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Donald Moynihan
Associate Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Office: 107 Observatory Hill Office Building
Phone: 608-263-6633
Fax: 608-265-3233
E-mail:
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1211
Donald Moynihan is Associate Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Associate Professor of Public Affairs. His research examines the application of organization theory to public management issues such as performance, budgeting, homeland security, election administration, and employee behavior. In particular, he studies the selection and implementation of public management reforms.
His 2008 book, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, is available from Georgetown University Press and Amazon.com. The Academy of Management's Public and Nonprofit Division named it the best book for 2009. Read reviews here.
He also has published in volumes and journals that include Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration & Society, Governance, Public Administration, Public Performance and Management Review, Journal of Policy History, American Review of Public Administration, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. His article “Why Reforms Don’t Always Have to Work to Succeed: A Tale of Two Managed Competition Initiatives” won the 2002 award for best journal article from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. Another article, “Capacity, Management and Performance: Exploring the Links,” was selected as the best article published by the American Review of Public Administration in 2003. His paper “The Role of Organizations in Fostering Public Service Motivation” won the Marshall E. Dimock Award for best lead article in Public Administration Review, 2007. The American Society for Public Administration gave him the 2009 Joseph Wholey Scholarship Performance Award for outstanding scholarship on performance in public and nonprofit organizations. The University of Wisconsin-Madison gave him a Romnes Faculty Fellowship in 2009.
Moynihan is the book review editor representing North America for Public Management Review and associate editor of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Public Management Research Association, and sits on the Executive Council for the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division.
A native of Ireland, Moynihan completed his Bachelor's of Arts in public administration at the University of Limerick, and his master's and Ph.D. in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Curriculum vitae
Research
Courses
PA 885 Advanced Public Management: fall 2008, fall 2007, fall 2006
PA 892 Public Budgeting: spring 2008, spring 2007
PA 895 Performance Management: fall 2009, fall 2008, fall 2007, fall 2006
PA 869 Workshop in Public
Affairs, Domestic Issues: spring 2007