ASU SPA annual report 2017 by ASU Public Service

Annual report

Contents Research centers and initiatives

Honors and awards

New appointments and changes

City management and urban policy

Civil society and engagement

Information and technology management

Public finance, budgeting and economics

Public management and governance

Environmental policy and management

Science, technology and innovation

Social and education policy

Methods, econometrics and data management

Students and alumni

Dissertations 54 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2017 student awards

Published by Arizona State University College of Public Service and Community Solutions School of Public Affairs 411 North Central Avenue, Suite 400, Phoenix, AZ 85004 spa.asu.edu ÂŠ 2017

Director’s message Dear Colleagues and Friends, This annual report highlights the expertise and productivity of our faculty, as well as the impact that our students make in the classroom and beyond. During 2016, our school moved up in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, recognizing these accomplishments. We ranked #13 overall, in the top 5 nationally in city management and information technology, and in the top 20 in other areas. As a school, we excel in research and teaching on new forms of governance and innovation in the public sector. From the undergraduate Public Service and Public Policy program to the Ph.D. in Public Administration and Public Policy, many of our students are first-generation and from diverse backgrounds; all are eager to contribute to the public good. It has been a privilege to serve as director of the school these past four years and to work with our SPA community—our distinguished faculty, dedicated staff, outstanding alumni and students, and our partners in the surrounding communities. I have decided to step down at the end of this term, but I am staying at ASU and looking forward to making a difference in new ways. And, we will be welcoming new members of SPA in the fall. Don Siegel, former dean of the business school at the University at Albany, will be the new director. His work on science and technology policy, innovation, and social entrepreneurship complements strengths in our school. We are also very pleased to welcome Angel Molina as an assistant professor, and Jerry Oliver and Sean Bowie as professors of practice. Please see their biographies below—we are proud to have them join us. Finally, I want to express my gratitude for the contributions of two retiring faculty members. Gerald Miller, who teaches budgeting and finance, has had a distinguished career that earned him the Wildavsky Award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. Cathy Eden, professor of practice, has served in leading positions in state government and previously was the director of our Bob Ramsey Center for Executive Education. I know that everyone in the school joins me in honoring their achievements and commitment to the public service. Sincerely, Karen Mossberger

Research centers and initiatives The Alliance for Innovation, as a partnership of The Innovation Groups, ICMA, and Arizona State University, has created the widest and deepest innovation based network serving local government. The Alliance brings professionals, local governments, academics, and private sector partners together to discover and apply the best ideas, practices and solutions to the challenges confronting local government and communities. transformgov.org Bob Ramsey Executive Education is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the people and organizations that serve communities. Through the center’s programs and seminars, public service professionals can enhance their management and leadership competencies and can earn the Certified Public Manager®, Certified Municipal Clerk, or Master Municipal Clerk credential. The center also assists state, local, and tribal governments with the implementation of their staff development initiatives. ramseyexecutive.asu.edu The Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security brings together resources across disciplines to create innovative solutions for the mitigation, preparation, response, recovery and management of significant incidents or disasters— whether natural or man-made. cemhs.asu.edu 2

The Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) promotes, supports and conducts fundamental research on public, nonprofit, and hybrid organizations and their design, focusing particularly, though not exclusively, on knowledge-based and science intensive-organizations. cord.asu.edu The Center for Policy Informatics leverages the use of tools, models, and simulations to help individuals, groups, and communities make and evaluate policy choices. The center promotes the development of externally funded and community-focused projects, provides for the exchange of ideas, facilitates training, and offers technical and computational resources for modeling and simulations. cpi.asu.edu The Center for Science Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (C-STEPS) serves as an international focal point for interaction among faculty, researchers, students and practitioners on ideas, problems and promises at the nexus of science, technology and the environment. Their work focuses on the study of science as a social phenomenon— science as the core of things that happen technologically, environmentally and through policy. csteps.asu.edu

The Center for Urban Innovation was established as the focal point for research on urban affairs in the School of Public Affairs with a mission to improve the quality of urban life in neighborhoods, cities and urban regions by promoting innovation in governance, policy and management. The center supports innovative education, critical research and community involvement - its research and outreach are both local and global. urbaninnovation.asu.edu Morrison Institute for Public Policy bridges the gap between academic scholarship and public policy development through its services to public and private sector clients and its independent research agenda. Morrison Institute provides services in the areas of public policy research, program evaluation, and public outreach to many types of public and private organizations in Arizona and throughout the United States. morrisoninstitute.asu.edu

The Participatory Governance Initiative is a university-wide interdisciplinary space that brings together academics, students, elected and nonelected government officials, community members and practitioners interested in the theory and practice of participatory governance. Special attention is paid to the examination of emerging trends and innovative democratic experiments around the world that are relevant to the realities of governance and public engagement in the 21st century. spa.asu.edu/pgi

Honors and awards Fellows, National Academy of Public Administration Barry Bozeman Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management Stuart Bretschneider Foundation Professor Michael Crow President, Arizona State University Jonathan Koppell Dean, College of Public Service and Community Solutions Karen Mossberger School Director and Professor Thom Reilly Director, Morrison Institute Recent awards Derrick Anderson Emerging Community Solutions Scholar 2017, College of Public Service and Community Solutions Elizabeth Corley Appointment to Executive Committee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Board of Scientific Counselors Nicole Darnall Best Journal Article, Academy of Management Abe Fellow, Social Science Research Council Ulrich Jensen Best Young Researcher Paper, European Group for Public Administration, Study Group III

Recent awards (continued) Erik Johnston Outstanding Transit Innovation Award, AzTA and Arizona Department of Transportation Joanna Lucio Emerging Community Solutions Scholar 2016, College of Public Service and Community Solutions Karen Mossberger Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration Visiting scholar awards Chris Herbst Central European University Daniel Schugurensky University of British Columbia School of Public Affairs honorees 2017 Eric Welch research Lily Hsueh teaching Nicole Darnall service Joanna Lucio diversity and inclusion Charlene Becher staff Shawn Novak fixed-term faculty Jerry Oliver faculty associate

New appointments and changes Fall 2017 Don Siegel Director and Professor, School of Public Affairs Ph.D., Columbia University Expertise: university technology transfer, economic and strategic implications of entrepreneurship and technological change, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, productivity analysis, economics of gambling Angel Molina Assistant Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M University Expertise: race, ethnicity and politics, public administration

Jerry Oliver Professor of Practice M.S., Arizona State University Former Deputy Chief, City of Phoenix Former Chief of Police, City of Detroit Expertise: urban policy, leadership, public safety

Sean Bowie Professor of Practice M.S., Carnegie Mellon University Member, Arizona State Legislature Expertise: education policy, public budgeting

Retirements (May 2017) Gerald Miller

Cathy Eden

Professor Expertise: Budgeting and financial management

Professor of Practice Former Director, Bob Ramsey Executive Education 5

City management and urban policy ASUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Urban Innovation: Local government research partner Arizona State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Urban Innovation is a collection of scholars engaged in cutting edge applied research. This research is designed to help practitioners and public officials pursue new solutions to challenges facing communities. The value of collaboration The Center operates on the value proposition of collaboration. It serves as a hub for a wide array of partnerships with local governments, nonprofits, private sector firms, and other universities that provide services to cities. These partnerships support research, learning opportunities for students, and avenues for dissemination of new innovations to improve both the operations of local governments and the quality of life for citizens. At the core of this collaborative approach, the Center partners with the Alliance for Innovation (AFI) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). AFI is housed in the School of Public Affairs along with the Center, but is an independent nonprofit organization composed of over 300 member local government jurisdictions from the U.S. and Canada. AFI and its members work with the Center and the ICMA to bring research and real-world experiences to bear in an effort to improve the way local governments perform. ICMA-Alliance-ASU research The ICMA is the leading professional association for local government managers. Based in Washington, D.C., the ICMA has over 10,000 local government members from around the world. The partnership with AFI and the Center helps ICMA realize its mission of creating excellence in local government through the development and fostering of professional management that helps to build better communities. This three-way partnership is a unique approach that identifies emerging challenges, develops and tests new innovative solutions, and then disseminates 6

and trains officials on how best to utilize these new solutions in their communities. In 2016, the partnership launched the first in an annual survey of local governments designed to identify emerging, leading and prevailing practices in local government. National innovation survey of local governments This new annual survey explores various topics related to public sector innovation as well as newly emerging issues and practices impacting local government management. Specific topics addressed in the survey include innovation and change in local government, performance data analytics, public engagement, regulation of the sharing economy (i.e. Uber, AirBnB, etc.) and infrastructure financing. Some highlights from the results include: • Only about two in five jurisdictions (42%) report that they collect performance data, though larger jurisdictions are far more likely to do so, as are jurisdictions in the South and the West, and those with professional managers. • Jurisdictions with professional managers are more supportive of a citizen engagement philosophy, though both professional and elected leaders prefer one-way engagement tools to more participatory tools.

Are small cities online? Information and communication technologies (ICTs) promise to increase government transparency, accountability, and civic engagement by providing information about government activities and enabling electronic interaction with community members. Drawing from a content analysis of 500 U.S. city websites from two points in time, researchers in the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies examined the prevalence and growth of ICTs used by municipalities ranging in population from 25,000 to 250,000 from 2010 to 2014. But it is clear that there is no one-size fits all – and both adoption and implementation vary widely based on city size and form of government. Among recent findings: Larger cities have more technology capacity and are more likely to have more features on their websites. Small cities are able to produce better websites when they use an external contractor. Cities that use an external website provider are significantly more likely to have websites with more information, utility and civic engagement features. By providing a base understanding of the current status of technology use for civic engagement, the data enables a national discussion on best practices.

• Only 16% of cities and counties are engaged in any level of engagement on regulating the sharing economy (e.g., Uber, AirBNB, etc.). The survey captures new ideas in development and factors associated with success or failure of new policies and programs. The results will be made available to local governments nationally, and will also guide further in-depth research on innovation. The partnership helps local government leaders build organizational cultures that facilitate the emergence of additional new practices that the partnership can help make adaptive to other organizations.

Grants David Swindell (PI), Emerging And Leading Practices For Integrating Innovations Into Local Governments, IBM Center For Business Of Government. David Swindell (PI), Western States Budget Transparency Project, The Volcker Alliance. David Swindell (PI), 2016 Global Sports Institute for Impact and Innovation summer grant, ASU’s Global Sports Institute. Authored books Heberlig, Eric S., Leland, Suzanne M., Swindell, David. (2016). American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions. SUNY Press. Reilly, Thom. (2016). The Failure of Governance in Bell, California: Big Time Corruption in a Small Town. Lexington Books: An Imprint of The Rowman Littlefield Publishing Group. Edited books Reilly, Thom. (2016). The Governance of Local Communities: Global Perspectives and Challenges. Nova Publishers. Book chapters McFadden, Erica and Reilly, Thom. (2016). “Citizen Initiative Review: Engaging Citizens in Local Government.” The Governance of Local Communities: Global Perspectives and Challenges. Thom Reilly (editor). Nova Publishers. Mossberger, Karen, Swindell, David, Deschine Parkhurst, Nicholet, Tai, Kuang-Ting. (Forthcoming). “Policy Analysis and Evidence-based Decision Making at the Local Level.” Policy Analysis in the United States. John A. Hird (author). The Policy Press.

