Work cited by the Office of Management and Budget The White House’s Office of Management and Budget recently issued a policy memorandum on how federal agencies are to undertake human resource planning for their contracting and acquisition workforce. The plan cites a paper co-written by David M. Van Slyke of The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Trevor Brown, associate director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Glenn School and Matthew Potoski of Iowa State University. The paper Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets was published in 2006. For memorandum.
CNYSpeaks Aims to Make Public Forums Count In an opinion piece written by Grant Reeher and Tina Nabatchi in the Post Standard, the authors discuss the results of a survey they used to assess the results of the recent CNYSpeaks mayoral forum. For more information on the project, see cnyspeaks.com. Read more.
Campbell Names New Director Dean Mitchel Wallerstein announced today that Professor Grant Reeher has been named the new director of the Maxwell School’s Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
Hayes New Paper Published Danny Hayes has a new paper published in the American Journal of Political Science. The article shows that voters who are redistricted into new congressional districts are significantly less likely to vote in the subsequent U.S. House election.
Kim Appears as Invited Speaker Soonhee Kim has been invited to be a speaker at the International Conference on “Creativity, the Power to Change the World” held in Seoul, South Korea on August 12, 2009.
Hayes Paper Published Danny Hayes has a new article published in Political Behavior. The paper examines the conventional wisdom that television has “personalized” voting behavior in American presidential elections by encouraging citizens to cast ballots on the basis of candidate image and personality.
Hayes New Article Published Danny Hayes has a new article, "Dixie's Kingmakers: Stability and Change in Southern Presidential Primary Electorates," coming out in the summer issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Kim Authors New Study Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, authors a new study on Local Government Capacity and Transparency in Developing Countries in the Asian region.
Hayes Article Published Danny Hayes has a new article “Party Reputations, Journalistic Expectations: How Issue Ownership Influences Election News” in Political Communication.
Keck Receives Award Thomas Keck has received the Houghton Mifflin Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, in recognition of the best journal article on law and courts published by a political scientist in 2007.