Public Management and Leadership

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

International Public Management Journal

2024

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