Tina Nabatchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Nabatchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nabatchi |
| SIGNATURE | NABATCHI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1410-3647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1265 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Collaboration as a Tool for Equity? Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Access
Despite its importance in theory and practice, little is known about whether, how, when, and for whom a collaborative governance strategy achieves socially equitable outcomes. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences design and data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we analyze how well Oregon counties that adopted collaborative governance bridge racial disparities in healthcare access compared to non‐adopting counties. We fi…
Monetary and symbolic rewards: Do they matter for fostering co-commissioning and co-delivery of public services
Using a between-subject online survey experiment conducted in Italy, this article investigates the impact of monetary and symbolic rewards on the willingness of citizens to co-deliver and co-commission public services, and the extent to which service salience moderates this relationship. The results show that both monetary and symbolic rewards have a positive impact on co-commissioning, but no significant effects on co-delivery. Moreover, service…
Public administration and the governance of refugee camps
Despite extensive research on the sociopolitical conditions of refugees and camp life, little is known about the governance of refugee camps. This is concerning given the importance of governance in meeting refugee needs, upholding rights, and providing opportunities. In this essay, we explore the relevance of refugee camps to major areas of public administration research and examine possible challenges the field might face in studying refugee ca…
A “Watershed” Moment for Collaboration: The Impacts of Legislation and Network Governance on Environmental Outcomes
Cross‐boundary collaboration is a common strategy used to address environmental issues, but scholars do not yet fully understand what makes a difference in the outcomes of externally directed collaborations. To fill this gap, we examine whether a piece of state legislation that authorizes collaborative watershed restoration projects improves water quality. Using Oregon data from 1980 to 2021 and a regression discontinuity in time design, we find …
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations
Participatory budgeting (PB) fosters community engagement in the allocation of public funds. Although its popularity has diminished in general-purpose governments, it is gaining traction in school districts. Yet research on PB’s managerial implications remains scarce. This study analyzes a PB process in a New York school district, examining key stages, participants, and engagement dynamics using quantitative and qualitative data. Our findings und…
Evaluating and extending public service logic – introduction to the special issue
This special issue of Public Management Review, Public Service Logic – Evaluation and Development, seeks both to evaluate the current body of Public Service Logic (PSL) knowledge and to further dev
How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values
Although transparency is recognized as an important public value, few studies examine how citizens see the relationship between transparency and other public values. To empirically investigate this relationship, we distinguish among five types of transparency and explore their associations with different views of “good” government and other public values. Using survey data and Q methodology, we find that citizens see transparency as an important …
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon
Environmental collaboration has become an increasingly common approach to the management of natural resources. Scholars and practitioners have tried to understand how collaborative structures impact performance using a multitude of single case studies and comparative studies. However, despite calls for the evaluation of collaborative performance, minimal quantitative research explores the connections between collaborative structures and performan…
Collaborative Governance at Scale: Examining the Regimes, Platforms, and System in the State of Oregon
This article takes a first step toward analyzing the characteristics of a cross-policy, state-wide collaborative system. Specifically, using data from the Atlas of Collaboration project, we offer a big-picture analysis of how over 200 externally directed collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) are operationalized in a state-level collaborative system consisting of 13 collaborative platforms operating across five policy areas (economic development…
Between a rock and a hard place: (Re)Integrating public administration and political science
Different Processes, Different Outcomes? Assessing the Individual‐Level Impacts of Public Participation
This article empirically investigates the relative efficacy of different direct participation processes. Specifically, it compares the effects of three types of participatory processes (public meetings, focus groups, and citizen juries) on participants' issue awareness, competence, empowerment, and trust in service professionals. The authors hypothesize that all three participatory processes will positively affect these individual outcomes but th…
Minnowbrook at 50: A Prelude
This essay introduces the special issue on Minnowbrook at 50, a conference hosted in August 2018 by the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Minnowbrook I and honor the legacy of all the Minnowbrook conferences. After a brief discussion about the Minnowbrook conferences and the set-up of Minnowbrook 50, the essay offers short synopses of the seven articles included in this issue
Minnowbrook at 50: A Post-Script
This essay closes the special issue on the Minnowbrook at 50 conference hosted by the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. We first discuss areas of concord and discord at Minnowbrook at 50, paying particular attention to commonalities among the articles in this issue, as well as to topics addressed at the conference but not written about here. We then discuss our efforts over 2018 and 2019 to expand and extend th…
Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement
This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of th…
