John E Petersen

Biographic Data

ID4401793
NAMEJohn E Petersen
GIVEN NAMESJohn E
FAMILY NAMEPetersen
SIGNATUREPETERSEN J E
AFFILIATIONSOberlin College
ORCID0000-0002-6907-8418
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • How Do We Measure and Increase Systems Thinking? Comparing Self‐Reported and Performative Metrics in Response to Building Causal Loop Models

    Open AccessCynthia Mcpherson Frantz, Julia Blotner et al.ARTICLESystems Research and Behavioral…2026

    Systems thinking is a mindset and skill essential to understanding and addressing complex challenges. However, increasing and measuring systems thinking is difficult. In this research, we compared multiple approaches to measuring systems thinking, including self‐reported measures of a systems thinking mindset and performative measures of systems thinking skills (i.e., participants' reasoning about a system and metrics derived from participants' c…

  • Promoting systems thinking through perspective taking when using an online modeling tool

    Open AccessRebecca C Jordan, Rebecca Jordan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2023

    Introduction Disagreements between people on different sides of popular issues in STEM are often rooted in differences in “mental models,” which include both rational and emotional cognitive associations about the issue; especially given these issues are systemic in nature. Methods In the research described here, we employ the fuzzy cognitive mapping software MentalModeler (developed by one of the authors) 1 as a tool for articulating implicit an…

  • Students as change agents in a town-wide sustainability transformation

    Open AccessDaniel Rosenberg Daneri, G Trencher et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2015Cited by: 6References: 5

  • Public Works Policy and Outcomes in Japan and the United States

    Open AccessKenneth Button, Jonathan L Gifford et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2002References: 3

    This article analyzes the pattern of public works spending in Japan and the United States from the perspective of recent thinking on the role of infrastructure in promoting economic growth. This is an important topic given the sluggish economic growth in Japan in the 1990s. There is renewed interest in the role of public infrastructure in shaping the economy’s fortunes in light of developments in the United States. The prolonged economic downturn…

  • What Is Financial Management? Are We Inventing a New Field Here

    Gerald J Miller, J Richard Aronson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1994Cited by: 3

  • Tax Reform and the State and Local Sector

    Dennis Zimmerman, John Petersen et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1987Cited by: 2

  • The Municipal Bond Market Heads in New Directions

    John E PetersenARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs1980

    This essay charts the recent changes in the municipal bond market. Trends in the size and composition of tax-exempt borrowing over the last 20 years and the burden of debt and quality of credit are briefly reviewed. The nature of investor demands and fluctuations in tax-exempt rates of interest are also discussed. Emphasis is placed on the changing forms of security and the growth of special purpose borrowing. The transformation of tax-exempt bor…