- Phone:
- (812) 856-4647
- Email:
- adeslatt@iu.edu
- Website:
- https://www.aarondeslatte.com/
- Room Number:
- 441
- Areas of Interest:
- 'Public managers and metropolitan governance ,
- Sustainable economic and community development of local governments
Education
- Ph.D., Florida State University, 2015
- MPA, Florida State University, 2013
- M.S., Florida State University, 2009
- B.G.S., Missouri Southern State University, 2007
Biography
Aaron Deslatte joined O’Neill as an assistant professor in 2019 and directs the Metropolitan Governance and Management Transitions (MGMT) Laboratory. His research focuses on the roles that public managers play in enhancing economic, environmental and social sustainability at the local and metropolitan level, with the goal of building cumulative knowledge which can help local governments advance sustainable economic and community development.
Deslatte previously taught at Northern Illinois University and is an affiliated faculty member with the Local Governance Research Laboratory at Florida State University. He also spent many years as a journalist covering politics and government in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Florida, including a term as the Tallahassee Bureau Chief at the Orlando Sentinel.
He earned his Ph.D. in public administration from Florida State University. He also earned two master’s degrees from Florida State, including his MPA and M.S. in political science. His undergraduate degree is from Missouri Southern State University.
Highlights
- National Science Foundation CNH2-L grant recipient to study Transition Dynamics in Integrated Urban Water Systems (Co-PI), (2019-24), $1,499,157
- Clarence Stone Young Scholar Award, American Political Science Association, Urban and Local Politics Section, 2018
- Graduate Research Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Graduate Student Research Project for Cities and Sustainable Resource Management, 2015
- ASPA Founders Fellowship, 2014
- Society of Professional Journalists Award, Political Reporting, 2012
Selected Works
- “Towards Urban Water Sustainability: Analyzing Management Transitions in Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles,” (with M. Garcia, E. Koebele, K. Ernst, K. Manago, and G. Treuer), Global Environmental Change, (September 2019)
- “Elucidating the Linkages between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Local Government Sustainability Performance,” (with W.L. Swann) The American Review of Public Administration, (August 2019)
- “Specialized Governance and Regional Land-Use Outcomes: A Spatial Analysis of Florida Community Development Districts,” (with D. Carter and T. Scott) Land Use Policy (2019)
- “Citizen Assessments of Local Government Sustainability Performance: A Bayesian Approach,”Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (2019)
- ”Revisiting Bureaucratic Entrepreneurialism in the Age of Urban Austerity: Framing Issues, Taking Risks, and Building Collaborative Capacity,” chapter in Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship, Springer, Cham, pp: 143-159 (2019)
- ”A bayesian approach for behavioral public administration: Citizen assessments of local government sustainability performance,” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2 (1): 1-12 (2019)
- ”Handing over the keys: Nonprofit economic development corporations and their implications for accountability and inclusion,” (with A. Schatteman and E. Stokan), Public Performance & Management Review, 42 (1): 90-114 (2019)
- “Institutional Analysis with the Institutional Grammar,” (with S. Naseem Siddiki, T. Heikkila, C. Weible, R. Pacheco-Vega, D. Carter, C. Curley, and A. Bennett), Policy Studies Journal, pp 1-25 (2019)
- ”Florida’s growth management experience: From top-down direction to Laissez Faire land use,” chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp: 739-755 (2018)
- ”Managerial Friction and Land-Use Policy Punctuations in the Fragmented Metropolis,” Policy Studies Journal, pp: 1-27 (2018)
- ”Policy of Delay: Evidence from a Bayesian Analysis of Metropolitan Land-Use Choices,” (with T. Antonio and R. Feiock), Policy Studies Journal, 46 (3): 674-699 (2018)
- ”The Collaboration Riskscape: Fragmentation, Problem Types and Preference Divergence in Urban Sustainability,” (with R. Feiock), Publius: The Journal of Federalism, pp: 1-26 (2018)
- ”The Formation and Administration of Multipurpose Development Districts: Private Interests Through Public Institutions,” (with D. Carter and T. Scott), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, pp: 1-18, (2018)
- ”What do we know about urban sustainability? A research synthesis and nonparametric assessment,” (with W. Swann), Urban Studies, Sage: pp 1-19, (2018)
- ”A narrative method for analyzing transitions in urban water management: The case of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department,” (with G. Treuer, E. Koebele, K. Ernst, M. Garcia, and K. Manago), Water Resources Research, (2017)
- ”Boundaries and speed bumps: The role of modernized counties managing growth in the fragmented metropolis,” Urban Affairs Review, 53 (4): 658-688 (2017)
- ”Context matters: A Bayesian analysis of how organizational environments shape the strategic management of sustainable development,” (with W. Swann), Public Administration, (2017)
- ”Hierarchies of need in sustainable development: A resource dependence approach for local governance,” (with E. Stokan), Urban Affairs Review, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, (2017)
- ”Understanding the Drivers and Barriers to Fire District Consolidation in Illinois,” (with R. Herrman), Illinois Municipal Policy Journal, 2 (1): 1-15 (2017)
- ”Urban pressures and innovations: Sustainability commitment in the face of fragmentation and inequality,” (with R. Feiock and K. Wassel), Review of Policy Research, 34 (5): 700--724 (2017)