Public Affairs and Administration Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Vouchers and Neighborhood Distress: The Unrealized Potential for Families with Housing Choice Vouchers to Reside in Neighborhoods with Low Levels of Distress
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2016)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program seeks to help poor households locate in high-opportunity neighborhoods, but experts have reached little agreement on how to define high opportunity. Using low poverty as the sole ... -
Length of Stay in Assisted Housing
(Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2018)This research addresses the length of time that households remain in the various assisted housing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The research finds that the typical household ... -
Understanding leadership in a world of shared problems: advancing network governance in large landscape conservation
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-04-04)Conservation of large landscapes requires three interconnected types of leadership: collaborative leadership, in which network members share leadership functions at different points in time; distributive leadership, in ... -
Farmers and Rural Kansas Communities: Planning for the Future
(Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, 2014)Rural communities everywhere face ongoing questions about their resilience and plans for their futures. This study analyzes the perceptions Kansas farmers have of their communities as a basis for considering how rural ... -
Assessing the Relationship Between Hazard Mitigation Plan Quality and Rural Status in a Cohort of 57 Counties from 3 States in the Southeastern U.S.
(MDPI, 2012-09)Rural counties face unique challenges with regard to disaster vulnerability and resilience. We compared the quality of hazard mitigation plans (HMPs) completed in accordance with provisions of the Disaster Mitigation Act ... -
Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Performance Budgeting Theory and Practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-02)Since the passing of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, the past 20 years represent one of the most remarkable eras for performance budgeting initiatives in the United States. As a result, many ... -
On the Importance of Strengthening Moderate Beliefs in Climate Science to Foster Support for Immediate Action
(MDPI, 2013-12-03)Whereas many studies focus on climate skeptics to explain the lack of support for immediate action on climate change, this research examines the effect of moderate believers in climate science. Using data from a representative ... -
Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication
(Michigan Publishing, 2000-03-01)As the decade of the 1990s drew to a close, the basic issues related to the economics of scholarly publishing became familiar to most academic librarians, particularly those involved in collection development. A constantly ... -
School Finance Reform: Do Equalized Expenditures Imply Equalized Teacher Salaries?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011-10-01)Kentucky is a poor, relatively rural state that contrasts greatly with the relatively urban and wealthy states typically the subject of education studies employing large-scale administrative data. For this reason, Kentucky's ... -
Public Personnel Update
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Applying the logic of sample surveys to qualitative case studies: The case cluster method
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Out of the Rubble and Towards a Sustainable Future: The “Greening” of Greensburg, Kansas
(MDPI AG, 2010-07-20)Following a devastating tornado there in 2007, the tiny city of Greensburg, Kansas has engaged in a sustainability-oriented recovery process through which it hopes to serve as a model for other communities planning for a ... -
Sustainability, Ethics, and Aesthetics
(Common Ground Publishing, 2013)Among four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural), it is the latter aspect that is least examined by scholars. However, understanding how culture contributes to the long term sustainability ... -
Planting Food or Fuel: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Role of Culture in Farmers’ Decisions to Grow Second-Generation Biofuel Feedstock Crops
(Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, 2009-12)Recent interest in biofuels as an alternative energy source has spurred considerable changes in agricultural practice worldwide. These changes will be more pronounced as second-generation biofuels, such as switch grass, ... -
Recommendations for Sustaining Sustainability Initiatives in City Government
(2012-08-15)The report analyzes four U.S. cities' financial conditions and then compares and contrasts their sustainability initiatives and financing mechanisms. Based on the analysis, the report provides recommendations for other ... -
Citizen Engagement: Analysis of Johnson County Budget Simulator
(2012-08-15)The report discusses the importance of citizen engagement in local budgeting and uses the budget simulator exercise of Johnson County as a case study to evaluate the benefits and challenges of the tool. The report concludes ... -
Characteristics of Politics and Administration
(2011)This chart distinguishes the logic of politics from the logic of administration and shows the need for "translators."