Faculty

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1981
(Public Administration, Organization Theory, Public Policy, Policy Analysis)

A.B. Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1971
(American history and literature)

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CURRENT POSITIONS:

• 2002 – present: Director, Institute for Policy & Social Research. Responsible for the direction and management of university-wide public policy and social research institute.
• 1995 – present: Professor, School of Public Affairs & Administration: (with tenure) Teach undergraduate, Master of Public Administration, and doctoral courses and seminars public management, organization theory, quantitative methods, and policy analysis in the fields of public administration and public policy. Teach both full-time, on-campus students and working professionals.

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PRIOR POSITIONS:

• 2004 – 2007: Director, Doctoral Program, Department of Public Administration.
• 2000-2002 Interim Director, Policy Research Institute. Developed and implemented the creation of the Policy Research Institute, a campus-wide social and policy research center.
• 1999-2000 Interim Director, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research. Responsible for the direction and management of research institute; developed reorganization plan creating the Policy Research Institute.
• 1995-2000 Chair, Department of Public Administration: Division of Government, University of Kansas. Responsible for the management and leadership of the Edwin O. Stene Graduate Program in Public Administration.
• 1987-1995 Associate Professor of Public Administration: (with tenure) Division of Government, University of Kansas.
• 1981-1986 Assistant Professor: Department of Public Administration, Division of Government, University of Kansas.
• 1985-1995 Research Fellow and Director of the Policy Analysis Program: Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas. Responsible for the Institute's applied research program in public policy and director of the Survey Research Center.
• 1981- 1984 Research Associate: Center for Public Affairs, University of Kansas.
• 1979-1981 Instructor: Cornell University. Taught undergraduate course in Department of Policy Analysis & Management (Groups and Organizations). Planned and implemented management training courses for New York state social service departments.
• 1975-1979 Teaching Assistant: Cornell University. Assisted in undergraduate and graduate courses in organization theory and social research methods.
• 1973-1975 Program Director: Ken-Crest School for Exceptional Children, Philadelphia, PA. Had administrative and programmatic responsibility for a federally funded preschool for developmentally disabled infants and children.
• 1971-1973 Teacher: Ken-Crest School for Exceptional Children, Philadelphia, PA.

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HONORS:

• 2006 Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration. The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments. Fellows are elected by the members.
• 2005 Best Book of Public Administration Scholarship. Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service (with Michael Musheno) won the award given by the American Society of Public Administration – Section on Public Administration Research for the best book in Public Administration scholarship published in 2002-2004.
• 2005 Herbert A. Simon Award for best book by the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association, awarded to Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service (with Michael Musheno).
• 1984 Jeffrey Pressman Award for the best article in Volume 2 of the Policy Studies Review; Presented by the Policy Studies Organization

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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY:

Current Research:

• Social and Environmental Justice in the Green Impact Zone. Developing a multi-disciplinary and multi-methods research project examining a community development program based on environmental intervention and green employment.

Books:

• Pulled Over: Racial Framing in Police Stops. With Charles Epp and Donald Haider-Markel. (Book manuscript under review with University of Chicago Press).
• Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service. With Michael Musheno. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003)
  
  Reviewed in: Booknotes in Public Administration Review 64, no. 1 (January/February 2004): 121-124. Anne L. Schneider in The Law & Politics Book Review 14, no. 6 (June 2004): 416-419, http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/; Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives 70, no. 1 (2004): 182. Norma Ricucci in Public Administration Review 65, no. 2 (March/April 2005): 243-245. Simon Halliday in Social & Legal Studies 15 (2006): 147-149.
  
  Review essay: David Thacher, "Police Research and the Humanities," The Annals of the American Academy or Political and Social Sciences (May 2004): 179-191. George Frederickson, "EXtreme Public Administration," PA Times, 28, no. 4 (April 2005).
  
  Recipient of 2005 Best Book of Public Administration Scholarship. Award given by the American Society of Public Administration – Section on Public Administration Research for books published in 2002-2004.
  