JPART Virtual Issue on Citizen-State Interactions in Public Administration Research
In this virtual issue, we bring together a collection of research articles that—although not usually grouped together—all illustrate the importance of citizen-state interactions. Specifically, we include articles that directly incorporate citizens’ perceptions, attitudes, experiences of, or behavior related to public administration. About 10% of all JPART articles over the life of the journal so far (1991–2015) met our inclusion criteria. Of thos…
A Snapshot of Foia Administration: Examining Recent Trends to Inform Future Research
This article provides a snapshot of the administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. federal government. Specifically, using data from all federal government agencies from 2008 to 2016, the article examines indicators of FOIA caseloads, including requests, exemptions, denials, appeals, and backlogs, and FOIA management capacity, including staff, financial issues, and processing times. The snapshot not only highlights recent…
Public Values Frames in Administration and Governance
This article builds on theory and research to develop and explore four frames for understanding public values in administration and governance. The article first clarifies and distinguishes among several terms, including value, values, public value, and public values, and discusses the notions of creating public value, preventing public values failure, and public values plurality. Next, it presents four frames of public values for administration …
Varieties of Participation in Public Services: The Who, When, and What of Coproduction
Despite an international resurgence of interest in coproduction, confusion about the concept remains. This article attempts to make sense of the disparate literature and clarify the concept of coproduction in public administration. Based on some definitional distinctions and considerations about who is involved in coproduction, when in the service cycle it occurs, and what is generated in the process, the article offers and develops a typology of…
Introduction: Special issue on the coproduction of public services
sponsorship: doi: 10.1177/0020852315618187
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Evaluating the Productivity of Collaborative Governance Regimes: A Performance Matrix
Experiments in collaborative governance over the last several decades have transformed the way the public’s business is getting done. Despite growing interest, empirical research on the performance of cross-boundary collaboration continues to be limited by conceptual and methodological challenges. This article extends previous research to develop a performance matrix for assessing the productivity of collaborative governance regimes (CGRs). Three…
Collaborative Governance Regimes
Public Deliberation and Co-Production in the Political and Electoral Arena: A Citizens’ Jury Approach
This study presents an empirical evaluation of the co-production of a “Statement to the Candidates” and a “Voters Guide” for a key U.S. Congressional race. Citizens produced these materials during an intensive process called “Reclaim November Ohio,” which used the Citizen Jury method of public deliberation. We use a series of pre- and post-test surveys to evaluate this unique application of co-production. Specifically, we assess whether this deli…
Deliberative Civic Engagement in Public Administration and Policy
This article explores deliberative civic engagement in the context of public administration and policy. The field of public administration and policy is seeing a resurgence of interest in deliberative civic engagement among scholars, practitioners, politicians, civic reformers, and others. Deliberative processes have been used to address a range of issues: school redistricting and closings, land use, and the construction of highways, shopping mal…
Direct Public Engagement in Local Government
Public engagement is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous methods for bringing people together to address issues of public importance. In this article, we focus on direct public engagement in local government, exploring what we know and proposing areas where more research is needed. We first define direct public engagement and distinguish it from related concepts and terms. We then introduce a simple framework for exploring variations in di…
An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance draws from diverse realms of practice and research in public administration. This article synthesizes and extends a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance. The framework specifies a set of nested dimensions that encompass a larger system context, a collaborative governance regime, and its internal collaborative dynamics and…
The New Governance: Practices and Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen Participation in the Work of Government
Leaders in public affairs identify tools and instruments for the new governance through networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations. We argue the new governance also involves people—the tool makers and tool users—and the processes through which they participate in the work of government. Practitioners are using new quasi‐legislative and quasi‐judicial governance processes, including deliberative democracy, e‐democracy, public convers…
Addressing the Citizenship and Democratic Deficits: The Potential of Deliberative Democracy for Public Administration
This article reviews and synthesizes diverse streams of literature to assess the potential of deliberative democracy for American public administration. It asserts that the field should refocus its attention on the role of citizens in the work of government to help address the pervasive citizenship and democratic deficits in the United States. American public administration has an obligation to address these deficits because (a) it is required to…
Direct Public Engagement in Local Government
Public engagement is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous methods for bringing people together to address issues of public importance. In this article, we focus on direct public engagement in local government, exploring what we know and proposing areas where more research is needed. We first define direct public engagement and distinguish it from related concepts and terms. We then introduce a simple framework for exploring variations in di…
JPART Virtual Issue on Citizen-State Interactions in Public Administration Research
