Public Affairs and Administration, School of: Recent submissions
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Fire Station Gardens and Food Donation: Building and scaling community resilience
(2023-08-25)This brief paper presents the unique idea of firefighters growing gardens at local fire stations and then distributing much of the produce to local food banks to help address food insecurity in local communities. The central ... -
The networked micro-decision context: A new lens on transformative urban governance
(BMC, 2023-04-12)Recent large-scale societal disruptions, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intensifying wildfires and weather events, reveal the importance of transforming governance systems so they can address complex, transboundary, and ... -
Engagement in water governance action situations in the Lake Champlain Basin
(Public Library of Science, 2023-03-16)Water quality governance encompasses multiple “wicked” interacting problems that manifest within social-ecological systems. Concerned governments, institutions, and actors concerned with addressing these issues must wrestle ... -
Engagement in water governance action situations in the Lake Champlain Basin
(Public Library of Science, 2023-03-16)Water quality governance encompasses multiple “wicked” interacting problems that manifest within social-ecological systems. Concerned governments, institutions, and actors concerned with addressing these issues must wrestle ... -
Advancing biomedical science through investments in elite training
(Public Library of Science, 2023-02-02)How can governments invest in the public good of science in a way that accelerates advancement and encourages innovation at the frontier of science–all the while acknowledging that investing in science means investing in ... -
Assessing strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making and risk in a livestock production chain through experimental simulation platforms
(Frontiers Media, 2022-10-20)This paper provides a research summary of a series of serious games and simulations that form the basis of an experimental platform for the study of human decision-making and behavior associated with biosecurity across ... -
The Relationship Between Social Integration and Physical Activity, Diet, and Sleep Among Youths: Cross-sectional Survey Study
(JMIR Publications, 2022-06-16)Background: Social integration has been shown to predict physical activity (PA), diet, and sleep in adults. However, these associations have not been well-studied in youth samples. Using a life course perspective, it is ... -
Exploring the Nexus of Energy Burden, Social Capital, and Environmental Quality in Shaping Health in US Counties
(MDPI, 2021-01-13)The United States spends more on health care than any other OECD country, yet the nation’s health is declining. Recent research has identified multiple sources for this decline, including one’s position in social and ... -
Building Community Resilience: A Proactive, Measurable, Scalable, and Comprehensive Resilience Planning and Forecasting Model
(University of Kansas, 2021-11-30)Historically, community resilience planning has been disaster-focused, reactive, and left little room to build increased sustainability to face exponentially increasing climate change impacts. Defining sustainability and ... -
Street-Level Judgments: How the Role of Judges Influences the Decision to Collaborate in Juvenile Courts
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The use of problem-solving collaborations, much like in other areas of public management, is widespread in the United States juvenile court system. These problem-solving collaborations include, but are not limited to, ... -
The Influence of Business Interest Groups in Urban Policymaking: An Empirical Exploration of a Low Salience Policy Setting
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The lack of a national comprehensive climate change policy in the United States has prompted cities to take the lead on urban sustainability actions. Extent research has explored various political, socio-economic and ... -
Iraq’s tough governance setting: Examining the importance of self-sacrifice over institutions to public service motivation
(Intellect, 2019-09-01)Public service motivation (PSM) is understudied within ‘tough governance settings’ such Iraq’s, as it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy amidst civil unrest. Debates surrounding a universal construct of PSM currently ... -
Beyond Adoption: The Influence of Local Institutional Arrangements on Sustainability Policy Implementation and Management
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)As we are more than a decade into describing and understanding local sustainability as a major phenomenon, local governments now face new challenges as they begin moving from commitment (i.e. stage of adopting sustainability ... -
Pumping the Brakes on Robot Cars: Current Urban Traveler Willingness to Consider Driverless Vehicles
(MDPI, 2019-09-15)A growing literature suggests that widespread travel conducted through driverless connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) accessed as a service, in contrast to those personally owned, could have significant impacts on ... -
Who Cares? Arnstein’s Ladder, the Emotional Paradox of Public Engagement, and (Re)imagining Planning as Caring
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-27)Problem, research strategy, and findings: What should planners do when members of the public “care loudly” at them? Planning scholars have recently called for more attention to the emotional dimensions of our profession. ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of For-Profit Colleges
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation consists of three studies regarding the growing role of for-profit colleges and universities in the United States. Analyzing the behaviors of these institutions through a microeconomic lens, I investigate ... -
Planners as leaders: finding their comfort zone
(Emerald, 2018-05-16)Purpose: Planners are expected to leave leadership to elected officials. Yet, they are often asked to do more. Should planners lead? The purpose of this paper is to examine how leadership is seen in the profession and then ... -
All plug-in electric vehicles are not the same: Predictors of preference for a plug-in hybrid versus a battery-electric vehicle
(Elsevier, 2018-12)This study analyzes data from a survey of drivers (n = 1080) administered in late 2013 to assess factors that influence potential car buyers to consider two different types of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the United ... -
Bystander No More? Improving the Federal Response to Sexual Violence in Indian Country
(University of Utah, 2017)For better or worse, the federal government has taken responsibility for providing for the protection of Native people. So long as the federal government refuses to allow tribes to govern themselves completely and ... -
The Twin Mandates Given to the GSEs: Which Works Best, Helping Low-Income Homebuyers or Helping Underserved Areas?
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2001)This research examines the twin mandates of the GSE Act of 1992: to direct mortgage credit to neighborhoods that have been underserved by mortgage lenders and to direct mortgage credit to low-income and minority households. ...