  Recipient of 2005 Herbert A. Simon Award for best book. Award given by the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association.
• The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
  
  Reviewed in: Publishers Weekly (January 30, 1995): 93-94; Kirkus Reviews (February 1, 1995); New York Times Book Review (August 6, 1995): 18; San Diego Union-Tribune (August 16, 1995); American Political Science Review (December 1996); The New England Journal of Medicine (February 29, 1996).
• Contemporary Public Administration. With Dennis J. Palumbo ( New York: Longman, 1991).
• The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
• Reviewed in Publishers Weekly (January 30, 1995): 93-94; Kirkus Reviews (February 1, 1995); New York Times Book Review (August 6, 1995): 18; San Diego Union-Tribune (August 16, 1995); American Political Science Review (December 1996); The New England Journal of Medicine (February 29, 1996).
• Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service. With Michael Musheno. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2003)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• "Social Equity in Practice: Listening to Street-Level Workers," with Michael Musheno. under review.
• "Stories for Research," with Michael Musheno. In Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz- Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn, 2nd Edition (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, forthcoming)
• "Forward" to Vincent Dubois, The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices. (London: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2011)
• "Street Level Bureaucracy Theory," with Shannon Portillo. Pp. 252-277 in Robert Durant, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
• "Emotional Labor in Human Service Organizations," with Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, and Sharon H. Mastracci. In Zeheskel Hasenfeld, ed., Human Services as Complex Organizations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009).
• "Foreword" to Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, and Sharon H. Mastracci. Emotional Labor: Putting the Service in Public Service (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008).
• "For-Profit Welfare: Contracts, Conflicts, and the Performance Paradox," with Janice Johnson Dias. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 17, no. 2 (2007): 189-211.
• Review of "Janet Golden, Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)," Social History of Medicine 19, no. 1 (2006).
• "Stories for Research," with Michael Musheno. In Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz- Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006)
• "State-Agent or Citizen-Agent: Two Narratives of Discretion," with Michael Musheno. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10, no. 2 (April 2000): 329-359.
• "Stories from the Front-Lines of Public Management: Street-Level Workers as Responsible Actors" with Suzanne Leland. In Hal Rainey and Jeff Brudney. Advancing Public Management: New Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000).
• "Exorcizing the Ghost of the Politics-Administration Dichotomy." International Journal of Public Administration 21, no. 6 (1998): 1031-1054.
• "Managing Controversies over Science: The Case of Fetal Research" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 5, no. 1 (January 1995): 5-18.
• "Stories public managers tell about elected officials: Making sense of the politics- administration dichotomy." With Marisa Kelly. Pp. 71-90 in Barry Bozeman, ed., Public Management Theory: The State of the Art. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
• "Policy Analysis in the Post-positivist Era: Engaging Stakeholders in Evaluating the Economic Development Districts Program." With Marisa Kelly. Public Administration Review 53, no 2 (March/April 1993): 135-142.
  
