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Learn more about our department's research areas. Our faculty are researching innovation in local governments, public budgeting and financial management and ways in which organizations in the public, private and nonprofit sectors can work together to provide better public services.
| Title | Author | Year | Publication | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring Public Sector YouTube Influencer PR Strategies: A Mixed-Methods Field Study | Ilwoo Ju, Eunju Rho, and Juyong Jung | Forthcoming | Journal of Applied Communication Research | Government PR, Organizational Communication, Local Government |
| Examining the Influence of Government PR through YouTube on Trust in Local Government | Juyong Jung and Eunju Rho | 2024 | Korean Governance Review | Government PR Strategies, Local Government |
| Citizen Satisfaction Research in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda | Soojin Kim, Eunju Rho, and Yu Xuan Joycelyn Teo | 2024 | American Review of Public Administration | Citizen Satisfaction, Public Administration |
| Poly Social Media Use: Roles of Informational Norms and Emotion Regulation | Ilwoo Ju, Eunju Rho, and Amber Hinsley | 2023 | Journal of Health Communication | Social Media, Health Communication |
| Relative Managerial Networking and Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Context | Eunju Rho and Sumin Han | 2021 | Public Administration Review | Organizational Performance, Managerial Behavior, Local School District |
| Taking Context and Strategy Seriously: The Contracting Out Decision in the U.S. Public Education | Eunju Rho, Soojin Kim, and Sumin Han | 2021 | Public Management Review | Contracting Out, Public Education, Organizational Strategies |
| The Impact of Transactional and Transformational Leadership on Goal Specificity and Psychological Empowerment | Jaehee Jong and Sue Faerman | 2021 | Public Personnel Management | Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management |
| Centralization and Decentralization: Balancing Organizational and Employee Expectations | Jaehee Jong and Sue Faerman | 2020 | Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance | Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management |
| Organizing Transit Institutions to Facilitate Cross-Jurisdictional Service Integration | David Weinreich and Thomas Skuzinski | 2021 | Journal of Urban Affairs | Regional Governance, Interlocal Cooperation, Transportation, Special Purpose Government |
| Increasing the Understanding of Fiscal Impact Analysis to Help Real Estate Developers More Effectively Manage Process Risk | Dustin C. Read, Thomas Skuzinski, and Andrew R. Sanderford | 2019 | Journal of Real Estate Literature | Fiscal Impact Analysis, Land Use, Rationality and Behavior |
| The Bounded and Pragmatic Consultant: Fiscal Impact Analysts as Rational Actors | Dustin C. Read, Andrew R. Sanderford, and Thomas Skuzinski | 2019 | Planning Practice and Research | Fiscal Impact Analysis, Land Use, Rationality and Behavior |
| The Risk of Regional Governance: Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation | Thomas Skuzinski | 2018 | Routledge (book) | Interlocal Cooperation, Regional Governance, Rationality and Behavior, Land Use |
| States and the Relationships Among Local Governments | Thomas Skuzinski | 2019 | State-Local Relations in Partnership and Conflict (edited volume) | Interlocal Cooperation, Regional Governance |
| Land Use Decision-making in the Wake of State Property Rights Legislation: Examining the Institutional Response to Florida’s Harris Act | Linkous, Evangeline, and Thomas Skuzinski | 2019 | State-Local Relations in Partnership and Conflict (edited volume) | Interlocal Cooperation, Regional Governance |
| Tradable Development Rights in the US: Making Zoning Flexible Through Market Mechanisms | Thomas Skuzinski, and Evangeline R. Linkous. | 2018 | Instruments of Land Policy (edited volume) | Land Use; Tradable Development Rights |
| Neighborhood Institutions and Residential Home Sales: Evaluating the Impact of Property Tax Exemptions | Christopher Goodman and Deborah A. Carroll | Forthcoming | Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics | Nonprofits, Local Government |
| Tensions in State-Local Intergovernmental Response to Emergencies: The Case of COVID-19 | McDonald III, Bruce D., Christopher Goodman, and Megan E. Hatch | Forthcoming | State and Local Government Review | Intergovernmental Relations |
| State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends | Christopher Goodman, Megan E. Hatch, and Bruce D. McDonald, III | Forthcoming | Perspectives on Public Management and Governance | Intergovernmental Relations, Local Government |
| The Truth About Honesty in the Nonprofit Sector | McDonald III, Bruce D. and Christopher Goodman | Forthcoming | Public Administration Quarterly | Nonprofit Management |
| Organizational Culture and Effectiveness in Community Based Nonprofits | Langer, J., Camarena, L., & Jong, J. | 2024 | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | Nonprofit Management |
| Who “We” are matters: the influence of organizational identity orientation on public participation in government | Langer, J., & Feeney, M. K. | 2023 | Public Management Review, 1-20 | Public Participation, Organizational Identity |
| Nonprofit Messaging and the 2020 Election: Findings from a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Field Experiment | LeRoux, K., Langer, J., & Plotner, S. | 2022, August | Nonprofit Policy Forum. De Gruyter | Nonprofit Messaging, Elections |
| Bureaucracy and the Imaginal Realm: Max Weber, Rationality and the Substantive Basis of Public Administration | Langer, J. | 2022 | Perspectives on Public Management and Governance | Bureaucracy, Public Administration Theory |
| Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection | Langer, J., Siciliano, M., and LeRoux, K. | 2022 | VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit Collaboration, Partner Selection |
| Organizational Identity Orientation: A Public Sector Research Agenda | Langer, J.A., and Feeney, M.K. | 2022 | The Handbook of Research on Motivation in Public Administration. Edmund C. Stazyk and Randall S. Davis, Edward Elgar Publishing | Organizational Identity, Public Sector Research |
| Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing | Langer, J. | 2021 | Administration & Society | Organizational Identity, Nonprofit Sector |
| From Nonprofit Leader to Elected Official: Examining Political Ambition in the Nonprofit Sector | LeRoux, K., and Langer, J. | 2019 | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(1), 208-226 | Nonprofit Leadership, Political Ambition |
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