School of Public Affairs & Administration

Research output

Research output per year 2003 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 8822 Citations
• 48 h-index
• 262 Article
• 53 Chapter
• 20 Editorial
• 10 Book
• 16 More
  • 10 Review article
  • 3 Conference contribution
  • 2 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Comment/debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities

  Rhee, Y. C. & Menifield, C. E., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Performance and Management Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Police 100%
  • Signal Detection 100%
  • Decision Making 100%
  • Victims 66%
  • Disproportionality 66%

• Control, Exogeneity, and Directness: Understanding and Designing Quasi- and Natural Experiments

  Remler, D. K. & Van Ryzin, G. G., Mar 2025, In: American Journal of Evaluation. 46, 1, p. 62-89 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Health Science 100%
  • Policy Process 100%
  • Quasi Experiment 100%
  • Social Science 100%
  • Exogeneity 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Distributive Politics in Rural Housing Policy Implementation in Colombia

  Avellaneda, C. N., Bello-Gomez, R. A. & Vargas-Gonzalez, J., May 2025, In: Journal of Public Affairs. 25, 2, e70021.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Housing Needs 100%
  • Housing Policy 100%
  • Political Interest 100%
  • Distributive Politics 100%
  • Colombia 100%

• Organizational Capacity, Resource Environment, and Revenue Diversification Among Chinese Nonprofit Organizations

  Guan, S., Dong, Q. & Lu, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Voluntas.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Public Organizational Stewardship: Conceptualization and Application

  Hsu, H. Y. & Zhang, Y., Mar 1 2025, In: Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. 8, 1, p. 27-37 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Management 100%
  • Public Organization 100%
  • Stewardship 100%
  • Knowledge Base 100%
  • Organizational Behavior 50%

• Reporting in a Systemic Corruption Context: Voices of Citizen Witnesses

  Lagos, N. & Zhang, Y., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Integrity.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Survey Analysis 100%
  • Educational Programmes 100%
  • Chile 100%
  • Institutional Factors 100%
  • Whistleblowing 100%

• Where power and scholarship collide: Gender and coauthorship in public administration research

  Smith, A. E., Riccucci, N. M., Isett, K. R., DeHart-Davis, L. & Sims, R. S. C., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Administration Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Co-authorship 100%
  • Public Administration Research 100%
  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Public Administration 100%
  • Co-authoring 50%

• Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience

  Liu, Y. & Riccucci, N. M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Review of Public Personnel Administration.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Sector 100%
  • Effect of Gender 100%
  • Female Employee 100%
  • Proportion of Women 100%
  • Workforce 100%
  1 Scopus citations
• 2024

  Adversarialism and power-sharing: the effect of political competition on the management-performance relationship

  Bello-Gomez, R. A., Avellaneda, C. N. & Olvera, J. G., Dec 2024, In: Global Public Policy and Governance. 4, 4, p. 389-419 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Power Sharing 100%
  • Relationship Performance 100%
  • Management Performance 100%
  • Political Competition 100%
  • Adversarialism 100%

• Community Policing Policies and the Use of Lethal Force: Revisiting the Effects of Policing Policies on Police Department Organizational Culture

  Menifield, C. E., Shin, G. & Rhee, Y. C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Deviant Behavior.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Organizational Culture 100%
  • Police Department 100%
  • Community Policing 100%
  • Police Policy 100%
  • Use of Deadly Force 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Demographic Heterogeneity, Political Ideology, and Nonprofit Dissolution

  Shon, J. & Lu, J., Jun 2024, In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 53, 3, p. 813-828 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Political Ideology 100%
  • Demographic Heterogeneity 100%
  • Nonprofit Dissolution 100%
  • Nonprofit Organizations 66%
  • Longitudinal Analysis 50%
  3 Scopus citations

• Disasters and social vulnerability determinants of federal subsidiarity assistance

  Ahmadu, A. S., Nukpezah, J. A., French, P. E. & Menifield, C. E., Jan 1 2024, In: Public Administration Review. 84, 1, p. 21-39 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Social Vulnerability 100%
  • Disaster Vulnerability 100%
  • Subsidiarity 100%
  • Public Assistance 40%
  • Intergovernmental Transfers 40%
  9 Scopus citations

• Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis

  Hsu, H. Y. & Lu, J., 2024, In: International Public Management Journal. 27, 4, p. 508-532 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Meta-analysis 100%
  • Performance Measures 100%
  • Government Performance 100%
  • Perceptual Measures 100%
  • Performance Measure 100%
  2 Scopus citations

• Does political ideology still matter? A meta-analysis of government contracting decisions