  Reprinted in Research in Research in Public Administration: Reflections on Theory and Practice, edited by Jay D. White and Guy B. Adams, pp. 197-212 (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1994).
• "The fetal research dispute." In Dorothy Nelkin, ed., Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, Third Edition. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992. This chapter was substantially revised from the earlier editions.
• "Theories of the local welfare role." With Elaine Sharp. American Journal of Political Science 35 (November 1991): 934-950.
• "Street-wise social policy: Resolving the dilemma of street-level influence and successful implementation." With Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo. Western Political Quarterly 43 (December 1990): 833-848.
• "Community corrections as an organizational innovation: A theory of transformative rationality." With Michael Musheno, Dennis Palumbo, and James Levine. In: Duffee, David., ed., Community Corrections: A Community Field Approach. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Press, 1990.
• "Kooiman, Jan and Kjell Eliassen (eds.) 'Managing Public Organizations: Lessons from Contemporary European Experience.'" Administrative Science Quarterly 34, no 3 (September 1989): 494-495. Review Essay.
• "Community corrections as an organizational innovation: What works and why." With Michael Musheno, Dennis Palumbo, and James Levine. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 26, no. 3 (May 1989): 136-167.
• "Policy as communication and the naturalistic study of the use of policy research." Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization 10, no. 3 (March 1989): 214-222.
• "Beyond implementation: Developing an institutional theory of administrative policy making." Public Administration Review 49, no. 2 (March/April 1989): 137-142.
• "The Ritual of Reorganization in a Public Bureaucracy." With Donald Stull. Qualitative Sociology 11 (1988): 215-233.
• "Understanding the policy process: Preventing and coping with community problems." In L. Jason, R. Hess, R. Felner, and J. Mortisugu, eds., Prevention: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach. New York, NY: The Haworth Press, 1987.
• "The symbolic side of policy analysis: Interpreting policy change in a health department." With Donald Stull. In Frank Fischer and John Forester (eds.) Confronting Values in Policy Analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987.
• "Program evaluation and administrative control." In F. Cox, J. Erlich, J. Rothman, and J. Tropman, eds., Strategies of Community Organization, Fourth Edition. Itasca, IL: Peacock, 1987.
• "Weeding an old garden: Toward a new understanding of organizational goals," With Charles McClintock. Administration and Society 19 (May 1987): 125-142.
• "Understanding the policy process: Preventing and coping with community problems." with T. Seekins. and S. Fawcett. Prevention in Human Services 5 (1987): 65-90.
• "Reorganization as status drama: Building, maintaining, and displacing dominant subcultures." With Donald Stull and Jerry Mitchell. Public Administration Review 46 (July/August 1986): 301-310.
• "Michael Cohen and Robert Golembiewski (eds.): 'Public Personnel Update.'" With John Nalbandian. Review essay in Administrative Science Quarterly 31 (March 1986): 138- 140.
• "Public sector entrepreneurs: The shakers and doers of program innovation." With Dennis Palumbo and Michael Musheno. In J. Wholey, C. Bellavita, and M. Abramson (eds.) Performance and Credibility: Developing Excellence in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986.
• "The Fetal Research Dispute." In D. Nelkin (ed.) Controversy: The Politics of Technical Decisions, Second Edition. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1984. This paper was revised and expanded based on additional research and interviews.
• "Measuring degrees of successful implementation: Achieving policy versus statutory goals." With D. Palumbo and P. Wright. Evaluation Review 8 (1984): 45-74.
• "William Eddy (ed.): 'Handbook of Organization Management.'" Administrative Science Quarterly 29 (1984): 475-479. Review essay.
• "Program evaluation and administrative control." Policy Studies Review 2 (1983): 371-390.
  Recipient of the Jeffrey Pressman Award for best policy studies article, September 1984.
• "Applying the logic of sample surveys to qualitative case studies: The case cluster method." With C. McClintock and D. Brannon. Administrative Science Quarterly 24 (1979): 612 629.

Other Publications

• "Kansas' small business response to environmental regulation." With M. Elizabeth Stella and Charles F. Krider. Kansas Business Review 17, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 1-11.
• "Risk-taking in government: Proceedings of the National Academy of Public Administration." With John Nalbandian. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Public Administration, 1989.
• "Business retention and expansion in Kansas mid-sized communities." With Charles Krider and Don Eskew. Kansas Business Review 11, no 4 (1988): 15-25.
• "The diversity of Kansas local government: Is it a garden choked by weeds?" With John Nalbandian. Kansas Business Review 11, no. 3 (1988): 10-21.
• "Kansans favor economic development, drug testing and a quality environment." With Jerry Mitchell. Kansas Government Journal (May 1987): 142.
• "Business and political leaders' perspectives of Kansas economic development issues." Kansas Business Review 10 (1986): 9-14.
• "Kansans favor economic development and alternative revenue sources." With Jerry Mitchell.
• "Kansans favor economic development, property tax reappraisal and sales tax hike." With J. Mitchell and E. Nehring. Kansas Government Journal, 71 (1984): 50.
• "Scientific thinking for city managers," Working Paper 83-A. Edwin O. Stein Graduate Program in Public Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, 1983.
• "Who lives in Kansas nursing homes and who stays at home: Two studies." Center for Public Affairs Research News 2 (1982): 1-5.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

