On January 1, 2022, I will begin work on a five-year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) that examines why, how and whether public administration reinforces the values of representative government. I’m delighted to announce that the project, REPGOV, will be hosted by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) in Barcelona, Spain. I…

Silvia Cannas and I are delighted to have contributed a chapter to the Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production, edited by my former Birmingham colleague Tony Bovaird and Elke Loffler.  The abstract appears below and on SSRN.  Unfortunately, Palgrave does not endorse an open access policy that would allow the last working version to be posted. Despite numerous attempts…

But for the coronavirus pandemic, I would be delivering the Herbert Simon Award lecture at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings in Chicago tonight.  It is an incredible honor to have been selected for this award.  Through their work, past awardees have shaped the way that I think about public administration and political science.  I…

A recent paper with Jason Anastasopoulos was published in the American Political Science Review that uses machine learning to replicate Fabio Franchino’s coding scheme in all European Union all directives and regulations from 1958–2017.  Gated and ungated versions are available and the abstract appears below. Delegation of powers represents a grant of authority by politicians…

Christopher Kam, Alexander Held and I have published a paper that reveals an essential role for the bipolarity of the party system in electoral accountability.  The paper is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and its abstract appears below.  For now, it is accessible via SSRN.  I will update this post when the version of record…

Camila Angulo, Ellie Woodhouse and I have a paper forthcoming in a special issue of Governance later this year.  The abstract appears below and the paper can be accessed on SSRN.  I’m co-editing the issue entitled “Public Administration in Developing Countries” and will post more about as it shapes up and the version of record…

Valentina Mele, Andy Whitford and I have a piece forthcoming in Summer 2020 that will appear as part of a special issue of Governance.  Our paper addresses the question of how to measure the failure of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).  The abstract appears below and the paper can be found on SSRN.  I will update this post…

I am pleased to announce that Kathleen Doherty and I have published an article in Public Administration Review that considers U.S. federal agency compliance with statutory deadlines as a management problem that must respect the political feasibility of rulemaking as well as agency capacity.  The abstract follows and gated and SSRN versions of the paper…

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve published a new paper in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory entitled “Public Goods, Private Partnerships, and Political Institutions.”  The abstract appears below and the paper is available via SSRN. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become an essential vehicle for infrastructure development worldwide. Theoretical arguments primarily focus on build-operate-transfer…

Pam Clouser McCann and I have published a paper in Legislative Studies Quarterly that examines the influence of decentralized administration through grant-in-aid programs on congressional role call voting.  The last working paper version can be accessed on SSRN and the abstract appears below. Congress packages pork-barrel spending in complicated proposals that belie theories of distributive politics. We…