Trevor E Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor E Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor E |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4418-1619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field‐Builder, Teacher, and Friend
Allan Rosenbaum was a dedicated public administration professor and administrator who made significant contributions to the field over his six‐decade career. He held various academic and administrative positions and played leadership roles in professional associations, becoming a global champion of public administration. Allan was known for his passion, humanity, decency, and friendship, which were evident in his professional contributions and th…
Why States Do or Do Not Privatize: Cross-Class Coalitions in the Public Sector
When do public services privatize, and when do they remain in the public's hands? The authors argue that one explanation lies in a counterintuitive coalition: labor and management. Unlike industrial relations in the private sector, those in the public sector are not necessarily antagonistic. When the interests of public sector workers and managers—the latter defined as those with supervisory responsibilities—are aligned, public services are less …
Rural Politics in the United States
Scholars of American politics have recently turned their attention to rural politics, aiming to understand the late twentieth and early twenty-first century nationwide shift of white rural voters to the Republican Party and the ensuing rural–urban political divide. We review research that assesses the potential causes of the rise of place-based polarization, including political–economic transformation, racism, ethnocentrism, and the growing salie…
The New Politics (and Political Science) of Workers’ Rights: A Review Article
In this article, I review Daniel J. Galvin's Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights and situate it within a renewed scholarly interest in the politics of work and labor in the American politics subfield. I argue the book highlights several strengths and weaknesses of the literature, including the book’s attention to how America's highly polarized and fragmented governing system structures the politics of workers’ rights. Galvin’s book,…
A rural-urban political divide among whom? Race, ethnicity, and political behavior across place
Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed a rural-urban political divide, as rural voters have become increasingly reliable Republican voters while long-term patterns of Democratic voting in the largest cities have also consolidated in many smaller cities and suburbs as well. Yet, although 1 in 4 rural dwellers now identify as people of color, research on the rural-urban divide has either mostly centered on the behavior and attitude…
Cross-Domain Policy Feedback: The Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining Rights for Health Care Workers
This article considers a significant but overlooked set of policy developments in the latter half of the twentieth century: the extension of collective bargaining rights to most health care workers, many of whom were formally excluded for three decades under the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments. Drawing on primary sources including archival records, an exhaustive review of congressional testimony, and rulings from the quasijudicial agency governing p…
Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020
As recently as the early 1990s, Americans living in rural and urban areas voted similarly in presidential elections, yet in the decades since, they have diverged sharply as rural people in all regions of the country have increasingly supported the Republican Party. We seek to explain the sources of this growing cleavage by examining two interrelated processes of change: political-economic transformation that elevated many urban areas and marginal…
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability
Throughout American history and as recently as the early 1990s, each of the major political parties included both rural and some urban constituencies, but since then the nation has become deeply divided geographically. Rural areas have become increasingly dominated by the Republican Party and urban places by the Democratic Party. This growing rural-urban divide is fostering polarization and democratic vulnerability. We examine why this cleavage m…
Autonomy versus control in procurement and contracting: The use of cost-reimbursement contracts in three US federal departments
This article examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts, by individual departments within a decentralized procurement system. We draw five years of data (Fiscal Years 2004–2008) from the Federal Procurement Data System to examine the contract type decisions of three US federal agencies: the Department of Health and Human Services, the Depar…
Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this symposium provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the symposium contribut…
Coercion versus Choice: Citizen Evaluations of Public Service Quality across Methods of Consumption
Treating all respondents to citizen satisfaction surveys as “customers” risks misinterpreting the findings and misguiding managerial decision making. Citizen evaluations of the quality of public services are likely to vary based on whether citizens have a direct or indirect relationship to the service. Furthermore, citizens are likely to rate services differently based on whether they consume the services as a result of coercion or choice, althou…
Contracting for management: Assessing management capacity under alternative service delivery arrangements
Contracting critics suggest that when governments outsource, they reduce their capacity to produce services and manage service delivery. In this paper, we decompose the service delivery decision into service production and service management components. When governments contract for service production, they may also choose to contract for a portion of service delivery management. Studies that only compare the management activities of contracting …
Did anybody know his name? Coverage of Steven Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa by the New York Times and the Washington Post 1969–1977
(1980). >Did anybody know his name? Coverage of Steven Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa by the New York Times and the Washington Post 1969–1977. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 29-49
Coercion versus Choice: Citizen Evaluations of Public Service Quality across Methods of Consumption
Treating all respondents to citizen satisfaction surveys as “customers” risks misinterpreting the findings and misguiding managerial decision making. Citizen evaluations of the quality of public services are likely to vary based on whether citizens have a direct or indirect relationship to the service. Furthermore, citizens are likely to rate services differently based on whether they consume the services as a result of coercion or choice, althou…
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability
Throughout American history and as recently as the early 1990s, each of the major political parties included both rural and some urban constituencies, but since then the nation has become deeply divided geographically. Rural areas have become increasingly dominated by the Republican Party and urban places by the Democratic Party. This growing rural-urban divide is fostering polarization and democratic vulnerability. We examine why this cleavage m…
Contracting for management: Assessing management capacity under alternative service delivery arrangements
Contracting critics suggest that when governments outsource, they reduce their capacity to produce services and manage service delivery. In this paper, we decompose the service delivery decision into service production and service management components. When governments contract for service production, they may also choose to contract for a portion of service delivery management. Studies that only compare the management activities of contracting …
Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020