• “Organizations theory and strategies for program evaluation research.” With C. McClintock. Eastern Psychological Association, 1979.
• “Strategies for program evaluation: Methodological limits and alternatives.” With C. McClintock. Eastern Evaluation Research Society, 1979.
• “Scientific thinking for city managers.” International City Managers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 1981.
• “Federal budget projections: Implications for human services.” Legislative Conference on Human Services, Topeka, KS, 1982.
• “Organizational goals: A conceptual problem that will not go away.” With C. McClintock. Organization Theory and Public Policy, the Albany Conference, 1982.
• “Measuring degrees of successful implementation: Achieving policy versus statutory goals.” With D. Palumbo and P. Wright. Western Political Science Association, 1983.
• “The importance of street level implementor support for successful implementation.” With D. Palumbo and P. Wright. American Society for Public Administration, 1983
• “Policy research: Science or Scientism.” American Society for Public Administration, 1984.
• “The Rituals of Reorganization.” With Donald Stull. American Anthropology Association, 1984.
• “Reorganization as Coup d'etat: Changing Conditions in Informal Structure.” American Political Science Association, 1985.
• “Reorganization as Status Drama: Building, Maintaining, and Displacing Dominant Subcultures.” Critical Perspectives in Organization, Barruch College, City University of New York, 1985.
• “The symbolic side of policy analysis: An ethnographic study of administrative reorganization.” American Political Science Association, August, 1986.
• “Kansas Housing Update.” Kansas Conference on Housing, November 12 14, 1986.
• “History as a guide to policy making.” Executive Development Seminar, Topeka, KS. February, 20, 1987.
• “Evaluating the implementation of community corrections.” With Michael Musheno, Dennis Palumbo, and James Levine. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice, St. Louis, Missouri, March 15 19, 1987.
• “Understanding the policy process: Preventing and coping with community problems.” With T. Seekins and S. Fawcett. American Psychological Association, New York, NY, August 28, 1987.
• “Discretion, organizational form and policy outcomes: Implementing street wise social policy.” With M. Musheno, D. Palumbo, and A. M. Oliverio. American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September, 1987.
• “Alternative approaches to the study of knowledge utilization.” Howard R. Davis Society for Knowledge Utilization and Planned Change, Chicago, IL, February, 1988.
• “ Beyond implementation: Developing a theory of administrative policy making.” Minnowbrook II Conference, September 4 8, 1988, Minnowbrook Conference Center, Syracuse University.
• “Opportunities and pitfalls of qualitative research.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 1990.
• “Administrative policy making: Three case examples.” With Dennis Palumbo. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 29 September 2, 1990.
• “Rethinking federal involvement in substate regional economic development.” Strategic Planning for Community Development: What is the planner's role?” Kansas Chapter American Planning Association, Manhattan, Kansas, October 19, 1990.
• “Normative models of federalism in economic development.” With Margery Ambrosius. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., August 29 September 1, 1991.
• “Stories public managers tell about elected officials: Making sense of the defunct dichotomy.” National Public Management Research Conference, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, September 19-21, 1991.
• “Conflicting images of the fetus: A social and scientific construction.” New York University Committee on Theory and Culture, Seminar on Discovery and Cultural Confrontation, January 31, 1992.
• “Policy analysis in the post positivist era: Engaging stakeholders in interpreting the Economic Development District Program.” With Marisa Kelly. Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, March 19-21, 1992.
• “Justice-in-use: Stories that teachers tell.” With Marisa Kelly. Midwestern Political Science Association. Chicago, April 15-17, 1993
• “Managing Controversies over Science: The Case of Fetal Research.” National Public Management Research Conference. Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 30 to October 2, 1993.
• “ Making Sense of Policy Analysis.” With Marisa Kelly. American Political Science Association. New York, September 1 to 4, 1994.
• Ester Katz Rosen Symposium on the Psychological Development of Gifted Children, Lawrence, Kansas, September 30 - October 1, 1994, Discussant.
• “Stories as Research Methodology.” With Marisa Kelly. Third National Public Management Research Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, October 5-7, 1995.
• “Fetal Tissue Transplantation.” Meeting on the Ethics and Goals of Research, The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York, January 4-5, 1996.
• “Justice Stories — A Workshop on the Practical and Epistemological Issues in Collecting and Analyzing Stories for Research,” with Michael Musheno, Trish Oberweis, and Suzanne Leland. Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, May 29 to June 1, 1997.
• “Squeaky Wheels, Getting Slammed, and Parking Lot Therapy: Street Level Workers as Responsible Actors,” with Suzanne Leland. Fourth National Public Management Research Conference, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 30-November 1, 1997.
• “Street-Level Discretion and Policy Implementation: The Multiple Principal Problem,” with Suzanne Leland. Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 23-25 April 1998.
• “Exercising Discretion in a Representative Democracy:Street-Level Workers and Governing,” with Suzanne Leland. Fifth National Public Management Research Conference, College Park, TX, November 1999.
• “Morality over Legality: Invoking Norms form the Front-Lines of Government,” with Michael Musheno. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Chicago, IL, 27-30 May 1999.
• Organizations Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 13-14 June 2002. Discussant and co-organizer.
• "Beyond Implementation: A Sketch of a Theory of Policy Enactment," Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 5-9, 2003
• "The Influence of Race, Class, and Status on Law Enforcement: A "Victimization Survey" Approach to Studying Police Stops." With Charles Epp and Donald Haider-Markel, Annual Conference of the Law & Society Association, Chicago, IL., May 27-30, 2004
• "A Dilemma For Law Enforcement? Assessing Racial Profiling from the Perspective of Citizens." With Donald P. Haider-Markel and Charles Epp. Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., April 7-10, 2005.
• "Assessing Racial Disparities in Traffic Stop Outcomes Using a Citizen Survey Approach." With Charles Epp and Donald Haider-Markel, Annual Conference of the Law & Society Association, Las Vegas, NV, June 3-5, 2005.
• "Relationship Building in a Contracting Environment: Lessons from Extremes." With Janice Johnson Dias, New Directions for Research on Social Policy and Organizational Practice, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 11-12, 2005.
• "The Policy Paradox: Private Welfare-to-Work Programs." With Janice Johnson Dias. Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 20-23, 2006.
• "Racial Profiling: Drivers' Stories of Traffic Stops." With Charles Epp, Donald Haider-Markel, and Shannon Portillo. Law & Society Association, Baltimore, MA, July 6-9, 2006.
• "Constructing Distrust: The Aftermath of African-American Encounters with Police." With Donald Haider-Merkel and Charles Epp. Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 2009.
• Doing Story-Based Research in Socio-Legal Studies, with Michael Musheno. Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California – Berkeley. Workshop to be held, November 6, 2009.
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• "Pulled Over: Mutual Disrespect and Punishing Drivers during Traffic Stops," with Charles Epp. Law & Society Association, Chicago, IL, May 27-30, 2010
• "'No Lot Left Behind'": Can Green Policy Initiatives Address Persistent Disadvantage in Urban Neighborhoods?" with Dorothy Daley, Tony Reames, and Nathaniel Wright. Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL , March 31-April 3, 2011.
• "Social Equity in Practice: Listening to Street-Level Workers," with Michael Musheno. Festschrift honoring H. George Frederickson, Lawrence, KS, April 13, 2010.
• "The End of Discretion: Choreographing the Normative Ordering and Pragmatic Improvisation of Front-Line Work," with Michael Musheno. Sixteenth IRSPM conference Contradictions in Public Management: Managing in volatile times, Rome, Italy. April 11-13, 2012.