Refereed articles Bernal, M.G., Welch, E.W., Sriraj, P.S. (2016). “The Effect of Slow Zones on Ridership: An Analysis of the Chicago “El” Blue Line.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Vol. 87. Feeney, M.K. and Brown, A. (2016). “Are Small Cities Online? Content, Ranking, and Variation of U.S. Municipal Websites.” Government Information Quarterly.

Welch, E.W., Feeney, M.K., and Park, C.H. (2016). “Determinants of Data Sharing in U.S. City Governments.” Government Information Quarterly. Vol. 33(3): pp. 393-403. Welch, E.W., Feeney, M.K., Park, C.H. (2016). “Determinants of Data Sharing in U.S. City Governments.” Government Information Quarterly. Vol. 33: pp. 339-403.

Grimmelikhuisen, S.G., and Feeney, M.K. (2016). “Developing and Testing an Integrative Framework for Open Government Adoption in Local Governments.” Public Administration Review. Heberlig, E.S., Leland, S.M., Shields, M., Swindell, D.A., (2016). “The Disruption Costs of Post-9-11 Security Measures and Cities’ Bids for Presidential Nominating Conventions.” Journal of Urban Affairs. Vol. 38(3): pp. 370-386. Heberlig, E.S., McCoy, J., Leland, S.M., Swindell, D.A. (2017). “Mayors, Accomplishments, and Advancement.” Urban Affairs Review. Herbst, C. and Lucio, J. (2016). “Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Racial Segregation on Happiness.” Journal Of Regional Science. Vol. 56(3): pp. 27. Krishnamurthy, R., Mishra, R., Desouza, K.C. (2016), “Pune, India.” Cities. Vol. 53: pp. 98-109. Pfeiffer, D. and Lucio, J. (2016). “Foreclosures and Section 8 Vouchers: Implications for Residential Mobility.” Housing Policy Debate. Vol. 26(2): pp. 17. Shin, E.J. and Welch, E.W. (2016). “Socio-technical Determinants of Information Security Perceptions in US Local Governments.” International Journal of Electronic Government Research. Vol. 12(3). Swindell, D.A. (2017). “Emerging and Leading Practices for Integrating Innovations into Local Governments.” IBM Business of Government Series.

Invited commentaries Catlaw, T. J. and Stout, M.R. (2016). “Governing Smalltown America Today: The Promise and Dilemmas of Dense Networks.” Public Administration Review. Vol. 76(2). Desouza, K.C. and Smith, K.L. (2016). “Civic Labs: Improving Public Services from the Bottom Up.” Governing.com. Reilly, T. (2016). “My Turn: Lessons from a Deeply Corrupt City.” Arizona Republic. 9

Conference presentations Brien, Spencer and Swindell, David (2016). “Economic Development Implications for Variations in Property Taxes over Vertically Stacked Jurisdictions.” Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management. Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “Challenges and Opportunities in Public Management Research: Lessons Learned from a National Study of Technology in Local Government.” Ph.D. Colloquium, Maxwell School, Syracuse. Heberlig, Eric, Leland, Suzanne, Swindell, David. (2016). “Who Bids? Big-City Mayors and Political Conventions.” Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Heberlig, Eric, McCoy, Justin, Leland, Suzanne, Swindell, David. (2016). “Presidential Nominating Conventions and Mayoral Ambition.” North Carolina Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Heberlig, Eric, Leland, Suzanne, McCoy, Justin, Swindell, David. (2016). “Mayors, Mega-events, and Advancement.” Midwest Political Science Association. Lucio, Joanna and Ramirez, Edgar. (2016). “What is the Impact of Urban Redevelopment on the Price of Housing? A Hedonic Pricing Model for the Housing Area of “Las Granadas” in Mexico City?” Urban Affairs Association. Mossberger, Karen, Tolbert, Caroline J., Zhang, Yang. (2016). “The Information Divide: Digital Inequality, Online News and Place.” International Political Science Association Conference. Mossberger, Karen, Tolbert, Caroline J., Zhang, Yang. (2016). “The Information Divide: Digital Inequality, Online News and Place.” American Political Science Association. Rosentraub, Mark, Swindell, David, Gerretsen, Stephanie. (2016). “Anatomy of a Bankruptcy: Hockey in the Desert, Glendale, and an Urban Plan Gone Awry.” Urban Affairs Association.

Stritch, Justin M. and Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “Organizational and Institutional Correlates of Computer-Mediated Information Transparency in U.S. Local Governments.” 2016 Public Management Research Conference. Stockwell, Brent and Swindell, David. (2016). “Municipal Cooperation for Comparative Performance Measurement.” International City-County Management Association Annual Conference. Swindell, David and Hilvert, Cheryl. (2016). “Collaborative Services.” Transforming Local Government Conference. Swindell, David. (2016). “Mentoring to Bring in the Next Generation of Managers.” International CityCounty Management Association Annual Conference. Swindell, David, Leland, Suzanne Leland, Heberlig, Eric. (2016). “Mega-Value or Mega-Dud? The Benefits to Cities of Hosting a Political Convention as a MegaEvent.” Urban Affairs Association.

Swindell, David. (2016). “Making the City Smart: Embracing the Peer-to-Peer Platform Approach to City Services.” European Group for Public Administration Conference. Swindell, David. (2016). “Innovation and Emerging Practices in Local Government: 2016 ICMA Survey Findings.” International City-County Management Association Annual Conference. Swindell, David. (2016). “Using an Evidence-based Decision Matrix by to Aid Local Governments Considering Collaborative Service Delivery Arrangements.” International City-County Management Association Annual Conference. Swindell, David. (2016). “Urban Innovations Research.” NASPAA Annual Conference. Wang, Xiaoheng, Holbrook, Allyson, Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “An Investigation of Attitudes toward Social Media use in Local Government.” Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.

Swindell, David. (2016). “Collaborative Service Delivery Arrangements for Local Governments: A Summary of the Research Behind the Decision Matrix Tool.” American Society for Public Administration. 11

Civil society and engagement Participatory budgeting in Phoenix schools Three years ago, the first high school-based participatory budgeting process (PB) in the U.S. began at Bioscience High School in Phoenix, Arizona. This year, the Phoenix Union High School District (PUHSD) is launching the first school PB process in the U.S. to use district-wide funds, beginning with five public high schools and intended to expand across the district in future years. Participatory budgeting is a democratic process of deliberation and decision-making over budget allocations that is being implemented in more than 1,500 cities around the world. Participatory budgeting provides not only a more transparent and accountable way of managing public money, but also a means for participants to learn more about their community. Professor Daniel Schugurensky, an expert on participatory budgeting, has mentored several students and alumni involved in these projects, and he is now working with two undergraduate and two graduate students on a study to evaluate these experiments. Bridging the participation gap School districts operate large and complex budgets, often with little participation from the students and community members they serve. Schools have used PB around the world to engage students, parents, teachers, and community members in deciding which school programs and improvements to fund. School PB builds understanding of school budgets, provides leadership development for students, directs funds to pressing needs and innovative ideas, and helps students learn democracy and active citizenship by doing it. More than 60 high school students, teachers, principals and PUHSD staff participated in a training and mock PB process that began with idea collection and culminated in a mock vote.

Trained facilitators worked with teams of students, teachers and principals from each of the five high schools to begin planning individual PB processes. Each team discussed goals for their process including: which model of school PB to use, who could participate in each phase of PB, and how they would begin collecting ideas. Participatory budget planning for the future The aim is a commitment to creating student-driven PB processes that will develop student leadership, magnify student voice, involve entire schools in meaningful and transparent experiences, and build healthy and respectful relationships between students, teachers, and parents. After participating in the mock PB process, one freshman student described what he hoped PB would accomplish at his school: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see PB help other shy freshmen like me gain confidence and come to have a voice in our school community.â&#x20AC;?

Are voters turning away from main parties? Independent voters, who resist being identified with either of the main political parties, could be a way for a deeply divided electorate to move forward. At the annual Morrison Institute State of Our State Conference, experts talked about the importance of voters who are not aligned with either political party. Independents were the deciding factor in electing Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 8, just as they were the deciding factor in electing President Barack Obama in 2008, according to Jackie Salit, president of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party and its online affiliate, IndependentVoting.org. “It’s important to understand that independents, now 43 percent of the national electorate, represent a force of motion that is crying out for a new kind politics in this country,” she said. “Independent voters can provide a bridge to close the partisan gap,” said Thom Reilly, director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Grady Gammage, Jr. a senior research fellow in the Morrison Institute moderated the panel which included leaders from both sides of the aisle: Former U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, a Democrat, and former Sen. Jon Kyl, a Republican. 13

Grants Erik Johnston. Promoting Empathy And Collaborative Decision Making For Natural Resource Management Using A Computer Mediated Scenario. National Science Foundation. Erik Johnston. Macarthur Research Network On Opening Governance. NYU. Erik Johnston. Piper Health Solutions Consortium - Policy Informatics Initiative. ASU Foundation Book chapters Feeney, Mary K. and Gonzalez, Lisset. (2016). “The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.” Nonprofits and the Economy. Robert S. Rycroft (editor). Greenwood. Baer, Doug, Swindell, David, Tai, Kwangting, Smith, David. (2016). “Conducive Macro-Context and Environment.” The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations. David Horton Smith (editor). Palgrave Macmillan. Thoreson, Karen and Swindell, David. (2016). “Collaborative Service Delivery: A Tool for Assessing Feasibility.” International City/County Management Association Municipal Year Book 2015. IMCA Press. 14

Refereed articles No, W., Mook, L., and Schugurensky, D. (2016). “Concurrent or Integrated Hybridity? Exploring Offline and Online Citizen Participation in Invited Spaces.” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. Vol. 19(4): pp. 514-535. Treisman, C., Kelley, T.M., Johnston, E.W. (2016). “Designing Successful Participatory Platforms with a Public Intent: Lessons Learned from Practitioners, Scholars, and Citizen Participants.” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. Vol. 19(4): pp. 479-513. Tsai, C.C., Stritch, J.M., Christensen, R.K. (2016). “Eco-Helping and Eco-Civic Engagement in the Public Workplace.” Public Performance and Management Review. Vol. 40 (2): pp. 336-360. Invited commentaries Reilly, Thom. (2016). “Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?” Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance. Vol. 40(4): pp. 297-301.