  Chen, Y. & Lu, J., Dec 2024, In: Public Administration. 102, 4, p. 1681-1710 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Meta-analysis 100%
  • Government Contracts 100%
  • Political Ideology 100%
  • Meta-Analysis 100%
  • Meta-Regression 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Doing Good Work in a Crisis: Views of Pay and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors

  Miller, S. M. & Song, M., Mar 2024, In: Review of Public Personnel Administration. 44, 1, p. 161-186 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • COVID-19 Pandemic 100%
  • Nonprofit Sector 100%
  • Doing Good 100%
  • COVID 19 Epidemic 100%
  • Public Utilities 100%

• How do non-profits use profits? Evidence from U.S. non-profit hospitals

  Lu, J. & Park, Y. J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Management Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nonprofit Hospitals 100%
  • Financial Stability 100%
  • Nonprofit Organization 100%
  • Organizational Growth 100%
  • USA 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence

  Lu, J., Chen, Y. & Hung, W. J., Jan 2024, In: American Review of Public Administration. 54, 1, p. 71-89 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Meta-analysis 100%
  • Public Sector 100%
  • Unionization 100%
  • Government Contracts 100%
  • Contracting out 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Reel Philanthropy: Lessons in Love Using Autoethnographic Filmmaking in Public Affairs Education

  McDougle, L. M. & Alexander, R., 2024, In: Public Integrity. 26, 6, p. 762-773 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Filmmaking 100%
  • Public Services 100%
  • Philanthropy 100%
  • Public Affairs Education 100%
  • Autoethnography 100%
  3 Scopus citations

• Retention and recruitment of minority students and faculty in public affairs and administration programs

  Menifield, C., Estorcien, V., Ndongo, J. C., Quispe, M. P. & McDonald, B. D., 2024, In: Journal of Public Affairs Education. 30, 1, p. 97-117 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Minority Students 100%
  • Minority Faculty 100%
  • Diversity Equity Inclusion 100%
  • Public Affairs Education 100%
  • Public Administration Programmes 100%
  8 Scopus citations

• Support for Affirmative Action in the Workplace: Gender, Race, and Sector Differences

  Hsu, H. Y. & Riccucci, N. M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Review of Public Personnel Administration.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Workplace 100%
  • Race Differences 100%
  • Gender Differences 100%
  • Affirmative Action 100%
  • Sector Differences 100%
  2 Scopus citations

• Symbolic representation in policing: How officer characteristics shape police-suspect interactions

  Rhee, Y. C., Menifield, C. E. & Song, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Management Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Officers 100%
  • Symbolic Representation 100%
  • Characteristic Shapes 100%
  • Police 100%
  • Police Killings 40%
  1 Scopus citations

• The scholarship of teaching and learning in public administration: An agenda for future research

  McDonald, B. D., Hatcher, W., Bacot, H., Evans, M. D., McCandless, S. A., McDougle, L. M., Young, S. L., Elliott, I. C., Emas, R., Lu, E. Y., Abbott, M. E., Bearfield, D. A., Berry-James, R. J. M., Blessett, B., Borry, E. L., Diamond, J., Franklin, A. L., Gaynor, T. S., Gong, T. & Goodman, D. & 21 others, Guy, M. E., Hall, J. L., Hatch, M., Jin, M. H., Jordan, M. M., Levine Daniel, J., Love, J. M., Maher, C. S., Menifield, C., O’Flynn, J., O’Leary, R., Liu, P., Pliscoff, C., Puron-Cid, G., Rinfret, S. R., Sowa, J. E., Stazyk, E. C., Stewart, K., Torneo, A. R., Wiley, K. K. & Zhang, Y., 2024, In: Journal of Public Affairs Education. 30, 1, p. 11-27 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Teaching-learning 100%
  • Agenda for Future Research 100%
  • Public Administration 100%
  • Scholarship of Teaching 100%
  • Scholarship of Learning 100%
  23 Scopus citations

• WHICH SURVEY REPORT TO USE? A REVISIT TO THE 1934 SURVEY OF PUBLIC FINANCE SCHOLARS

  Nguyen-Hoang, P., Zhang, P. & Hildreth, W. B., Sep 2024, In: National Tax Journal. 77, 3, p. 533-564 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Walker 100%
  • Public Finance 100%
  • Survey Report 100%
  • Public Policy 50%
  • Fiscal Policy 50%

• Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment

  Hung, W. J. & Porumbescu, G. A., 2024, In: Public Performance and Management Review. 47, 5, p. 1166-1191 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Service Provision 100%
  • Inequity 100%
  • Survey Experiment 100%
  • Cost Information 100%
  • Public Service Provision 100%
  2 Scopus citations
• 2023

  An Academic-Community Research Partnership to Enhance Structural Competency for Health Equity