Reports and Monographs:

• Adoption and Continuation of Family Day Care Support Services. With D. Deshler and D. Brannon. Ithaca, NY: Report to the Carnegie Corporation, 1977. 73 pages.
• Citizen Participation in Science and Technology Policy: A Review Essay. With D. Nelkin and S. Fallows. Ithaca, NY: Program on Science, Technology, and Society, 1978. Report to the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 104 pages.
• The Residents of Kansas Nursing Homes: Background Information and the Decision Leading to Entering the Nursing Home. With D. Palumbo, P. Wright, and R. Harper. Report to the Kansas Department on Aging, 1982. 159 pages.
• Implementing Community Corrections in Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut. With D. Palumbo and M. Musheno. Report to the National Institute of Justice, 1984. 355 pages.
• Evaluation of the Wichita Comprehensive Program to Reduce Driving While Intoxicated. Report to the United States Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, 1984. 140 pages.
• Kansas Committee for the Humanities: Needs Assessment. Kansas Committee for the Humanities, July 1985. 25 pages.
• The Reorganization of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment: A Report to the Secretary. With D. Stull and J. Mitchell, 1985. 24 pages.
• The Second Annual Public Opinion Survey of Kansas, 1986. With Jerry Mitchell, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 105, 1986. 34 pages.
• Information Utilization in Kansas Government. With Jerry Mitchell, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 106, 1986. 56 pages.
• An Evaluation of Disabled Employment Policy. With Jerry Mitchell and Stephen Fawcett, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 108, 1986. 108 pages.
• Kansas Housing Update. Report to the Kansas Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Authorities. 1986. 68 pages.
• Kansas Local Government: A Report to the Governor. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 115. October, 1986. 51 pages.
• The Third Annual Public Opinion Survey of Kansas. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 119. February 1987. 32 pages.
• Downtown Redevelopment and Public Opinion: A Survey of Citizen Attitudes for the Downtown Improvement Committee. With Paul Schumaker. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 135. January, 1988.
• Business Retention and Expansion in Kansas Mid Size Communities. With Charles Krider. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 137. February 1988. 153 pages.
• The Fourth Annual Public Opinion Survey of Kansas. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 138. February 1988. 32 pages.
• International Exporting and Non exporting Businesses in Kansas. With William Cheek. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 154. May 1988. 36 pages.
• Kansas Small Business Development Centers: Performance and Impact. With William Cheek. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 155. June 1988. 19 pages.
• Economic Development Districts: Policy Issues and Choices. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, March 1991. 60 pages. Report to the Economic Development Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce.
• Assessment of the University of Kansas Science and Engineering Infrastructure: Identification of Weaknesses and Barriers to Research. With Elizabeth Stella and Don Stull. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report Number 194, February 1992.
• Lawrence Citizen Survey, Fall 1992. Edwin O. Stene Program in Public Administration and Institute for Public Policy and Business Research. January 1993.
• 1994 Survey of Registered Voters in School District USD 497. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Report No. 216, May 1994.
• Pilot Community Outreach Program: Kansas Parent Network and Parent Training Program; Phase One Evaluation. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, July 1994
• Douglas County Health and Human Services Comprehensive Needs Assessment. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, May 1995
• Thinking about the Future: the Need for Building a Sustainable Is it Workforce for the Kansas City Region. Policy Research Institute, 2001.
• Kansas Policy Survey: Spring 2001 Survey Results. with Chad Kniss and Don (December 2001).
• Evaluation of the KNE Program: Preliminary Report, January – December 2008. With Genna Hurd and Larry Hoyle (April 2009).

