Journal Publications
and Submissions

Works in Progress

“Mixed Institutional Messages and Bayesian Updating under Uncertainty: A COVID-19 Case Study.” (with Tima Moldogaziev; preparing for submission)

“Brand Equity and Presidential Credit Claiming during the COVID-19 Crisis.” (with Tima Moldogaziev; preparing for submission at Policy and Politics)

“Ethical Leadership and Self-Justification in Male-Dominated Organizations” (with Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Dallas Gilmore, Scott Limbocker, and John D. Marvel; Under Review, Armed Forces & Society)

"Turnover Effects of Government Shutdowns on the US Federal Labor Market,” Working Paper (Yongjin Ahn, Weijie Wang, and Keunyoung Lee**, preparing for submission at Public Administration Review) 

“Patronage in U. S. Federal Government Contract Markets” (with Keunyoung Lee** and Brandon De Bruhl**)

“Representative Contractors? The Implications of Minority Representation in Federal Procurement Decisions.” Working Paper (with Esther Gonzalez** and John D. Marvel)

“Recruitment Effects of Government Shutdowns on the United States Federal Labor Market,” Working Paper (with Yongjin Ahn and Keunyoung Lee)

“Complementarity, Vulnerability, and Replacement: Artificial Intelligence in the United States Federal Labor Market” (with Nisa Gurbuz** and Yi Ming**)

“Measuring the Effect of Remote Work Possibilities on the United States Federal Labor Market” (with Eli Joun**)

“Never a Slam Dunk: Testing Multidisciplinary Hypotheses on the Effects of Interim Leadership with NBA Case and Data Analyses” (with Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Keunyoung Lee**, Anne Joseph O’Connell, and H. Onur Tezcan)

Published

Brian An, Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, and William Resh. “Applying an Intersectional Understanding of Extra Work Behavior and Emotional Burnout in Local Public Service,” Public Administration, 2024

Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Esther Gonzalez**, William Resh, and Stephanie Wong**. “The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers,” Review of Public Personnel and Administration, (Vol. 44, Iss. 1), 2024

Roberts, Alasdair, William Resh, Alketa Peci, Rumki Basu, Helen Sullivan, Naim Kapucu, Gedion Onyango, Rahel Schomaker, and Valentina Mele“Roundtable: How Do We Connect Public Administration and Human Rights?” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 2023

Resh, William, Yongjin Ahn and Donald Moynihan. “Populism and Administrative Dysfunction: The Impact of U. S. Government Shutdowns on Personnel and Policy Implementation,” Governance, 2023

Leisha DeHart-Davis, Melvin J. Dubnick, Donald F. Kettl, William Resh, and Norma M. Riccucci. “Herbert Kaufman: Celebrating a Century of Contributions to Public Administration,” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 2023 

Barboza-Wilkes, Cythia, Thai Le, and William Resh. “Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government,” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory (with), (Vol. 33, Iss. 1), 2023
*2023 Special Virtual Issue on “Framing the Study of Racism, Power, and Inequality in Public Administration”

Resh, William, Nico Napolio**, and Keunyoung Lee**. “The Pivotal and Distributive Politics of Senate-Confirmed Appointee Vacancies,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, (Vol. 52, Iss. 1), 2022

Limbocker, Scott, William Resh, and Jennifer Selin. “Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (Vol. 32, Iss. 3), 2022 

Resh, William G., Cynthia B. Wilkes, & John D. Marvel.  “Red Tape and Citizen Engagement in Local Government: A Survey Experiment.” (Resubmitted at Public Management Review)Ahn, Yongjin and William G. Resh. “Bureaucratic Motivations in Political Economy: An Overview,” In Handbook of Research on Motivation in Public Administration, ed. Randall Davis and Edmund Stazyk. Edward Elgar, (Forthcoming) 2021.

Resh, William G., “The Administrative Presidency and the Degradation of the US Civil Service,” In Handbook of Public Administration, ed. Bart Hildreth. Routledge, 2021. 

Resh, William G., Gary Hollibaugh, Patrick Roberts, and Matthew Dull. “Appointee Vacancies in U.S. Executive Agencies, 1989-2012.” Journal of Public Policy, (Forthcoming) 2020

Resh, William G., Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, and Carmen Mooradian. “Emotional Labor Assessments and Episodic Recall Bias in Public Engagement,” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, (Forthcoming) 2020 

Resh, WIlliam G., "Politics and Policy by Other Means," Journal of Politics, 2020

Resh, William G., “Reversing the Lens: Assessing the Quality of Public Administration Research Using the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey,” Review of Public Personnel Administration, (Forthcoming) 2020 

Jilke, Sebastian, Asmus Olsen, William G. Resh, Sabba Siddikki. “Microbrook, Mesobrook, Macrobrook,” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, (Vol. 2, Issue 4) 2019 

