Travis A Whetsell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4385242 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Travis A Whetsell |
| NOMBRES | Travis A |
| APELLIDO | Whetsell |
| FIRMA | WHETSELL T A |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5395-4754 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Human-centered Evaluation and Assessment for Resilience (Hear)
Paving the way for collaborative resilience planning
Data Mining for Community Resilience
Achieving community resilience is a complex task, as there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can be applied uniformly across all communities. Communities with unique characteristics (e.g., geographic, demographic, and social vulnerabilities) require tailored resilience strategies aligned with their stakeholders’ values and priorities. Stakeholder values refer to the things that are of importance, merit, and provide utilities to stakeholders…
Academic freedom and international research collaboration
Amid a global wave of democratic backsliding, research collaboration across borders has become increasingly fraught. Yet, the international research collaboration (IRC) network continues to grow. This article analyzes the effects of academic freedom on the evolution of the IRC network in 166 countries from 1993 to 2022. Data are drawn from Web of Science to construct three longitudinal networks in science and technology (ST), the social sciences …
Roundtable
Enhancing collaborative resilience planning
Resilience planning necessitates the integration of diverse stakeholder values – the things that matter most to stakeholders – to formulate strategies that are effective and inclusive. However, stakeholders from different sectors (e.g., public, private, non-profit) hold numerous values with varying degrees of importance, forming their unique value systems. The divergent value systems can become a root cause of conflicts and impede consensus reach…
Applied Causal Inference in Public Sector Networks
Public administration research has increasingly turned to network analysis to understand complex inter‐organizational and interpersonal dynamics. While the discipline has made significant progress in analyzing networks, it has yet to adequately address causality. This gap limits our ability to provide evidence‐based insights to practitioners who must make strategic decisions within networks. This article calls for the systematic integration of ca…
Developing an index of national research capacity
We test the feasibility of incorporating broad social, political, and governance indicators with standard metrics as a way to enrich assessment of national research capacity. We factor analyze two sets of variables for 174 countries from 2012 to 2021, one being tradtional measures associated with national science and technology capacity, such as spending, and a second being broader social, political, and governance measures, such as academic free…
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities
With the growing number of opioid-related deaths, many local governments are assembling collaborations with the goal of providing timely and tangible responses to the overdose epidemic. Although the purpose of such collaborations is to bring multi-sector stakeholders together to provide policy recommendations, the inclusion of organizations with divergent interests and differing levels of power can open the collaboration to capture by special int…
Analyzing Multisector Stakeholder Collaboration and Engagement in Housing Resilience Planning in Greater Miami and the Beaches through Social Network Analysis
Housing resilience planning is a challenging process that requires active participation of multisector stakeholders, including public agencies, private industries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academia, and community residents. Despite the importance of multisector stakeholder collaboration and engagement, there is limited understanding of how stakeholders collaborate and engage in housing resilience planning. To address this gap, this s…
Network Interventions
Public management and policy scholars have engaged in extensive development of theory and empirical study of networks and collaborative systems of governance. This scholarship has focused on understanding the mechanisms of network formation and the implications of network properties on individual and collective outcomes. Despite rich descriptive work and inferential analyses, little work has attempted to intervene in these systems. In this articl…
What Is The Public ? A Pragmatic Analysis of a Core Concept in Public Administration
The discipline of public administration has grappled with concepts regarding the public for well over a century. Scholars from public opinion, public choice, and public value(s) have analyzed myriad elements of administration related to the public. Scholars also have applied numerous concepts from philosophical pragmatism to public administration. However, detailed explorations of the fundamental concept of the public remain surprisingly sparse. …
Centrally administered state-owned enterprises’ engagement in China’s public–private partnerships
A salient characteristic of China’s public–pgrivate partnerships (PPPs) is the deep involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those administered by the central/national government (CSOEs). In this research social network analysis (SNA) was used to examine the role of different actors in transport and environmental protection PPPs in China in the period 2012–17. The results largely confirm the resource-based view and resource-dep…
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks
Attention to informal communication networks within public organizations has grown in recent decades. While research has documented the role of individual cognition and social structure in understanding information search in organizations, this article emphasizes the importance of formal hierarchy. We argue that the structural attributes of bureaucracies are too important to be neglected when modeling knowledge flows in public organizations. Empi…
