Skip to Main Content

Recent Publications

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.

Organized Elite Power and Clean Energy: A Study of Negative Policy Experimentations with Renewable Portfolio Standards
2021

This study, published in Review of Policy Research, examines elite power groups use of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), one of the most widely adopted clean energy policies in the U.S..

Ethics Education in the Study of Public Administration: Anchoring to Civility, Civics, Social Justice, and Understanding Government in Democracy
Journal of Public Affairs Education
2021

Professor Jos Raadschelders argues that teaching ethics should be not only limited to specific ethics courses in higher education nor just embedded as an element in various core courses in public administration programs, but also anchored in a thoughtful K-12 curriculum.

Rising to Ostrom's Challenge: An Invitation to Walk on the Bright Side of Public Governance and Public Service
2021

This programmatic essay argues that public governance scholarship would benefit from developing a self-conscious and cohesive strand of "positive" scholarship, akin to social science subfields like positive psychology, positive organizational studies, and positive evaluation.