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• Research Assistant: Cornell University. Assisted in planning and implementing studies of citizen participation in science policy (funded by National Science Foundation), organizational uncertainty, attitudes about mental health, and the effectiveness of family day care programs (funded by the Carnegie Foundation). 1975-1979.
• Doctoral Dissertation: “Strategies for Assessing Organizational Effectiveness in the Public Sector: The Uses and Misuses of Program Evaluation.” 1981.
• Project Director: “Driving While Intoxicated: Kansas Public Opinion, 1982.” Sample Survey funded by the Kansas Department of Transportation. 1982.
• Project Director: “Non institutionalized Elderly in Kansas.” Sample survey of Kansans over 60 years old. Funded by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. 1982.
• Project Director: “Residents of Kansas Nursing Homes.” A multi methods study of the decision process leading to entry into nursing homes. Funded by the Kansas Department of Aging. 1982.
• Project Director: “Attitudes on Rural Development.” Sample survey funded by the Douglas County Planning Department. 1983
• Project Director: “Driving While Intoxicated: Kansas Public Opinion, 1983.” Sample survey funded by Kansas Department of Transportation. 1983.
• Principal Investigator: “Evaluating the Implementation of Community Corrections.” A multi state study examining the effects of the attitudes and actions of front line staff and local elites in the implementation of community corrections. Funded by the National Institute of Justice. 1982-1985
• Principal Investigator: “Kansas Humanities Community: Needs Assessment Survey.” Kansas Committee for the Humanities. 1984-1985.
• Principal Investigator: “Police Crackdown on Driving While Intoxicated: Effects on Community Attitudes and Arrests.” A longitudinal study using repeated surveys and arrests reports funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. 1983-1985.
• Principal Investigator: Citizen Survey of Bonner Springs, KS; Bonner Springs City Government. 1984.
• Principal Investigator: The Impact of Survey Research on State Policy; Summer research fellowship, Institute for Public Policy and Business Research. 1985.
• Principal Investigator: “Reorganizing a Public Bureaucracy.” General Research Fund; the University of Kansas. A study of the reorganization of a major state executive agency using ethnographic and quantitative research methods. 1984-986.
• Principal Investigator: State Policy Planning in Physical Disabilities; National Institute of Handicapped Research. 1985-1986.
• Principal Investigator: Kansas Economic Development Plan. A comparative study of state policies to encourage economic development based on archival and survey data. Funded by the Kansas Department of Economic Development. 1985-1986.
• Principal Investigator: Kansas Housing Survey. Update housing portion of the U.S. Census for the Kansas Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Authorities. 1986.
• Principal Investigator: The Structure of Local Government. A comparative examination of the organization of local government from counties to public authorities. Sponsored by the Office of the Governor, Topeka, Kansas. 1986.
• Principal Investigator: Evaluation for the Comprehensive Regional Primary Prevention System. Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism. Research project funded by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. 1986.
• Principal Investigator: Local Economic Development: Attracting and Retaining Business. Kansas Department of Commerce. Survey of businesses in ten local communities in Kansas. 1987.
• Principal Investigator: Downtown Redevelopment in Lawrence, Kansas. Public opinions survey funded by the Downtown Improvement Committee. 1987.
• Principal Investigator: AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes in Kansas. Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Center for Disease Control. 1989.
• Principal Investigator: An Evaluation of the Status and Mission of Economic Development Administration Planning Districts. U. S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. 1990-1991.
• Principal Investigator: Assessment of Science and Engineering Infrastructure: University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Wichita State University. Subcontract of EPSCoR Planning Grant, T. Kuwana, Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1991-1992.
• Survey Director: Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy. Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing, 1992.
• Survey Director: Citizen Views of City Services, Lawrence, Kansas, 1992
• Principal Investigator: “Justice-in-use: Stories from street-level bureaucrats.” General Research Fund, 1993
• Principal Investigator: “Views of Voters on the Second High School,” Board of Education, USD 497, 1994.
• Principal Investigator: “Health and Human Service Needs in Douglas County,” United Way of Douglas Count, 1994-1995.
• Principal Investigator: Justice in the Delivery of Government Services: Decision Norms of Street-Level Bureaucrats, National Science Foundation, November 1995 to November 1998, Michael Musheno, Co-principal Investigator, grant # SBR-9511169
• Co-Principal Investigator: How the Community Works: Public Officials’ Perspectives on Democratic Self-Government. With George Frederickson and John Nalbandian. Kettering Foundation.
• Principal Investigator: Information Technology Workforce. Silicon Prairie.
• Principal Investigator: Youth Development Public Policy Training. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
• Principal Investigator. Evaluation of the Kansas Campaign for Children. Kansas Action for Children, Kansas Health Foundation and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2002-2004.
• Co-Principal Investigator: Reconstructing Law on the Street: The Influence of Citizen Characteristics on Traffic Law Enforcement (with Charles Epp and Donald Haider-Markel). National Science Foundation, 2002-2005.
• Principal Investigator: Evaluation of Phase V of the National Science Foundation Kansas EPSCoR Program, 2007-2009.
• Co-Principal Investigator: Evaluation of Phase VI of the National Science Foundation Kansas EPSCoR Program, 2009-2014.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Editorial Board Member:

• Policy Studies Review (1988-1993)
• Policy Studies Journal (1988-1993)
• Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (1991-1995)
• Public Administration Review (1995-1998)

Memberships:

• American Society for Public Administration
• American Political Science Association
• Association of Policy Analysis and Management
• Law and Society Association

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SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

University:

• 1981-1983: Opinion Survey Committee.
• 1985-1987: First Level Review Committee, General Research Fund 1988 Grants. Chair, last two years.
• 1988-1989: University Senate Committee on the Library.
• 1988-1991: First Level Review Committee, General Research Fund 1988 Grants.
• 1989-1990: Goal Attainment Survey Development Committee
• 1989-1991: Chair, University Senate Committee on the Library.
• 1990-1991: Chair, Capitol Complex Director Search Committee
• 1992: Chair, First Level Review Committee, General Research Fund
• 1993: Chair, General Education Assessment Student Interview Panel
• 1995-1996: Special Task Force on Special Concerns of Students and Faculty
• 1995-1998: University Promotion and Tenure Committee
• 1997-1998: Chair, Library Appeals Board
• 1998-1999: Chancellor’s Public Service Task Force
• 2001: Search Advisory Committee, Director of the Dole Institute of Politics
• 2001: Search Committee, Dean of Libraries
• 2002-2003: Task Force on Graduate Education; chair subcommittee on Support, Development, and Achievement of Graduate Students.
• 2005-2006 Scholar Works Advisory Committee
• 2005 Research Subcommittee, Graduate School Strategic Planning
• 2006 Transportation Research Center Director Search Committee.
• 2006-2009 Faculty Senate Research Committee.
• 2007-2009 Promotion Committee, Research and Graduate Studies, chair 2009.
• 2007-2008 Search Committee, School of Journalism, Knight Chair on the Press, Leadership and Community
• 2007-ongoing Faculty Advisor, KU Crew (club rowing team)
• 2008-2011 Faculty Senate
• 2009 University Research Rewards Subcommittee
• 2009-2010 Faculty Executive Committee
• 2009-2010 Faculty Rights Board
• 2009-2010 University Senate Athletic Committee
• 2009-2010 Task Force on Domestic Partner Benefits, co-chair
• 2009-2010 Member, Internal Review Panel, Life Span Institute
• 2009-2010 Member, Chancellor's Task Force on Research Engagement
• 2010 Chair, Internal Review Panel, Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
• 2010-2011 Faculty Executive Committee
• 2010-2011 Member of the Driving Discovery & Innovation Task Force
• 2010-2013 Member, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics
• 2010-2012 Chair, sub-committee on Academic Integrity, Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics
• 2011-2012 Co-chair, Strategic Initiative, "Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities"
• 2011-ongoing Lead Mentor for Women's Rowing Team

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:

• 1985-1987: College Budget Committee. Chair, 1987.
• 1998: Steeples Award Review Committee
• 2001: Outside member, Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Economics
• 2003-2005 General Research Fund Proposal Committee
• 2004-2007 College Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure; committee chair 2006-2007
• 2007-2009 Center for the Analysis of Data Task Force
• 2009-2010 Center for the Analysis of Data Advisory Board
• 2009-2010 Member External Review Panel, Environmental Studies.
• 2011 Member External Review Panel, Applied Behavioral Science
• 2011-2014 College Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure

Division of Government and Department of Public Administration:

• 1983-1984: Advisory Committee; Faculty Recruitment Committee; Graduate Methods Course Committee; Master of Public Administration Admissions Committee.
• 1984-1985: Graduate Studies Committee; Microcomputer Advisory Committee; Master of Public Administration Admissions Committee
• 1985-1986: Division of Government Steering Committee; Graduate Studies Committee; Chair Public Administration Doctoral Exam Committee
• Summer 1986: Acting Department Chair
• 1986-1990: Graduate Studies Committee
• 1989: Public Administration Admissions Committee
• 1989-1990: Public Administration Faculty Recruitment Committee
• Spring term 1991: Acting Department Chair
• 1995-2000: Chair, Department of Public Administration.
• 2003-2004 Doctoral Education Committee
• 2005-2007 Director, doctoral program
• 2007-2011 Doctoral Program Committee
• 2007-ongoing Department Cabinet

Professional and Community:

• 1979: Consultant, National Forum on Children and Families.
• 1979-1981: Member, Technical Advisory Committee on Program Evaluation Research for New York State Department of Social Services.
• 1987: Panel Chair, Annual Meeting, Public Administration Section, American Political Science Association.
• 1988: Consultant, Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
• 1992-1995: Member, Membership committee, Public Sector Division, Academy of Management
• 1994-1996: Executive Committee, Public Administration Section, American Political Science Association
• 1995-1996: Executive Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 1995-1997: Planning Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 1996: Selection Committee for the Mosher Award, Public Administration Review
• 1996-1999: Executive Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 1996-1999: Standards Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 1998-2000: Research Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 1999: Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2000-2003: Chair, Standards Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2001: Mayor’s Task Force on Tax Abatement Policy
• 2001: Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2002: Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2002-2003: Reviewer for National Science Foundation
• 2003 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2004 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2004-2005 Member, Research Advisory Board, Kansas, Inc.
• 2005 National Science Foundation; Panel member, Engineering Research Center, Infrastructure Panel.
• 2005 Accreditation Site Visit: University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, MPA Program
• 2005 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2005-2006 Standards Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2005-2008 Research Committee, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2005 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2006 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2006 Chair, Herbert A. Simon Book Award Committee, Public Administration Section, American Political Science Association.
• 2006 Keynote Speaker, Kansas Certified Public Management Conference, 15 June 2006.
• 2006 Panel Member, Engineering Research Centers, National Science Foundation.
• 2006 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2007 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2007-2008 Standards Revision Task Force, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2008 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2008 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2009 Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2009 Member, Academy of Management, Public & Nonprofit Sector, Best Dissertation Award Committee
• 2009 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2010 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2011 Proposal review, National Science Foundation.
• 2011, Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• 2012, Chair, Accreditation Site Visit Team, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

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