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Holly T. Goerdel

Holly Goerdel

School of Public Affairs and Administration
The University of Kansas
4060 Wescoe, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-3177
(785) 864-9011
Fax (785) 864-5208
hgoerdel@ku.edu

Overview

Dr. Goerdel is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and the assistant managing editor of the Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. Her research focuses on the contribution of public management to organizational performance, as well as the perceived and actual value of collaboration in interdisciplinary problem solving in the public sector. She has applied both quantitative and qualitative research approaches to confront timely questions of interest to managers, policymakers, and the public in domains of public education, public health, homeland security governance, terrorism intelligence and information sharing, and cybersecurity. Her most recent work focuses on organizational responses to security- risk and vulnerability by state-level governments. Her research has been competitively funded by internal and external sources, and has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and Public Performance & Management Review.

Academic History:

  • Ph.D. Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2007
    Fields: Public Administration/Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Comparative Public Policy. Committee: Kenneth J. Meier (chair), Kim Q. Hill, Guy D. Whitten, Hank Jenkins-Smith Dissertation: Comparing Public Policies in Multilevel Governance Systems: Tobacco Control the European Union.
  • B.A. Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2001

Academic Appointments:

  • Associate Professor of Public Administration, University of Kansas, 2011-present
  • Assistant Professor of Public Administration, University of Kansas, 2005–2011
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Global and International Studies, University of Kansas 2009- present
  • Faculty Affiliate, University of Kansas/Ft. Leavenworth Partnership for Interagency Studies, 2008- present
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for European Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-present
  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas, 2005-present
  • Research Affiliate, Project for Equity, Representation and Governance, Texas A&M University, 2002-2006

Research and Publications:

  • "Multilevel Implementation of Homeland Security Policies in U.S. States." 2010, book chapter for State Politics & Policy, ed., Donald P. Haider-Markel, in progress, Oxford University Press.
  • “Doing More with Less? Managing Performance when Political Support Wanes." 2010, With Edmund Stazyk, forthcoming, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
  • "Politics versus Risk in State Allocations of Federal Security Grants." 2010, revise and resubmit, Publius.
  • "Reconciling Managerialism and ‘Public-Centered’ Administration.’ 2010, book chapter in Minderman, G., Bjorkman, J., Van Eijbergen, R. & H. Bekke (eds). Public Leadership for Added Citizen Value. Stellenbosch School of Public Leadership: Stellenbosch University Press. (forthcoming, page numbers not yet available). With Tina Nabatchi.
  • "Public Administration and the Political World: Three Prospects." 2009, Public Performance and Management Review.
  • "Political Advocacy by Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Management Explanation." 2009, with Kelly Leroux, Performance and Management Review.
  • "Public Administration in Dark Times." 2009, with Tina Nabatchi and Shelly Peffer, forthcoming, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
  • "Management, Law, and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Administration." with Sean Nicholson-Crotty and Robert Christensen, forthcoming, Journal of Public Administration and Theory.
  • ""Taking Initiative: Proactive Management in Networks and Program Performance."2006, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
  • "Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital." 2006, with Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O’Toole, Public Administration Review.
  • "Structural Funding Policy in the European Union: An Evaluation of the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory." 2002, European Union Notes.

Research in Preparation for Review:

  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. ""Performance versus Political Benefits of Intergovernmental Collaboration: An Empirical Application to Security Institutions in U.S. States"
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. "Public Management of Terrorism-Intelligence in American States: Exploring Non-Performance Based Benefits of Collaboration."
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. "The Value of Collaboration in Multilevel Policy Implementation: An Application to Homeland Security Information-Sharing in U.S. States"

  • Invited Presentations:

  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2010. “Politics versus Risk: Competing Models of Homeland Security Allocations to U.S. States,” Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, October 3-4, Syracuse, NY.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2010. “Intergovernmental Collaboration and Evaluative Judgments of Public Managers: An Empirical Application to Security Institutions in the U.S.” The Fourth Conference on Empirical Studies of Organizations and Public Management, Texas A&M University, May 6-9, 2010, College Station, TX.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. Invited subject matter expert to USNORTHCOM’s Limited Objective Experiment on Homeland Defense and Civil Support, and DOD/DHS/Private Sector Cooperation. Colorado Springs, CO.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2008. "Decentralizing the (Terrorism) Intelligence Bureaucracy: Public Management of Intel-Fusion Centers Across American States." Virginia Commonwealth University. Keynote Address for the Annual Meeting of the National Security Project.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2008. "The Future of Homeland Security Research in Public Administration." Invited Panelist to Minnowbrook Conference on the Future of Public Administration in America. Sponsored by Syracuse University.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. Invited subject matter expert to the National Security Seminar, The Army War College, Carlisle, PA.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "How the 9/11 Commission Shaped the Reorganization of Intelligence for Homeland Defense." Annual Invited Speaker-series for Mesquite Independent School District, State of Texas.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "Public Management, Uncertainty and Performance." City/County Management Conference, University of Kansas. Sponsored by Department of Public Administration.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "Empirical Public Management and Performance." The Second Annual Workshop on Empirical Public Management, Texas A&M University.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2006."Managerial Autonomy and Performance: An Empirical Perspective." The Inaugural Workshop on Empirical Public Management, Texas A&M University. With David Pitts.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2005. "Collaborative Public Management." City/County Management Conference, University of Kansas. Sponsored by Department of Public Administration.

