Selected Works:
- Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability: A Design Approach, Cambridge University Press (2022)
- "Sustainability Synergies or Silos? The Opportunity Costs of Local Government Organizational Capabilities," (with Eric Stokan), Public Administration Review, (2020)
- "The Erosion of Trust During a Global Pandemic and how Public Administrators Should Counter It," American Review of Public Administration, (2020)
- "Performance, Satisfaction or Loss Aversion? A Meso-Micro Assessment of Local Commitments to Sustainability Programs," (with William L. Swann and Richard Feiock), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (2020)
- "How Can Local Governments Address Pandemic Inequities?" (with Megan E. Hatch and Eric Stokan), Public Administration Review, (2020)
- "Exploring the Trade-offs Local Governments Make in the Pursuit of Economic Growth and Equity," (with Eric Stokan and Megan E. Hatch), Urban Affairs Review (2020)
- "To Shop or Shelter? Issue Framing Effects and Social-Distancing Preferences in the COVID-19 Pandemic," Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, (2020)
- "Beyond Borders: Governmental Fragmentation and the Political Market for Economic Development Policies in American Cities," (with Eric Stokan), State and Local Government Review, (2020)
- "Positivity and Negativity Dominance in Citizen Assessments of Intergovernmental Sustainability Performance," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (2020)
Reports and Publications:
- Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems
Aaron Deslatte, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Lauren Bartels, Adam Wiechman, Sara Alonso Vicario, Celeste Coughlin and Desi Rybolt, International Review of Public Policy, 2023 - Deslatte, Aaron, Michael D. Siciliano, and Rachel M. Krause. 2023. “Local Government Managers are on the Frontlines of Climate Change: Are they Ready?” Public Administration Review 83(6): 1506–1511
- Structural drivers of sustainability and resilience strategies in small(ish) cities: a text analysis of comprehensive planning in Indiana, Aaron Deslatte,Juwon Chung, and Eric Stokan, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 14 Sep 2023
- Stokan, E., Overton, M., Deslatte, A., & Zhang, C. (2023). Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds. Urban Affairs Review
- “Transitions in Urban Water Management: Assessing the Robustness of Institutional Arrangements,” (with Margaret Garcia; Elizabeth Koebele; Marty Anderies), The Routledge Handbook on Urban Water Governance, Routledge: London, (2022)
- “Keeping policy commitments: An organizational capability approach to local green housing equity,” (with Serena Kim (University of Colorado Denver); Christopher V Hawkins (University of Central Florida); Eric Stokan (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Review of Policy Research, (2022)
- “Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts,” Urban Affairs Review, (2022)
- “The Forgotten Governments: Exploring Midwestern Township Capacities and Functional Service Responsibilities,” (with Jaehee Jong (Northern Illinois University); Christopher Goodman (Northern Illinois University); Jerry Crabtree (Township Officials of Illinois); Kurt Thurmaier (Northern Illinois University), State and Local Government Review , (2022)
- “The Road to Routinization: A Functional Collective Action Approach for Local Sustainability Planning and Performance Management,” (with Rachel Krause (University of Kansas); Christopher V Hawkins (University of Central Florida), State and Local Government Review, (2022)
- “Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems,” (with Laura Helmke-Long (Indiana University Bloomington); John M Anderies (Arizona State University); Margaret Garcia (Arizona State University); George M Hornberger (Vanderbilt University); Elizabeth Ann Koebele (University of Nevada Reno), Policy Studies Journal, (2021)
- “Land use institutions and social-ecological systems: A spatial analysis of local landscape changes in Poland,” (with Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska (University of Warsaw); António F Tavares (University of Minho); Justyna Ślawska (University of Warsaw); Izabela Karsznia (University of Warsaw); Julita Łukomska (University of Warsaw), Land Use Policy, (December 2021)
- “Probing the Fiscal Implications of Multipurpose Development Districts: An Institutional Analysis of Florida Community Development Districts,” (with Tyler A Scott (University of California Davis); David P Carter (University of Utah), State and Local Government Review, (2021)
- “Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability,” (with Christopher Hawkins (University of Central Florida); Rachel Krause (University of Kansas), Public Management Review, (2021)
- “Background on Economic Development,” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, Palgrave-Macmillan: London, (2021)
- "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)
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“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)
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“Citizen Assessments of Local Government Sustainability Performance: A Bayesian Approach,” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (2019)
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”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)
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”A bayesian approach for behavioral public administration: Citizen assessments of local government sustainability performance,” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2 (1): 1-12 (2019)
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”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)
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“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)
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”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)
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”Managerial Friction and Land-Use Policy Punctuations in the Fragmented Metropolis,” Policy Studies Journal, pp: 1-27 (2018)
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”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)
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”The Collaboration Riskscape: Fragmentation, Problem Types and Preference Divergence in Urban Sustainability,” (with R. Feiock), Publius: The Journal of Federalism, pp: 1-26 (2018)
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”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)
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”What do we know about urban sustainability? A research synthesis and nonparametric assessment,” (with W. Swann), Urban Studies, Sage: pp 1-19, (2018)
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”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)
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”Boundaries and speed bumps: The role of modernized counties managing growth in the fragmented metropolis,” Urban Affairs Review, 53 (4): 658-688 (2017)
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”Context matters: A Bayesian analysis of how organizational environments shape the strategic management of sustainable development,” (with W. Swann), Public Administration, (2017)
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”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)
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”Understanding the Drivers and Barriers to Fire District Consolidation in Illinois,” (with R. Herrman), Illinois Municipal Policy Journal, 2 (1): 1-15 (2017)
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”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)