  Bagchi, A. D., Corasmin, E., Menifield, C. E., Weber, P. F., Baveja, A., Damas, K., Hill, D. & Peavy, D., 2023, In: Journal of Continuing Higher Education. 71, 3, p. 272-285 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Academic Community 100%
  • Health Equity 100%
  • Community Research Partnership 100%
  • Structural Competency 100%
  • Community Research 100%

• Commercializing nonprofit organizations? Evidence from the Chinese nonprofit sector

  Lu, J., Guan, S. & Dong, Q., Sep 2023, In: Public Administration. 101, 3, p. 1072-1087 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nonprofit Organizations 100%
  • Nonprofit Sector 100%
  • Nonprofit Commercialization 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Commercialization 100%
  4 Scopus citations

• Home rule and municipal revenue stability: New evidence from Texas

  Zhang, P. & Nguyen-Hoang, P., Mar 1 2023, In: Public Budgeting and Finance. 43, 1, p. 38-60 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Texas 100%
  • New Evidence 100%
  • Home Rule 100%
  • Local Government Revenue 100%
  • Revenue Stability 100%
  3 Scopus citations

• How police agency diversity, policies, and outcomes shape citizen trust and willingness to engage

  Stauffer, K. E., Song, M. & Shoub, K., Nov 2023, In: Policy Studies Journal. 51, 4, p. 929-950 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Officers 100%
  • Diversity Policy 100%
  • Willingness to Engage 100%
  • Police Agencies 100%
  • Citizen Trust 100%
  11 Scopus citations

• Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Voluntary Participation

  Lam, M. M., Grasse, N. J. & McDougle, L. M., Dec 2023, In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 52, 6, p. 1515-1538 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Community Factors 100%
  • Individual-level Factors 100%
  • Voluntary Participation 100%
  • Data Source 100%
  • Factor Level 100%
  4 Scopus citations

• Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID-19 in eight countries

  Amirkhanyan, A. A., Meier, K. J., Song, M., Roberts, F. W., Park, J., Vogel, D., Bellé, N., Molina, A. L. & Guul, T. S., Mar 1 2023, In: Public Administration Review. 83, 2, p. 401-418 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Response to COVID-19 100%
  • Government Response 100%
  • Civil Liberties 100%
  • Citizen Perception 100%
  • Perceptions of Government 100%
  10 Scopus citations

• Managing through COVID-19: Reflections from city managers and lessons learned

  Bishu, S. G., Camarena, L. & Feeney, M. K., Sep 1 2023, In: Public Administration Review. 83, 5, p. 1367-1386 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • COVID-19 100%
  • Lessons Learned 100%
  • City Manager 100%
  • Crisis Management 100%
  • Process Management 100%

• Market competition and regulatory compliance in public, non-profit, and for-profit organizations

  Song, M., 2023, In: Public Management Review. 25, 10, p. 1982-2002 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Regulatory Compliance 100%
  • Nonprofit Organizations 100%
  • Market Competition 100%
  • Non-Profit 100%
  • Panel Study 100%
  15 Scopus citations

• Meta-Analysis for Nonprofit Research: Synthesizing Quantitative Evidence for Knowledge Advancement

  Hung, C. K. & Lu, J., Aug 2023, In: Voluntas. 34, 4, p. 734-746 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Meta-analysis 100%
  • Nonprofit Research 100%
  • Meta-Analysis 100%
  • Meta Analysis 100%
  • Nonprofit Studies 50%
  3 Scopus citations

• On teaching philanthropy

  McDougle, L. M., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing. 28, 1, e1765.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Philanthropy 100%
  • Pedagogy 66%
  • Social Issues 66%
  • Experiential philanthropy 66%
  • Making Decisions 33%
  3 Scopus citations

• Service-Learning in Higher Education and Prosocial Identity Formation

  McDougle, L. M. & Li, H., Jun 2023, In: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 52, 3, p. 611-630 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Prosocial 100%
  • Service Learning 100%
  • Identity Formation 100%
  • Learning in Higher Education 100%
  • Prosocial Identity 100%
  15 Scopus citations

• Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education

  Song, M., An, S. H. & Meier, K. J., Aug 2023, In: Administration and Society. 55, 7, p. 1369-1401 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Student Performance 100%
  • Clientele 100%
  • Social Equity 100%
  • Immigrant Education 100%
  • Immigrant 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data-driven public service research

  Ruijer, E., Porumbescu, G., Porter, R. & Piotrowski, S., Mar 1 2023, In: Public Administration Review. 83, 2, p. 316-332 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Service Research 100%
  • Public Services 100%
  • Social Equity 100%
  • Systematic Literature Review 100%
  • Public Utilities 100%
  42 Scopus citations