Applied Research Products:

  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. "Chief Information Security Officers: State level Roles & Homeland Security/Cyber Security Cooperation. A Report for IBM Business of Government. In-progress.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2008. "Collaboration Strategies of State-level Intelligence Fusion Managers." A Report from the First National Survey of Intel-Fusion Directors in American States.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2003. "Organizations, Structure, and Diverse Clientele: An Examination of Decentralization, Organizational Performance, and the Latino Dropout Problem." A Report of the Texas Educational Excellence Project. Located at http://teep.tamu.edu.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2003. "School Superintendents and School Performance: Quality Matters." A Report of the Texas Educational Excellence Project. Located at http://teep.tamu.edu. (with Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O’Toole).

Grants, Fellowships, Awards:

  • State of Kansas, Data Sharing Assessment and Collaboration Project. Co-investigator with Marilu Goodyear, Heather-Getha Taylor, and Chris Silvia, May 2011. $105,000. Awarded.
  • Dean’s Nominee for Basin Harbor Workshop on Strategic and Security Studies, Johns Hopkins University. February 2009. Awarded.
  • IBM Business of Government Program on Homeland Security. October 2008. $20,000. Awarded.
  • American Association of University Women Fellowship. October 2008. $30,000. Not awarded.
  • New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas. April 2007. $8000. Awarded.
  • Volcker Fellowship – APSA, Public Administration Section. April 2007. $3000. Not awarded.
  • Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars Fellowship. October 2007. $177,000. Not awarded.
  • Big XII Collaborative Fellowship. University of Kansas. January 2006. $2500. Awarded.
  • Professional Development Fellowship for Studying and Teaching Abroad, University of     Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection. June 2004. $1000. Awarded.
  • Research and Presentation Grant: Identity and Representation in an Integrated Europe. Sponsored by the    European Commission, in Ottowa, Canada, March 2002. $1000. Awarded.
  • International Fellowship for Studying and Lecturing Abroad, Academy for International Education, Bonn, Germany, June 2002. $500. Awarded.
  • Pi Sigma Alpha 2001-2005.
  • 2008 Minnowbrook: Selected Phase I Participant for Junior Scholars in the field of Public Administration.

Conference Presentations (Selections):

