Articles
Leadership and Organizational Culture: Sustaining Dialogue between Practitioners and Scholars, Public Administration Review (2010)
Few topics in the study of contemporary public organizations better illustrate the burdens—and potential benefits—of...
Land Recycling, Community Revitalization, and Distributive Politics: An Analysis of EPA Brownfields Program Support, Policy Studies Journal (2010)
This article examines social, economic, and political factors influencing the distribution of resources to local...
Continuity, Competence, and the Succession of Senate-Confirmed Agency Appointees, 1989-2009 (with Patrick S. Roberts), Presidential Studies Quarterly (2009)
The authors examine patterns of appointee continuity during the presidential administrations of George H. W....
Divided We Quarrel: The Politics of Congressional Investigations, 1947-2004 (with David C.W. Parker), Legislative Studies Quarterly (2009)
Are congressional committee investigations into alleged executive-branch wrongdoing more common during periods of divided government?...
Results-Model Reform Leadership: Questions of Credible Commitment, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory (2009)
Few problems common in management reform are more prominent or more vaguely conceived than is...
“Why PART? The Institutional Politics of Presidential Budget Reform.”, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory (2006)
The George W. Bush administration’s Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) follows a sequence of president-initiated...