Public Management and Leadership

Evaluation of Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) Training with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police

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.

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.

Seo-Young Byun

Mallory E. Compton