In this virtual issue, we bring together a collection of research articles that—although not usually grouped together—all illustrate the importance of citizen-state interactions. Specifically, we include articles that directly incorporate citizens’ perceptions, attitudes, experiences of, or behavior related to public administration. About 10% of all JPART articles over the life of the journal so far (1991–2015) met our inclusion criteria. Of thos…
From Galaxies to Universe: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Analysis of Public Values Publications From 1969 to 2012
The study of public values (PVs) is generating growing interest in public administration and public management, yet many challenges and unanswered questions remain. For the study of PVs to progress, we need to go beyond the traditional boundaries of public administration and management, to explore how and why scholars in different disciplines use the concept, and how and where approaches to the concept differ and overlap. This article represents …
Collaborative Governance Regimes
Public Administration in Dark Times: Some Questions for the Future of the Field
This essay identifies two problems that impede the ability of public administration to govern effectively in dark times. First, public administration has failed to adequately acknowledge itself as an arbiter of political conflict and as a discipline responsible for shaping societal affairs. Second, the field is entrenched in a bureaucratic pathology that limits its capacity to address complex policy problems. We argue that these issues show a cle…
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon
Environmental collaboration has become an increasingly common approach to the management of natural resources. Scholars and practitioners have tried to understand how collaborative structures impact performance using a multitude of single case studies and comparative studies. However, despite calls for the evaluation of collaborative performance, minimal quantitative research explores the connections between collaborative structures and performan…
Collaborative Governance at Scale: Examining the Regimes, Platforms, and System in the State of Oregon
This article takes a first step toward analyzing the characteristics of a cross-policy, state-wide collaborative system. Specifically, using data from the Atlas of Collaboration project, we offer a big-picture analysis of how over 200 externally directed collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) are operationalized in a state-level collaborative system consisting of 13 collaborative platforms operating across five policy areas (economic development…
Introduction: Special issue on the coproduction of public services
sponsorship: doi: 10.1177/0020852315618187
Between a rock and a hard place: (Re)Integrating public administration and political science
A Snapshot of Foia Administration: Examining Recent Trends to Inform Future Research
This article provides a snapshot of the administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. federal government. Specifically, using data from all federal government agencies from 2008 to 2016, the article examines indicators of FOIA caseloads, including requests, exemptions, denials, appeals, and backlogs, and FOIA management capacity, including staff, financial issues, and processing times. The snapshot not only highlights recent…
The New Governance: Practices and Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen Participation in the Work of Government
Leaders in public affairs identify tools and instruments for the new governance through networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations. We argue the new governance also involves people—the tool makers and tool users—and the processes through which they participate in the work of government. Practitioners are using new quasi‐legislative and quasi‐judicial governance processes, including deliberative democracy, e‐democracy, public convers…
The Institutionalization of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Federal Government
This article uses resource dependence and institutional theory to examine the implementation of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Acts of 1990 and 1996. The insights from these theories are employed to explain the diffusion of and variation in the application of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to different programmatic areas. Although agencies have generally complied with the direct requirements of the acts, their intent has not been ful…
Deliberative Democracy and Citizenship: In Search of the Efficacy Effect
Enthusiasm for deliberative democracy has grown in recent years, as many believe that it can create better citizens generally, and particularly increase their perceptions of political efficacy. Although the “efficacy effect” is frequently touted as a rationale for engaging in deliberative processes, there is little empirical research on the subject. This study examines the impact on perceptions of internal and external political efficacy of parti…
Addressing the Citizenship and Democratic Deficits: The Potential of Deliberative Democracy for Public Administration
This article reviews and synthesizes diverse streams of literature to assess the potential of deliberative democracy for American public administration. It asserts that the field should refocus its attention on the role of citizens in the work of government to help address the pervasive citizenship and democratic deficits in the United States. American public administration has an obligation to address these deficits because (a) it is required to…
The (Re)discovery of the Public in Public Administration
Public Administration in Dark Times: Some Questions for the Future of the Field
This essay identifies two problems that impede the ability of public administration to govern effectively in dark times. First, public administration has failed to adequately acknowledge itself as an arbiter of political conflict and as a discipline responsible for shaping societal affairs. Second, the field is entrenched in a bureaucratic pathology that limits its capacity to address complex policy problems. We argue that these issues show a cle…
Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement
This title uses theory, research, and practice to comprehensively explore what we know, how we know it, and what remains to be understood about deliberative civic engagement. The book is useful to scholars, practitioners, public officials activists, and citizens who seek to utilize deliberative civic engagement in their communities.