As recently as the early 1990s, Americans living in rural and urban areas voted similarly in presidential elections, yet in the decades since, they have diverged sharply as rural people in all regions of the country have increasingly supported the Republican Party. We seek to explain the sources of this growing cleavage by examining two interrelated processes of change: political-economic transformation that elevated many urban areas and marginal…
Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this symposium provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the symposium contribut…
A rural-urban political divide among whom? Race, ethnicity, and political behavior across place
Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed a rural-urban political divide, as rural voters have become increasingly reliable Republican voters while long-term patterns of Democratic voting in the largest cities have also consolidated in many smaller cities and suburbs as well. Yet, although 1 in 4 rural dwellers now identify as people of color, research on the rural-urban divide has either mostly centered on the behavior and attitude…
Rural Politics in the United States
Scholars of American politics have recently turned their attention to rural politics, aiming to understand the late twentieth and early twenty-first century nationwide shift of white rural voters to the Republican Party and the ensuing rural–urban political divide. We review research that assesses the potential causes of the rise of place-based polarization, including political–economic transformation, racism, ethnocentrism, and the growing salie…
Autonomy versus control in procurement and contracting: The use of cost-reimbursement contracts in three US federal departments
This article examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts, by individual departments within a decentralized procurement system. We draw five years of data (Fiscal Years 2004–2008) from the Federal Procurement Data System to examine the contract type decisions of three US federal agencies: the Department of Health and Human Services, the Depar…
Did anybody know his name? Coverage of Steven Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa by the New York Times and the Washington Post 1969–1977
(1980). >Did anybody know his name? Coverage of Steven Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa by the New York Times and the Washington Post 1969–1977. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 29-49
Contracting for management: Assessing management capacity under alternative service delivery arrangements
Contracting critics suggest that when governments outsource, they reduce their capacity to produce services and manage service delivery. In this paper, we decompose the service delivery decision into service production and service management components. When governments contract for service production, they may also choose to contract for a portion of service delivery management. Studies that only compare the management activities of contracting …
Coercion versus Choice: Citizen Evaluations of Public Service Quality across Methods of Consumption
Treating all respondents to citizen satisfaction surveys as “customers” risks misinterpreting the findings and misguiding managerial decision making. Citizen evaluations of the quality of public services are likely to vary based on whether citizens have a direct or indirect relationship to the service. Furthermore, citizens are likely to rate services differently based on whether they consume the services as a result of coercion or choice, althou…
Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this symposium provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the symposium contribut…
Autonomy versus control in procurement and contracting: The use of cost-reimbursement contracts in three US federal departments
This article examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts, by individual departments within a decentralized procurement system. We draw five years of data (Fiscal Years 2004–2008) from the Federal Procurement Data System to examine the contract type decisions of three US federal agencies: the Department of Health and Human Services, the Depar…
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability
Throughout American history and as recently as the early 1990s, each of the major political parties included both rural and some urban constituencies, but since then the nation has become deeply divided geographically. Rural areas have become increasingly dominated by the Republican Party and urban places by the Democratic Party. This growing rural-urban divide is fostering polarization and democratic vulnerability. We examine why this cleavage m…
The New Politics (and Political Science) of Workers’ Rights: A Review Article
In this article, I review Daniel J. Galvin's Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights and situate it within a renewed scholarly interest in the politics of work and labor in the American politics subfield. I argue the book highlights several strengths and weaknesses of the literature, including the book’s attention to how America's highly polarized and fragmented governing system structures the politics of workers’ rights. Galvin’s book,…
A rural-urban political divide among whom? Race, ethnicity, and political behavior across place
Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed a rural-urban political divide, as rural voters have become increasingly reliable Republican voters while long-term patterns of Democratic voting in the largest cities have also consolidated in many smaller cities and suburbs as well. Yet, although 1 in 4 rural dwellers now identify as people of color, research on the rural-urban divide has either mostly centered on the behavior and attitude…
Cross-Domain Policy Feedback: The Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining Rights for Health Care Workers
This article considers a significant but overlooked set of policy developments in the latter half of the twentieth century: the extension of collective bargaining rights to most health care workers, many of whom were formally excluded for three decades under the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments. Drawing on primary sources including archival records, an exhaustive review of congressional testimony, and rulings from the quasijudicial agency governing p…
Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020
As recently as the early 1990s, Americans living in rural and urban areas voted similarly in presidential elections, yet in the decades since, they have diverged sharply as rural people in all regions of the country have increasingly supported the Republican Party. We seek to explain the sources of this growing cleavage by examining two interrelated processes of change: political-economic transformation that elevated many urban areas and marginal…
The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field‐Builder, Teacher, and Friend
Allan Rosenbaum was a dedicated public administration professor and administrator who made significant contributions to the field over his six‐decade career. He held various academic and administrative positions and played leadership roles in professional associations, becoming a global champion of public administration. Allan was known for his passion, humanity, decency, and friendship, which were evident in his professional contributions and th…
Why States Do or Do Not Privatize: Cross-Class Coalitions in the Public Sector
When do public services privatize, and when do they remain in the public's hands? The authors argue that one explanation lies in a counterintuitive coalition: labor and management. Unlike industrial relations in the private sector, those in the public sector are not necessarily antagonistic. When the interests of public sector workers and managers—the latter defined as those with supervisory responsibilities—are aligned, public services are less …
Rural Politics in the United States
Scholars of American politics have recently turned their attention to rural politics, aiming to understand the late twentieth and early twenty-first century nationwide shift of white rural voters to the Republican Party and the ensuing rural–urban political divide. We review research that assesses the potential causes of the rise of place-based polarization, including political–economic transformation, racism, ethnocentrism, and the growing salie…
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