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
International research collaboration
Philosophy for Public Administration
The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration
This article explores the development of three features of positivism from the 1800s to the present: the unity of science, the verification criterion of meaning, and the empiricist observation language. The development of these features is demonstrated in the mid-20th century public administration (PA) literature and in the self-reflective literature of the last three decades. Contemporary positivism has been substantially moderated: The verifica…
Theory-Pluralism in Public Administration
Neopragmatists in public administration (PA) consistently argue that neopragmatism upgrades regular pragmatism. This claim rests on the contention that pragmatism is host to epistemic foundationalism, which undercuts legitimacy in PA. This article provides a new refutation of the upgrade claim, dissolving the hard-link constructed between epistemology and legitimacy by articulating theory-pluralism in research methods. Haack’s “Analytic Framework…
Reconciling the Varieties of Pragmatism in Public Administration
Pragmatism has become a topic of growing discussion in public administration, as demonstrated by ongoing debate within the pages of Administration & Society. Karen Evans recently argued that the pervasive influence of logical positivism has produced a public administration, dominated by an ethically vacuous overemphasis on efficiency. Keith Snider recently responded to Evans by pointing toward confusion arising from debates between competing vari…
Theory-Pluralism in Public Administration
Neopragmatists in public administration (PA) consistently argue that neopragmatism upgrades regular pragmatism. This claim rests on the contention that pragmatism is host to epistemic foundationalism, which undercuts legitimacy in PA. This article provides a new refutation of the upgrade claim, dissolving the hard-link constructed between epistemology and legitimacy by articulating theory-pluralism in research methods. Haack’s “Analytic Framework…
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks
Attention to informal communication networks within public organizations has grown in recent decades. While research has documented the role of individual cognition and social structure in understanding information search in organizations, this article emphasizes the importance of formal hierarchy. We argue that the structural attributes of bureaucracies are too important to be neglected when modeling knowledge flows in public organizations. Empi…
Reconciling the Varieties of Pragmatism in Public Administration
Pragmatism has become a topic of growing discussion in public administration, as demonstrated by ongoing debate within the pages of Administration & Society. Karen Evans recently argued that the pervasive influence of logical positivism has produced a public administration, dominated by an ethically vacuous overemphasis on efficiency. Keith Snider recently responded to Evans by pointing toward confusion arising from debates between competing vari…
The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration
This article explores the development of three features of positivism from the 1800s to the present: the unity of science, the verification criterion of meaning, and the empiricist observation language. The development of these features is demonstrated in the mid-20th century public administration (PA) literature and in the self-reflective literature of the last three decades. Contemporary positivism has been substantially moderated: The verifica…
Centrally administered state-owned enterprises’ engagement in China’s public–private partnerships
A salient characteristic of China’s public–pgrivate partnerships (PPPs) is the deep involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those administered by the central/national government (CSOEs). In this research social network analysis (SNA) was used to examine the role of different actors in transport and environmental protection PPPs in China in the period 2012–17. The results largely confirm the resource-based view and resource-dep…
Reconciling the Varieties of Pragmatism in Public Administration
Pragmatism has become a topic of growing discussion in public administration, as demonstrated by ongoing debate within the pages of Administration & Society. Karen Evans recently argued that the pervasive influence of logical positivism has produced a public administration, dominated by an ethically vacuous overemphasis on efficiency. Keith Snider recently responded to Evans by pointing toward confusion arising from debates between competing vari…
Theory-Pluralism in Public Administration
Neopragmatists in public administration (PA) consistently argue that neopragmatism upgrades regular pragmatism. This claim rests on the contention that pragmatism is host to epistemic foundationalism, which undercuts legitimacy in PA. This article provides a new refutation of the upgrade claim, dissolving the hard-link constructed between epistemology and legitimacy by articulating theory-pluralism in research methods. Haack’s “Analytic Framework…
The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration
This article explores the development of three features of positivism from the 1800s to the present: the unity of science, the verification criterion of meaning, and the empiricist observation language. The development of these features is demonstrated in the mid-20th century public administration (PA) literature and in the self-reflective literature of the last three decades. Contemporary positivism has been substantially moderated: The verifica…
Philosophy for Public Administration
