• What Makes an Organization Public? Managers’ Perceptions in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment System 

  Merritt, Cullen C. (American Review of Public Administration, 2019)

  The question “What makes an organization public?” is a leading point of scholarly inquiry in the field of public administration. This study supplements existing theory on publicness by further exploring the primary influences ...
• Electoral Integrity: How Gerrymandering Matters 

  Kennedy, Sheila Suess (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  Gerrymandering (partisan redistricting) is widely believed to deprive citizens of meaningful participation in the democratic process. It is seen as an obvious conflict of interest because there is ample evidence that ...
• State and federal fuel taxes: The road ahead for U.S. infrastructure funding 

  Dumortier, Jerome; Zhang, Fengxiu; Marron, John (Elsevier, 2017-01)

  Taxes on gasoline and diesel are the primary sources of transportation funding at the state and federal level. Due to inflation and improved fuel efficiency, these taxes are increasingly inadequate to maintain the ...
• The Scale of Mission-Embeddedness as a Nonprofit Revenue Classification Tool: Different Earned Revenue Types, Different Performance Effects 

  Levine Daniel, Jamie; Kim, Mirae (SAGE, 2018-08-01)

  Nonprofits rely on earned revenue to remain sustainable. Prior studies have generally aggregated all earned revenue and evaluated its influence on financial sustainability. Our study takes a different approach, assessing ...
• Beyond Cans and Capacity Nonprofit Roles and Service Network Objectives in an Emergency Food Network 

  Levine Daniel, Jamie; Moulton, Stephanie (Wiley, 2017)

  Many essential public services are provided through networks of community‐based nonprofit organizations. Previous research has demonstrated that simply providing additional resources to these organizations is insufficient ...
• Formalization and consistency heighten organizational rule following: Experimental and survey evidence 

  Borry, Erin L.; DeHart-Davis, Leisha; Kaufmann, Wesley; Merritt, Cullen C.; Mohr, Zachary; Tummers, Lars (Public Administration, 2018)

  This study examines the attributes of organizational rules that influence rule following. Rule following fosters organizational effectiveness by aligning individual behaviors with organizational preference. While a range ...
• Developing Maintenance Cultures in UN Police Peacekeeping Operations 

  Wamer, Will; Farnworth, Morgan; Hartnett, Brendan; Foley, William A., Jr.; Cutler, Jordan; Davids, Allison; Diaz, Camen; Hall, Hannah; Howell, Stephen; Kiilu, Joshua; Klinger, Kelsey; Laucevicius, Rachell; Taake, Tatyana (2017)

  This report provides an analysis and evaluation of maintenance cultures in United Nations Police Contributing Countries (PCC) receiving funding for Formed Police Units from the United States. The US Department of State, ...
• Growing Pains: The Transformative Journey from a Nascent to a Formal Not-For-Profit Venture 

  Edenfield, Avery C.; Andersson, Fredrik O. (Springer, 2018)

  This article examines how a social venture transitions from nascent to formal status and argues that the transformation of the organization set in motion by establishing formal boundaries is a deeply profound one. Drawing ...
• The Civic Dimension of School Voucher Programs 

  Merritt, Cullen C.; Kennedy, Sheila Suess; Farnworth, Morgan D. (Public Integrity, 2018-10)

  America’s public schools have not been exempt from the movement to privatization and contracting out that has characterized government innovations over at least the past quarter century. A number of the issues raised by ...
• Does Feminist Theory Matter? 

  Petersen, Amanda; Salisbury, Emily; Sundt, Jody (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Dealing with Missing Data: A Comparative Exploration of Approaches Using the Integrated City Sustainability Database 

  Curley, Cali; Krause, Rachel M.; Feiock, Richard; Hawkins, Christopher V. (Sage, 2017)

  Studies of governments and local organizations using survey data have played a critical role in the development of urban studies and related disciplines. However, missing data pose a daunting challenge for this research. ...
• The Cost of Saving Money: Public Service Motivation, Private Security Contracting, and the Salience of Employment Status 

  Merritt, Cullen C.; Kennedy, Sheila Suess; Kienapple, Matt R. (Public Performance & Management Review, 2018)

  The growth of government outsourcing has triggered significant legal and social science research. That research has focused primarily on issues of cost, accountability, and management. A thus far understudied question ...
• Antecedents to managing publicness: a study of professional and cultural socialization 

  Merritt, Cullen C.; Farnworth, Morgan D. (Edward Elgar, 2018)
• Pantries and Policy Implementation: Using Nonprofit Priorities to Understand Variation in Emergency Food Assistance 

  Fyall, Rachel; Levine Daniel, Jamie (Sage, 2018-01)

  Public and nonprofit actors have long partnered to carry out emergency food assistance, particularly through the use of nonprofit food pantries. Although nonprofit pantries fulfill an important function in policy implementation, ...
• Pick Your Poison: Examining Adolescent Substance Use through Opportunity Theory 

  Block, Molly; Swartz, Kristin; Copenhaver, Allen (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  The present study examines substance use behaviors of middle and high school students, focusing on how varying influences of opportunity measures impact use of specific types of substances. The data used in the present ...
• Mapping the Implementation Landscape: Assessing the Systemic Capacity of Statewide Community Corrections Agencies to Deliver Evidence-Based Practices 

  Salisbury, Emily; Sundt, Jody; Boppre, Breanna (Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 2018-09)

  Treatment quality is recognized as a critical moderator for programs to successfully reduce recidivism. Yet, the implementation of any new initiative takes place within a context—a system comprised of varying structures, ...
• Spatiotemporal Convergence of Crime and Vehicle Crash Hotspots: Additional Consideration for Policing Places 

  Carter, Jeremy G.; Piza, Eric L. (Sage, 2017)

  Policing strategies that seek to simultaneously combat crime and vehicle crashes operate under the assumption that these two problems have a corollary relationship—an assumption that has received scant empirical attention ...
• Thirty Years of Public Management Scholarship: Plenty of “How” Not Enough “Why” 

  Kennedy, Sheila Suess (Emerald, 2017)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the overarching lessons to be gleaned from 30 years of public management literature. Design/methodology/approach The methodology was simple: review the professional ...
• Fentanyl related overdose in Indianapolis: Estimating trends using multilevel Bayesian models 

  Phalen, Peter; Ray, Bradley; Watson, Dennis P.; Huynh, Philip; Greene, Marion S. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Introduction The opioid epidemic has been largely attributed to changes in prescribing practices over the past 20 years. Although current overdose trends appear driven by the opioid fentanyl, heroin has remained the focus ...
• The Many Dimensions of Historic Preservation Value: National and Local Designation, Internal and External Policy Effects 

  Oba, Tetsuharu; Noonan, Douglas S. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  This analysis examines the internal and external policy effects of national and local register programmes for historic preservation. Robust hedonic pricing models are crucial to informing policy proposals and understanding ...

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