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The American public sector encompasses numerous critical aspects and services that impact daily lives across multiple levels of context. At the heart of the public sector is a need to have accessible, useful, and innovative research and evaluation to help drive best practices and decision making. This type of information is important not only for those serving in the public sector, but also as part of the accountability process of the public who is being served. The Center for State Policy and Leadership鈥檚 research agenda focuses on developing and disseminating works aimed at contributing to effective public sector policy across America for the benefit of the public sector and American people. As part of this agenda, the research goals of the CSPL are to:

1. Provide comprehensive research and evaluation services spanning the project cycle (design, collection, analysis, and beyond) for external partners and our own internal work
2. Conduct high-quality research and evaluation with CSPL staff, faculty, and partners on a variety of topics applicable to timely issues facing the American public sector
3. Disseminate our work in a variety of formats, making findings as accessible and useful to the widest audiences as possible.

To accomplish these goals and the broader agenda, our faculty and staff research topics in a variety of topics that broadly fall into the following buckets.

Budgeting

The Center faculty and staff conduct research and evaluation on issues related to public budgeting and financial management. We strive to do research that will help state and local governments manage fiscal resources and produce desired outcomes. This includes studies on topics such as budget policies and procedures, capital and debt management, pension, and the analysis of the financial condition of governments. Past studies have focused on state and local governments in 缅北禁地, as well as broader perspectives. Center faculty also serve as the editorial team for the 缅北禁地 Municipal Policy Journal, which is prepared in partnership with the 缅北禁地 Municipal League.

Examples of budgeting academic works

with Robert P. Strauss. (2021). 缅北禁地 Municipal Policy Journal, 6 (1): 65-84.

(2022). The 缅北禁地 Public Employee Relations Report, 39(1): 2-18.

Witmer, A. P., Wuebbles, D. J., Jain, A., Morles, E. C., Rigsbee, C., Byrnes, P., & Dall鈥橢rba, S. (2021, November). In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Examples of budgeting non-academic works:

(2022). Prepared for the Volcker Alliance

Social Equity

The CSPL is committed to advancing social equity research and policy change. Achieving social equity requires promoting fairness for all. At CSPL, we work on these issues in two broad ways. First, we engage with public, non-private, and private sector partners to diagnose the causes and effects of inequities and injustices within and across policy and administrative domains, especially the causes and effects of bias, prejudice, and discrimination against racial identity, ethnicity, color, gender identity, sexuality, geographic origin, religion, socio-economic class, and the many intersections between these and more. Second, we work with these partners to formulate, propose, and help enact actionable, meaningful, diverse, equitable, and inclusive solutions.

Examples of social equity academic articles:

McCandless, S., & Blessett, B. (2022). Administrative Theory & Praxis, 44(2), 91-104.

Berry-James, R., Blessett, B., Emas, R., McCandless, S.A., Nickels, A., Norman-Major, K., & Vinzant, P. (2021). Journal of Public Affairs Education, 27(1), 5-15.

McCandless, S.A., & Elias, N. (2021). Public Integrity, 23(3), 220-234.

Bishu, S., McCandless, S., & Elias, N. (2020). Public Integrity [OnlineFirst release].

McCandless, S.A., & Ronquillo, J. (2020). Public Integrity, 22(5), 470-484.

Public Safety

Public safety is at the heart of much of the actions and decision making for the public sector, playing a role in a wide variety of areas of daily life. When someone hears the words 鈥減ublic safety,鈥� what immediately comes to mind might be law enforcement, firefighters, or paramedics but this also includes those that work in transportation, public health, education, and many other areas. Public safety is about the public sector鈥檚 work to protect people, whether that be from physical or emotional harm, fires, unsafe roads, viruses, wild animals, and a whole host of other threats. The CSPL has a long history of work in the area of public safety, with work in some of our units going back decades and often being based on strong partners in the public sector. Some of the more general questions our work focuses on include what factors make our roads unsafe for cars, pedestrians, or pedalcylists, what factors influence the behavior of the general public towards unsafe behavior, and how we can better prepare those public servants who work in public safety for those efforts.

Examples of public safety academic articles

Edwards, M. and Leonard, D., 2022. Journal of Safety Research.

Examples of public safety non-academic works

鈥淩ecommendations for Revisions: Part-Time to Full-Time 80-Hour Transition Course and Law for Police鈥� Prepared for the 缅北禁地 Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.

鈥淭ask Analysis Report: Basic Correction and Court Security Officer 2022 Update鈥� Prepared for the 缅北禁地 Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.

鈥淓ffects of Large Vehicles on Pedestrian and Pedal-Cyclist Injury Severity鈥� Prepared for the 缅北禁地 Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control.

鈥淎re pedestrian injuries under-reported in disadvantaged communities?鈥� Prepared for the 缅北禁地 Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control.

缅北禁地 Statewide Memorial Day 2022 Weekend Enforcement and Media Campaign Surveys

Public Servants

Regardless of whether someone is elected, appointed, or hired, those who work in the public sector are servants of the American people. There is a need then to understand a multitude of factors related to the selection, performance, and outcomes of these public servants. Some general questions we're interested in about public servants are how public servants come to be in their positions, what drives their behavior and decision making, and the consequences of their decisions. We also seek to understand public attitudes about public servants, their decisions, and their performance.

Examples of public servant academic articles

Simmons, A.J., Gutierrez, M. and Transue, J.E., 2022. . American Politics Research, 50(3), pp.366-378.

Gutierrez, M., Simmons, A.J., and Transue, J.E., 2022. (Forthcoming)

Simmons, A.J. and Gutierrez, M., 2021. 缅北禁地 Municipal Policy Journal, 6 (1), 94-110.

Examples of public servant non-academic works

Petrow, G, Gutierrez, M, and Transue, J.E., 2022. Published by the Washington Post.