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Research Interests

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

Selected Publications

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• 鈥淐ontracting: Promise, Performance, Perils, Possibilities,鈥� (forthcoming), with Barbara S. Romzek, in Robert F. Durant, Ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy, Oxford University Press.
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• 鈥淐ommentary on J. Edwin Benton, 鈥楾rends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future鈥�,鈥� (forthcoming)聽 proceedings from聽 鈥淭he Changing Landscape of Local Public Revenues,鈥澛� 2009 Land Policy Conference, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, May 31-June 2, 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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• 鈥淎merican Exceptionalism, Human Resource Management,聽 and The Contract State,鈥� (2009),聽 with Robert F. Durant and Amanda M. Girth, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 29, 3, September: 207-229
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• 鈥淲elfare Reform 鈥� a Devolution Success Story?鈥� (2008), in Paul Posner and Timothy Conlan, eds., Intergovernmental Management For The 21st Century, sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration.聽 Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press.
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• 鈥淪ocial Welfare Contracts as Networks: The Impact of Network Stability on Management and Performance,鈥� (2008), with Barbara S. Romzek, Administration and Society, 40, 2, April:聽 115-146.
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• 鈥淪tate Social Services Contracting: Exploring Determinants of Effective Contract Accountability,鈥� (2005), with Barbara S. Romzek, Public Administration Review, 65, 4, July/August.
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• 鈥淭raditional Contracts as Partnerships:聽 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.)
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• 鈥淭he Challenges of Contracting and Accountability across the Federal System: From Ambulances to Space Shuttles,鈥� (2004), with Barbara S. Romzek and Curtis Wood, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 34, 3, Summer.
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• 鈥淭he Impacts of School Finance Reform in Kansas: Equity is in the Eye of the Beholder,鈥� (2004) with William Duncombe, in John Yinger, ed., Helping Children Left Behind:聽 State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity, John Yinger (MIT Press).
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• 鈥淐ontracting and Accountability: A Model of Effective Contracting Drawn from the U.S. Experience,鈥� (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

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