Conference presentations Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Creating a Learning Community at ASU.” ASU Learning Innovation Showcase. Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “How Citizen Science Connects us to our Community.” SALT Lecture Series. Kelley, T.M., Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Organizational Learning for Open Innovation Adoption: Insights from Administrative Intermediaries.” Open User and Innovation Conference. Harvard Business School. No, Won, Mook, Laurie, Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “Examining Ideation Processes in Online Invited Spaces.” Proceedings of the 17th International Digital Government Research Conference. No, Won and Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “Visiting the Cousins. Participatory Budgeting and its Extended Family.” Fourth International Conference of Participatory Budgeting. Harvard University. Park, Chul Hyun and Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Building a Theoretical Model of Participatory Information Networks in Response to Natural Disasters: The case of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.” American Society for Public Administration’s 76th Annual Conference (ASPA).

Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “The Possibilities and Challenges of Global Citizenship Education.” Global Citizenship Education Conference (APCEIU/ UNESCO). Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “Democratic Innovations and Local Governance Around the World.” Conference Reimagining local government: strengthening democracy in our communities. Chapman University. Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “The Hidden Curriculum in Global Citizenship Education.” International Research Conference on Global Citizenship Education. UNESCO/UCLA. Schugurensky, Daniel. (2016). “Paulo Freire and critical pedagogy.” Paulo Freire Institute Conference. Swindell, David. (2016). “Neighborhood Level Decision Authority as a Lure for Greater Citizen Engagement.” Urban Affairs Association. Swindell, David. (2016). “Neighborhood Level Decision Authority as a Lure for Greater Citizen Engagement.” By The People: Participatory Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship Education. 15

Information and technology management #IdeastoRetire The death of ideas is painful, according to SPA’s Kevin Desouza. Readers of a recent blog series might conclude, however, that lingering but no longer useful ideas at least should be forced into retirement, with no pension or 401K. In the Brookings Institute #IdeasToRetire project, Desouza led a team of TechTank bloggers on a mission to identify outdated practices in public sector IT management and create solutions for improved outcomes. A new mindset One blog in the series, “Cybersecurity Kills Innovation,” debunks the paradigm that cybersecurity stifles creativity and innovation. The blogger posits that cybersecurity enables opportunity, enhances innovation and is a core requirement for success.

Filling the research gap “Information systems are fundamentally transforming how we manage public institutions and conduct public policy,” according to Desouza, but government is often held back by “antiquated ideas.” The #IdeasToRetire series addresses a lack of research on outmoded technology ideas in government, as well as other factors affecting public sector information and technology management. Dr. Kevin C. Desouza is an ASU Foundation professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Additional blogs in the series advocate retiring ideas such as: government is responsible for taking care of everything, leaders can’t take risks or experiment, patients are passive recipients of healthcare, and technology alone can improve student learning (among others). From “zombie” technologies to the myth of the Rock Star Chief Information Officer, contributors urge governments to abandon old notions.

Edited book Johnston, Erik W. (2016). Governance in the Information Era: Theory and Practice of Policy Informatics. Routledge. Book chapter Mossberger, Karen, Wu, Yohghong and Jimenez, Benedict (Forthcoming). “Catching On and Catching Up: Developments and Challenges in E-Participation in Major Cities.” Routledge Handbook on Information Technology in Government. Michael Ahn and Yu-Che Chen (editors). Routledge.

Feeney, M.K. and Welch, E.W. (2016). “Technologytask Coupling: Exploring Social Media Use is Related to Perceptions of E-government Outcomes”. American Review of Public Administration. Vol. 46(2): pp. 162-179. Fusi, F. and Feeney, M.K. (2016). “Social Media in the Workplace: Information Exchange, Productivity, or Waste?” American Review of Public Administration. Liang, X., Su, L.Y., Yeo, S.K., Scheufele, D.A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M., Nealey, P., Corley, E.A. (2016). “Building Buzz: (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments”. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Vol. 91: pp. 772-791. Longo, J., Kuras, E.R., Smith, H., Hondula, D.M., Johnston, E.W. (Forthcoming). “Technology Use, Exposure to Natural Hazards, and Being Digitally Invisible: Implications for Policy Analytics”. Policy & Internet. Page 33. Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C.J., Anderson, C. (2016). “The Mobile Internet and Digital Citizenship in AfricanAmerican and Latino Communities”. Information, Communication and Society. Vol. 19.

Refereed articles Bretschneider, S. and Parker, M. (2016) “Organization Formalization, Sector, and Social Media: Does Increased Standardization of Policy Broaden and Deepen Social Media Use in Organizations?” Government Information Quarterly. Vol. 33: pp. 614-628. Cacciatore, Michael A., Scheufele, Dietram A., Corley, E.A. (2016). “Another (methodological) Look at Knowledge Gaps and the Internet’s Potential for Closing Them”. Public Understanding of Science. Vol. 23: pp. 377-395. Dawson, G.S., Denford, J.S., Williams, C.K., Preston, D., Desouza, K.C. (2016). “An Examination of Effective IT Governance in the Public Sector Using the Legal View of Agency Theory”. Journal of Management Information Systems. 18

Smith, K.L., Ramos, I., Desouza, K.C. (2016). “Economic Resilience and Crowdsourcing Platforms”. Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management (Revista de Gestão da Tecnologia e Sistemas de Informação). Vol. 12(3): pp. 595-626.

Invited commentaries Desouza, K.C. (with multiple co-authors). (2016). Brookings TechTank Blog. Brookings TechTank.

Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “The Role of Technology in Modern Social Movements”. Chautauqua Institution Lincoln Speaker Series.

Desouza K.C. and Bienenstock, E.J. (2016). “What Simulators Could Do for Public Management”. Governing.com.

Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “E-government: What is Holding the United States Back?” Copenhagen Business School.

Desouza K.C. (2016). “Why ‘Open and Frugal’ Should be the Default for Government IT”. Governing.com.

Fusi, Federica and Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “Technology Paranoia: Public Managers’ Perceptions About Being Monitored”. Public Management Research Conference.

Desouza, K.C. (2016). “Can Self-Driving Cars Share the Road With Old-School Vehicles?”. Slate.com. Swindell, D.A., Desouza, K.C., Glimcher, S. (2016). “Drones and the ‘Wild West’ of Regulatory Experimentation”. The Brookings Institution’s TechTank. Edited special issues Kim, Y., and Zhang, J. (2016). Special Issue on Digital Government and Wicked Problems. Government Information Quarterly. T. Janowski & M. Janssen (eds.). Zhang, J., and Kim, Y. (2016). Special Issue on Digital Government and Wicked Problems. Information Policy. Miriam Lips (ed.). Conference presentations Alashri, Saud, Kandala, Srinivasa Srivatsav, Bajaj, Vikash, Ravi, Roopek, Smith, Kendra L., Desouza, Kevin C. (2016). “An Analysis of Sentiments on Facebook during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election”. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Denford, James S., Dawson, Gregory S., and Desouza, Kevin C. (2017). “Exploring IT-Enabled Public Sector Innovation in U.S. States”. Proceeding of the Fiftieth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Future Directions: Using Social Media to Understand Public Will, Harness Local Expertise, and Deepen Engagement”. Keynote, University of Central Florida Public Administration Research Conference. Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Studying Data-driven and Collaborative Innovations in Governance”. The TicTec Impacts of Civic Technology Conference. Kelley, Tanya M, Kelley, L., Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “eGovenrment to eGovernance: Technology Contributions to Public Sector Collaboration”. New Traditions in Public Administration. ASPA Annual Conference. Mossberger, Karen. (2016). “Innovation, Policy and Digital Citizenship”. Keynote, University of Twente Symposium, Citizenship in a Digital Society. Mossberger, Karen. (2016). “Questions for Evaluating Broadband Impacts”. National Science Foundation Workshop, Broadband 2021. Rahmati, Pouya, Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth, Welch, Eric W., Jones, S. (2016). “Too Flexible To Intervene: Exploring Adoption of Social Media For Work”. Workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW): The Impact of Digital Innovation. Zhang, Fengxiu and Feeney, Mary. (2016). “Public Manager Views: The Missing Link in Electronic Civic Engagement”. APPAM.

Public finance, budgeting and economics Guiding transparency in state budgeting

Hurdles of budget jargon and data collection

In 2015, the Volcker Alliance conducted an evaluation of three state’s budgeting practices. Now, that work is going nationwide and Arizona State University’s Center for Urban Innovation is one of their leading partners.

One of the challenges is translating budget jargon like local option sales tax, for example. In Arizona, it’s called tax at point of transaction.

The Volcker Alliance recently announced that it will expand their project into a multiyear study across all 50 states known as The Truth and Integrity in Government Finance Project.

Data collection was another hurdle. “It was eyeopening that many documents were not in plain view. They weren’t hidden, just not easily available. For me, communication should be dictated by the receiver,” Athreya said.

According to David Swindell, the director of the Center for Urban Innovation in the School of Public Affairs, one of the main initiatives of the Volcker Alliance is clean governance, which includes looking at budget practices to know what states are doing.

Robert Celaya, a Master of Public Policy student who worked on the state of Arizona, reported that the website wasn’t user friendly and data was unorganized. “You had to know what you were searching for,” Celaya said.

ASU is one of thirteen academic institutions leading data collection. It also serves as project coordinator for the twelve western states.

Mayuri Roy Choudhury, a Master of Public Policy student at ASU, noted that transparency is the main goal of the Volcker Alliance. Information should be easy to access and available to people. “(Now) people have to go deep and search,” Choudhury said. According to Choudhury, the data collection problem wasn’t just on websites. Problems also arose in retrieving data from analysts in a timely manner, and when they finally received it, the answers didn’t always line up with the questions asked.

Establishing indicators for standard measures Students in the Master of Public Administration capstone course began collecting primary data during the summer and fall semesters. Swindell co-taught the course with Dan Hunting of ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy (a former fiscal analyst for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at the state legislature). The Volcker Alliance has established 29 indicators that served as standard measures. Because practices change, teams looked at the last three fiscal years. Two teams were assigned to each state to maintain integrity and reliability in the data collection. If one team arrived at one conclusion and the other reached another conclusion, then the difference had to be resolved. “We went through a series of questions in different buckets: general practices, one-time actions, funding for special items, measures for rainy day funds and disclosure practices,” said ASU Master of Public Administration student Rekha Athreya, who was on a Colorado team. “We looked at websites, bills, reports and spoke with analysts to confirm data or get additional information.” 20

Innovation is mandatory Data collection is the primary goal and innovation is mandatory among states, according to Swindell. The applied learning through the Volcker Alliance “gives students a deeper appreciation of the budgeting process, and exposure to different budgeting practices,” Swindell said. For Choudhury, it was vital to learn about the gap between research and practice. Choudhury said, “There are many things written about budgeting, but analysts in practice don’t always know these things.” Robert Celaya noted that in terms of metrics provided in comparing Arizona with other states, it “looked pretty good.”

