laura Langbein

• Measuring 'Women-Friendly' Public Policy. Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy (with Kimberly Cowell-Meyers)

Patrick Malone

• “Leading in Ballast Water” Maritime Executive. Fall 2012.
• “Can Leaders Keep Their Cool While Feeling the Heat?” The Public Manager 41(2) Summer 2012.
  

Robert Marshak

• The controversy over diagnosis in contemporary organization development, OD Practitioner, 45(1), 54-59.
• An introduction to advances in dialogic organization development, OD Practitioner, 4(1), 1-4.

Taryn Morrissey

• Multiple child care arrangements and common communicable illnesses in children aged 3 to 54 months, Maternal and Child Health Journal.
• Trajectories of growth in body mass index across childhood: Associations with maternal and paternal employment, Social Science & Medicine.
• Health reform and child health: Progress, cautions, and future directions, Child Development Perspectives
• Maternal employment, work schedules, and children's body mass index, Child Development (with Rachel Dunifon & A. Kalil)

Stephanie Newbold

• Federalist 27: Is Transparency Essential for Public Confidence in Government? Public Administration Review
• Connecting the Past with the Present: Moses Maimonides' Contribution to Democratic Theory, Public Administration, and Civil Society, Administration and Society (with Alicia Schortgen)

David Pitts

• No Solutions, Only Tradeoffs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street Level Bureaucracies, Public Administration Review (with William Resh)
• Differing Effects of Representative Bureaucracy in Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools, American Review of Public Administration (with Christine Roch)
• So Hard to Say Goodbye? Turnover Intention among U.S. Federal Government Employees, Public Administration Review (with John Marvel & Sergio Fernandez)
• Representation of Lesbians and Gay Men in Federal, State, and Local Bureaucracies, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (with Greg Lewis)

David Rosenbloom

• Coproducing 'Clean' Collaborative Governance: Examples from the United States and China, Public Performance and Management Review (with Ting Gong)
• How Can a "Real American" Love OSHA? John A. Rohr's Audacious Project to Legitimate the U.S. Administrative State. Administrative Theory & Praxis (with Helena Rene)
• Federalist No. 10: Factions, an Energetic, Unified Executive and the President as Administrator in Chief, Public Administration Review.
• "The Equal Opportunities Commission and the Courts in Hong Kong: A Partnership Model?"Journal of the Washington Institute of China Studies 5 (No. 4, 2011): 22-47. Coauthors: Glenn Kwok-hung Hui, Wing Lin Leung.
  
  

Jeremy Shiffman

• The Emergence of Global Attention to Health Systems Strengthening, Health Policy and Planning (with Tamara Hafner)
• Family Planning: A Political Issue, The Lancet (with Kathryn Quissell)
• Holding Health Providers in Developing Countries Accountable to Consumers: A Synthesis of Relevant Scholarship, Health Policy and Planning (with David Berlan)
• "Generating Political Priority for Neonatal Mortality Reduction in Bangladesh," American Journal of Public Health.2013.
  
  

Edmund Stazyk

• “Vive la Differénce? The Impact of Diversity on the Turnover Intention of Public Employees and Performance of Public Agencies” (with Laura Langbein). International Public Management Journal.
• “Making Ends Meet: How Reinvention Reforms Can Complement Public Service Motivation” (with Randall Davis). Public Administration.
• “Crowding Out Public Service Motivation? Comparing Theoretical Expectations with Empirical Findings on the Influence of Performance-Related Pay.” Review of Public Personnel Administration.
  

Sonja Walti

• Handbook on Multi-level Governance. Edward Elgar Pub. 2010. (co-editor)
• Federalism and the Global Financial Crisis. Oxford University Press. 2013. (co-editor)
• Federalism and Public Policy. Routledge Handbook of Federalism and Regionalism. 2013. (contributor)