Faster? Cheaper? Better? Using ADR to Resolve Federal Sector EEO Complaints
This article examines the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Management Directive 110, which requires all federal agencies to offer alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to employees with equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaints. Specifically, the article examines federal sector EEO complaint processing before and after the passage of Management Directive 110 and compares the traditional EEO procedure with the use of ADR on several ind…
Putting the “Public” Back in Public Values Research: Designing Participation to Identify and Respond to Values
This article seeks to put the “public” back in public values research by theorizing about the potential of direct citizen participation to assist with identifying and understanding public values. Specifically, the article explores eight participatory design elements and offers nine propositions about how those elements are likely to affect the ability of administrators to identify and understand public values with regard to a policy conflict. The…
An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance draws from diverse realms of practice and research in public administration. This article synthesizes and extends a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance. The framework specifies a set of nested dimensions that encompass a larger system context, a collaborative governance regime, and its internal collaborative dynamics and…
From Galaxies to Universe: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Analysis of Public Values Publications From 1969 to 2012
The study of public values (PVs) is generating growing interest in public administration and public management, yet many challenges and unanswered questions remain. For the study of PVs to progress, we need to go beyond the traditional boundaries of public administration and management, to explore how and why scholars in different disciplines use the concept, and how and where approaches to the concept differ and overlap. This article represents …
Public Deliberation and Co-Production in the Political and Electoral Arena: A Citizens’ Jury Approach
This study presents an empirical evaluation of the co-production of a “Statement to the Candidates” and a “Voters Guide” for a key U.S. Congressional race. Citizens produced these materials during an intensive process called “Reclaim November Ohio,” which used the Citizen Jury method of public deliberation. We use a series of pre- and post-test surveys to evaluate this unique application of co-production. Specifically, we assess whether this deli…
Deliberative Civic Engagement in Public Administration and Policy
This article explores deliberative civic engagement in the context of public administration and policy. The field of public administration and policy is seeing a resurgence of interest in deliberative civic engagement among scholars, practitioners, politicians, civic reformers, and others. Deliberative processes have been used to address a range of issues: school redistricting and closings, land use, and the construction of highways, shopping mal…
Direct Public Engagement in Local Government
Public engagement is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous methods for bringing people together to address issues of public importance. In this article, we focus on direct public engagement in local government, exploring what we know and proposing areas where more research is needed. We first define direct public engagement and distinguish it from related concepts and terms. We then introduce a simple framework for exploring variations in di…
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Evaluating the Productivity of Collaborative Governance Regimes: A Performance Matrix
Experiments in collaborative governance over the last several decades have transformed the way the public’s business is getting done. Despite growing interest, empirical research on the performance of cross-boundary collaboration continues to be limited by conceptual and methodological challenges. This article extends previous research to develop a performance matrix for assessing the productivity of collaborative governance regimes (CGRs). Three…
Collaborative Governance Regimes
Introduction: Special issue on the coproduction of public services
sponsorship: doi: 10.1177/0020852315618187
Public Values Frames in Administration and Governance
This article builds on theory and research to develop and explore four frames for understanding public values in administration and governance. The article first clarifies and distinguishes among several terms, including value, values, public value, and public values, and discusses the notions of creating public value, preventing public values failure, and public values plurality. Next, it presents four frames of public values for administration …
Varieties of Participation in Public Services: The Who, When, and What of Coproduction
Despite an international resurgence of interest in coproduction, confusion about the concept remains. This article attempts to make sense of the disparate literature and clarify the concept of coproduction in public administration. Based on some definitional distinctions and considerations about who is involved in coproduction, when in the service cycle it occurs, and what is generated in the process, the article offers and develops a typology of…
A Snapshot of Foia Administration: Examining Recent Trends to Inform Future Research
This article provides a snapshot of the administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. federal government. Specifically, using data from all federal government agencies from 2008 to 2016, the article examines indicators of FOIA caseloads, including requests, exemptions, denials, appeals, and backlogs, and FOIA management capacity, including staff, financial issues, and processing times. The snapshot not only highlights recent…
Minnowbrook at 50: A Prelude
This essay introduces the special issue on Minnowbrook at 50, a conference hosted in August 2018 by the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Minnowbrook I and honor the legacy of all the Minnowbrook conferences. After a brief discussion about the Minnowbrook conferences and the set-up of Minnowbrook 50, the essay offers short synopses of the seven articles included in this issue
Minnowbrook at 50: A Post-Script
This essay closes the special issue on the Minnowbrook at 50 conference hosted by the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. We first discuss areas of concord and discord at Minnowbrook at 50, paying particular attention to commonalities among the articles in this issue, as well as to topics addressed at the conference but not written about here. We then discuss our efforts over 2018 and 2019 to expand and extend th…
Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement
This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of th…
JPART Virtual Issue on Citizen-State Interactions in Public Administration Research
In this virtual issue, we bring together a collection of research articles that—although not usually grouped together—all illustrate the importance of citizen-state interactions. Specifically, we include articles that directly incorporate citizens’ perceptions, attitudes, experiences of, or behavior related to public administration. About 10% of all JPART articles over the life of the journal so far (1991–2015) met our inclusion criteria. Of thos…
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