U.S. Jails and fatal drug overdoses: patterns, predictors and the role of rehabilitative contexts
Health & Justice
2025

Victor St. John, Tasha Perdue and colleagues examine predictors of drug- and opioid-related deaths among incarcerated individuals nationwide.

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The Political Embeddedness of Voluntary Action: The Case of Local Philanthropic COVID-19 Relief Funds
Administration & Society
2023

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues show that political engagement, policy signaling, and competition help activate local voluntary action, as seen in the creation of community COVID-19 relief funds.

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The antecedents of conformity in an institutionalized federated system: The case of local united ways
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues find that middle-performing United Way organizations are most likely to adopt the national network’s community impact language, refining the theory of middle-status conformity within federated systems.

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Test-based accountability and educational equity: Breaking through local district politics?
Economics of Education Review
2023

Stephane Lavertu and his colleague examine the No Child Left Behind district accountability system, finding that negative ratings prompted student disenrollment and personnel changes but did not lead to greater equity in school funding or governance.

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Introducing our vision and plans
Public Administration Review
2023

Jos Raadschelders and his Public Administration Review colleagues outline their vision and goals on the future of public administration scholarship to be published in their journal.

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Invitation for country studies in Public Administration Review
Public Administration Review
2023

Jos Raadschelders and his Public Administration Review colleagues introduce a series exploring how the study and practice of public administration differ across political systems, emphasizing the vital role of career civil servants in effective and democratic governance worldwide.

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Interdisciplinary knowledge integration in public affairs scholarship: An empirical analysis of the contributions of public administration, policy sciences, and nonprofit studies
Journal of Public Affairs Education
2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and her colleague analyze nearly a million journal citations to compare how public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies integrate interdisciplinary knowledge, finding distinct patterns shaped by each field’s origins and practices.

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Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use treatment: a mixed methods analysis
Implementation Science Communications
2024

Amanda Girth, Rebecca Smith and colleagues analyze the implementation of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), finding that collaboration strategies like leadership support, staff co-location, and third-party resource support influence program fidelity depending on local context.

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