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Recent Publications

How to “Run” the Many Moving Parts of Democratic Government? Book review of Nissim Cohen (2021).
Public Administration Review
2021

This review was written by Professor Jos Raadschelders.

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop uses data on United Ways that e-filed their 990 forms and supervised machine learning to illustrate an approach for classifying a large set of mission descriptions by roles.

Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2021

Country Fresh Stops (CFS) and Donation Station (DS) are two complementary programs that support local agriculture in Appalachia Ohio. As the first study of these programs in the peer-reviewed literature, this publication identifies factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of these local value chain models of healthy food access.

Advances in the Empirical Estimation of Disaster Resilience
Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters
2021

Professor Noah Dormady summarizes key contributions and advances in the empirical estimation of disaster resilience.

Utilization Patterns of a Food Referral Program: Findings from the Mid-Ohio Farmacy
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
2021

There is limited evidence describing utilization of clinic-based food referral programs intended to support healthy eating for food-insecure patients. To address this gap, this study aims to describe the utilization of the Mid-Ohio Farmacy (MOF).

Making Disciplinary-Based Theories of the Nonprofit Sector Accessible for Students: An Example Using a Theory From Political Science
Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership
2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop introduces a novel pedagogical approach that helps students understand the theories used to teach about the nonprofit sector and how educators can connect theory to current challenges impacting nonprofit organizations.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 3 Results
Social Science Research Network
2021

Erynn Beaton's Wave 3 survey results tell a story of the nonprofit sector’s resilience and contribution, and how organizations rallied during the pandemic to provide new services to new populations and to create partnerships with other organizations.

Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process
American Review of Public Administration
2021

Jill Clark empirically illustrates the connection between public value frames, design choices, and public participation in a collaborative policymaking process.