Recent Research

Dr. Efraim Ben-Zadok

Policy Change through Social Elements of Policy Design: Florida Growth Policies in Planning Practice and Research (forthcoming).
Devolution of Florida Growth Management and Smart Growth: State-Regional-Local Policy, 1985-2015 in Handbook of Environmental Governance (forthcoming).
Understanding Policy Learning and Change through Policy Beliefs: Florida Smart Growth in International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (2019).
Eco-Cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies in Journal of Urban Affairs (2017).
Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City in Journal of Urban Affairs (2016).
Green Cities of Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism in Journal of Urban Affairs (2014).

Dr. A li Farazmand

Trends in Public Administration Reforms: Assessing the Past and Looking into the Future; Rationales, Approaches, and Impacts in International Journal of Civil Service Reform and Practice (2020).
Economic Value Added (EVA) for Performance Evaluation of Public Organizations in Public Organization Review (2020).
Trends in Public Administration Reforms: Assessing the Past and Looking into the Future; Rationales, Approaches, and Impacts in International Journal of Civil Service Reform and Practice (2020).
Society and Public Policy in the Middle East and North Africa in International Journal of Public Administration (2020).
The Management of Large Scale Energy Projects: Opportunities and Challenges in International Journal of Public Administration (2019).
Membership Organization’s Social Capital and the Impact on Nonprofit Sector Management in International Journal of Public Administration (2019).
Trends in Public Administration Research: A Content Analysis of Iranian Journal Articles (2004-2017) in International Journal of Public Administration (2019).
Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (2018).
Governance Reforms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the Sound: Examining the Past and Exploring the Future of Public Organizations in Public Organization Review (2017).
Ethics and accountability in the age of predatory globalization: An impossibility theorem in Radical thoughts on ethical leadership (2017).
Global cases in best and worst practice in crisis and emergency management (2016).
Does Asia have a unique theory of public administration for all seasons? An exploratory essay in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration (2015).
Crisis and emergency management: Theory and practice (2014).

Dr. Leslie A. Leip

Impact evaluation report for Children’s Harbor True North program for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2020).
The Impact of Job Expectations, Workload, and Autonomy on Work-Related Stress Among Prison Wardens in the United States in Criminal Justice and Behavior (2019).
Process evaluation report for Children’s Harbor True North program for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2018).
Job Satisfaction and Work-Related Stress: Results from a National Survey of Prison Wardens in Criminal Justice Review (2017).
Predictive Analytic Approach to Achieving Youth Stability for Broward county, Florida (2015).
Should I stay or should I go?: Job satisfaction and turnover intent of jail staff throughout the United States in Criminal Justice Review (2013).
Turning off jail turnover: do generational differences matter? in Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society (2013).

Dr. Gao Liu

Self-selection Bias or Decision Inertia? Explaining Municipal Bond “Competitive Sale Dilemma in Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management (2018).
The Effect of Sale Methods on the Interest Rate of Municipal Bonds: a Heterogeneous Endogenous Treatment Estimation in Public Budgeting and Finance (2018).
Government Decentralization and the Size of the Nonprofit Sector-Revisiting the Government Failure Theory in American Review of Public Administration (2017).
Economic Openness and Sub-National Borrowing in Public Budgeting and Finance
Relationships between Financial Advisors, Issuers and Underwriters and the Pricing of Municipal Bonds in Municipal Finance Journal (2015).
Indirect and Direct Subsidies for the Cost of Government Capital: Comparing Tax-Exempt Bonds and Build America Bonds in National Tax Journal (2014).

