Research Panels
Known commonly at our conference as concurrent panels, these panels
are all peer-reviewed panels that have been accepted for presentation.
The below is a small but critical sample of the more than 200 panels
that were originally planned for our 2020 event.
Examining the Evolving Role of Gender in Established Governance Structures
Moderator
Patricia Shields
Professor, Texas State University
Presenters
John Bartle
Dean and Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Paper: Gender Budgeting: An International Perspective
Nandhini Rangarajan
Associate Professor, Texas State University
Paper: A Review of Scholarship on Gender and Public Personnel Administration from 2008-2018
Marilyn Rubin
Distinguished Research Associate, Rutgers University
Paper: Gender Budgeting: An International Perspective
Ashley Wayman
City Secretary, City of Rollingwood, Texas
Paper: Empowering Women in City Management: Career Aspirations of Mid-Level Women in Texas City Management
Coauthors
Nadia Mahallati
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Utah
Paper: Gender in State Government: The Utah Experience
Sharon Mastracci
Professor, University of Utah
Paper: Gender in State Government: The Utah Experience
Sherri Mora
Associate Chair, Texas State University
Paper: Empowering Women in City Management: Career Aspirations of Mid-Level Women in Texas City Management
Current Structural Challenges to the American System of Government
Moderator/Presenter
Maren Trochmann
Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Paper: Integrating the Three Approaches: Federal Rulemaking as an Illustration of Public Administration Theory
Presenters
Ernita Joaquin
Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
Paper: Decline, Decay and Resilience: A Framework for Understanding Administrative Capacity
Alasdair Roberts
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper: Should We Defend the Administrative State?
Presenter/Coauthor
Thomas Greitens
Professor, Central Michigan University
Paper: Decline, Decay and Resilience: A Framework for Understanding Administrative Capacity
Government Innovations in Technologies, Sustainability and Governance
Moderator/Coauthor
Yu-Che Chen
Professor and Director, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Paper: Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Compliance: The Case of Recreational Use of Drones
Presenters/Coauthors
Marc Holzer
Distinguished Professor, Suffolk University
Paper: Digital Governance in Cities around the World
Veronica Junjan
Assistant Professor, University of Twente
Paper: Technology Investments in Local Governments: What Do Dutch Local Governments Do?
Aroon Manoharan
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Paper: Digital Governance in Cities around the World
James Melitski
Professor of Public Administration, Marist College
Paper: Digital Governance in Cities around the World
Kelly Stevens
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
Paper: Renewable Policies and Innovation of Complementary Energy Technology
Coauthors
Kelsey Edmond
Student, University of Massachusetts Boston
Paper: Digital Governance in Cities around the World
Chenyu Huang
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska @ Omaha
Paper: Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Compliance: The Case of Recreational Use of Drones
Amir Rouhollahi
Doctoral Candidate, University of Central Florida
Paper: Renewable Policies and Innovation of Complementary Energy Technology
Presenter/Coauthor
Rene Torenvlied
Professor, University of Twente
Paper: Technology Investments in Local Governments: What Do Dutch Local Governments Do?
