Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition
American Political Science Review
2022

Vladimir Kogan studies how moving local elections to the same day as national elections could increase voter turnout and make the electorate more representative.

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A Framework to Centre Justice in Energy Transition Innovations
Nature Energy
2023

As part of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, Chris Rea offers a framework to help engineers and practitioners center justice in renewable energy transition innovations.

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Preparing for Food System Resiliency in Ohio Policy and Planning Lessons from COVID-19
2022

Jill Clark and Aiden Irish aim to inform state emergency management responses in order to better prepare for and mitigate medium- and long-term negative social and economic impacts resulting from future disasters and disruptions.

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Food System Dynamics Structuring Nutrition Equity in Racialized Urban Neighborhoods
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2022

Jill Clark identifies nutrition equity as an overarching goal for local food systems, which reflects a state of having freedom, agency, and dignity in food traditions resulting in people and communities healthy in body, mind, and spirit. It is a transformative goal designed to spur system-level interventions that further racial equity through improved local food system dynamics.

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Introduction to Governance, Government and Public Administration
Book
2023

Jos Raadschelders presents an accessible, student-friendly introduction to governance, government and public administration

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The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries
Annual Review of Sociology
2014

Christopher Rea examines the limitations of investigating business unity without focusing directly on processes and outcomes and then review studies of five types of business political action that offer lenses into corporate power in the United States: engagement in electoral politics, direct corporate lobbying, collective action through associations and coalitions, business campaigns in civil society, and political aspects of corporate responsibility. 

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Same Product, Different Price: Experimental Evidence on the Transaction Cost Expenditures of Selling to Governments and Firms
Public Administration Review
2022

Dean Trevor Brown examines whether governments pay more than firms when contracting.

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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.

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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.

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