Dr. Clifford P. McCue

Foundational Elements for a Public Procurement Body of Knowledge in Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (2020).
Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of people involved in the criminal justice system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2020).
Evaluating Decision Speed as a Measure of Public Procurement Performance in the European Single Market in International Journal of Public Administration (2020).
Using Open Data: A Primer for Public Procurement Researchers in European Journal of Public Procurement Markets (2019).
The Desirability and Feasibility of Developing Sustainability Index for Public Procurement, in Advancing Public Procurement: Theories and Practice (2019).
Contract Administration in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018).
Analysing the European Union’s Tenders Electronic Daily: Possibilities and Pitfalls in The International Journal of Procurement Management (2018).
Acknowledging Knowledge: The Perception of Knowledge Requirements for Public Procurement Officials and Their Professional Development in Journal of Public Procurement (2018).
Glass Walls and Glass Ceilings: The Case of Public Procurement in International Journal of Procurement Management (2017).
Professionalism and Social Responsibility in Procurement and Administration in European Business Review (2017).
Examining Professionalization in Public Procurement by Ranking Practitioner Job Positions According to Job Activities in International Journal of Procurement Management (2016).
Implementation of Sustainable Public Procurement Practices and Policies: A Sorting Framework in Journal of Public Procurement (2016).
Foundation for Professionalism in Procurement and Contract Management in Procurement and Contract Management for the Curious: Why Study Procurement and Contract Management ? (2016).
Accountability through Public Service in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016).
Monitoring and Evaluating Contracts in Government Contracting, A Public Solutions Handbook (2015).
Five Dilemmas in Public Procurement in Journal of Public Procurement (2015).
The Key Enablers for the Adoption of Lean Thinking by Public Purchasing Departments in International Journal of Procurement Management (2015).
Public Procurement and the BLS: Operationalizing Occupational Duties in International Journal of Public Sector Management (2015).
Assessing SaaS-based e-procurement Across Different Levels of Government in New Developments on E-Procurement (2014).

Dr. Hugh T. Miller

Narrative Politics in Public Policy: Legalizing Cannabis (2020).
Policy narratives: the perlocutionary agents of political discourse in Critical Policy Studies (2020).
Narrative Subscription in Public Policy Discourse in Critical Policy Studies (2019).
On Legitimacy: Is Public Administration Stigmatized? in Administration & Society (2019).
Connotation in Drug Policy Discourse in Journal of Drug Abuse (2018).
Neutrality as it never was: A short treatise on public administration theory in International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior (2018).
Policy Network in Defining Public Administration (2018).
From Social Constructivist Epistemology to Context Realism in Critical Policy Studies (2016).
Scientism vs. Interpretivism in Critical Policy Studies in Critical Policy Studies (2015).
Interrogating Neutral Public Administration in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2015).
Introduction to the Symposium: Neutral Public Administration in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2015).
Narrative Competition in Public Discourse in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2014).
Building Social Cohesion: Family, Friends and Corruption in Administration & Society (2014).
Response to Book Reviews and Elaboration in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2014).

Dr. Tomás Olivier

Identifying collaboration gaps as key to more accurate science-based assessments of ecosystem service actions in watershed management: application to the Lower Chubut River Valley (Argentina) in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Governance (forthcoming).
Reconfiguring water governance for resilient social-ecological systems in South America in Water Resilience: Management and Governance in Times of Change (forthcoming).
Institutional design and complexity: protocol network structure in response to different collective-action dilemmas in Networks in Water Governance. Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice (2020).
Análisis de la Gobernanza y Aprendizaje de la Crisis en la Cuenca del Valle Inferior del Rı́o Chubut (2020).
Cuenca del Rı́o Chubut. Análisis de Situación para Fondos de Agua. Fase de factibilidad: Versión 1 in Alianza Latinoamericana de Fondos de Agua (2020).
Suspicious Collaborators: How governments in polycentric systems monitor behavior and enforce public good provision rules against one another in International Journal for the Study of the Commons (2020).
How do institutions address collective-action problems? Bridging and bonding in institutional design in Political Research Quarterly (2019).
Institutional Analysis of Rules-In-Form Coding Guidelines. in CBIE Working Paper Series No. 2018-006 (2018).
Reporte Ejecutivo. Gobernanza hı́drica en el Valle Inferior del Rı́o Chubut. Encuesta 2017-2018
Institutional adaptation and effectiveness over 18 years of the New York City watershed governance arrangement in Environmental Practice (2017).
New York City Catskill and Delaware Watershed Survey. Survey Results: Selected Data (2016).
Focusing Events and Changes in Ecologies of Policy Games: Evidence from the Paraná River Delta in Review of Policy Research (2015).

