Public Management
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy seeks outstanding graduate students to apply for the Dean’s Scholar Award in Public Management. This field includes particular strengths in information management and policy in the public sector, intergovernmental management, leadership in the public sector, and nonprofit management and policy.
The University at Albany has a dynamic group of faculty members researching critical issues in the field of Public Management:
Mitchel Y. Abolafia
Organizational theory and behavior |
David F. Andersen
Public management, simulation and decision support in public policy, government information management |
Sharon S. Dawes
Government information management, information policy, public/private management |
Sue Faerman
Organizational behavior, managerial and leadership effectiveness |
David P. McCaffrey
Regulatory policy, law and public administration |
Theresa Pardo
Government information management |
R. Karl Rethemeyer
Policy networks, public management, social networks, terrorism |
Judith S. Saidel
Nonprofit management and policy, government-voluntary sector relationship, contracting and nonprofit governance |
Jeffrey D. Straussman
Public finance, political economy of transition, management |
Frank Thompson
Health policy, comparative public administration |
In addition, two nationally renowned research centers are connected with Public Management at the Rockefeller College. They are the Center for Technology in Government and the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society.
Selected Publications in Public Management:
Mitchel Abolafia, "Framing Moves: Interpretive Politics at the Federal Reserve" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol 14, no.3, 2004
Mitchel Abolafia, Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997, 2001.
Sharon Dawes and Peter A. Bloniarz, Kristine L. Kelly, David Connelly & Theresa A. Pardo, “Four Realities of IT Innovation in the Public Sector, “ The Public Manager, 28 (1), Spring 1999.
Sue Faerman, David McCaffrey, and David Van Slyke, “Understanding Interorganizational Cooperation: Public-Private Collaboration in Regulating Financial Market Innovation,” Organization Science, 12: 372-388 (May-June 2001). (Winner, 2002 Best Article Award of Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management. Earlier version of paper was winner of Charles H. Levine Award for Best Paper Submitted to the Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management National Meetings, 1999.)
Mark LaVigne, Stephanie Simon, Sharon Dawes, Theresa Pardo, Donna Berlin, Untangle the Web: Delivering Municipal Services Through the Internet. Albany, NY: Center for Technology in Government, 2001.
David P. McCaffrey and David W. Hart, Wall Street Polices Itself: How Securities Firms Manage The Legal Hazards Of Competitive Pressures (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Robert E. Quinn, Sue R. Faerman, Michael P. Thompson and Michael R. McGrath. 2003, Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework (3rd edition), New York: John Wiley & Sons.
R. Karl Rethemeyer, (2005). “Managing by and Through Networks: Network Management, Policy Networks, and the Internet.” 2005 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. (Also nominated for the Academy-wide Newman Award for Best Paper Based on Recent Dissertation Research.)
Jeffrey D. Straussman, “Leadership and Performance” in Federico Lega and Daniela Cristofoli, Strategic Management of Public Sector Organizations. Milan: McGraw-Hill, 2005, pp. 147-160. |