May the Best Man Win? Inequity Drivers in Healthcare Policies and Practices
Moderator/Coauthor
Hillary Knepper
Associate Professor and Chair, Pace University
Paper: May the Best Man Win? Inequity Drivers in Healthcare Policies and Practices
Presenter
Tiffany Henley
Assistant Professor, Pace University
Paper: How Do State Innovation and Diffusion Factors Affect State Decisions On Medicaid Expansion? A State Comparative Analysis
Presenters/Coauthors
Patria de Lancer Julnes
Associate Dean of Academic Progams, Baruch College
Paper: Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff: The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Disparities in Outcomes among Vulnerable Medicare Heart Failure Patients in Pennsylvania
YoungJoo Park
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
Paper: Is There a Doctor in the House? Predicting U.S. Hospital Closures with Fiscal Indicators
Alonso Rubin-DeSimone
Administrative Supervisor, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Paper: Coverage Needs of Transgender and Non-Binary Patients in State Medicaid Programs: Recommendations for a More Equitable Approach
Coauthors
Sungwoog Choi
Assistant Professor, Penn State Harrisburg
Paper: Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff: The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Disparities in Outcomes among Vulnerable Medicare Heart Failure Patients in Pennsylvania
Andrew Crosby
Assistant Professor, Pace University
Paper: Survival of the Fittest? Preparing Healthcare Administrators for Contemporary Health System Mergers
Nicole Elias
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Paper: Coverage Needs of Transgender and Non-Binary Patients in State Medicaid Programs: Recommendations for a More Equitable Approach
Cassandra Henson
Assistant Professor, Towson University
Paper: Survival of the Fittest? Preparing Health Care Administrators for Contemporary Health System Mergers
Robin Kempf
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Paper: Coverage Needs of Transgender and Non-Binary Patients in State Medicaid Programs: Recommendations for a More Equitable Approach
Helisse Levine
Professor and MPA Director, Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus
Paper: Is There a Doctor in the House? Predicting U.S. Hospital Closures with Fiscal Indicators
The Role of Strategic Procurement in Improving Agency Effectiveness
Moderator
Mohamad Alkadry
Professor, University of Connecticut
Presenters
Robert Shick
Adjunct Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Paper: Human Services Contracting
Jie Tao
PhD Candidate, University of North Texas
Paper: Cooperative Public Purchasing of Smart Technologies: An Institutional Collective Action Perspective
Presenter/Coauthor
Ana-Maria Dimand
Ph.D. Candidate, Florida International University
Paper: Social Capital, Political Values or Organizational Capacity? Indicators of Engagement in Sustainable Procurement at the Local Level
Coauthor
Sawsan Abutabenjeh
Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
Paper: From a Self- Determination Theory Perspective: Certification in Public Procurement and Contract Management
Alexandru Roman
Professor and RIPMG Director, California State University, San Bernardino
Paper: Benchmarks and Benchmarking in Public Procurement: A Survey
Evelyn Trammell
Doctoral Student, Florida International University
Paper: Social Capital, Political Values or Organizational Capacity? Indicators of Engagement in Sustainable Procurement at the Local Level
Infrastructure Investment: The Importance of Capital Planning, Performance Management Tools and Readiness Criteria
Moderator
Curtis Marshall
Director, Center for Accountability and Performance
Presenters
William Glasgall
Senior Vice President and Director, State and Local Initiatives, The Volcker Alliance
Marc Pfeiffer
Assistant Director, Bloustein Local Government Research Center, Rutgers University
Zhirong Zhao
Professor, Director, Institute for Urban and Regional Infrastructure Finance, University of Minnesota
Emerging Best Practices in Performance Management: Lessons from Leaders
Moderator
Michael Jacobson
Deputy Director, King County Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
Discussant
John Kamensky
Senior Fellow, The IBM Center for The Business of Government
Presenters
Kate May
Chief Performance Officer, City of Rochester
Carmen Moreno-Rivera
Chief of Performance Improvement, Louisville Metro Government
Adrienne Schomeker
Director of Civic Engagement and Strategyi, Mayor's Office of Data Analytics, New York City
Achieving Diversity in Public Safety Hiring
Moderator/Presenter
David Morris
President and CEO, Morris & McDaniel, Inc.