• The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation

  Miller, S. M., Song, M. & Keiser, L. R., Dec 2023, In: Public Administration. 101, 4, p. 1349-1366 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Willingness to Participate 100%
  • Automated System 100%
  • Government Programs 100%
  • Automated Interaction 100%
  • Application Process 100%
  9 Scopus citations

• The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China

  Li, H., Guo, H. & Zhang, P., May 2023, In: Urban Affairs Review. 59, 3, p. 892-917 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • China 100%
  • Fiscal Impact 100%
  • Urban District 100%
  • Urban Quarter 100%
  • Prefecture-level Cities 75%
  8 Scopus citations

• What brings contracting back in-house? A synthesis of international evidence

  Lu, J. & Hung, W. J., Jun 2023, In: International Review of Administrative Sciences. 89, 2, p. 595-610 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Outsourcing 100%
  • Environmental Factor 100%
  • Unemployment Rate 100%
  • Cost Saving 100%
  • Political Factors 100%
  9 Scopus citations

• When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Porumbescu, G., Moynihan, D., Anastasopoulos, J. & Olsen, A. L., Jul 2023, In: Governance. 36, 3, p. 779-803 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • COVID-19 Pandemic 100%
  • Backfire 100%
  • Scapegoating 100%
  • Blame Avoidance 100%
  • Performance Information 50%
  18 Scopus citations

• Yes We Can: Obama’s Election and the Sense of Inclusion and Job Satisfaction among Minority Federal Workers

  Kim, M. H., Van Ryzin, G. & Hamidullah, M. F., 2023, In: International Journal of Public Administration. 46, 14, p. 983-993 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Job Satisfaction 100%
  • Barack Obama 100%
  • Elections 100%
  • African American 66%
  • Housing Development 66%
• 2022

  Advocating with a commercial mindset: The impact of commercial income on nonprofit advocacy engagement

  Dong, Q., Lu, J. & Lee, C., Aug 1 2022, In: Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 33, 1, p. 203-216 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Nonprofit Advocacy 100%
  • Advocacy Engagement 100%
  • Commercial Income 100%
  • Social Change 100%
  • Service Delivery 100%
  8 Scopus citations

• Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments

  Cucciniello, M., Pin, P., Imre, B., Porumbescu, G. A. & Melegaro, A., Jan 2022, In: Social Science and Medicine. 292, 114195.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Behavioral Experiment 100%
  • Altruism 100%
  • Vaccination Intention 100%
  • Communication Strategies 100%
  • Health Communication 100%
  45 Scopus citations

• Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers

  Camarena, L. & Fusi, F., Feb 2022, In: American Review of Public Administration. 52, 2, p. 154-168 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Information Communication Technology 100%
  • Interconnection Technology 100%
  • Public Managers 100%
  • Technostress 100%
  • Public Manager 100%
  37 Scopus citations

• A replication of “exploring and explaining contracting out: Patterns among the American states”

  Qian, J., Lu, J. & Zhao, J., Dec 2022, In: Public Administration. 100, 4, p. 1161-1182 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • American States 100%
  • Contracting out 100%
  • Service Delivery 100%
  • American State 100%
  • Specific Agency 100%
  3 Scopus citations

• Beyond revenue diversification: Service diversification and service costs in nonprofit acute care hospitals

  Lu, J., Shon, J. & Park, Y. J., Sep 1 2022, In: Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 33, 2, p. 427-440 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Acute Hospital 100%
  • Service Cost 100%
  • Revenue Diversification 100%
  • Service Diversification 100%
  • Science Administration 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• CAP AND GAP: THE FISCAL EFFECTS OF PROPERTY TAX LEVY LIMITS IN NEW YORK

  Nguyen-Hoang, P. & Zhang, P., Jan 1 2022, In: Education Finance and Policy. 17, 1, p. 1-26 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • New York 100%
  • School Districts 100%
  • Fiscal Impact 100%
  • Property Tax 100%
  • Tax Levy 100%
  2 Scopus citations

• Challenges of Asian international students in the U.S. Public affairs programs: A cross-discipline review

  Zhang, Y., Warner, L. & Mao, H., Jun 2022, In: Chinese Public Administration Review. 13, 1-2, p. 55-66 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Public Affairs Education 100%
  • Asian International Students 100%
  • USA 100%
  • Foreign Students 100%
  • International Students 60%
  2 Scopus citations

• Comfort With Telehealth Among Residents of an Underserved Urban Area

  Bagchi, A. D., Damas, K., Salazar de Noguera, N., Melamed, B., Menifield, C., Baveja, A., Weber, P. & Swaminathan, S., 2022, In: Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 13

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Underserved 100%
  • Urban Areas 100%
  • Telehealth 100%
  • Telehealth Services 42%
  • Coronavirus Disease (COVID) 28%
  9 Scopus citations