  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2011. "Public Management of Wartime Effort: Technical versus Adaptive Challenges in War Contracting.” Presented at the biennial meeting of thePublic Management Research Association. Syracuse, NY, June 2-4.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2011. "Democratic Rollback and Accountability in Contracting for War.” Presented at the annual meeting of theMidwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April Columbus, OH, March 31-April 3.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2010. "Intermediary Value of Collaboration to Performance in Security Institutions across U.S. States." Presented at the annual meeting of theMidwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April Columbus, OH, April 21-25.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. "The Value of Collaboration in Multilevel Policy Implementation: An Application to Security Institutions across U.S. States." Presented at the biannual meeting of the Public Management Research Association. Columbus, OH, October 2-4.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2009. "Managing Homeland Security in American States: Politics versus Risk in State Allocations of Federal Security Grants." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2008. "The Future of Homeland Security Research in Public Administration." Minnowbrook Conference on the Future of Public Administration in America. Sponsored by Syracuse University. (attended Phase I and Phase II Minnowbrook).
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2008. "Strategic Management and Political Advocacy of Non-Profits." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. With Kelly Leroux.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "Political Interest Representation and Public Charities: A Strategic Management Explanation of Nonprofit Advocacy."  Presented at the biannual national meeting of the Public Management Research Association, Tucson, AZ. With Kelly Leroux.
  • Goerdel, Holly. 2007. "Public Management and Multilevel Governance: Europeanization of Strategic Management." Prepared for International Research Symposium on Public Management, Potsdam, Germany (waived attendance).
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "Empirical Public Management and Performance." The Second Annual Workshop on Empirical Public Management, Texas A&M University.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2007. "Public Policy Demand for Future Policy Actions: The Wartime Experience." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. With Helmut Norpoth and Andrew Sidman.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2006. "Autonomy as Power: The Public Manager’s Contribution to Organizational Performance." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 
  • Goerdel, Holly T. and David Pitts. 2006. "Managerial Autonomy and Performance: An Empirical Perspective." The Inaugural Workshop on Empirical Public Management, Texas A&M University.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2006. "Strategic Management and Organization Performance: A Contingency Approach." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. With Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O’Toole.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2005. "Comparative Bureaucratic Governance." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2004. "Multilevel Governance and Policymaking: Processes and Outcomes."  Accepted to the European Consortium of Political Research, 2nd Pan European Conference on European Union Politics, Bologna, Italy.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2003. "The Political Economy of Tobacco Control in the European Union." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2004. "Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. With Meier, Kenneth J., Laurence J. O’Toole.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2004. "Reconsidering Party Identification in Western Europe."  Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. With Guy D. Whitten and Harvey Palmer.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2003."Taking Initiative: Proactive Management in Networks and Program Performance."  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia.
  • Goerdel, Holly T. 2002."Towards an Idea of Europe: Parties as a Mode of Europeanization." Presented at the bi-annual conference onIdentity and Representation in an Integrated Europe. Sponsored by the European Commission, Ottawa, Canada.

Research and Teaching Interests:

Public Management, Collaboration & Networks
Comparative Public Administration & Policy
Security Governance: Homeland & cyber security management, intelligence, information-sharing
Quantitative Methods

Undergraduate:

  • PUAD 330Introduction to Public Administration
  • PUAD 331Honors Introduction to Public Administration
  • PUAD 694Comparative Public Administration & Policy
  • POLS  209Quantitative Research Methods – Texas A&M University

Graduate:

  • PUAD 845a Special: Interagency Collaboration & Management
  • PUAD 852 Comparative/International Public Administration and Policy
  • PUAD 845 Public Administration and Organizational Analysis.
  • PUAD 930 Public Administration and Democratic Theory

Additional:

  • Teaching Assistant, Summer 2004, "Multivariate Regression Analysis" with Guy D. Whitten, University of Essex, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection.
  • Guest Lecturer, Summer 2002, "European Union Institutions" International Study Abroad Program, Bonn, Germany.

Professional Service (Selections)

Department:
Not exhaustive list:

  • Faculty program chair, PhD Research Symposium in Public Administration, Spring 2007, 2009
  • University Honors Program Liaison, Fall 2008, 2009.
  • Co-chair, Faculty Search Committee, Fall 2007, 2008.
  • Chair, Ph.D. Exam Committee, Summer 2007.
  • IT Standards for NASPAA Committee, Fall 2006, 2007.
  • Tsinghua University Partnership Development, 2006-present.

College:

  • Faculty Participant and co-developer of KU-Ft. Leavenworth Program on Interagency & Collaboration Studies of Army Special Forces Officers 2008-present.
  • General Research Fund Committee, appointed by Dean as faculty reviewer of grant applications.
  • European Studies Committee, Leadership Board, 2005-present: participate in research and teaching activities related to political and policy issues in Europe.

University:

  • Faculty Rights Board, 2009-present
  • Chancellor’s Delegation to China, 2007.
  • Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, 2007: faculty delegate representing KU to Kansas-based alumni, potential students and several Kansas communities

Professional (Regional, National):

  • Board of Editors, Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory, 2009-2011.
  • Co-director, Secretariat for Public Management Research Association  2006-present..
  • Conference Panel Chair and/or Discussant for the following research associations: American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Public Management Research Association.
  • Faculty Co-chair, Informal New Faculty Network in Public Administration, American Political Science
  • Association, Public Administration Section,  2005-6.
  • Manuscript reviewer for the following public administration and political science journals: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Political Science Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics,
  • Publius, International Journal of Public Management, and others.
  • Conference Program Co-Developer, Empirical Public Management Workgroup, Texas A&M University 2006 and 2007

Professional Memberships:

  • Public Management Research Association
  • American Political Science Association – Sections:  Public Administration, Public Policy, European Politics, Political Methodology
  • Midwest Political Science Association – Sections: Public Administration, Intergovernmental Relations
  • Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management
  • The American Society for Public Administration