Eventually, there will be an opportunity to gain a more contextual view of why practices differ and how variations compare, according to Swindell, but for now data collection is the main focus. “The big payoff is the data,” Swindell said. “No one has looked at the same 29 practices across all states to see how they vary, along with the results of those practices. This study provides an opportunity to identify good practices and show states how they can move in that direction.” Social science data collection The next round of data collection will go through spring, and then all of the information will ultimately be put in a standardized platform to guide states’ practices and analyze variation. “Explaining the variation is what social science does,” Swindell said. “This is an opportunity to introduce innovation to those states who are doing things poorly by empirically demonstrating best practices.” Celaya emphasized the importance of being transparent in the process even if one doesn’t agree with the underlying policy. “This was a great exercise,” Celaya said. “State budgets affect everyone.” 21

Grant David Swindell (PI). (2016). Western States Budget Transparency Project. The Volcker Alliance. Book chapters

Conference presentations Brien, Spencer and David Swindell. (2016). “Variations in Property Taxes over Vertically Stacked Jurisdictions: Implications for Fiscal Health and Economic Development.” Urban Affairs Association.

Miller, Gerald and Hildreth, W. Bartley. (2016). “Finance Officers and Public Risk Management.” Public Risk Management. Jozef Myrczek and Piotri Tworek (editors). Polish Economic Society.

Kirschner, Charlotte, Stone, Samuel B., Singla, Akheil. (2016). “Fines, Forfeitures and Fiscal Condition: The Reliance on Fines by California’s Municipalities.” Urban Affairs Association.

Miller, Gerald J., Justice, Jonathan B., Illiash, Iryna. (2016). “Budgetary Decision-Making Logics in Theory and Practice.” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Mel Dubnick (editor). Taylor and Francis.

Kirschner, Charlotte, Stone, Samuel B., Singla, Akheil. (2016). “Fines, Forfeitures and Fiscal Condition: The Reliance on Fines by California’s Municipalities.” Midwest Public Affairs Conference.

Miller, Gerald J. and Robbins, Donijo. (2016). “Achieving Productivity Through Budgeting.” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 3d ed. Mel Dubnick (editor). Taylor and Francis. Boss, R. Wayne, Facer, Rex L., McConkie, Mark, Miller, Gerald J. (corresponding author), Yeager, Sam J. (2016). “Robert T. Golembiewski.” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Mel Dubnick. Taylor and Francis.

Kirschner, Charlotte and Singla, Akheil. (2016). “Do States Use Rainy Day Funds When it Pours? DisasterStabilization Funds in the Gulf Coast States.” Midwest Public Affairs Conference. Reilly, Thom. (2016). “Predictors of Municipal Bankruptcies and State Intervention Programs: An Exploratory Study.” International Atlantic Economic Conference. Singla, Akheil, Luby, Martin J., and Orr, Peter. (2016). “A Comparative Analysis of the Efficacy of Financial Derivatives by Select Municipal Governments.” Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. Stone, Samuel B. and Singla, Akheil. (2016). “Second Order Fiscal Decentralization: Effects on the Financial Condition of State Governments.” Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. Swindell, David. (2016). “Alternative Tools for Addressing Today’s Financing Challenges.” ASU Annual Public Finance Conference.

Refereed article Brien, S., Swindell, D.A., Stockwell, B. (2016). “Benchmarking Property Taxes in a Metropolitan Area”. Public Administration Quarterly. Vol. 41(1): pp. 67-88. Invited commentary Reilly, Thom. (2016). “Court Rulings Show Fate of State Pensions Likely in Voters’ Hands”. Arizona Capitol Times. 22

Swindell, David. (2016). “Financing.” Smart Cities Week. Swindell, David and Brien, Spencer. (2016). “Variations in Property Taxes over Vertically Stacked Taxing Jurisdictions.” Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management.

Public management and governance Emerging solutions scholar award winner Derrick Anderson, an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs, was awarded the College of Public Service and Community Solutions 2017 Emerging Community Solutions Scholar Award. The award is granted each year to a junior faculty member who has “demonstrated early success pursuing innovative, community-embedded research and implementing solutions with measurable impact.” In the past year, Anderson both produced significant research and mobilized a transdisciplinary coalition of scholars to study ways to improve the public value of higher education. Improving public value in higher education Anderson’s research connects institutional design to public value outcomes in the context of higher education. Much of his work has been focused on identifying causal factors for the persistent underperformance of for-profit colleges and universities, which have been the subject of considerable public ire, legal scrutiny and regulatory inquiry. Much of the debate around for-profit higher education is driven by emotion and lacks the important empirical and reasoned analysis that characterizes the work of scholars and practitioners in our college. Accordingly, Anderson’s work has applied empirical publicness and public value frameworks to assorted issues in for-profit higher education. In so doing, he has helped explain why for-profit colleges behave differently than their public and private counterparts and how the organizational strategies adopted by for-profits and the policy environments in which they are situated contribute to public value failure outcomes.

Perspectives on accountability in higher education Along with his own research, Anderson’s 2016 efforts to maximize the impact of these ideas included serving as lead editor of a special symposium in Public Administration Review, featuring a number of scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the future of higher education. Academic contributions came from new and veteran researchers from across the nation, including schools such as the University of Indiana, Brigham Young University and the University of Kansas. Practitioner perspectives included Geoffrey Cox (Stanford and former president of Alliant International University, the first for-profit B-Corporation), Robert Shireman (former Deputy Undersecretary of Education for President Obama and architect of efforts to “rein in” for-profit colleges) and John D. Murphy (co-founder of the University of Phoenix). Anderson’s own research was featured as a peerreviewed contribution to this symposium and used case studies to show that some of the failures of for-profit colleges could be attributed to the design of public policies that the colleges operate under. He then used this as a basis for advocating for greater scrutiny of these policies (as opposed universal attribution of their failures to their status as for-profit entities, which he acknowledges to remain a major problem). In a further solutions-oriented effort, Anderson partnered with the American Society for Public Administration to host a policy forum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The forum included academic and practitioner perspectives including many of those listed above. As a consequence of this research, Anderson now consults regularly with key advocates for greater accountability in for-profit higher education.

Behavioral public administration In 2016, ASU assistant professor Justin Stritch spoke at a symposium on employee performance held by the Royal Academy of the Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Stritch’s focus is on the management and performance of public and nonprofit organizations. In his talk, Stritch called for public management to avoid a narrow conception of employee performance that discounts employee behaviors that promote the public interest, citizenship, public value, democratic participation, and representation. While the applied behavioral sciences have advanced our understanding of public employee performance as it pertains to the success of the employee’s organization, Stritch believes it has done so within a relatively narrow sphere of behaviors directly related to an understanding of performance defined in terms of economy and efficiency. Stritch’s most recent projects have examined public employee decision-making, the behavioral consequences of public service and pro-social motivations, and the effects of personnel change and managerial succession in organizations. His research has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, International Public Management Journal and Public Administration.

Grants Derrick Anderson (PI). (2016). The Behavioral And Institutional Determinants Of Public Value Knowledge Outcomes In Conservation Science. National Science Foundation. Ethan Kapstein. Lookingglass Multimedia: Radio And Programmable Antenna For Social Media Monitoring. Department of Defense. Ethan Kapstein. Reformist Intervention: U.S. Policy Towards The Developing World Since 1950. Smith Richardson Foundation. Authored books Kapstein, Ethan. (Forthcoming). Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and U.S. Foreign Policy. Cambridge University Press. Book chapters Denhardt, Robert, Andonoska, Ljubinka, Bentley, Margaretha. (2016). “An Overview of Organization Theory and Behavior.” Foundations of Public Administration. J. C. N. Raadschelders and R. J. Stillman (editors). Melvin & Leigh. Jensen, Ulrich T. (2016). “At Gøre Godt for Andre Mennesker og for Samfundet: Mellem Public Service Motivation og Værdier [English Title: To do Good for Others and Society: Between Public Service Motivation and Values]”. Pædagogers Etik i Relationen, Professionen og Samfundet [English Title: Pedagogues’ Ethics in Relations, the Profession, and in Society]. Marianne Gilbert Nielsen (author). BUPL.

Refereed articles Anderson, D. and Taggart, G., (2016). “Public Policies, Organizations and the Roots of Public Value Failure: The Case of Ror-profit Higher Education”. Public Administration Review. Vol. 75(5): pp. 50.

Jensen, U.T. and Vestergaard, C.F. (2016). “Public Service Motivation and Public Service Behaviors: Testing the Moderating Effect of Tenure”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Vol. 27(1): pp. 52-67.

Andersen, Lotte B., Jacobsen, Christian B., Jensen, Ulrich T. (2016). “Ledelse og Medarbejdermotivation: Danske og Internationale Forskningsresultater [English title: Leadership and Motivation]”. Økonomi & Politik [Economics & Politics]. Vol. 4: pp. 55-65.

Jensen, U.T., Andersen, L.B., Bro, L.L., Bøllingtoft, A., Eriksen, T.L.M., Holten, A., Jacobsen, C.B., Ladenburg, J., Nielsen, P.A., Salomonsen, H.H., WestergårdNielsen, N., Würtz, A. (2016). “Conceptualizing and Measuring Transformational and Transactional Leadership”. Administration & Society.

Bozeman, B. and Anderson, D. (2016). “Public Policy and Origins of Bureaucratic Red Tape: Implications of the Stanford Yacht Scandal”. Administration & Society. Vol. 48: pp. 736-759.

Kapstein, Ethan B. and Busby, Joshua. (2016). “Framing Global Health as Human Rights”. Global Health Governance. Pages 24-41.

Dawson, G.S., Denford, J.S., Desouza, K.C. (2016). “Governing Innovation in U.S. State Government: An Ecosystem Perspective”. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Vol. 25(4): pp. 299-318. Hayter, C.S. and Nisar, Azfar. (Forthcoming). “Advancing Vaccine Development for the Developing World: Applying a Collaborative Governance Framework to Product Development Partnerships”. International Public Management Journal. Imperial, M.T., Johnston, E.W,, Pruett-Jones, M., Leong, K., Thomsen, J. (2016). “Sustaining the Useful Life of Network Governance: Life-Cycles and Developmental Challenges”. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. Vol. 14(3): pp. 134-144. Imperial, M.T., Ospina, S., Johnston, E.W., O’Leary, R., Williams, P., Johnson, S., Tomsen, J. (2016). “Understanding Leadership in a World of Shared Problems: Advancing Network Governance in Large Landscape Conservation”. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. Vol. 14(3): pp. 126-134. Jensen, U.T., van Loon, N.M., Vandenabeele, W. (2016). “Serviceproduktion Eller Serviceregulering: Forskelle i Public Service Motivation? [English title: Production or Regulation of Public Services: Differences in Public Service Motivation?]”. Økonomi & Politik [Economics & Politics]. Vol. 4.

