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Recent Publications

Measuring the Impacts of Research Investments: Beyond the Economic Approach
Social Science Research Network
2020

Professor Caroline Wagner uses data to identify possible measures for the social benefits of research.

A Qualitative Evaluation of Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program Access
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
2020

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner explores factors affecting access to and use of Double Up Food Bucks, a farmers' market program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for use toward the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

Drought, Hurricane, or Wildfire? Assessing the Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Disaster
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

Local Organizational Determinants of Local-International NGO Collaboration
Public Management Review
2020

Professor Long Tran explores several local organizational characteristics that may explain the existence of collaborative relations between international and local non-governmental organizations.

Government Privatization and Political Participation: The Case of Charter Schools
Journal of Politics
2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan explore if privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance.

No Margin, No Mission: How Practitioners Justify Nonprofit Managerialization
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
2019

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how nonprofit practitioners respond to pressures to enact business practices.

Value of Information on Resilience Decision-Making in Repeated Disaster Environments
Natural Hazards Review
2019

Professors Noah Dormady, Rob Greenbaum and Kim Young report on a series of controlled experiments with human subjects on the decision of firms to invest in resilience to mitigate supply-chain disruptions and their willingness to pay for advisory information to improve resilience planning investments.

The Behavioral Public Administration Movement: A Critical Reflection
Public Administration Review
2019

Professor Russell Hassan discusses the behavioral public administration movement call for greater use of theories from psychology and experimental research designs to improve the rigor of public administration research.