Donald P. Moynihan

Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy

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1.

Finding Workable Levers Over Work Motivation: Comparing Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-003, Administration and Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 20 May 2008
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
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job satisfaction, public service motivation, committment, job involvement

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Bureaucratic Red Tape and Organizational Performance: Testing the Moderating Role of Culture and Political Support

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-026
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Dec 2005
Sanjay K. Pandey and Donald P. Moynihan
George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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red tape, organizational culture, performance

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Populism and the Deep State: The Attack on Public Service Under Trump

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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populism; Trump; public administration; politicization

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The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Person-Organization Fit and Turnover Intention

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2007-015
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Mar 2007
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
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social networks, turnover, person-organization fit, value congruence

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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Performance? Dialogue Theory and Performance Budgeting

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-021
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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budgeting, performance, dialogue, reform

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Creating Desirable Organizational Characteristics: How Organizations Create a Focus on Results and Managerial Authority

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-027
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
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new public management, reform, performance, flexibility

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The Big Question for Performance Management: Explaining Performance Information Use

La Follette School Working Paper Series, No. 2009-019
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
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Performance management, data use, leadership, government

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Performance Management Under George W. Bush

THE DYNAMICS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: CONSTRUCTING INFORMATION AND REFORM, Chapter 7, Georgetown University Press
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 20 May 2008
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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performance, management, results, budget, Bush, Office of Management and Budget

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Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Oct 2010
Barry C. Burden, David T. Canon, Kenneth Mayer and Donald P. Moynihan
University of Wisconsin - Madison, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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election adminstration, early voting, voter turnout, election day registration

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A Great Schism Approaching? Towards a Micro and Macro Public Administration

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Nov 2019
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Design, Administrative behavior, Experiments, Public administration

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Public Service Reform and the New Security Agenda

GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC SECURITY, Public Affairs Institute, 2002
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Mar 2009
Donald P. Moynihan and Alasdair S. Roberts
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Massachusetts Amherst - School of Public Policy
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public management, public administration, crisis, national security, terrorism

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Performance Regimes Amidst Governance Complexity

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Forthcoming, La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2011
Donald P. Moynihan, Sergio Fernandez, Soonhee Kim, Kelly M. LeRoux, Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Bradley E. Wright and Kaifeng Yang
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, University of Kansas - Department of Public Administration, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Department of Political Science and Florida State University - Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
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Performance management, data use, leadership, government

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The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence: The Bush Administration and the Exhaustion of the Politicized Presidency

La Follette School of Public Affairs Working Paper Series No. 2008-024, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper 09-17, Public Administration Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2009
Donald P. Moynihan and Alasdair S. Roberts
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Massachusetts Amherst - School of Public Policy
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President Bush, management, Iraq, Katrina, political appointees, politicization, presidency

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Election Officials: How Selection Methods Shape Their Policy Preferences and Affect Voter Turnout

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Aug 2010
Barry C. Burden, David T. Canon, Stéphane Lavertu, Kenneth Mayer and Donald P. Moynihan
University of Wisconsin - Madison, affiliation not provided to SSRN, The Ohio State University -- John Glenn School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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election administration, appointment, turnout, election

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Trump’s (Mis)Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

Policy Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 May 2021
Naim Kapucu and Donald P. Moynihan
University of Central Florida and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Crisis leadership, Presidential leadership, COVID-19, Emergency management, Crisis response

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Blame Avoidance and Network Coordination: Evidence from Crisis Response

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2009
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Ambiguity in Policy Lessons: The Agencification Experience

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-025
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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new public management, agencies, policy transfer, adoption

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Leadership and Reform: Mapping the Causal Pathways of Performance Information Use

La Follette School Working Paper Series, No. 2009-018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Donald P. Moynihan, Sanjay K. Pandey and Bradley E. Wright
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Department of Political Science
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Performance management, data use, leadership, government

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The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

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The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

La Follette School of Public Affairs Working Paper No. 2008-020
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Incident Command Systems, hierarchy, networks, crisis, crisis response, network governance, trust, authority, coordination

The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 895-915, 2009
Posted: 09 Oct 2009
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy

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The Case for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Capacity

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Oxford Journals, Production Oxford University Press 2001 Evans Road Cary, NC 27513, USA Fax: (919) 677-1714 E-mail: jpart@oupjournals.org
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Yilin Hou and Donald P. Moynihan
Maxwell School, Syracuse University and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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counter cyclical, governance capacity, rainy day fund, general fund balance

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Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions

Christensen, Julian, Lene Aarøe, Martin Baekgaard, Pamela Herd, & Donald P. Moynihan (2020). Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen‐State Interactions. Public Administration Review, 80: 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13134
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Julian Christensen, Lene Aarøe, Martin Bækgaard, Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan
VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Aarhus University - Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Administrative burden, Sludge, Human capital, Cognitive resources, Executive functions, ADHD, ADD, Pain, Age

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Through A Glass, Darkly: Understanding the Effects of Performance Regimes

La Follette School Working Paper Series No. 2009-020
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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performance information use, gaming, leadership

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Public Management for Populists: Trump’s Schedule F Executive Order and the Future of the Civil Service

Forthcoming in Public Administration Review
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Oct 2021
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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civil service; Trump; politicization

