Peer Reviewed Research

Policy Composition and Adoption Duration: Capturing Conflict in the Legislative Process

Policy Studies Journal

2022

Hongtao Yi, Doctoral Student Catherine Chen and colleagues were published in the Policy Studies Journal for their work on the affects of conflicts during the policy process

A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2022

Hongtao Yi and Doctoral Student Catherine Chen study the career trajectories of local managers.

Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes?

American Journal of Health Economic

2022

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the effects of Opioid prescriptions on fatal car crashes.

Governance Rules for Managing Smart City Information

Urban Governance

2022

This study by Amanda Girth, David Landsbergen and Doctoral Student Mariángeles Westover-Muñoz provides a new framework to identify how cities can select the appropriate governance rules to facilitate the political, financial, and operational sustainability of their IDEs, and derivatively, their smart city efforts.

2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

2021

This study, published in Public Management Review, proposes four starting conditions that affect the establishment of intergovernmental collaboration: power imbalance, resource imbalance, prehistory of collaboration and participation of superior levels of government.

Collaborative Networks and Environmental Governance Performance: A Social Influence Model

2020

This research, published in Public Management Review, examines how collaborative networks affect the performance of individual policy actors embedded in the network.

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..

Drop in China-USA International Collaboration

ISSI Newsletter

2022

Professor Caroline Wagner examines publication data among ‘big three’ players following reports of withdrawal of Chinese researchers from collaboration with the United States in response to political conflict,

Conservation and Society

2022

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea compares the four largest sources of revenue for state wildlife and conservation agencies and demonstrate the growing importance of Pittman-Robertson as gun sales increase.