Reports & Publications

Faculty: Claudia N. Avellaneda
Selected Works:

• What Works in Latin American Municipalities? Assessing Local Government Performance,  (Editor), Edward Elgar Publishing, (2023)
• “Goal Achievement in Municipal Strategic Planning: The Role of Executives’ Background and Political Context," (with Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez), Public Administration Review, 1-20, (2023) 
• "Credit claiming and mayoral preferences for project uptake amid a migrant crisis," (with Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez)Journal of Public Policy. 42(4), 757-781 (2023)
• “Environmental and Organizational Antecedents of Plural Sourcing of Public Services," (with F. Damanpour and F.Sanchez), Public Administration Review, 82(2):325-337 (2022) 
• “Subnational Government Performance: Testing Multiple Dimensions of Governors’ Experience,” (with J. Olvera), Public Administration Review, 79 (3) 383-398 (2019) 
• Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters, (Ed. with K. J. Meier, A.N. Rutherford), Georgetown University Press (March 2017)
• “Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity?” Public Management Review, 18(6) 918-947 (2016)
• “Is Small Beautiful? Testing the Direct and Nonlinear Effects of Size on Municipal Performance,” (with Ricardo Corrêa Gomes), Public Administration Review, 75 (1) 137-149, (2015)
• “Mayoral Decision Making: Issue Salience, Decision Context and Choice Constraint? An Experimental Study with 120 Latin American Mayors,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 23 (3): 631-661 (2013)
• "Do Politics or Mayors’ Demographics Matter for Municipal Revenue Expansion?” Public Management Review, 14 (8): 1061-1086 (2012)
• “Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: New Public Management Gone Mad?” (with G. Brewer, G. Boyne, and R. Walker), Public Administration Review, 71 (5): 707-717 (2011)
• “The Diffusion of Innovation: A Longitudinal Empirical Test of the Berry and Berry Model,” (with F. S. Berry and R. Walker), Public Management Review, 13 (1): 95-125 (2011). [*Third place on the award of the 2012 Kooiman Prize for the best paper in Public Management Review in 2011]
• “Municipal Performance: Does Mayoral Quality Matter?" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19 (2): 285-312 (2009)
• “Mayoral Quality and Local Public Finance,” Public Administration Review, May/June: 469-486 (2009)

Reports and Publications:

• "Organizational commitment in public servants through civic engagement," (with N. Mendez), Public Administration, (Feb. 24, 2022)
• “Municipal Response to Fiscal and Governance Reforms:  Stricter Debt Limits’ Effects across Jurisdictions,” (with Julio Zambrano), International Journal of Public Administration, (January 2021)

• “Anticorruption Agencies in Colombia: An Improvement of Institutional Capacity or Political Symbolism?” (with Pedro Pablo Sanabria), The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America, Routledge (2021)

• “Explaining Delegation in Cooperative Arrangements: A Survey-Experiment with 246 Mayors," (with R. Andrés Bello-Gómez), Public Management Review, (2021) 

• “The Role of Pro-Women Institutions in addressing violence against women,” (with Adalmir de Oliveira), Global Public Policy and Governance, (2021)

• “Introduction to Special Issue on Governmental Response to COVID-19 Pandemic,” (with Alketa Peci, Kohei Suzuki), Revista de Administraçáo Publica, (2021)

• “Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance?” (with Taishi Muraoka), Local Government Studies (January 28, 2021)
• “Explaining Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors’ Codified and Uncodified Knowledge,” (with Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gómez, Johabed G. Olvera), Knowledge for Governance Book Series, v 15, 131-59 (January 2021)
• “Environmental and Organizational Antecedents of Plural Sourcing of Public Services,” (with Fariborz Damanpour; Fernandp Sanchez), Public Administration Review, (October 2020)
• “Policy Analysis for Decision-making in Colombian Local Governments,” (with Ricardo Andres Bello-Gomez), Policy Analysis in Colombia, 135-50 (September 2020)
• “Direct and non‐linear innovation effects of demographic shifts,” (with Kohei Suzuki; Ha Hyesong), Australian Journal of Public Administration, (79) 351-69 (May 2020)
• ”Central Government Strategies to Promote Local Governments’ Transparency: Guidance or Enforcement,” (with G. Pina), Public Policy and Management Review, 42 (2): 357-382 (2019)
• ”Subnational Government Performance: Testing Multiple Dimensions of Governors’ Experience,” (with J. Olvera), Public Administration Review, 79 (3): 383-398 (2019)
• ”Central Government Strategies to Promote Local Governments’ Transparency: Guidance or Enforcement,” (with G. Pina), Public Performance and Management Review, (September 2018)
• ”Women and risk-taking behaviour in local public finance,” (with K. Suzuki), Public Management Review, 18 (12): 1741-1767 (2018)
• ”Do Collaborative Agreements Lead to Municipal Isomorphism?” (with G. Pina), Public Management Review, 20 (4): 445-468 (2018)
• “Chief Executives’ Approval of Immigrants – Evidence from a Survey Experiment of 101 Latin American and Caribbean Mayors,” (with J. Olvera), Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 1 (1), (2018)
• “Municipal isomorphism: testing the effects of vertical and horizontal collaboration,” (with G.Piña) Public Management Review (18 December 2017)
• “Women and risk-taking behavior in public finance,” (with K. Suzuki), Public Management Review,  (22 December 2017)
• ”Identifying the Macro-Level Drivers of Adolescent Fertility Rate in Latin America: The Role of School-Based Sexuality Education,” (with E. Davalos), American Journal of Sexuality Education, 12 (4): 358-382 (2017)
• ”Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina,” (Book review with P. Andrade, O. Stuenkel, B. VanDyck, A. Payne, C. Angelo-Guevara, P. Posner, and T. Bruneau), Latin American Politics and Society, 59 (1): 156-159 (2017)
• ”What Drives Japanese INGOs to Operate in Latin American Countries,” (with K. Suzuki), International Journal of Public Administration, 40 (8): 670-683 (2017)
• “Mayoral Quality and Municipal Performance in Brazilian Local Governments,” (with Ricardo Correa Gomes), Organizacoes & Sociedade, (83) 555-579 (September 2017)
• Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters, (with K. Meier, A. Rutherford), Georgetown University Press (March 2017)
• “Performance Management and Public Administration,” (with J. Olvera), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (April 2017)
• “What Drives Japanese INGOs to Operate in Latin American Countries?” (with M.Johansen, K. Susuki), International Journal of Public Administration, 40 (8) 670-683 (19 July 2016)
• “Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity,” Public Management Review, 18 (6) 918-947 (2 June 2015)