About Me
About Me: I am an Assistant Professor and in the School of Public Administration and Director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Central Florida.
My research focuses on competition and collaboration in federal-local partnerships, homelessness, and public and nonprofit finance.
I earned my Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Kentucky in 2021. Prior to Kentucky, I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I received my B.S.B.A. in economics and B.A. in theological studies from Saint Louis University.
Email: andrew.sullivan@ucf.edu
Twitter: @AndrewASullivan
Featured Research:
Read the blog post about the article with LSE United States Centre
Collaborative governance has become prevalent in public service provision as both government and nonprofit sectors face pressure to solve multidimensional social problems in communities while improving performance. Drawing on collaborative governance and homeless services literature, this article explores how providing services in a collaborative governance network through government and nonprofit service providers differentially relates to multiple dimensions of performance — effectiveness, internal efficiency, social efficiency, and service heterogeneity — at the community level. By using a two-way fixed effects estimator and a unique nonprofit and homeless services dataset, the findings indicate that collaborative governance between government-nonprofit service providers relates to increased effectiveness (e.g., homelessness), and mixed results for service heterogeneity relative to using one sector. The composition of collaborative governance networks matters for performance, but its precise relationship with community-level performance depends on the specific aspect of performance.