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Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion: Diagnosing Behaviors and Tailoring Interventions for Lasting Transformation
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).

Specifying Cross-system Collaboration Strategies for Implementation: A Multi-site Qualitative Study with Child Welfare and Behavioral Health Organizations
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.

A Closer Look at Contract Accountability: Exploring the Determinants of Sanctions for Unsatisfactory Contract Performance
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2014

This research addresses the accountability dynamics in local government contracting by analyzing the decisions public managers make to determine whether they sanction contractors for unsatisfactory performance.

Election workers under stress: Pressures from political officeholders, lawyers, and citizens
PA-Times
2024

Jos Raadschelders explores the tensions between agendas of elected officials and career civil servants.

Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research
Public Finance Journal
2024

Ned Hill worked with colleagues to establish an academic research agenda aligned with the needs of practitioners. 

Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East
International Public Management Journal
2024

Long Tran provides evidence of the importance of trust in a developing country.

Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review
Journal on Urban Affairs
2024

Jill Clark and colleagues study interest in community-based participatory research by universities and funders by analyzing peer-reviewed scholarship on CBPR.

The Yoke of Objectivity in Public Administration (and Beyond)
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
2024

This article problematizes the concept of "objectivity" as it applies to research and practice in public administration and beyond.

New development: Loyalty to principle or politics—The US civil service under attack … but is it justified?
Public Money & Management
2024

Jos Raadschelders studies the threats to merit-based, apolitical civil service, necessary reforms and risks to democracy.

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