Kapstein, E. and Caverley, J. (2016). “Who’s Arming Asia?” Survival. Vol. 58: pp. 167-184. Kim, Y. and Darnall, N. (2016). “Business as a Collaborative Partner: Understanding Firms’ Sociopolitical Support for Policy Formation”. Public Administration Review. Vol. 76(2): pp. 326-337. Mette Kjeldsen, A., Boye, S., Brænder, M., Jacobsen, C.B., Jensen, U.T. (2016). “Hvad Forklarer Forandringer i Public Service Motivation? Indsigter fra Fem Danske Studier [English title: What Explains Changes in Public Service Motivation? Evidence from Five Danish Studies]”. Økonomi & Politik [Economics & Politics]. Vol. 4: pp. 15-28. Nisar, A. and Maroulis, S. (2016). “Foundations of Relating:? Theory and Evidence on the Formation of Street-level Bureaucrats’ Workplace Networks”. Public Administration Review. Park, C.H., Welch, E.W., Sriraj, P.S. (2016). “An Integrative Theory-Driven Framework for Evaluating Travel Training Programs”. Evaluation and Program Planning. Vol. 59: pp. 7-20. Pedersen, M.J. and Stritch, J.M. (2016). “The Effects of Internal Public Management on Managerial Trustworthiness”. American Review of Public Administration.

Edited special issues Anderson, D. and Whitford, A. (2016). “Institutional Design Frontiers of Publicness and University Performance”. Public Administration Review. Vol. 75(5).

Feeney, Mary K. (2016). “Assessing Public Values Workshop”. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Feeney, Mary K. and Stritch, Justin M. (2016). “Committed to family and work: Family friendly policies, work-life balance and commitment in the public sector”. 2016 Public Management Research Conference. Jensen, Ulrich T., Jacobsen, Christian B., Würtz, Allan. (2016). “Leadership Assessments and Prediction of Organizational Performance: No Quick Fix!”. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. Kim Yushim and Darnall, Nicole (2016). “Business as a Collaborative Partner: Understanding Firms’ Socio-Political Support for Policy Formation”. International Cross-Sector Social Interactions Symposium. Kim, Yushim and Darnall, Nicole (2016). “Business as a Collaborative Partner: Understanding Firms’ Socio-Political Support for Policy Formation”. Public Values Conference.

Conference presentations Catlaw, Thomas J., Robichau, Robbie, Sandberg, Billie. (2016). “Searching for Meaningfulness in Nonprofit Work in a Neoliberal Age: A Qualitative Inquiry”. 29th Annual International Conference of the Public Administration Theory Network. Catlaw, Thomas J. and Eagan, Jennifer (2016). “When You Can’t Handle the Truth: Occupy, “Dangerous Speech,” and Public Administration”. American Society for Public Administration. Christensen, Robert K. and Stritch, Justin M. (2016). “Prosocial Dr. Jekyll, Meet Pathological Mr. Hyde: Exploring the Confluence of Other-Oriented Public Values and Self-Centered Narcissism”. 2016 Public Values Consortium. Feeney, Mary K. and Stritch, Justin M. (2016). “Working for Family: Family Friendly Policies, WorkLife Balance, and Commitment in the Public Sector”. Public Management Research Conference.

Louafi, Selim, Fusi, Federica, Meter, A., Welch, Eric W. (2016). “Trust-Building Mechanisms in Global Complex Research Collaborations Case Study Analysis of Global Agriculture Initiatives for Knowledge Based Genomics Innovation”. Trust & Regulatory Governance - 2016 ECPR Regulatory Governance Conference. Stockwell, Brent, Swindell, David, Thoreson, Karen, Reed, Wynette. (2016). “Collaborating and Comparing for Improved Performance”. International City-County Management Association Annual Conference. Stritch, Justin M. and Villadsen, Anders. (2016). “Closing the Gap: Differences in Wages among Men and Women in the Public and Private Sector Labor Markets and the Moderating Effect of Educational Attainment”. 2016 Academy of Management Research Conference.

Environmental policy and management Guiding eco-friendly buying The School of Public Affairs is helping the city of Phoenix improve its impact on the environment by suggesting ways to make better eco-friendly purchasing decisions. A half-dozen faculty members and researchers conducted focus group interviews with city procurement specialists. These interviews helped identify barriers that had prevented the city’s Environmental Procurement Policy from being implemented. The city policy sets the scope and procedures for purchasing products and services that have a reduced effect on human health and the environment. The goal is to utilize sustainable products and services while remaining fiscally responsible. Arizona State University researchers identified complex organizational barriers in how purchasing is managed across city departments. They also found trade-offs between purchasing criteria that compete with greener, more eco-friendly options. “Phoenix appreciates the partnership with ASU on this study and the thoughtful analysis and recommendations received,” said Joe Giudice, the city’s environmental programs manager. “Phoenix will use the feedback to improve the city’s sustainable purchasing program and advance the city’s 2050 environmental sustainability goals. The research data will help develop a holistic program that engages the city’s buyers to increase green purchasing.” The pro bono work by professors is part of a broader, collaborative approach by ASU’s Center for Organization Research and Design, a unit within the School of Public Affairs. The center promotes, supports, and conducts high-impact use-inspired organization design research. “By engaging city officials, our team was able to address one of the city’s concerns—how it can further integrate environmental considerations into its purchasing processes,” said professor and principal

investigator Nicole Darnall. “At the same time, we developed a better understanding about sustainable procurement, advanced our research ideas, and engaged teams of graduate students in project-based learning. This project created wins for everyone.” The research project was undertaken by Darnall, professor Stuart Bretschneider, assistant professor Lily Hsueh, assistant professor Justin Stritch, postdoctoral researcher Melissa Duscha, and graduate research assistant Jeffrey Iles. The project has led to funding from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to expand their work to other cities. The team is undertaking a national-level survey of all U.S. cities with 50,000 residents or more. Their objective is to offer immediate steps that governments can undertake to embed SPP more deeply within their procurement decisions. Data collection is underway with preliminary findings due in summer 2017. The ASU researchers provided eight recommendations to the city, including: 1. Form an Environmental Procurement Policy team; 2. Include the city’s director of Office of Environmental Programs in strategic planning; 3. Connect with professionals in other cities that have policy teams to determine best practices; 4. Implement training on green procurement to create shared vision; 5. Link the city’s e-procurement system with green purchasing options; 6. Use life cycle assessment to determine longrun costs; 7. Create a mayoral directive on environmental preferred purchasing; and, 8. Create city-level incentives at both the department and individual level to encourage green purchasing.

Grants Stuart Bretschneider, Nicole Darnell, Lily Hsueh, Justin Stritch (PIs). (2016) Sustainable Procurement in State and Local Governments. ASU Foundation. Lily Hsueh. Application of the Kuhn Tucker Model to Examine Fishery Participation and Effort Allocation Across Regional Fisheries Research Contractor. NOAA. Erik Johnston (PI). (2016). Transformational Solutions For Urban Water Sustainability Transit. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences. Refereed articles Arimura T., Darnall N., Ganguli R., Katayama H. (2016). “The Effect of ISO 14001 on Environmental Performance: Resolving Equivocal Findings.” Journal of Environmental Management. Vol. 166(15): pp. 556-566. Bixler, P., Wald, D., Ogden, L., Leong, K., Johnston, E.W., Romolini, M. (2016). “Network Governance for Large-Scale Natural Resource Conservation and the Challenge of Capture.” Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. Vol. 14(3): pp. 165-171. Darnall N., Ji H., Vazquez-Brust, D. (Forthcoming). “Third-party Certification, Sponsorship and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use.” Journal of Business Ethics. Ferrón-Vílchez V., Darnall N., Aragón-Correa J.A. (Forthcoming). “Stakeholder Influences on the Structural Dimensions of Firms’ Environmental Practices.” Journal of Cleaner Production. Hondula, D.M., Kuras, E.R., Longo, J., Johnston, E.W. (Forthcoming). “Toward Precision Governance: Infusing Data into Public Management of Environmental Hazards.” Public Management Review. Hsueh, L. and Darnall, N. (Forthcoming). “Alternative and Nonregulatory Approaches to Environmental Governance.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Hsueh, L. and Darnall, N. (2016). “Introduction to the Virtual Issue on Alternative and Nonregulatory Approach to Environmental Governance.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 32

Hsueh, L. (2016). “Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the ‘Rights to Fish’: The Effects of Catch Shares on Fishermen’s Days at Sea.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Hsueh, L. (Forthcoming). “Transnational Climate Governance and the Global 500: Examining Private Actor Participation by Firm-Level Factors and Dynamics.” International Interactions. Huang, W-L., Welch, E.W., Corley, E.A. (2016). “Public Sector Voluntary Initiatives: The Adoption of the Environmental Management System by Public Waste Water Treatment Facilities in the United States.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 57: pp. 1531-1551. Ji, H. and Darnall, N. (Forthcoming). “All Are Not Created Equal: Assessing the Design Features of Local Sustainability Programs.” Public Management Review. Kim, Y. and Darnall, N. (2016). “Business as a Collaborative Partner: Understanding Firms’ SocioPolitical Support for Policy Formation.” Public Administration Review. Vol. 76(2): pp. 326-337. Kim, Y. and Verweij, S. (2016). “Two Effective Causal Paths that Explain the Adoption of U.S. State Environmental Justice Policies.” Policy Sciences. Vol. 49(4): pp. 505-523. McWilliams, A., Parhankangas, A., Coupet, J., Welch, E.W., Barnum, D. (2016). “Strategic Decision Making for the Triple Bottom Line.” Business Strategy and the Environment. Vol. 25(3): pp. 193-204. Singh, G., Louafi, S., Welch, E.W. (2016). “Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol for the Research Sector: Experiences and Challenges.” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Invited commentaries Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “Why IT Companies Lead on Proactive Climate Action.” The Brookings Institution’s TechTank.

Conference Presentations Campbell, Heather, Eckerd, Adam, Kim, Yushim. (2016). “Cleaning Up Brownfields, Improving Environmental Justice: Assessing Community Involvement.” Urban Affairs Association Conference. Cordeiro, J. and Darnall, Nicole. (2016). “Corporate Financial Performance as a Key Contingency in the Corporate Environmental-Financial Performance Relationship: A Quantile Regression Analysis.” Proceedings of the Group on Organizations and the Natural Environment. Darnall, Nicole, Ji, Hyunjung, Vazquez-Brust, Diego. (2016). “Third-Party Certification, Sponsorship and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use.” Proceedings of the Group on Organizations and the Natural Environment. Darnall, Nicole, Ji, Hyunjung, and Vazquez-Brust, Diego. (2016). “Third-Party Certification, Sponsorship and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use.” Academy of Management. Darnall, Nicole, Ji, Hyunjung, Potoski, Matthew. (2016). “The Institutional Design of Ecolabels: Sponsorship Signals Rule Strength.” Academy of Management. Darnall, Nicole, Iwata, Kazuki, Arimura, Toshi, Ji, Hyunjung. (2016). “Rule-Versus Principle-Based Government Guidelines: A Case of Corporate Voluntary Environmental Information Disclosure.” International Cross-Sector Social Interactions Symposium. Darnall, Nicole, Ji, Hyunjung, Vazquez-Brust, Diego. (2016). “Third-Party Certification, Sponsorship and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Darnall, Nicole. (2016). “Consumers, Regulation, and Sustainability.” Materials Science Research Society. Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “The Potential of Transnational Climate Governance: Linking Institutional Origin and Design to Impacts and Effectiveness.” International Studies Association Annual Convention.

Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “Do Global Businesses that Join Voluntary Climate Initiatives Emit Less Carbon? Explaining Firm Participation and Carbon Emissions by Internal Firm-Level Factors and Dynamics.” Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5th Annual Summer Conference. Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “What Explains Participation and Effort in Voluntary Carbon Disclosure by Global Businesses? An Analysis of Internal Firm Factors and Dynamics.” International Studies Association Annual Convention. Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “Do Global Businesses that Join Voluntary Climate Initiatives Emit Less Carbon? Explaining Firm Participation and Carbon Emissions by Internal Firm-Level Factors and Dynamics.” Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference. Hsueh, Lily. (2016). “Do Global Businesses that Join Voluntary Climate Initiatives Emit Less Carbon? Explaining Firm Participation and Carbon Emissions by Internal Firm-Level Factors and Dynamics.” International Studies Association Annual Convention. Ji, Hyunjung and Darnall, Nicole. (2016). “Local Government Sustainability Programs and Their Impact on Collective Environmental Outcomes.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Kim, Yushim. and Verweij, Stefan. (2016). “Two Effective Causal Paths that Explain the Adoption of U.S. State Environmental Justice Policies.” Claremont Graduate University Colloquia. Kim, Yushim. (2016). “Environmental Injustice as Environmental Disaster.” American University. Miao, Qing, Welch, Eric W., Zhang, Fengxiu, Sriraj, P.S. (2016). “How Public Organizations Manage Weather Risks: A Study of U.S. Transit Agencies.” Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Conference. Miao, Qing, Zhang, Fengxiu, Welch, Eric W., Sriraj, P.S. (2016). “Tackling Extreme Weather: What Public Transit Agencies are Doing?” Urban Affairs Association Conference. 35

Science, technology and innovation Leading policy locally, globally There are many public policy issues embedded in science, technology and innovation, and ASU’s School of Public Affairs has a number of faculty and three research centers engaged specifically in these issues.

His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, OECD, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, among others.

Eric W. Welch, professor and director of the Center for Science, Technology & Environmental Policy (CSTEPS) at ASU, is a leading researcher in this area whose work is also having an impact on public policy. Welch’s research on genetic resources has involved him directly in international policy.

Founder of CSTEPS

U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Welch has been an official U.S. Government Delegate to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA) and has attended international conferences in Rome, Norway, Japan, Canada and Columbia on behalf of the United States, as a delegate or observer.

In 2014, Welch and associate professor Mary Feeney moved to ASU and founded the CSTEPS in the School of Public Affairs. CSTEPS is pioneering research in science, technology and innovation involving bioeconomy, policy, digital government, innovation dynamics, R&D evaluation, social and human capital, and transit and mobility. The mission of CSTEPS is to serve as an international focal point fostering interaction among researchers, faculty, practitioners and students to generate ideas and solve problems at the nexus of science, technology and the environment.

Welch’s work addresses questions, for example, of how international rules and laws regulate the access, use and exchange of biological material and genomic data, and the impact these have on scientific collaboration and the flow of resources. The core issue for the future is how to best enable scientific research while also recognizing the rights to access and use of genetic resources and the equitable sharing of benefits with nations that contribute genetic resources, which are often developing countries. The resulting policies should both promote fairness and international research. In 2016, Welch presented findings on global governance structures for genetic resource sharing at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy. One of his current research projects is an interdisciplinary effort to assess the implications of advanced sequencing and synthetic biology for the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). 37

Grants

Authored books

Barry Bozeman. Collaboration, Cosmopolitanism and Scientific and Technical Human Capital: Implications for Women and Underrepresented Minorities. National Science Foundation.

Bozeman, B. and Youtie, J. (Forthcoming). The Strength in Numbers: A New Science of Team Science? Princeton University Press.

Barry Bozeman. Credibility and Use of Scientific and Technical Information in Science Policy Making: An Analysis of the Information Bases of the National Research Collaborative. National Science Foundation.

Book chapters

Stuart Bretschneider. Forecasting the Return Home of Non-US Citizens with US Ph.D.s. National Science Foundation. Elizabeth Corley. Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU. National Science Foundation Christopher Hayter. Empirical Analysis of Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer. Research Triangle Institute. Gyan Nyaupane, co-PIs: Kevin Desouza, Dave White, Kathleen Andereck, Megha Budruk, Christine Buzinde, Christine Vogt. Northstar 2025: Arizona BLM Futuring. Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. Eric Welch. The End of Open Access? The Potential and Emerging Impact of the Changing Institutional Landscape on the Global Exchange of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. IFPRI. Eric Welch. Divseek Governance Research Project. United Nations. Eric Welch. Contested Resource Inputs to Science: How Institutional Provisions on the Access and Use of Materials and Data Affect Research Collaboration Structures and Outcomes. National Science Foundation.

Feeney, Mary K. and Peterson, Abigail. (2016). “Flu Vaccine Case Study.” Cases In Health Services Management. Rakich, Jonathon S., Longest, Jr., Beaufort B., Darr, Kurt (editors). Health Professions Press. Parker, Marla P., Hayter, Christopher S., Lynch, L., Muhammed, R. (2016). “Barriers to Academic Entrepreneurship Among Women: A Review of the Constituent Literatures.” Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity. Link, A.N. (editor). Edgar Elgar. Uebelherr, Joshua, Hondula, David, Johnston, Erik W. (2016). “Using Participatory Modeling to Enable Local Innovation Through Complexity Governance.” Innovation Networks for Regional Development, Economic Complexity and Evolution. Vermeulen, B. and Paier, M. (editors). Springer International Publishing.

Refereed articles Ahn, J.J., Kim, Y. Corley, E.A., Scheufele, D.A. (2016). “Laboratory Safety and Nanotechnology Workers: An Analysis of Current Guidelines.” Nanoethics. Vol. 10. Akin, H., Rose, K.M., Scheufele, D.A., SimsWilkinson, M., Brossard, D., Xenos, M.A., Corley, E.A. (Forthcoming). “Mapping the Landscape of Public Attitudes on Synthetic Biology.” BioScience. Bozeman, B. and Youtie, J. (Forthcoming). “SocioEconomic Impacts and Public Value of GovernmentFunded Research: Lessons From Four US National Science Foundation Initiatives.” Research Policy. Bozeman, B. and Jung, J. (Forthcoming). “Bureaucratization in Research Policy.” Annals of Science and Technology Policy. Bozeman, B., Gaughan, M., Youtie, J., Slade, C. P., Rimes, H. (2016). “Research Collaboration Experiences, Good and Bad: Dispatches from the Front Lines.” Science and Public Policy. Vol. 43(2): pp. 226-244. Bozeman, B. and Youtie, J. (2016). “Trouble in Paradise: Problems in Academic Research CoAuthoring.” Science and engineering ethics. Vol. 22(6): pp. 1717-1743. Cacciatore, M.A., Browning, N. Scheufele, D.A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M.A., Corley, E.A. (2016). “Opposing Ends of the Spectrum: Exploring Trust in Scientific and Religious Authorities.” Public Understanding of Science. Coccia, M. and Bozeman, B. (2016). “Allometric Models to Analyze the Dynamics and Structure of International Research Collaboration.” Scientometrics. Corley, E.A., Kim, Y., Scheufele D.A. (2016). “Scientists’ Ethical Obligations and Social Responsibility for Nanotechnology Research.” Science and Engineering Ethics.

Refereed articles (continued) Gaughan, M. and Bozeman, B. (2016). “Using the Prism of Gender and Rank to Interpret Research Collaboration Power Dynamics.” Social Studies of Science. Pages 536-558. Hayter, C.S. and Feeney, M.K. (Forthcoming). “Determinants of External Patenting Behavior Among University Scientists.” Science and Public Policy. Hayter, C.S. (2016). “A Trajectory of Early-stage Spinoff Success: The Role of Knowledge Intermediaries within an Entrepreneurial University Ecosystem.” Small Business Economics. Vol. 47: pp. 633-656. Hayter, C.S. and Rooksby, J.H. (2016). “A Legal Perspective on University Technology Transfer.” Journal of Technology Transfer. Vol. 41: pp. 270-289. Hayter, C.S. (2016). “Public or Private Entrepreneurship? Revisiting Motivations and Definitions of Success Among Academic Entrepreneurs.” Journal of Technology Transfer. Vol. 40: pp. 1003-1015. Hayter, C.S. (2016). “A Social Responsibility View of the “Patent-Centric Linear Model” of University Technology Transfer.” Duquesne Law Review. Vol. 54(1): pp. 7-52. Hayter, C.S. (2016). “Constraining Entrepreneurial Development: A Knowledge-based View of Social Networks Among Academic Entrepreneurs.” Research Policy. Vol. 45: pp. 475-490. Hayter, C.S.; Lubynsky, R.; Maroulis, S. (Forthcoming). “Who is the Academic Entrepreneur? The Role of Graduate Students in the Development of University Spinoffs.” Journal of Technology Transfer. Kim, K.W., Welch, E.W., Johnson, T. (2016). “Human & Social Capital Determinants of Translational Activity in Medical Sciences.” Science and Public Policy. Kim, Y., Corley, E.A., Scheufele, D.A. (2016). “Nano-scientists and Political Involvement: Which Characteristics Make Scientists More Likely to Support Engagement in Political Debates?.” Science and Public Policy. 40

Parker, M. and Bozeman, B. (2016). “SocioEconomic Impacts and Public Value of GovernmentFunded Research: Lessons From Four US National Science Foundation Initiatives.” Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais. Pages 179-194. Su, X. and Bozeman, B. (2016). “Family Friendly Policies in Stem Departments: Awareness and Determinants.” Research in Higher Education. Vol. 57(8): 990-1009. Su, L.Y., Cacciatore, M.A., Brossard, D., Corley, E.A., Scheufele, D.A., Xenos, M.A. (2016). “Attitudinal Gap: How Experts and Lay Audiences Form Policy Attitudes toward Controversial Science.” Science and Public Policy. Vol. 43: pp. 196-202. Tsai, C., Corley, E.A., Bozeman, B. (2016). “Collaboration Experiences across Scientific Disciplines and Cohors.” Scientometrics. Vol. 108: pp. 505-529. Welch, E.W. and Jha, Y. (2016). “Network and Perceptual Determinants of Satisfaction Among Science and Engineering Faculty in US Research I Universities.” Technology Transfer Journal. Vol. 41(2): pp. 290-328.

