Research
The faculty and students in the Department of Public Administration and Policy are making regular and important contributions to the field of public administration. In fact, the January 2005 issue of Journal of Public Affairs Education reported that the Department's graduate students published more articles in a key set of research journals than did students at any other university between 1993-2002.
Faculty research interests are varied; here is a brief listing of research interests by faculty member:
Barry Bozeman
Public management, science and technology policy and higher education, public values and management, public organization theory, university research centers, scientists' career trajectories, organizational red tape and technological innovation and technology transfer.
Dr. W. David Bradford
- Health economic policy
- role of time preferences in decision making
- reproductive health policy
- impact of information on pharmaceutical markets
- behavioral economics
- econometric methodology.
Dr. Deborah A. Carroll
Fiscal policy issues pertaining to state and local governments with an emphasis on taxation, revenue diversification, and urban economic development.
Robert K. Christensen
At the individual level Dr. Christensen is interested in the impact of antisocial and prosocial behaviors on public and nonprofit work groups and organizations. The former includes race and gender prejudice; the latter includes public service motivation, volunteerism, workplace philanthropy, and organization citizenship. At the institutional level he is interested in the relationship between courts (broadly public law) and public administration.
Dr. Yilin Hou
Fiscal/budgetary institutions; State and local taxation; Intellectual development of public budgeting; Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Dr. J. Edward Kellough
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, civil service reform, incentive structures and productivity, job evaluation and compensation, public sector labor relations
Dr. Jerome S. Legge
Dr. Legge's major research interest over the past several years has concerned politics in Germany with a special emphasis on the relationship between Germans, Jews, and other minorities. Other research interests concern comparative public policies in the areas of population, privatization, and immigration. In addition, he has conducted research on the politics and sociology of American Jews and Judaism.
Dr. Laurence J. O'Toole
Policy implementation in complex institutional settings; the impact of public management on government performance; networks and public management; intergovernmental and interorganizational relations; and environmental, health, and educational policy and management.
Dr. Jeffrey B. Wenger
Dr. Wenger's research focuses on unemployment insurance policy and contingent employment. He is currently researching the relationship between job search and the provision of employer-provided health insurance. He is also pursuing research on the older workers and contingent employment. Previously he has examined the cyclical nature of temporary-services employment and part-time employment.
Dr. Andrew B. Whitford
Bureaucratic politics, organization theory, political economy, and research methodology.
Dr. Joseph W. Whorton
Poverty and Public Policy, Planning and Policy Development, Local Government Community and Economic Development.
Dr. Vicky M. Wilkins
Representative Bureaucracy; Gender, Representation, and Institutions; Bureaucratic Discretion; Human Resource Management; and Political Institutions
Dr. Brian N. Williams
Co-production of Public Safety and Public Order; Community Policing Efforts within Racial and Ethnic Communities; Community-Oriented Governance; Racial Profiling; The Impact of Personal and Professional Life Experiences on the Actions and Inaction of Public Administrators
Dr. Gene A. Brewer
Dr. Brewer's current research interests include public sector reform, governmental performance, policy implementation, comparative administration, and bureaucratic accountability in democratic political systems.
Dr. Phaedra Corso
Economic evaluation of public health interventions, Quality of life assessment for vulnerable populations, Evaluating preferences for health risks, Violence, injury, and substance use prevention
Dr. William Lastrapes
macroeconomics, financial economics, international finance, and time series analysis
Mr. J. Michael Martinez
Administrative law; administrative ethics; southern history and politics; environmental law and politics
Dr. David Mustard
microeconomic policy-related questions, especially law and economics, crime, casino gambling, lotteries, gun control, sentencing, labor economics, education and merit-based aid.
Dr. Delmer D. Dunn
Current research interests focus on examining the relationship between politics and administration in democratic governments.
