Public Management and Leadership

Pennsylvania State Police Traffic Stop Study

2024 Annual Report of the Pennsylvania State Police

2025

This report by Robin Engel and Jenn Cherkauskas provides a detailed breakdown of traffic stop characteristics and outcomes at the department level, as well as across PSP’s four Areas, 16 Troops, and 89 Stations. PSP’s voluntary data collection and analysis align with best practices, showcasing its commitment to transparency and accountability to its communities and reinforcing its dedication to evidence-based policing practices.

Policing and Society

2025

Russell Hassan, Clifford Stott and colleagues deliver the first systematic, theory-informed empirical analysis of the Columbus Division of Police post-2020 POPS framework using participatory action research across 60+ events to show how specific approaches contain conflict and promote self-regulation within protest crowds, also revealing tensions in organizational change.

Public Money & Management

2025

Jos C. N. Raadschelders and authors stress the importance of a career civil service recruited on the basis of merit, while at the same time recognizing the need for genuine civil service reform. The article also highlights the importance of career civil servants to citizens.

Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

2025

Travis Whetsell and Jos Raadschelders explore the dimensions of the public as a central idea in the contemporary field of public management and governance.

The Trap of Securitizing Science

Issues in Science and Technology

2024

In response to China’s rise, Western governments are acting to limit scientific collaboration—but these measures will not increase economic competitiveness and could inhibit the practice of science itself.

Gender, Work, and Organization

2024

Erynn Beaton's qualitative study uses deconstruction to understand how power operates in encounters with sexual harassment within the public workplace.

Public Administration Review

2025

Trevor Brown and colleagues remember Professor Allan and highlight the impacts he made on the field and many public administrators and scholars across the globe.

2024

This report discusses the Phase II work for the Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion: Diagnosing Behaviors and Tailoring Interventions for Lasting Transformation project (WRT-1081.8.4). The project was a collaboration between the Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) and The Ohio State University (OSU).

Implementation Science

2024

This study identifies, describes, and specifies multi-level collaboration strategies used during the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (Ohio START), a cross-system intervention that integrates services across two systems (child welfare and evidence-based behavioral health services) for families that are affected by co-occurring child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

Contract Design, Complexity, and Incentives: Evidence From U.S. Federal Agencies

The American Review of Public Administration

2018

This study analyzes nearly 390,000 federal contracts across service acquisitions of varying complexity to determine whether incentive contracts differ in contract duration, cost, or technical performance when compared with other types of contracts.