West, J.F. and Corley, E.A. (2016). “An Exploration of State Legislator Communication Technology Use and Importance.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Vol. 13: pp. 52-71. Whitford, A. and Anderson, D. (Forthcoming). “Developing Knowledge States: Technology and the enhancement of national statistical capacity.” Review of Policy Research. Yeo, S.K., Cacciatore, M.A., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D.A., Runge, K.K., Su, L.Y.., Kim, J., Xenos, M., Corley, E.A. (2016). “Partisan Amplification of Risk: American Perceptions of Nuclear Energy Risk in the Wake of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.” Energy Policy. Vol. 67: pp. 727-736. Youtie, J., Bozeman, B., Kao, A., Jabbehdari, S. (Forthcoming). “Credibility and Use of Scientific and Technical Information in Policy Making: An Analysis of the Information Bases of the US National Research Council’s Committee Reports.” Research Policy. Youtie, J. and Bozeman, B. (2016). “Dueling Coauthors: How Collaborators Create and Sometimes Solve Contributorship Conflicts.” Minerva. Vol. 54: pp. 375-397. Yuille, M., Georghiou, L., Laredo, P., Feller, I., Welch, E.W. (Forthcoming). “Financial Sustainability of Biobanks: From Theory to Practice.” Biobanking and Biopreservation.

Conference presentations Akin, Heather, Rose, Kathleen M., Scheufele, Dietram, Simis, Molly J., Brossard, Dominique, Xenos, Michael A., Corley, Elizabeth A. (2016). “Public Attitudes on Synthetic Biology: Mapping Landscapes and Processes.” Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Bretschneider, Stuart and Jung, Jiwon. (2016). “Organizational Adoption of Social Media: Role of Intrapreneur and Sector .” Public Management Research Conference. Bretschneider, Stuart and Dai, Yiqun. (2016). “Why Do Foreign Citizens with US Ph.D. Degrees Return Home?.” 21st International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators. Cacciatore, Michael A., Yeo, Sara K., Scheufele, Dietram A., Corley, Elizabeth A., Brossard, Dominique, Xenos, Michael A. (2016). “Framing, Priming and Recency Effects in Risk Communication: Exploring Opinion Formation of “Post-Normal” Science.” Annual Convention of the Society for Risk Analysis. Cacciatore, Michael A., Browning, N., Scheufele, Dietram A., Brossard, Dominique, Xenos, Michael A., Corley, Elizabeth A. (2016). “Opposing Ends of the Spectrum: Predicting Trust in Scientific and Religious Authorities.” Annual Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Fusi, Federica, Welch, Eric W., Louafi, Selim. (2016). “Designing Social Capital in Virtual Open Systems in Science.” Science of Team Science Conference. Liang, Xuan, Su, Leona Y., Yeo, Sara K., Scheufele, Dietram A., Brossard, Dominique, Xenos, Michael, Nealey, Paul, Corley, Elizabeth A. (2016). “Building Buzz: (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments.” Annual Convention of The International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology. Taggart, Gabel, Feeney, Mary K., Siciliano, Michael, Welch, Eric W. (2016). “Avoidance, Compliance, and Social Networks: How Scientists Navigate Policy Regulations.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference. 41

Social and education policy The plan to prevent Arizona child neglect Child neglect is less visible than child abuse. But it’s a similarly dangerous type of child maltreatment in that the resulting negative outcomes too often last a lifetime. About 70 percent of all reports made to the Department of Child Safety hotline concern neglect. Nearly 80 percent of the cases in which Arizona children are removed from their home cite neglect as one of the reasons. There are about 18,000 children in Arizona presently in foster care. That’s why the Arizona Department of Child Safety has begun a multi-year project with Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University to gather and analyze data on child neglect. This novel project is being funded by the Arizona Community Foundation. What we learn will be presented to legislators, state agency officials, court and law enforcement personnel, child advocates, business leaders and others during leadership forum quarterly meetings to develop Arizona-specific policies to enhance prevention strategies and combat neglect. Morrison Institute’s emphasis on prevention arises from expressions of interest from the Governor’s Office, the Legislature, DCS and child advocates. It’s also based on the recognition – widely shared among social-service providers – that prevention efforts are nearly always more effective and less expensive than reactive policymaking. Morrison Institute will independently evaluate prevention programs to identify proven and innovative approaches, and work with DCS and other human service agencies to develop public policy options for effective strategies.

In order to address neglect effectively, we must consider the conditions present within the family and the community. Many factors play a role, including adult behavior, child functioning and the environment. Ultimately, the impact on the child needs to be at the forefront of assessments and interventions. An additional challenge in child-welfare cases is poverty. Neglect is highly correlated with poverty. Caseworkers and researchers must ask: Is a child not eating enough because the parent is negligent, or because the family doesn’t have enough money to buy food? This effort between DCS and Morrison Institute seeks to ensure that interventions that target neglect are sensitive to family traditions, cultural values and challenges in families experiencing poverty. The upcoming research should identify and address the different types of neglect present in the state, which agencies – be they public, private, non-profit or faithbased – can best provide which services, and address ways to broaden and intensify efforts at primary and secondary prevention. Gregory McKay is director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety and Thom Reilly is director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. (The full op-ed article originally appeared in The Arizona Republic Sunday Viewpoints section on Dec. 18, 2016)

ASU’s Global Development Research Scholar for the United States Agency for International Development

Higher Education in Colombia

The University of Cartagena, Colombia uses a needs-based research model to examine key areas of concern in Cartagena, Colombia. Through a partnership between ASU and USAID’s Global Development Lab and with the support of professor Yushim Kim, David Schlinkert conducted a research fellowship with the University of Cartagena from June through December of last year. This project analyzed the ability of Colombia’s health systems to respond to the mental health needs of students that were previously displaced during Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The goal of the research was to find trends that could help school administrators reduce high dropout rates amongst previously displaced students. Key findings on childhood insurance rates, availability of resources by school location, and successful school models were presented to university staff, community members, government officials, and future scholars.

Christopher Hayter, assistant professor at the ASU School of Public Affairs, has been working with the Colombian Observatory for Science and Technology (a government agency) to study the scientific and educational needs of remote regions of Colombia following an historic peace agreement with armed insurgent groups. The goal of the study is to understand the policy and cultural context of these regions and design research-oriented higher education institutions that will best fit their development needs. The project focuses on creating public-private, university-based partnerships to help solve problems in education, agriculture, and economic development. Hayter is currently working on a large-scale proposal to international development agencies to support this work. Hayter is affiliated with Center for Organizational Research and Design. Prior to joining ASU, he spent 15 years managing complex science and entrepreneurship policy projects with organizations such as the New York Academy of Sciences, Council on Competitiveness, and National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.

Grant Chris Herbst (PI). (2016). The Demand For Teacher Characteristics In The Child Care Labor Market. ASU Foundation. Book chapter Kupchik, A, & Catlaw, T. J. (2016). “Discipline, Disadvantage, and Participation: The Long-Term Effects of Suspension on the Political and Civic Engagement of Youth.” The Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment. Kupchik, A. (editor). University of California Press. Refereed articles Campbell, T., Goodrich, R., Lukensmeyer, C., Schugurensky, D. (2016). “Promoting Inclusion, Equity and Deliberation in a National Dialogue on Mental Health.” Journal of Public Deliberation. Vol. 12(2). Freidman, R., Bruening, M., Lopez, S., Lucio, J. (2016). “Mindful Eating Among Parents and Adolescents in Public Housing.” Mindfulness. Guldi, M. and Herbst, C.M. (Forthcoming). “Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teenage Fertility Decisions.” Journal of Population Economics. Herbst. C.M. (Forthcoming). “Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence from Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Kim, Y. and Maroulis, S. (Forthcoming). “Rethinking Social Welfare Fraud: Emergence, Adaptation, and Dynamics.” Administration & Society. Lucio, J., Peck, L., Jefferson, A. (2016). “Dreaming the Impossible Dream.” Journal of Poverty. Vol. 20(4).

Invited commentary Reilly, Thom. (2016). “Viewpoints: The Plan to Prevent Arizona Child Neglect.” Arizona Republic. Conference presentations Herbst, Chris M. (2016). “Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, Families’ Child Care Choices, and the Supply of Child Care Labor.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference. Jabbar, Huriya, Maroulis, Spiro, Sanchez, J. Germain, E. (2016). “School Competition and Geography in New Orleans.” Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Methods, econometrics and data management NASPAA Student Competition at ASU

Feeding the world by 2030

For the second year in a row, the ASU School of Public Affairs has been honored to host the NASPAA Student Simulation Competition. The 2016 competition challenged students to develop a feasible plan to limit the effects of climate change. The 2017 competition was focused on creating policy to support United Nations efforts regarding food security.

This year’s topic focused on the food security and the global effort to create policy measures that address the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2, which is to end hunger, improve nutrition, achieve food security and promote sustainable agriculture by the year 2030.

The day-long event was held downtown in the UCENT building. Approximately 40 graduate students in NASPAA accredited MPA/MPP programs traveled to Phoenix for the Southwestern Regional competition. The School and College promote the use of simulations for education, research and policymaking, with faculty who are active in ASU’s Decision Making for a Desert City, Decision Theater, and Center for Policy Informatics. Associate professor Yushim Kim and assistant professor Spiro Maroulis use simulations in the classroom, and for their own research; along with associate director Shawn Novak and research professor Elisa Bienenstock, they participated in the NASPAA Competitions. Forging a partnership to fight hunger Two of the most pressing issues for the United Nations (UN) are hunger and food security. The UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) has teamed up with the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) to promote the NASPAA-Batten Student Competition 2017 in support of the goal to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.”

Through the simulation competition, graduate students were tasked to assume the roles of Food Security experts to address the complex and critical aspects associated with malnutrition, food security and hunger. The students presented their proposals to judges who are experts in the field.

CORD releases data from the latest National Administrative Studies Project (NASP-Citizen) The NASP-Citizen project used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform to ask questions on a range of themes to a diverse group of United States citizens. Data was released to CORD affiliates and will be available to everyone in about a year. If previous NASP projects are any indication, CORD expects that use of these data will be quite productive. Other versions of NASP have led to dozens of publications in major journals. cord.asu.edu/data-sharing

This event was hosted by eight universities around the world, with five in the US, and the remaining three in China, the Netherlands and Columbia. The goal of the simulation based student competition event was to come up with concrete solutions and actionable policy proposals.