International research collaboration
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
Centrally administered state-owned enterprises’ engagement in China’s public–private partnerships
A salient characteristic of China’s public–pgrivate partnerships (PPPs) is the deep involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those administered by the central/national government (CSOEs). In this research social network analysis (SNA) was used to examine the role of different actors in transport and environmental protection PPPs in China in the period 2012–17. The results largely confirm the resource-based view and resource-dep…
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks
Attention to informal communication networks within public organizations has grown in recent decades. While research has documented the role of individual cognition and social structure in understanding information search in organizations, this article emphasizes the importance of formal hierarchy. We argue that the structural attributes of bureaucracies are too important to be neglected when modeling knowledge flows in public organizations. Empi…
Analyzing Multisector Stakeholder Collaboration and Engagement in Housing Resilience Planning in Greater Miami and the Beaches through Social Network Analysis
Housing resilience planning is a challenging process that requires active participation of multisector stakeholders, including public agencies, private industries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academia, and community residents. Despite the importance of multisector stakeholder collaboration and engagement, there is limited understanding of how stakeholders collaborate and engage in housing resilience planning. To address this gap, this s…
Network Interventions
Public management and policy scholars have engaged in extensive development of theory and empirical study of networks and collaborative systems of governance. This scholarship has focused on understanding the mechanisms of network formation and the implications of network properties on individual and collective outcomes. Despite rich descriptive work and inferential analyses, little work has attempted to intervene in these systems. In this articl…
What Is The Public ? A Pragmatic Analysis of a Core Concept in Public Administration
The discipline of public administration has grappled with concepts regarding the public for well over a century. Scholars from public opinion, public choice, and public value(s) have analyzed myriad elements of administration related to the public. Scholars also have applied numerous concepts from philosophical pragmatism to public administration. However, detailed explorations of the fundamental concept of the public remain surprisingly sparse. …
Developing an index of national research capacity
We test the feasibility of incorporating broad social, political, and governance indicators with standard metrics as a way to enrich assessment of national research capacity. We factor analyze two sets of variables for 174 countries from 2012 to 2021, one being tradtional measures associated with national science and technology capacity, such as spending, and a second being broader social, political, and governance measures, such as academic free…
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities
With the growing number of opioid-related deaths, many local governments are assembling collaborations with the goal of providing timely and tangible responses to the overdose epidemic. Although the purpose of such collaborations is to bring multi-sector stakeholders together to provide policy recommendations, the inclusion of organizations with divergent interests and differing levels of power can open the collaboration to capture by special int…
Paving the way for collaborative resilience planning
Data Mining for Community Resilience
Achieving community resilience is a complex task, as there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can be applied uniformly across all communities. Communities with unique characteristics (e.g., geographic, demographic, and social vulnerabilities) require tailored resilience strategies aligned with their stakeholders’ values and priorities. Stakeholder values refer to the things that are of importance, merit, and provide utilities to stakeholders…
Academic freedom and international research collaboration
Amid a global wave of democratic backsliding, research collaboration across borders has become increasingly fraught. Yet, the international research collaboration (IRC) network continues to grow. This article analyzes the effects of academic freedom on the evolution of the IRC network in 166 countries from 1993 to 2022. Data are drawn from Web of Science to construct three longitudinal networks in science and technology (ST), the social sciences …
Roundtable
Enhancing collaborative resilience planning
Resilience planning necessitates the integration of diverse stakeholder values – the things that matter most to stakeholders – to formulate strategies that are effective and inclusive. However, stakeholders from different sectors (e.g., public, private, non-profit) hold numerous values with varying degrees of importance, forming their unique value systems. The divergent value systems can become a root cause of conflicts and impede consensus reach…
Applied Causal Inference in Public Sector Networks
Public administration research has increasingly turned to network analysis to understand complex inter‐organizational and interpersonal dynamics. While the discipline has made significant progress in analyzing networks, it has yet to adequately address causality. This gap limits our ability to provide evidence‐based insights to practitioners who must make strategic decisions within networks. This article calls for the systematic integration of ca…
Human-centered Evaluation and Assessment for Resilience (Hear)
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