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Leveraging Collaborative Networks in Infrequent Emergency Situations

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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A Heckuva Job: How Management Failures Doomed the Bush Administration

La Follette School of Public Affairs Working Paper No. 2008-018
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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President Bush, management, Iraq, Katrina, political appointee, PART, performance

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Tools of Control? Comparing Congressional and Presidential Performance Management Reforms

Kroll, Alex and Donald P. Moynihan. 2020. Tools of Control? Comparing Congressional and Presidential Performance Management Reforms. Public Administration Review
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Nov 2020
Alexander Kroll and Donald P. Moynihan
Department of Public Policy and Administration and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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performance management; GPRAMA; Obama; performance information use; politicization

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Cognitive Biases in Governing: Technology Preferences in Election Administration

Public Administration Review, MS 226-823
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
Donald P. Moynihan and Stéphane Lavertu
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and The Ohio State University -- John Glenn School of Public Affairs
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election administration, e-government, technology, cognitive biases, decision frame

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The Role of Organizations in Fostering Public Service Motivation

Public Administration Review • January | February 2007
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Kansas
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Beyond Measurement: Managing for Results in State Government

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Nov 2019
Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald P. Moynihan
Binghamton University and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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What Makes Hierarchical Networks Succeed? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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'Our Usable Past': A Historical Contextual Approach to Administrative Values

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Tackling the Performance Regime Paradox: A Problem-Solving Approach Engages Professional Goal-Based Learning

Forthcoming in Public Administration Review
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Donald P. Moynihan, Martin Bækgaard and Mads Leth Jakobsen
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, Aarhus University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Amber Wichowsky
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and Marquette University
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Building Secure Elections: E-Voting, Security, and Systems Theory

Public Administration Review • September/October 2004, Vol. 64, No. 5
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Rethinking and Expanding the Study of Administrative Rules: Report of the 2010 Red Tape Research Workshop

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Mary K. Feeney, Donald P. Moynihan and Richard M. Walker
Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Public Affairs, Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and The University of Hong Kong
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A Life Worth Living: Evidence on the Relationship Between Prosocial Values and Happiness

Am Rev Public Adm. 2015 May ; 45(3): 311–326. doi:10.1177/0275074013493657.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
Donald P. Moynihan, Thomas DeLeire and Kohei Enami
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Population Health Sciences
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motivation, happiness, public-private differences

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Public Service Motivation and Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations: Testing a Preliminary Model

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Sanjay K. Pandey, Bradley E. Wright and Donald P. Moynihan
University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin - Madison - La Follette School of Public Affairs and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Advancing the Empirical Study of Performance Management: What we Learned from the Program Assessment Rating Tool

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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The Normative Model in Decline? Public Service Motivation in the Age of Governance

Public Service Motivation: State of the Science and Art, James L. Perry and Annie Hondeghem (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Explaining Turnover Intention in State Government: Examining the Roles of Gender, Life Cycle and Loyalty

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Noel Landuyt
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Texas at Austin
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People and Performance: Challenges for the Future Public Service – The Report From the Wye River Conference

Public Administration Review, Vol. 60, No. 1, January/February 2000
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Patricia W. Ingraham, Sally C. Selden and Donald P. Moynihan
Binghamton University, University of Lynchburg and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era

Moynihan, Donald P., Pamela Herd and Julie Gerinza. 2022. “Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era.” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. 5(1): 22-35.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Donald P. Moynihan, Julie Gerinza and Pamela Herd
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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administrative burden; Trump administration; immigration; Title 42

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Learning Under Uncertainty: Networks in Emergency Management

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 32(4): 750-764, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac002
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Donald P. Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd and Julie Sutherland
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy, Code for America, Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and Code for America
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Administrative burden; SNAP; digital government

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How Do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Cultural and Structural Perspectives

Public Administration Review • November | December 2009
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Noel Landuyt
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Texas at Austin
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The Suspect Handmaiden: The Evolution of Politics and Administration in the American State

Public Administration Review • December 2010
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Patricia W. Ingraham
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and Binghamton University
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The Administrators of Democracy: A Research Note on Local Election Officials

Public Administration Review, September October 2008
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Nov 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Carol L Silva
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Oklahoma - Main - Department of Political Science
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What Is the Future of Studying Elections? Making the Case for a New Approach

Posted: 30 Dec 2019
Donald P. Moynihan and Carol L Silva
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and University of Oklahoma - Main - Department of Political Science

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The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Person-Organization Value Fit, and Turnover Intention

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 205-227, 2008
Posted: 10 Jul 2008
Donald P. Moynihan and Sanjay K. Pandey
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy and George Washington University - Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

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The Case for Countercyclical Fiscal Capacity

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 139-159, 2008
Posted: 09 Jul 2008
Yilin Hou and Donald P. Moynihan
Maxwell School, Syracuse University and Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy

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Learning Under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management

La Follette School Working Paper No. 2005-028,
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Dec 2005
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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crisis, emergency, learning, ambiguity, uncertainty

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Crisis Management Policy and Hierarchical Networks

La Follette School of Public Affairs Working Paper Series No. 2005-022
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Donald P. Moynihan
Georgetown University - McCourt School of Public Policy
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network, hierarchy, emergency, crisis, management