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October 12, 2011



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Donald P. Moynihan: Research

Papers in the La Follette School Working Paper Series

Moynihan, Donald. "A Theory of Culture-Switching: Leadership and Red Tape during Hurricane Katrina." La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-018. Forthcoming in Public Administration.

Moynihan, Donald, and Lavertu, Stéphane. 2011. "Does Involvement in Performance Management Routines Encourage Performance Information Use? Evaluating GPRA and PART." La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-017. Forthcoming in Public Administration Review.

Moynihan, Donald P., Sanjay Pandey and Bradley E. Wright. 2011. “Prosocial Values
and Performance Management Theory: The Link between Perceived Social Impact
and Performance Information Use,” La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-010. Forthcoming in Governance.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Pamela Herd.  2010. “Red Tape and Democracy: How Rules Affect Citizenship Rights.” American Review of Public Administration 40(6): 654-670.

Moynihan, Donald P., Wright, Bradley, and Sanjay Pandey.  “Setting the Table: How Transformational Leadership Fosters Performance Information Use.” Forthcoming at Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Feeney, Mary K., Donald P. Moynihan, and Richard M. Walker. 2010. "Rethinking and Expanding the Study of Administrative Rules: Report of the 2010 Red Tape Research Workshop." Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/research/redtape/summary.pdf

Moynihan, Donald P.; Sergio Fernandez; Soonhee Kim; Kelly M. LeRoux; Suzanne J. Piotrowski; Bradley E. Wright; Kaifeng Yang. 2011. "Performance Regimes Amidst Governance Complexity." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21: i141-i155

Moynihan, Donald P. and Patricia W. Ingraham. 2010. “The Suspect Handmaiden: The Evolution of Politics and Administration in the American State.” Public Administration Review 70(S1): 229-237

Moynihan, Donald P. 2009. “The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19(4): 895-915.

Election Administration: Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the conduct of U.S. elections

Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. 2010. "The Big Question for Performance Management: Why Do Managers Use Performance Information?" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20(4): 849-866

Moynihan, Donald P. and Stéphane Lavertu. Forthcoming. "Cognitive Biases in Governing: Technology Preferences in Election Administration." Public Administration Review

Moynihan, Donald. P. and Alasdair S. Roberts. 2010. “The triumph of loyalty over competence: The Bush administration and the exhaustion of the politicized presidency.” Public Administration Review, (70)4: 572-581.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2009. “The Politics Measurement Makes: Performance Management in the Obama Era.” The Forum. 7(4): article 7.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Noel Landuyt. 2009. “How do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Structural and Cultural Divides.”  Public Administration Review. 69(6): 1097-1105.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2009. “Our Usable Past: A Historical Contextual Approach to Administrative Values.” Public Administration Review 69(5): 813-821.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2009. “Through a Glass Darkly: Understanding the Effects of Performance Regimes.” Public Performance & Management Review 32(4): 586-598. Available through ejournals and as La Follette School Working Paper 2009-020.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2007. From Forest Fires to Hurricane Katrina: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems. Report to the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2008. “Public Management in North America: 1998-2008.” Public Management Review 10(4): 482-492.

Wichowsky, Amber and Donald P. Moynihan. 2008. “Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management.” Public Administration Review. 68(5): 908-920.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Carol Silva. 2008. “The Administrators of Democracy: A Research Note on Local Election Officials.” Public Administration Review. 68(5): 816-827.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Noel Landuyt. 2008. “Explaining Turnover Intention in the Public Sector. Examining the Roles of Gender, Life Cycle and Loyalty.” Review of Public Personnel Administration 28(2): 120-143. Available through Proquest. Earlier version available as La Follette School Working Paper 2008-002.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. 2008. “The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Value-Based Commitment, and Turnover Intention.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 18(2): 205-227. Available through Proquest and as La Follette School Working Paper 2007-027.

Pandey, Sanjay K., Bradley E. Wright, and Donald P. Moynihan. 2008. “Public Service Motivation and Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior: Testing a Preliminary Model.” International Public Management Journal 11(1): 89-108. Available as La Follette School Working Paper 2007-028.

Hou, Yilin and Donald P. Moynihan. 2008. “The Case for Countercyclical Fiscal Capacity.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 18(1): 139-159. Available through Proquest and as La Follette School Working Paper 2007-004.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2008. “Combining Structural Forms in the Search for Policy Tools: Incident Command Systems in U.S. Crisis Management.” Governance 21(2): 205-229. Available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2008. “Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management.” Public Administration Review 68(2): 350-361.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. 2007. “Finding Workable Levers Over Work Motivation: Comparing Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement, and Organizational Commitment.” Administration & Society 39(7): 803-832. Available through Proquest and as La Follette School Working Paper 2007-003.

Pandey, Sanjay K., David Coursey and Donald P. Moynihan. 2007. “Organizational Effectiveness and Bureaucratic Red Tape: A Multimethod Study.” Public Performance and Management Review 30(3): 371-400. Available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. 2007. “The Role of Organizations in Fostering Public Service Motivation.” Public Administration Review 67(1): 40-53. Winner of the Dimock Award winner for best lead article. Also available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2006. “Ambiguity in Policy Lessons: The Agencification Experience.” Public Administration 84(4): 1029-1050.

Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. 2006. Creating Desirable Organizational Characteristics: How Organizations Create a Focus on Results and Managerial Authority. Public Management Review 8(1): 119-140.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2006. Managing for Results in State Government: Evaluating a Decade of Reform. Public Administration Review 66(1): 78-90.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2005. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Performance: Dialogue Theory and Performance Budgeting. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 16(2): 151-168. La Follette School Working Paper Series No. 2005-021. Available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2005. Homeland Security and the U.S. Public Management Policy Agenda. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 18(2): 171-196.

Moynihan, Donald P. Testing How Management Matters in an Era of Government by Performance Management. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(3): 421-439. Available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2005. Why and How Do State Governments Adopt and Implement 'Managing for Results' Reforms? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(2): 219-243. Available through Proquest.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2005. Goal-Based Learning and the Future of Performance Management. Public Administration Review 65(2):203-216.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2004. Building Secure Elections: E-voting, Security and Systems Theory. Lead Article, Public Administration Review 64(5): 515-528.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2004. Protection versus Flexibility: The Civil Service Reform Act, Competing Administrative Doctrines and the Roots of Contemporary Public Management Debate. Lead Article, Journal of Policy History 16(1): 1-35. Available through Project Muse.

Hou, Yilin, Donald P. Moynihan, and Patricia W. Ingraham. 2003. Capacity, Management and Performance: Exploring the Links. American Review of Public Administration, 33(3): 295-315. (Winner, Best Journal Article, American Review of Public Administration, 2003). To republish all or part of this article, please go to www.sagepub.com.

Moynihan, Donald P. 2003. Normative and Instrumental Perspectives on Public Participation: Citizen Summits in Washington D.C. American Review of Public Administration, 33(2): 164-188. To republish all or part of this article, please go to www.sagepub.com.

Ingraham, Patricia. W., Selden, Sally C. and Donald P. Moynihan. 2000. People and Performance: Challenges for the Future Public Service-the Report from the Wye River Conference. Public Administration Review 60(1): 54-60.

Leveraging Collaborative Networks in Infrequent Emergency Situations, June 2005, a report for the IBM Center for The Business of Government.

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