Resh, William G., John D. Marvel, and Bo Wen. “Implicit and Explicit Motivation Crowding in Prosocial Work,” Public Performance & Management Review, 2019

John D. Marvel and William G. Resh. “An Unconscious Drive to Help Others? Using the Implicit Association Test to Measure Prosocial Motivation,” International Public Management Journal, Forthcoming 

Resh, William G., John D. Marvel, and Bo Wen. “The Persistence of Prosocial Work Efforts as a Function of Mission Match,” Public Administration Review, (Vol. 78, Issue 1) 2018 

Resh, William G., and Haram Lee Zook. “Public Administration as a Function of Executive and Legislative Power,” In Handbook of American Public Administration, ed. H. George Frederickson and Edmund Stazyk. Edward Elgar, 2018.

Resh, William G. "Review of Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment, by Gary Miller and Andrew Whitford,” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, (Vol. 27, Issue 3) 2017.

Resh, William G. “Research Note: The US Administrative Presidency and the Fundamental Flaw of Distrustful Leadership” Air Osservatorio, Feb. 16, 2016.

Moldogaziev, Tima, and William G. Resh. “A Systems Theory Approach to InnovationImplementation: Why Organizational Location Matters,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (Vol. 26, Issue 4) 2016

Resh, William G. Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration and Beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press—2015

*2019 Herbert Simon Award for Best Book in Public Administration, American Political Science Association

*2017 Best Book in Public Administration Research Award, American Society for Public Administration

Marvel, John D. and William G. Resh. “Client Demographics, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Representative Bureaucracy,” American Review of Public Administration, (Vol. 45, Issue 3) 2015

Fernandez, Sergio, William G. Resh, Tima Moldogaziev, and Zachary Oberfield. “Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Public Management Research: A Research Synthesis,” Public Administration Review, (Vol. 75, Issue 3) 2015

        *2016 William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article by an academic in Public Administration Review, American Society for Public Administration

Resh, William G., and Robert F. Durant. “Senior Executive Service.” In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 3rd Edition, ed. Melvin Dubnick and Domonic Bearfield. Taylor & Francis, 2015.

Resh, William G. “How Presidential Appointees (or Lack Thereof) Matter” Journal of Public Policy Blog, 2014.

Resh, William G., Saba Siddikki, and Will McConnell. “Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter? Examining the Role of Government Organizations in Aquaculture Partnerships,” Review of Policy Research, (Vol. 31, Issue 6) 2014

Resh, William G. “Appointee-Careerist Relations in the Presidential Transition of 2008-2009,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, (Vol. 44, Issue 4) 2014

Ross, Justin M., Joshua C. Hall, and William G. Resh. “Frictions in Polycentric Administration with Non-Congruent Borders: Evidence from Ohio School District Class Sizes,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, (Vol. 24, Issue 3) 2014.

Resh, William G., and David W. Pitts. “No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street-level Bureaucracies,” Public Administration Review, (Vol. 73, Issue 1) 2013.

Resh, William G., and John D. Marvel. “Loopholes to Load-Shed: Goal Displacement, Representative Bureaucracy, and Contract Management Capacity,” International Public Management Journal, (Vol. 15, Issue 4) 2012. (Note: Published postdate March 2013)

Resh, William G. “Who Participates Now… and Why? A Case Study of Modern Interest Participation and Bureaucratic Decision-Making in the Age of E-Government”. In E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy, ed. Aroon Manoharan and Marc Holzer. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, Inc., 2012.

Resh, William G. “Accommodating Risk Requires Managing Relationships,” Public Administration Review, (Vol. 72, Issue S1) 2012.

Durant, Robert F., Edmund Stazyk, and William G. Resh. “HRM, ‘Big Government’ Conservatism, and the Personnel Legacy of George W. Bush,” Review of Public Personnel Administration, (Vol. 30) 2010.

Durant, Robert F., Edmund Stazyk, and William G. Resh. “Faithful Infidelity: ‘Political Time’, George W. Bush, and the Paradox of ‘Big Government Conservatism’,” Review of Public Personnel Administration, (Vol. 30) 2010.

Resh, William G. “Review of Emotional Labor: Putting the Service in Public Service, by Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, and Sharon H. Mastracci,” Review of Public Personnel and Administration, June 2010.

Resh, William G. “Regulation Panel Summary” In What Do We Expect from Our Government? ed. Beryl Radin and Joshua Chanin. New York: Lexington Books, 2010.

Durant, Robert F., and William G. Resh. “‘Presidentializing’ the Bureaucracy.” In Handbook of the American Bureaucracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Durant, Robert F., and William G. Resh. “Presidential Agendas, Administrative Strategies, and the Bureaucracy,” with Robert F. Durant. In Handbook of the American Presidency, ed. George Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 

        *Book Award: 2009-2010 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the Presidency Research Section, American Political Science Association