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Amanda Rutherford

Associate Professor

Director, Undergraduate Honors Program


Phone:
(812) 856-4647
Email:
aruther@indiana.edu
Room Number:
425
Areas of Interest:
Public Management
,
Public Administration
,
Public Policy and Analysis
,
Politics and Bureaucracy
,
Research Design and Methodology
,
Race and Ethnic Politics
,
Education Policy

Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    • Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2015
    • MPA, University of Oklahoma, 2011
    • B.A. and B.B.A., University of Oklahoma, 2009

    Biography

    Amanda Rutherford joined O'Neill as an assistant professor in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University, where she concentrated on public administration, public policy, and race and ethnic politics. Her dissertation focused on politics, management, and performance in the context of higher education. Rutherford earned her MPA from the University of Oklahoma, where she focused on education policy. Her undergraduate work was also at the University of Oklahoma, where she studied advertising and marketing and supply chain management.

    Rutherford’s research interests include managerial values and decision making, performance management, organization theory, representative bureaucracy, higher education policy, and research methodology. Her work has been published in various journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Public Management Journal, and Public Administration. Rutherford has also won numerous honors and awards, including the Junior Scholar Research Grant from the Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research and Education.



    Highlights

    • Donald A. Gatzke Dissertation Award for "Politics, Perceptions, and Performance in Higher Education, 2017
    • Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research and Education, Junior Scholar Research Grant, 2014
    • George W. Kunze Endowed Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University, 2015
    • Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Research, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, 2015
    • Scholar Award Dissertation Fellowship, P.E.O. International, 2014-15

    In the News

    • "2016’s Best College Towns & Cities in America" - WalletHub, December 13, 2016
    • "Why University Chiefs Head Out the Door" - The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 10, 2016
    • "Professor discusses language instruction policy in schools" - IDS, September 8, 2015

    Selected Works

    • “Understanding Vacancy Time: A Theoretical Framework Informed by Cross-sector Comparison,” (with J.L. Mumpower, R.A. Bello Gomez, and M. Griffin), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, (June 21, 2018)
    • “Does the Motivation for Market-Based Reform Matter? The Case of Responsibility-Centered Management (RCM),” (with T. Rabovsky), Public Administration Review, (November 2017)
    • “Top Management Turnover: The Role of Governing Board Structures,” (with J. Lozano), Public Administration Review (September 7, 2017)
    • Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters, (Ed. with K. J. Meier, C.N. Avellaneda), Georgetown University Press (March 2017)
    • The Politics of African American Education: Representation, Partisanship and Educational Equity, (with K. J. Meier), Cambridge University Press (2017)
    • “Types of Coproduction and Differential Effects on Organizational Performance: Evidence from the New York City School System,” (with J. Zambrano and S. Nicholson-Crotty), Public Administration, (August 2017)
    • “The Politics of Higher Education: University President Ideology and External Networking,” (with T. Rabovsky), Public Administration Review 76 (5): 743-777 (2016)
    • “Voting Rights for Whom?: Examining the Effects of the Voting Rights Acts on Latino Political Incorporation,” (with M. Marschall), American Journal of Political Science 60 (3): 590-606
    • “Dynamic Pie: A Strategy for Modeling Trade-offs in Compositional Variables over Time,” (with A. Philips and G. D. Whitten), American Journal of Political Science 60 (1): 268-283
    • “Reexamining Causes and Consequences: Does Administrative Intensity Matter for Organizational Performance?”International Public Management Journal 19 (3): 342-369 (2016)
    • “Management Decisions in a Performance Driven System: Theory and Empirical Tests in Higher Education,” (with K. J. Meier) Public Administration 93(1): 17-33 (2015)
    • “Evaluating Impacts of Performance Funding Policies on Student Outcomes,” (with T. Rabovsky) The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 655 (1): 185-208 (2014)

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