Dr. Palina Prysmakova

Whistleblowing Motivation and Gender: Vignette- Based Study in a Local Government in Review of Public Personnel Administration (2020).
Contact with Citizens and Job Satisfaction: Expanding Person- Environment Models of Public Service Motivation in Public Management Review (2020).
Public Service Motivation of Public and Nonprofit Employees: Comparative Analysis of Social Service Providers in a Centralized System in International Journal of Public Administration (2020).
Policy Diffusion of New Generation: Applying Margaret Mead’s Typology of Learning Cultures to International Learning Practices in Public Policy Studies (2020).
Collaborative Community Development in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2020).
Enjoying Police Duties: Public Service Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology (2020).
When Civil Society Initiative Becomes a Tool to Justify Government Practices: Transparency versus Utility Achieved by OpenTED in International Journal of Electronic Government Research (2019).
Understanding Relationships between Public Service Motivation and Involvement in Socio-Political Organizations: Perspectives of Organizational Field Theory in Public Administration (2019).
Demographic Antecedents of Public Service Motivation: A Meta-Analysis of PSM-Age and – Gender Correlations in Public Management Review (2019).
The Role of Financial Performance in Motivating Polish Municipal Employees in Review of Public Personnel Administration (2019).
Public Procurement in Europe: An Exploratory Analysis of Tenders Electronic Daily to Assess the Promotion of Open Data in International Journal of Procurement Management (2018).
Chinese Intergovernmental Relations and World Development: Origins and Impacts of Chinese Export Credits in International Journal of Public Administration (2017).
Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2017).
Nonprofits and Dictatorships in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2017).
Development of Cross-Sector Dialogues on Ethics: a Field Study with Global Application in P ublic Integrity (2016).
From Compliance to Commitment: Centralization and Public Service Motivation in Different Administrative Regimes in International Journal of Manpower (2016).
Breaking Iron Channels of International Learning: Adopting Mead’s Typology to the Seoul Metropolitan Government in Public Administration Issues (2016).
Why Does China Invest in Belarus? Billions in Loans for Chinese Local Governments in Belarusian Political Science Review (2016).
Do Public and Nonprofit Sector Employees Speak Same Language? in Questioning Possibilities of Civil Dialogue in Forms and Determinants of Development of Civil Dialogue (2015).
Public Service Motivatio n in Europe: Testing Attitudes toward Work Motives in NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy (2014).
Where are We on European Map? Comparing Public Service Motivation in Central and Eastern Europe to Our Neighbors’ Warsaw in East European Review (2014).

Dr. Alka Sapat

Diaspora Advocacy Coalitions and Networks: A Focus on Haiti’s Disasters for the National Science Foundation.
Haitian-Americans as critical bridges and lifelines for recovery and rebuilding in Haiti for the National Science Foundation.
Displacement Due to Catastrophic Hurricanes: Assessing Potential Magnitude and Policy Implications for Housing and Land Development for the National Science Foundation.
State Regulation of Building Safety: Policy Choices, Institutions, and Interests for the National Science Foundation.
Displaced by Disasters: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World (2014).
Transboundary Impacts of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Disaster: Focus on Legal Dilemmas in South Florida in Oñati Socio-legal Series (2013).
Hurricane Wilma and Long-Term Business Recovery in Disasters: The Role of Local Government Procurement and Economic Development in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2013).
Displacement and Disaster Recovery: Transnational Governance and Sociolegal Issues following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake in Journal of Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy (2012).
After Katrina: Comparisons of Post-Disaster Public Procurement Approaches and Outcomes in the New Orleans Area in Journal of Public Procurement (2012).

Dr. Arthur J. Sementelli

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Simulacra and Border Narratives in Public Voices (2020).
Public Administration and Epistemology: Experience, Power and Agency (2020).
Marking to Remember: Territoriality and Failure to Forget in Administrative Theory & Praxis (forthcoming).
Rethinking Habermas, from the ideal to the individual: a practical application of critical management theory in Administrative Theory & Praxis (2020).
F ear Responses: Intersubjectivity, and the Hollow State in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2020).
Life imitates art: Yojimbo, critical management, and contractors in Organization (2020).
Relation of medicinal plants, their use patterns and availability in the lower Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal in Ethnobotany Research and Applications (2019).
Faculty in Tamara Land: Taylorism, Ritual, and Performance in Administrative Theory and Praxis (2019).
Accounting for the Horsemen of the Administrative Apocalypse in Public Integrity (2019).
OD, change management, and the a priori: introducing parrhesia in Journal of Organizational Change Management (2016).
Public entrepreneurship and sub-clinical psychopaths: a conceptual frame and implications in International Journal of Public Sector Management (2016).
Branded ‘Man’ – Myth of ‘free’ services, and the Captured Individual in Social Media in Government: Theory and Practice (2016).
Critical Theory of Organizations in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016).
Managerial Leadership in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016).
Just Like Paradise? Reflections on Idealized Governance and Other Fun House Mirrors in Administrative Theory and Praxis (2015).
MOOCs: Meaningful Learning Tools for Public Administration Education or Academic Simulacra? in Education +Training (2015).
Applying Existential Philosophy and Popular Culture Images to Ethics: The Case for Fullmetal Alchemist in Public Voices (2014).
A Critical Examination of Social Media Adoption in Government: Introducing Omnipresence in Government Information Quarterly (2014).