Research and Impact

Working to solve the complex problems facing today’s world.

The Glenn College’s world-class faculty brings practical experience and an interdisciplinary approach to research, analysis and technical assistance. Collaborating across policy areas, and with public and private sector organizations, our work seeks to improve public governance and policymaking.

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Recent Publications

International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2019

Professor Long Tran explores how centralization, a fundamental structural characteristic, relates to an INGO’s effectiveness as perceived by its own leader versus by leaders of other INGOs.

Timing Is Money: Does Lump‐Sum Payment Of The Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Savings And Debt?
Economic Inquiry
2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones investigates whether savings and debt among EITC‐eligible families reflect the timing of payments.

Global Science for Global Challenges
Handbook on Science and Public Policy
2019

Professor Caroline Wagner explores the application of complex systems theory to understand the rapid growth of international collaboration, particularly as it can be applied to global challenges. 

An Intersection of Privatization and Public Utility Regulation: The Ohio State University's Energy Concession Agreement
Utilities Policy
2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

The Need for Ethical Leadership in Combating Corruption
International Review of Administrative Sciences
2019

Professor Russell Hassan empirically assesses the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. 

International Research Collaboration: Novelty, Conventionality, and Atypicality in Knowledge Recombination
Research Policy
2019

Professor Caroline Wagner tests for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration.

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees
Review of Administrative Sciences
2019

Professor Joshua Hawley examines US government employees’ turnover before and after the recession.

Why there and then, not here and now? Ecological Offsetting in California and England, and the Sharpening Contradictions of Neoliberal Natures
Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space
2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.