Paper: Multi-Metric Entry Level Public Safety Selection
Presenters
Michael Gregory
Chief of Police, Boynton Beach Police Department
Paper: Achieving Diversity Using Multi-Metric Entry Level Police Selection Process in Boynton Beach, Florida
Alexander Hamilton
Assistant Fire Chief, Oxnard Fire Department
Paper: Achieving Diversity Using Multi-Metric Entry Level Fire Selection Process in Oxnard, California
Bob Nicks
Battalion Chief and President of Austin Firefighters Association, Austin Fire Department
Paper: Achieving Diversity Successfully Ends Consent Decree for Austin Fire Department
Visions for Gender Equity and Equality: History Informing Current Practice in the Public Sector
Moderator/Presenter
Patricia Shields
Professor, Texas State University
Paper: The U.S. Sanitary Commission: Recovering Women's Leadership, Management and Compassion During the Civil War
Presenters
Sean McCandless
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Springfield
Paper: #MeToo: Public Administration Responsibility at the Local Level
Shilpa Viswanath
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin—La Crosse
Paper: The Role of Gender in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
Presenter/Coauthor
Michelle Evans
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Paper: Gender in the 21st Century Nonprofit Administration
On the Front Line of Change: Perspectives on Leadership in Practice
Moderator/Discussant
Kevin Campbell
Instructor, Portland State University
Presenters
Jeannine Beatrice
Deputy Director, Oregon Employment Department
Paper: Valued Leadereship Development in the State Agencies of the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority
Jeff Stell
Incentives Project Coordinator, Business Oregon
No More An Afterthought: How the Public Sector Can Help Communities by Increasing Exports
Graham Trainor
President, Oregon AFL-CIO
Paper: Future of Work(ers): Dissecting the Tech-Driven Trends in Our Economy, Analyzing Their Impacts on Workers and Charting a Path for Oregon-Specific Responses
Karen Williams
Policy Analyst and Air Quality Planner, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Paper: Who Leads in Oregon's Climate Policy Network
Innovative Pathways to Public Service: Promoting Public-Sector Careers through a Regional Collaborative
Presenters
Juliet Lee
Director, Administration and External Relations, University of Southern California
Randi Kay Stephens
Associate Program Manager, Institute for Local Government
Accountability, Transparency and Performance Management in Public Management and Collaborative Governance Networks
Convener/Moderator/Coauthor
Bing Ran
Associate Professor, Penn State Harrisburg
Paper: Paradoxes of Governance Accountability in Public Administration & Understanding the Paradoxical Nature of Transparency
and
Understanding the Paradoxical Nature of Transparency
Discussant
Aleksey Kolpakov
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada—Reno
Presenter/Coauthor
Olumide Adeoye
PhD Student, Penn State Harrisburg
Paper: Understanding the Paradoxical Nature of Transparency
Alejandra Medina
PhD Student, University of Illinois - Chicago
Paper: Understanding the Effects of Networks on Performance: Lessons from Twenty Years of Empirical Research
Saahir Shafi
Doctoral Candidate, Penn State Harrisburg
Paper: Paradoxes of Governance Accountability in Public Administration
Eun-Sil Yoo
Doctoral Candidate, Penn State Harrisburg
Paper: Structures and Relationships of Collaborative Networks in Home-Visiting Programs: Based on the Nurse-Family Partnership programs in Pennsylvania
The Oregon Atlas of Collaboration: Cataloguing State-Connected Collaboratives and Collaborative Platforms
Moderators/Coauthors
Rebecca McLain
Director of Research, National Policy Consensus Center, Portland State University
Tina Nabatchi
Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration, Syracuse University
Presenters/Coauthors
Catherine Annis
Doctoral Student, Syracuse University
Bryce Barthuly
Doctoral Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Katie Fields
Graduate Student, National Policy Consensus Institute, Portland State University
Qasim Mehdi
Doctoral Student, Syracuse University
Coauthors
Rhea Acuna
Doctoral Student, Syracuse University
Julia Carboni
Associate Professor, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Bobby Cochran
Executive Director, Willamette Partnership
Retrospect and Prospect of Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting
Moderator/Presenter
William Glasgall
Senior Vice President and Director, State and Local Initiatives, The Volcker Alliance
Presenters
Daniel Castro
Doctoral Student, Florida International University
David Guo
Associate Professor, Florida International University
Merl Hackbart
Provosts Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Public Administration, University of Kentucky
Alex Hathaway
Research Associate, Georgia State University
Sarah Swanbeck
Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, University of California—Berkeley
Zhirong Zhao
Gross Family Professor of Public & Nonprofit Management, University of Minnesota
SICA & Early COVID-19 Lessons Learned: A Comparison of Mexico, Netherlands, Australia, and Singapore
Moderator
Pan Suk Kim
Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea
Presenters
Edgar Ramirez De La Crus
Professor, CIDE, Mexico
Veronica Junjan
Assistant Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands
Kim Moloney
Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University, Australia
Alfred Wu
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore