Jesse D Lecy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1736600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse D Lecy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lecy |
| SIGNATURE | LECY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4974-0782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Advancing an Understanding of the Regulatory Environments in which Nonprofits Operate Through the Creation and Digitization of an Open-Source Legal Compendium of Nonprofit Law
We discuss the research process and outcomes related to updating and integrating two datasets containing information on nonprofit regulations: (1) the Legal Compendium (LC), a publicly available online resource that identifies important legal requirements for nonprofits in 56 U.S. states and jurisdictions, created in consultation with state charity regulators and (2) the Legal Text Data (LTD), a repository of digitized text of state regulatory st…
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship
This paper charts the rapid rise of data science methodologies in manuscripts published in top journals for third sector scholarship, indicating their growing importance to research in the field. We draw on critical quantitative theory (QuantCrit) to challenge the assumed neutrality of data science insights that are especially prone to misrepresentation and unbalanced treatment of sub-groups (i.e., those marginalized and minoritized because of th…
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes have become the primary classifier of nonprofit missions since they were developed in the mid-1980s in response to growing demands for a taxonomy of nonprofit activities (Herman in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 19(3):293–306, 1990, Barman in Social Science History 37:103–141, 2013). However, the increasingly complex nature of nonprofits means that NTEE codes may be outdated or lack spec…
Artificial Discretion as a Tool of Governance: A Framework for Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Public Administration
Public administration research has documented a shift in the locus of discretion away from street-level bureaucrats to “systems-level bureaucracies” as a result of new information communication technologies that automate bureaucratic processes, and thus shape access to resources and decisions around enforcement and punishment. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are accelerating these trends, potentially altering discretion in public managem…
Disciplinary Divides in Post-Conflict Justice and Peace: Tracking If and How we Share Ideas
Peer reviewed
Networks in Public Administration: Current scholarship in review
Network-focused research in public administration has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid growth has created come confusion about terminology and approaches to research in the field. We organize the network literature in public administration using compact citation networks to identify coherent subdomains focused on (1) policy formation, (2) governance and (3) policy implementation. We trace how these domains differ in their ap…
Defining the Universe of Social Enterprise: Competing Metaphors
After more than a decade of research the debate over social enterprise definitions and classifications continues. EMES network in Europe argues that there is an ideal type of social enterprise to which all ventures should aspire. The spectrum approach emphasizes the trade-off between pure profit-making and social impact, locating organizations on this continuum. The Schumpeterians take innovation as its central focus, arguing that the disruption …
Nonprofit Sector Growth and Density: Testing Theories of Government Support
Theories of nonprofit density have assumed a variety of dispositions toward the state, including opposition, suspicion, indifference, and mutual dependence. In this article, we conduct the first large-scale simultaneous empirical test of the two most prominent nonprofit theories: government failure theory and interdependence theory. The former characterizes nonprofit activities as substitute or oppositional to state programs, accounting for the l…
The impact of psychological trauma on wages in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Semantic Network Analysis of Changes in North Korea's Economic Policy
To shed light on the inner workings of policymaking in North Korea, this study examined the process behind economic policy change through an analysis of the official state economics journal. Semantic networks are used to trace the introduction and evolution of policies during four distinct economic periods in North Korean history between 1986 and 2009. Although reform is catalyzed by political and economic crises, the emergence of new policy topi…
Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis
NGO/NPO effectiveness remains a prominent concern for scholars and practitioners, but the literature on this issue is increasingly fragmented along disciplinary lines. We address this problem by presenting a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of the literature on NGO and NPO effectiveness using citation analysis. In order to uncover commonalities across disciplines concerned with similar questions, we deploy a structured literature review…
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because i…
Nonprofit Sector Growth and Density: Testing Theories of Government Support
Theories of nonprofit density have assumed a variety of dispositions toward the state, including opposition, suspicion, indifference, and mutual dependence. In this article, we conduct the first large-scale simultaneous empirical test of the two most prominent nonprofit theories: government failure theory and interdependence theory. The former characterizes nonprofit activities as substitute or oppositional to state programs, accounting for the l…
Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis
NGO/NPO effectiveness remains a prominent concern for scholars and practitioners, but the literature on this issue is increasingly fragmented along disciplinary lines. We address this problem by presenting a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of the literature on NGO and NPO effectiveness using citation analysis. In order to uncover commonalities across disciplines concerned with similar questions, we deploy a structured literature review…
Defining the Universe of Social Enterprise: Competing Metaphors
After more than a decade of research the debate over social enterprise definitions and classifications continues. EMES network in Europe argues that there is an ideal type of social enterprise to which all ventures should aspire. The spectrum approach emphasizes the trade-off between pure profit-making and social impact, locating organizations on this continuum. The Schumpeterians take innovation as its central focus, arguing that the disruption …
Disciplinary Divides in Post-Conflict Justice and Peace: Tracking If and How we Share Ideas
Peer reviewed
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes have become the primary classifier of nonprofit missions since they were developed in the mid-1980s in response to growing demands for a taxonomy of nonprofit activities (Herman in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 19(3):293–306, 1990, Barman in Social Science History 37:103–141, 2013). However, the increasingly complex nature of nonprofits means that NTEE codes may be outdated or lack spec…
A Semantic Network Analysis of Changes in North Korea's Economic Policy
To shed light on the inner workings of policymaking in North Korea, this study examined the process behind economic policy change through an analysis of the official state economics journal. Semantic networks are used to trace the introduction and evolution of policies during four distinct economic periods in North Korean history between 1986 and 2009. Although reform is catalyzed by political and economic crises, the emergence of new policy topi…
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship
This paper charts the rapid rise of data science methodologies in manuscripts published in top journals for third sector scholarship, indicating their growing importance to research in the field. We draw on critical quantitative theory (QuantCrit) to challenge the assumed neutrality of data science insights that are especially prone to misrepresentation and unbalanced treatment of sub-groups (i.e., those marginalized and minoritized because of th…
The impact of psychological trauma on wages in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because i…
Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis
NGO/NPO effectiveness remains a prominent concern for scholars and practitioners, but the literature on this issue is increasingly fragmented along disciplinary lines. We address this problem by presenting a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of the literature on NGO and NPO effectiveness using citation analysis. In order to uncover commonalities across disciplines concerned with similar questions, we deploy a structured literature review…
A Semantic Network Analysis of Changes in North Korea's Economic Policy
To shed light on the inner workings of policymaking in North Korea, this study examined the process behind economic policy change through an analysis of the official state economics journal. Semantic networks are used to trace the introduction and evolution of policies during four distinct economic periods in North Korean history between 1986 and 2009. Although reform is catalyzed by political and economic crises, the emergence of new policy topi…
Defining the Universe of Social Enterprise: Competing Metaphors
After more than a decade of research the debate over social enterprise definitions and classifications continues. EMES network in Europe argues that there is an ideal type of social enterprise to which all ventures should aspire. The spectrum approach emphasizes the trade-off between pure profit-making and social impact, locating organizations on this continuum. The Schumpeterians take innovation as its central focus, arguing that the disruption …
Nonprofit Sector Growth and Density: Testing Theories of Government Support
Theories of nonprofit density have assumed a variety of dispositions toward the state, including opposition, suspicion, indifference, and mutual dependence. In this article, we conduct the first large-scale simultaneous empirical test of the two most prominent nonprofit theories: government failure theory and interdependence theory. The former characterizes nonprofit activities as substitute or oppositional to state programs, accounting for the l…
The impact of psychological trauma on wages in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
Networks in Public Administration: Current scholarship in review
Network-focused research in public administration has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid growth has created come confusion about terminology and approaches to research in the field. We organize the network literature in public administration using compact citation networks to identify coherent subdomains focused on (1) policy formation, (2) governance and (3) policy implementation. We trace how these domains differ in their ap…
Disciplinary Divides in Post-Conflict Justice and Peace: Tracking If and How we Share Ideas
Peer reviewed
Artificial Discretion as a Tool of Governance: A Framework for Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Public Administration
Public administration research has documented a shift in the locus of discretion away from street-level bureaucrats to “systems-level bureaucracies” as a result of new information communication technologies that automate bureaucratic processes, and thus shape access to resources and decisions around enforcement and punishment. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are accelerating these trends, potentially altering discretion in public managem…
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes have become the primary classifier of nonprofit missions since they were developed in the mid-1980s in response to growing demands for a taxonomy of nonprofit activities (Herman in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 19(3):293–306, 1990, Barman in Social Science History 37:103–141, 2013). However, the increasingly complex nature of nonprofits means that NTEE codes may be outdated or lack spec…
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship
This paper charts the rapid rise of data science methodologies in manuscripts published in top journals for third sector scholarship, indicating their growing importance to research in the field. We draw on critical quantitative theory (QuantCrit) to challenge the assumed neutrality of data science insights that are especially prone to misrepresentation and unbalanced treatment of sub-groups (i.e., those marginalized and minoritized because of th…
Advancing an Understanding of the Regulatory Environments in which Nonprofits Operate Through the Creation and Digitization of an Open-Source Legal Compendium of Nonprofit Law
We discuss the research process and outcomes related to updating and integrating two datasets containing information on nonprofit regulations: (1) the Legal Compendium (LC), a publicly available online resource that identifies important legal requirements for nonprofits in 56 U.S. states and jurisdictions, created in consultation with state charity regulators and (2) the Legal Text Data (LTD), a repository of digitized text of state regulatory st…
Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social science (4 works)