Five students from Seoul National University (SNU) are at ASU in 2016-17 earning a Master of Public Policy (MPP). They are the first ASU cohort in a 1+1 program with SNU, where students study one year in each institution and earn both a Master of Public Administration from SNU and an MPP from ASU. Seoul National University has an outstanding program in public administration, and ASU is one of only several leading US universities with a collaborative agreement with SNU. All 5 students participating this year are government employees in Korea. Sungwon Joe has worked in the National Emergency Management Agency. He is at ASU because “I knew the program was well-designed for career public service officials. For the development of my future career as expected in public safety and security, it was essential for me to enhance my understanding of this public policy area.”

Grant

Conference presentations

Ethan Kapstein (PI). (2016). World Bank Data Analytic Project. University of Washington.

Catlaw, Thomas J. (2016). “Communicating Research to Unfamiliar Audiences.” 29th Annual International Conference of the Public Administration Theory Network.

Book chapter Catlaw, Thomas J. (2016). “21st century PAT-Net and Administrative Theory & Praxis: Speculations on the Coming PA Theory Community.” Interdisciplinary perspectives on public affairs and qualitative research. Oh, S. (editor). Korea: Association for Linguistic Perspectives and Qualitative Research.

Kim, Yushim. (2016). “Education through Simulation: Assessing the NASPAA Student Simulation Competition Cases.” NASPAA Annual Conference.

Refereed articles

Welch, Eric W., Feeney, Mary K., Siciliano. (2016). “Using Network Analysis to Evaluate Team Science.” Science of Team Science (SciTS) 2016 Conference.

Eckerd, A., Kim, Y., Campbell, H. (Forthcoming). “Community Privilege and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Analysis.” Review of Policy Research. Stritch, J.M., Pedersen, M.J., Taggart, G.C. (Forthcoming). “Examining the Opportunities and Limitations for Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in Public Management Scholarship.” International Public Management Journal. 48

Swindell, David. (2016). “Transforming Research and Analysis to Action: Engagement Across the Academic and Policy Divide.” APPAM Fall Research Conference.

Students and alumni Public affairs class tackles disability access First Friday attracts thousands of people to Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix each month. Many people come for the art, atmosphere, music and food. ASU students Morgan Maxwell and Omar Smailbegovic came for a different reason. They wanted to see what the monthly event is like for people with disabilities. What they and their classmates discovered was presented to the Phoenix Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues along with recommendations on how to make the area, and the event, more accessible for people with physical and invisible disabilities. Eye-catching art and eclectic crowds are the big draw of First Friday, which as the name indicates, is held on the first Friday evening of every month along Roosevelt Street in downtown Phoenix. Lines of people stretch from Seventh Street on the east to Third Avenue on the west and along side streets populated by art galleries, boutique shops, restaurants and bars. Food trucks and vendors selling arts and crafts set up on a vacant lot. Musicians and street performers can be found throughout the more than half-mile stretch of Roosevelt Street. Maxwell and Smailbegovic walked along Roosevelt and its side streets during two First Fridays this year. With classmates from an ASU urban governance class, they wanted to experience the event from a perspective neither had given much thought about-that of someone with a disability.

wheelchairs. Disability street parking was non-existent. People spilled off sidewalks, often stepping into the street because of the volume of pedestrians. Crumbling concrete and uneven surfaces posed hazards for those walking on empty lots used by vendors. Poor lighting in some areas exacerbated the problem. Maxwell, Smailbegovic and their classmates prepared a 12-page report for the Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues and later presented their findings and recommendations at a meeting of the commission.

“This project helped all of us because it was getting into the community and putting yourself in someone else’s shoes,” says Maxwell, an urban and metropolitan studies major. “Most all of us don’t have a disability, so it made us think from a different perspective and that is very important.

‘The significance of closing Roosevelt is to lessen crowding, broadening the street and improving access to vendors.” Maxwell says. “On Second Avenue and Roosevelt, the ground is uneven, inconsistent concrete so it’s even hard for someone without a physical or invisible disability to access in general. This will prevent accidents and less crowding.”

“Because if you are working in an urban atmosphere you will come across that. Not all of us are the same, obviously, so it’s good to see what other people’s needs are.”

Recommendations also included closing the street to traffic, widening sidewalks and improving lighting.

What they found surprised them. Many of the older homes converted into shops and galleries lacked ramps that made them accessible for people in

“I think they hit the issues spot on,” says Larry Wanger who serves on the Phoenix Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues. “I was really pleased with what they came back with.” 51

Wanger, who is visually impaired, lives in the Roosevelt Row neighborhood. He recalls Roosevelt Street being closed during First Friday years ago and suggests the recommendations would benefit everyone attending the event.

“It was exciting to have produced something tangible,” says student Omar Smailbegovic who majors in public service and public policy. “We appreciated the response from the commission and hope the report can improve conditions on Roosevelt Row.”

“Improving access with wider sidewalks, smoother sidewalks or better lighting or closing Roosevelt so that it is safer for pedestrian traffic—these are all great things for folks who have disabilities—but it’s also great for the larger community,” says Wanger.

Smailbegovic also appreciates having the opportunity to work on real world issues outside of the classroom.

One proposal students suggested to the commission caught Wanger for its boldness. Since First Friday focuses on art, students found that some people with disabilities may not be able to fully enjoy all that is offered. They recommended that in addition to booking musical acts, organizers consider having dance and dramatic performances that could be enjoyed by people who are hearing impaired. Students also suggested that galleries and artists showcasing their work include tactile pieces that can be enjoyed by people who are visually impaired and have volunteer curators on hand to describe the art to those who can’t see it. “I am intrigued by some of the suggestions for increasing access to art itself,” says Wanger. Geoffrey Gonsher, who teaches the urban governance class, says the disability community is much larger than people may think as it includes people with invisible disabilities such as mental illness, ADD and anxiety issues. “Anxiety issues would be concern because there are thousands of people at First Friday, so there should be a sensitivity to those kind of issues,” says Gonsher. “I think the biggest thing is the students took hold of this project and took the initiative to do the work with minimal prodding,” Gonsher says. “They came up with the same kind of options—that if we had sent out some city engineers-—we might have seen some of those options emerge from the discussion.” Those options were forwarded to the mayor’s office following the presentation to the Phoenix Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues.

“I think it’s really cool that ASU is committed to having an impact on the community and to bring together students and other people affiliated with ASU,” Smailbegovic says. “I’m proud to go to a university that does that. I grew up here, so I’m proud that this is happening here in my community.” The experience doing the research, analysis and presentation will be beneficial to Smailbegovic and his classmates like Morgan Maxwell. “What we are doing, essentially, is real work,” notes Maxwell. “We’re doing something for the commission and the mayor that is very important. It gives us insight into the kind of work we can be doing later on.”

ASU student wins award for paper honoring heritage

ability we have to be a leader,” Newmark said. “These stories are critical for women like myself and our youth.”

Mahalia Newmark says the strong women in her life inspired a paper that won the Vine Deloria Jr. Student Paper Competition at the Western Social Sciences Association Conference in April.

“I feel really inspired to share these stories because it shows the strength of Dene people and the heritage that I come from. We Native people have a lot to offer in terms of our own history, and knowledge systems.”

Newmark, who was pursuing a master’s in public administration, is a citizen of the Tulita Dene First Nations in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Her paper, “Reclaiming Dene Womanhood in Our Stories,” explores the ways in which Dene womanhood can be reclaimed, as an act of decolonization, by remembering our stories.

Newmark, who graduated in 2016, plans to pursue a career in Indigenous education. Her goal is to write more on the subject and possibly pursue a doctoral degree.

The research started a year ago, when she began looking at leadership roles that Dene women take on. Newmark found there was a lack of Dene women in politics and governance. In an effort to understand why Dene women were missing in these arenas, she began to see how the lives of Dene women, and the traditional concept of Dene womanhood, had been negatively impacted by Canadian colonization. As a result, the stories of Dene women have been diminished and silenced.

“Our successes are never alone. I never thought I would get a master’s degree; it was always kind of a dream. Now I realize that I need to dream bigger,” she said. In the meantime, she has been accepted in the competitive Hatfield Resident Fellowship program at Portland State University, working with the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. She says the agency’s focus on outreach to American Indian communities in Oregon is appealing.

Traditional Dene women were leaders in their communities; by reclaiming the stories of Dene women, Newmark seeks to reclaim Dene women’s capacity for leadership. So, she turned to family, and the story of her great-grandmother kept coming up. “My small granny, Harriet Gladue, was very loving and kind. She was also a midwife for 50 years, taking the dog team into the bush to help women give birth,” she said. “Even when the town built a health-care center, people would still come to her to have their children delivered.” She says that women were also empowered in their relationships. Her great-grandfather, Chief Albert Wright, considered the first chief of the community, had gone to residential/boarding school and knew English. He helped the community understand proposed treaties. Ultimately after his death, Newmark’s small granny would sign the treaty on his behalf. “By remembering the stories of Dene women and Dene people through our own distinct Indigenous point of view, we remember the inherent strength and

Alumna honored with NASPAA Public Service Matters Spotlight award Brooke Wheeler (‘16) was an intern with the Maricopa County Treasurer’s Office as part of the Maricopa County Leadership and Education Advancing Public Service program where she designed and implemented a records management program that resulted in a savings of $467,000, and an estimated $67,000 per year on a continuing basis. In 2016 she was honored with the NASPAA Public Service Matters Spotlight award for her work. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions toward solving public sector problems. Wheeler is now a policy analyst for the Bureau of Land Management. 53

Dissertations Zoram Kaul Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Young Adultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Insurance, Employment, and Education: A Three Essay Dissertation Jeong Joo Ahn Welcoming City Initiative for Urban Economic Development: The Cases of Four U.S. Welcoming Cities Chin-Chang Tsai Evaluating Public Value Failure in the Nonprofit Context: An Interpretive Case Study of Food Banking in the U.S.

2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2017 student awards National awards Muhamad Azfar Nisar 2016 Best Dissertation Award for Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management, Dissertation: Managing the Margins: Intersections of the State and the Khawaja Sira in Lahore, Pakistan Clinton Reiswig Boren Fellowship to study in Amman, Jordan Xuefan Zhang Ralph P. Hummel Doctoral Scholarship Award, Public Administration Theory Network (PATNET)

Ph.D. student awards Gabel Taggart Outstanding Doctoral Student Sang Eun Lee Outstanding Instruction by a Doctoral Student Xuefan Zhang Best Paper by a Doctoral Student Masters student awards Bennet Dwosh MPA/MPP Outstanding Scholar-Citizen Award Elizabeth Kuttner MPA/MPP Outstanding Scholar-Citizen Award Undergraduate student awards Jazmin Lombera Outstanding Undergraduate Student Cassie Johnson Outstanding Undergraduate Student 55

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