Reports & Publications

Faculty: Thomas M. Rabovsky
Selected Works:

• “Does the Motivation for Market-Based Reform Matter? The Case of Responsibility-Centered Management (RCM),” (with A. Rutherford), Public Administration Review, (November 2017)
• “Exploring the Antecedents of the Gender Pay Gap in U.S. Higher Education,” (with H. Lee), Public Administration Review, (2017)
• "Support for Performance-Based Funding: The Role of Political Ideology, Performance, and Dysfunctional Information Environments," Public Administration Review, 74 (6) 761-774 (2014)
• "Using data to manage for performance at public universities," Public Administration Review, 74 (2): 260–72 (2014)
• "Evaluating impacts of performance-funding policies on student outcomes in higher education," (with A. Rutherford), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 655 (1): 185-208 (2014)
• "Higher education and congressional influence on administrative decisions: An examination of NSF and NIH research grant funding to four-year universities," (with W. C. Ellis), Social Science Quarterly, 95(3): 740-759 (2014)
• "Accountability in higher education: Exploring impacts on state budgets and institutional spending patterns," The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(4): 675–700 (2012)
• "Public opinion and nuclear zero: A domestic constraint on ditching the bomb," (with K. G. Herron and J. T. Ripberger), Politics and Policy, 39 (6): 891-923, (2011)
• "Accountability, affordability, access: A review of the recent trends in higher education policy research," (with T. W. Conner), Policy Studies Journal,s1:93-112 (2011)
• "Deconstructing school choice: Problem schools or problem students?" Public Administration Review, 71 (1): 87-95 (2011)

Reports and Publications:

• “Advocacy Coalitions and Political Control,” (with Matthew C. Nowlin; Maren Trochmann), Politics & Policy, (2022)

• “Compared to whom? Social and historical reference points and performance appraisals by managers, students, and the general public    ,” (with     Amanda Rutherford; Megan Darnley), Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, (2021)

• “A Cultural Theory of Partisanship and Policy Attitudes,” (with Matthew C Nowlin), Social Science Quarterly, 101 (2) 878-92 (March 2020)

• “The Politics of Higher Education: University President Ideology and External Networking,” (with A. Rutherford), Public Administration Review, (5) 764-777 (February 2016)