Ryan J Lofaro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4385643 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ryan J Lofaro |
| NOMBRES | Ryan J |
| APELLIDO | Lofaro |
| FIRMA | LOFARO R J |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4672-9169 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Representative Bureaucracy and Administrative Burdens
Lived experience representative bureaucracy theory has expanded the scope of representative bureaucracy by exploring traits beyond race, ethnicity, and gender. However, scholars have yet to focus on the intersection of symbolic representation, intersectionality, and professional qualities. In this article, we employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory and intersectionality theory to understand which identities (veteran status, gend…
Service-learning in rural contexts
Community-based service-learning projects have demonstrated their effectiveness in helping students understand concepts in public service education through hands-on, experiential activities; however, little is known about the implementation of service-learning pedagogy in rural settings and its implications for public administration. This article employs a multiple case study approach to examine the application of service-learning graduate course…
Who's Most at Risk? Examining Suicide Characteristics in Primary and Secondary Educators
Educators are facing unprecedented pressures inside and outside of the classroom. While much has been learned about the wellbeing of primary and secondary students, educators' health and welfare remains less studied. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of educator suicide in the United States, addressing gaps in the literature by exploring demographic risk factors, temporal dynamics, and methods. The National Violent Death Report…
Rural and urban differences in treatment on demand for substance use treatment involving medications for opioid use disorder
PURPOSE: Research has found that the use of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) varies across the rural-urban divide; however, relationships between rurality, MOUD, and substance use treatment wait times remain underexplored. This study analyzes associations between rurality, MOUD usage, and immediate access to outpatient treatment-that is, "treatment on demand"-in the United States. METHODS: Using 2021-2022 Treatment Episode Data Set Admi…
Bridging the gaps
PURPOSE: Recovery community centers (RCCs) offer a range of non-clinical services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder (SUD). RCCs may play an important role in addressing rural service gaps. This study aims to increase our understanding of how rural RCCs address SUD, including how they serve individuals receiving medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). METHODS: We conducted a mixed methods study consisting of pre-interview…
Protecting the Citadel of Democracy
Our study contributes to the representative bureaucracy theory literature by testing the significance of majority identity, masculinity, and partisanship on responsiveness to social unrest. This study analyzes the responsiveness of police chiefs within the first week of the U.S. Capitol attack in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, 2021. Data are retrieved from social media accounts of police chiefs within local jurisdictions with at least 200,000 …
Understanding problematic substance use among first responders during the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond the 5-year recovery mark
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience
Representative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. The purpose of this article is to employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory to understand th…
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination
The representative bureaucracy theory literature has often focused on the viewpoints, attitudes, and actions of minoritized groups rather than the racial majority, with studies predominately analyzing representative capacities tied to race, ethnicity, and gender. The current research employs both racial and lived experience representation lenses to analyze the viewpoints of non-Hispanic white public servants regarding the deservingness of white, …
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
Death, actually
In this article, we seek to illuminate the public sector relevance of the weighty subject of death, and to identify the stakes in avoiding the subject. Our purpose is to unlearn silence about Public Administration’s (PA’s) potential role in understanding, communicating, and addressing the avoidable and unavoidable in human death and suffering. At this time, death seems to be all around, and at the same time, nowhere. Contending that the academic …
Policy responsiveness and institutions in a federal system
Examining year-end spending spikes in the European Economic Area
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze year-end spending practices in the European Economic Area (EEA) to baseline the pervasiveness of year-end spending spikes across countries in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The Tenders Electronic Daily dataset is used to descriptively analyze above-threshold procurement contracts by country, year and contract type from 2009 to 2018. Proportional distributions are employed to compare percentages…
Political contestation in policy implementation
The policy literature increasingly recognizes the political dynamics in play during implementation, including participation and competition. Yet the complexity of policy contestation following enactment confounds scholars’ efforts to generalize. Predictive generalization is not the end-goal of narrative inquiry, yet it a useful approach to the study of political competition. Using the Narrative Politics model to analyze a needle exchange program …
Narrative Politics in Policy Discourse
Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have proposed the sites as a means to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the city, a policy proposal that has been politically and legally contested. This article uses the Narrative Politics model to elucidate the concerns, values, and aspirat…
Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the Covid-19 pandemic
Prisons and jails throughout the United States have reduced their populations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It is posited herein that as a result of the pandemic, criminals have been subcategorized and given preferential treatment based on their degree of deviance. Applying the salient target populations concept, it is argued that public officials have been able to "cherry pick" criminals with a more positive construction—e.g., the nonviolen…
Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the Covid-19 pandemic
Prisons and jails throughout the United States have reduced their populations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It is posited herein that as a result of the pandemic, criminals have been subcategorized and given preferential treatment based on their degree of deviance. Applying the salient target populations concept, it is argued that public officials have been able to "cherry pick" criminals with a more positive construction—e.g., the nonviolen…
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
Political contestation in policy implementation
The policy literature increasingly recognizes the political dynamics in play during implementation, including participation and competition. Yet the complexity of policy contestation following enactment confounds scholars’ efforts to generalize. Predictive generalization is not the end-goal of narrative inquiry, yet it a useful approach to the study of political competition. Using the Narrative Politics model to analyze a needle exchange program …
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience
Representative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. The purpose of this article is to employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory to understand th…
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination
The representative bureaucracy theory literature has often focused on the viewpoints, attitudes, and actions of minoritized groups rather than the racial majority, with studies predominately analyzing representative capacities tied to race, ethnicity, and gender. The current research employs both racial and lived experience representation lenses to analyze the viewpoints of non-Hispanic white public servants regarding the deservingness of white, …
Death, actually
In this article, we seek to illuminate the public sector relevance of the weighty subject of death, and to identify the stakes in avoiding the subject. Our purpose is to unlearn silence about Public Administration’s (PA’s) potential role in understanding, communicating, and addressing the avoidable and unavoidable in human death and suffering. At this time, death seems to be all around, and at the same time, nowhere. Contending that the academic …
Narrative Politics in Policy Discourse
Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have proposed the sites as a means to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the city, a policy proposal that has been politically and legally contested. This article uses the Narrative Politics model to elucidate the concerns, values, and aspirat…
Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the Covid-19 pandemic
Prisons and jails throughout the United States have reduced their populations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It is posited herein that as a result of the pandemic, criminals have been subcategorized and given preferential treatment based on their degree of deviance. Applying the salient target populations concept, it is argued that public officials have been able to "cherry pick" criminals with a more positive construction—e.g., the nonviolen…
Examining year-end spending spikes in the European Economic Area
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze year-end spending practices in the European Economic Area (EEA) to baseline the pervasiveness of year-end spending spikes across countries in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The Tenders Electronic Daily dataset is used to descriptively analyze above-threshold procurement contracts by country, year and contract type from 2009 to 2018. Proportional distributions are employed to compare percentages…
Political contestation in policy implementation
The policy literature increasingly recognizes the political dynamics in play during implementation, including participation and competition. Yet the complexity of policy contestation following enactment confounds scholars’ efforts to generalize. Predictive generalization is not the end-goal of narrative inquiry, yet it a useful approach to the study of political competition. Using the Narrative Politics model to analyze a needle exchange program …
Narrative Politics in Policy Discourse
Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have proposed the sites as a means to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the city, a policy proposal that has been politically and legally contested. This article uses the Narrative Politics model to elucidate the concerns, values, and aspirat…
Policy responsiveness and institutions in a federal system
Death, actually
In this article, we seek to illuminate the public sector relevance of the weighty subject of death, and to identify the stakes in avoiding the subject. Our purpose is to unlearn silence about Public Administration’s (PA’s) potential role in understanding, communicating, and addressing the avoidable and unavoidable in human death and suffering. At this time, death seems to be all around, and at the same time, nowhere. Contending that the academic …
Understanding problematic substance use among first responders during the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond the 5-year recovery mark
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience
Representative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. The purpose of this article is to employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory to understand th…
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination
The representative bureaucracy theory literature has often focused on the viewpoints, attitudes, and actions of minoritized groups rather than the racial majority, with studies predominately analyzing representative capacities tied to race, ethnicity, and gender. The current research employs both racial and lived experience representation lenses to analyze the viewpoints of non-Hispanic white public servants regarding the deservingness of white, …
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
Rural and urban differences in treatment on demand for substance use treatment involving medications for opioid use disorder
PURPOSE: Research has found that the use of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) varies across the rural-urban divide; however, relationships between rurality, MOUD, and substance use treatment wait times remain underexplored. This study analyzes associations between rurality, MOUD usage, and immediate access to outpatient treatment-that is, "treatment on demand"-in the United States. METHODS: Using 2021-2022 Treatment Episode Data Set Admi…
Bridging the gaps
PURPOSE: Recovery community centers (RCCs) offer a range of non-clinical services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder (SUD). RCCs may play an important role in addressing rural service gaps. This study aims to increase our understanding of how rural RCCs address SUD, including how they serve individuals receiving medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). METHODS: We conducted a mixed methods study consisting of pre-interview…
Protecting the Citadel of Democracy
Our study contributes to the representative bureaucracy theory literature by testing the significance of majority identity, masculinity, and partisanship on responsiveness to social unrest. This study analyzes the responsiveness of police chiefs within the first week of the U.S. Capitol attack in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, 2021. Data are retrieved from social media accounts of police chiefs within local jurisdictions with at least 200,000 …
Representative Bureaucracy and Administrative Burdens
Lived experience representative bureaucracy theory has expanded the scope of representative bureaucracy by exploring traits beyond race, ethnicity, and gender. However, scholars have yet to focus on the intersection of symbolic representation, intersectionality, and professional qualities. In this article, we employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory and intersectionality theory to understand which identities (veteran status, gend…
Service-learning in rural contexts
Community-based service-learning projects have demonstrated their effectiveness in helping students understand concepts in public service education through hands-on, experiential activities; however, little is known about the implementation of service-learning pedagogy in rural settings and its implications for public administration. This article employs a multiple case study approach to examine the application of service-learning graduate course…
Who's Most at Risk? Examining Suicide Characteristics in Primary and Secondary Educators
Educators are facing unprecedented pressures inside and outside of the classroom. While much has been learned about the wellbeing of primary and secondary students, educators' health and welfare remains less studied. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of educator suicide in the United States, addressing gaps in the literature by exploring demographic risk factors, temporal dynamics, and methods. The National Violent Death Report…
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