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.

More Research and Impact

Recent Publications

Sex, Gender, and Disasters: Experimental Evidence on the Decision to Invest in Resilience
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2016

Professors Kim Young, Rob Greenbaum and Noah Dormady use a randomized controlled experimental design to examine whether biological sex or gender diversity might lead to decision-making that improves investments in resilience to calamitous events. 

Electricity Customer Choice in Ohio: How Competition Has Outperformed Traditional Monopoly Regulation
Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council
2016

Professor Ned Hill assesses the effects that deregulation of electricity generation has had on electricity prices in Ohio.

What's in a Name? The Impact of Fair Trade Claims on Product Price
Agribusiness: An International Journal
2016

Professor Neal Hooker uses food marketing and other data to find the impact of a fair trade label on a product. 

Back-Pedaling or Continuing Quietly? Assessing the Impact of ICLEI Membership Termination on Cities’ Sustainability Actions
2016

This study, published in Environmental Politics, questions whether cities’ termination of their ICLEI affiliation diminishes their implementation of sustainability actions.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate
Public Budgeting & Finance
2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate
Public Budgeting & Finance
2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.

Incentives in Third-Party Governance: Management Practices and Accountability Implications
2016

This study, published in Public Administration Review, assesses public managers’ use of contract incentives in practice and advances theory development. 

Policy Networks in Complex Governance Subsystems: Observing and Comparing Hyperlink, Media, and Partnership Networks
Policy Studies Journal
2016

Hongtao Yi examines how methods for observing policy networks have not kept up with the development of new network analytic techniques required to understand governance in complex settings.