Public Management and Leadership

How Do Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Used in Public Benefits Determinations Fail? Insights From Legal Challenges

Public Administration Review

2025

Esra Gules-Guctas and colleagues demonstrate how algorithmic decision-making systems used in public benefits determinations can produce outcomes that fail to comply with legal requirements when statutory rules are improperly implemented in code, often due to flawed data, poor design choices, or inherent system limitations.

Workplace Incivility and Its Impact on Public Employees’ Job Search Behavior

Public Personnel Management

2024

Shahidul Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how experiences of supervisor and coworker incivility influence public employees’ job satisfaction and prompt job search behavior, especially affecting employees of color more strongly.

Public Management Review

2024

Russell Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how workplace inclusion can reduce emotional exhaustion and buffer against challenges like incivility and COVID-19–related job changes in local government organizations.

Applied Report for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department

2025

This study evaluates the impact of ICAT de-escalation training within the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on officers’ attitudes and behavior. Findings from a stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial design show significant reductions in use of force and subjects injured following training, with no increase in officers injured, and highlight the importance of organizational support and training reinforcement in sustaining behavioral change.

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.

Seo-Young Byun

Mallory E. Compton

Lalita Kaligotla