Ongoing Research

Active Working Papers

• “Obtaining Comparable Measures of Agency Performance: An Application to U.S. Federal Agencies, 2010-2019,” (with George Krause) Paper prepared for presentation at the 2023 Public Management Research Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 27-30.
• “When Vacancies Matter for U.S. Federal Agency Performance,” (with Christopher Piper and Mark D. Richardson) Paper presented at the 2022 Public Management Research Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May 25-28.
• “Building Effective Bureaucracy: Career Concerns, Productivity and Politicization in the Public Sector,” (with Mauricio Bugarin), Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.
• “When do Elections Matter? Appointments and Bureaucratic Resistance in the United States,” (with Mark D. Richardson) Paper prepared for presentation at the Public Management Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-14, 2019.