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Research Interests

Government contracting, public management, intergovernmental programs and policy, social welfare policy and administration.

Selected Publications

   
• “Contracting: Promise, Performance, Perils, Possibilities,” (forthcoming), with Barbara S. Romzek, in Robert F. Durant, Ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy, Oxford University Press.
   
• “Commentary on J. Edwin Benton, ‘Trends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future’,” (forthcoming)  proceedings from  “The Changing Landscape of Local Public Revenues,”  2009 Land Policy Conference, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, May 31-June 2, 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
   
• “American Exceptionalism, Human Resource Management,  and The Contract State,” (2009),  with Robert F. Durant and Amanda M. Girth, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 29, 3, September: 207-229
   
• “Welfare Reform – a Devolution Success Story?” (2008), in Paul Posner and Timothy Conlan, eds., Intergovernmental Management For The 21st Century, sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration.  Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press.
   
• “Social Welfare Contracts as Networks: The Impact of Network Stability on Management and Performance,” (2008), with Barbara S. Romzek, Administration and Society, 40, 2, April:  115-146.
   
• “State Social Services Contracting: Exploring Determinants of Effective Contract Accountability,” (2005), with Barbara S. Romzek, Public Administration Review, 65, 4, July/August.
   
• “Traditional Contracts as Partnerships:  Effective Accountability in Social Services Contracts in the American States," (2005), with Barbara S. Romzek, in Carsten Greve and Graeme Hodge, eds., The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships- Learning from International Experience (Edward Elgar Publishing.)
   
• “The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability across the Federal System: From Ambulances to Space Shuttles,” (2004), with Barbara S. Romzek and Curtis Wood, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 34, 3, Summer.
   
• “The Impacts of School Finance Reform in Kansas: Equity is in the Eye of the Beholder,” (2004) with William Duncombe, in John Yinger, ed., Helping Children Left Behind:  State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity, John Yinger (MIT Press).
   
• “Contracting and Accountability: A Model of Effective Contracting Drawn from the U.S. Experience,” (2004) with Barbara S. Romzek, in Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos, and Contractualisation, Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot, eds. (London: Routledge).

Professional Presentations

   
• “The Challenges of Government Contracting,” presented to the Copenhagen Business School’s Danish Public Executive Program, American University, October 29th, 2009, Washington, DC.
   
• “Katrina and Rita: Challenges to the Federal-State Social Safety Net” presented at Carmen Group Policy Forum, "Katrina: Rebuilding After Disaster,” School of Public Affairs, American University, November 7th, 2005.
   
• “Health, Education, and Welfare:  Do We Really Have Options?” presented at the Economic Policy Conference, Policy Research Institute, University of Kansas, October 17th, 2002
   
• “’New’ Federalism??? Or The Devolution Tortoise and the Centralization Hare,” presented at the Mid-America Intergovernmental Audit Forum sponsored by the U.S. General Accounting Office, Kansas City, Missouri, May 3, 2001.
   
• “State and Local Finance,” presented at Seminar on Innovation in Mexican and U.S. Local Government Relations, February 21st, 2001, University of Kansas.
   
• "School Finance Reform in Kansas: An Update," presented at the University Forum, University of Kansas, September, 1996.