Stephanie L. Witt writes about Idaho, city and county governments in the West, human resource management and public administration. Her most recent book, Urban West Revisited Governing Cities in Uncertain Times, is available at http://sspa.boisestate.edu/publications/all-publications/urban-west-revisited-governing-c ities-in-uncertain-times/.
Cities and Counties
The State-Local Food Chain, The Blue Review blog (2013)
At the Idaho Legislature, we find cities, counties and school districts at odds with state...
Urban West Revisited: Governing Cities in Uncertain Times (with James B. Weatherby), Faculty Authored Books (2012)
Urban West Revisited offers a solid primer on challenges faced by elected officials in 10...
The Role of the State in Idaho Land Use Planning (with Carole Nemnich), Research and Reports (2011)
Prior to the recession of 2009-10, Idaho was the sixth fastest growing state by population...
Initiatives and Tax Limitations in Eight Western States, 1990-2010 (with James B. Weatherby and Lisa Wennstromm) (2011)
Public Administration
Providing Shelter for the Homeless: Faith-Based Organizations as Instruments of the Public Good (with Elizabeth D. Fredericksen), Research and Reports (2011)
Networked public service delivery requires attention to accountability and implementation in the public interest. Using...
Identifying and Cueing Network Membership (with Elizabeth Fredericksen), Western Political Science Association (2009)
Innovations in service delivery require due attention to the accountable implementation of public policy in...
“Building a High Performance Workforce” (with W. David Patton), Human Resource Management in Local Government An Essential Guide (2009)
Human Resource Management: The Public Service Perspective (with W. David Patton, Nicholas Lovrich, and Patricia J. Fredericksen), Faculty Authored Books (2002)
[This book] is a combination text, reader, and casebook. It includes techniques and practices, as...
Ethics
Policy
Initiatives and Tax Limitations in Eight Western States, 1990-2010 (with James B. Weatherby and Lisa Wennstromm) (2011)
That Could Be Me: The New Voices of Poverty in Idaho (with Lisa Wennstrom and Carole Nemnich), Research and Reports (2009)
In fall of 2009, Boise State University Radio aired a series of stories highlighting the...
Nineteen Years of Public Opinion: The Boise State University Annual Public Policy Survey (with Gregory Hill, Andy Bourne, and Seth Grigg), Research and Reports (2009)
Evidence suggests that public opinion has a significant and measurable impact on legislative, executive, and...
The Rural-Urban Linkage to Environmental Policy Making in the American West: A Focus on Idaho (with Leslie R. Alm), The Social Science Journal (1997)
In a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of politics and public policy in the American West,...