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Loyalty to Principle or Politics: The US Civil Service under Attack …but is it Justified?
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.

Subjected to Harassment: Deconstructing Power in an Encounter With Workplace Sexual Harassment
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.

The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field-Builder, Teacher, and Friend
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. 

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.

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