Michael D Siciliano
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 635782 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael D Siciliano |
| NOMBRES | Michael D |
| APELLIDO | Siciliano |
| FIRMA | SICILIANO M D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8688-8685 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting
Local governments increasingly rely on contractual relationships with third parties for public service delivery, blending formal agreements with relational mechanisms to reduce risks and uncertainties. While most research on these contracts has focused on relationships between two parties, this work adopts a network perspective to analyze how the structure of these networks—especially close‐knit connections—influences contract design. We analyzed…
Applied Causal Inference in Public Sector Networks
Public administration research has increasingly turned to network analysis to understand complex inter‐organizational and interpersonal dynamics. While the discipline has made significant progress in analyzing networks, it has yet to adequately address causality. This gap limits our ability to provide evidence‐based insights to practitioners who must make strategic decisions within networks. This article calls for the systematic integration of ca…
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies
Many of the most pernicious contemporary urban problems require local governments to organise collectively across jurisdictions and reorganise or coordinate internally across bureaucratic silos. Climate change, for example, is a complex system phenomenon impacting a range of interconnected socio-environmental systems in a region, such as water, transportation and energy infrastructures which may not be directly under the control of a single depar…
Putting the Environment Back in “Environmental Justice”
State-level environmental justice (EJ) policies have traditionally focused on defining EJ areas solely based on community-level socioeconomic characteristics, potentially overlooking overburdened communities due to omitting environmental factors. In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, which emphasizes the “fair treatment” and “meaningful involvement” of overburdened communities to address environmental and health disparities, thi…
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery
Local governments face revenue constraints and increasing demands for public service delivery. Confronted with fiscal pressures, cities, and counties engage in collaborative arrangements to save costs or improve service levels. However, the same pressures can also prevent them from seeking collaboration. Two distinguishable arguments in tension can be identified: fiscal stress as a driver or as a deterrent for collaboration. This study reconciles…
Network Interventions
Public management and policy scholars have engaged in extensive development of theory and empirical study of networks and collaborative systems of governance. This scholarship has focused on understanding the mechanisms of network formation and the implications of network properties on individual and collective outcomes. Despite rich descriptive work and inferential analyses, little work has attempted to intervene in these systems. In this articl…
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts
The wide application of networks in public administration has been driven by the practical need to address increasingly complex management and policy problems. To understand the outcomes of network structures, we reviewed empirical network research and examined the effects of six network structural properties across the five most studied policy domains. We found that certain structural properties such as global connectedness were consistently ass…
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change
State and local governments in the United States are the implementation agents for a vast swath of federal policies. As the country embarks on an unprecedented foray into fiscal federalism to combat climate change, we face a stark reality: many local governments are not ready. Drawing from recent data and evidence on local sustainability activities, we argue policy makers and managers at all levels of governance need to apply the lessons learned …
A cognitive network perspective for public administration and policy
This article introduces the concept of cognitive social structures to public administration and policy scholars. Cognitive social structures are the perceptions, or mental maps, actors hold of the relationships that exist among the members of their network. These perceptions and their accuracy have implications for actor behavior, decisions, and outcomes. The literature on network cognitions has developed in the fields of psychology and organizat…
Public School District Characteristics and the Formation of Longitudinal Interdistrict Collaboration Networks
Purpose: School leaders rely on a number of collaborative policy tools to address fiscal and governance issues. While prior research has examined the dynamics and implications of research-practice and public-private partnerships, this study addresses a third form of collaboration: interdistrict cooperative agreements. Method: We develop a unique data set to study the formation of interdistrict agreements formed among 333 public school districts i…
Network Effects Research
This article contributes to the network effectiveness literature by identifying the theoretical mechanisms and network measures scholars in public administration and policy use to draw inferences between network structures and network effects. We conducted a systematic review of empirical network effects research in 40 public administration and policy journals from 1998 to 2019. We reviewed and coded 89 articles and described the main social theo…
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration
A truism of modern organizational life is that organizations collaborate. They may collaborate to meet client needs, acquire resources, or gain legitimacy. They may be required to collaborate by funders, but have little direction beyond this basic mandate. In this situation, how do managers choose collaborative partners? What is important to them and when is it important? While institutional and resource-dependence theories emphasize environmenta…
The “Levels” Problem in Assessing Organizational Climate
The Federal Employees Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has gained prominence as the primary vehicle through which agencies assess the work-related attitudes of their employees. Within the discipline, the FEVS results have proven a fertile source of data on the job-related attitudes of public employees. However, concerns have been raised with the instrument and with how the FEVS data has been used by scholars. This article highlights a concern with the use…
Crisis Decision‐Making on a Global Scale
This essay examines basic functions of crisis decision‐making — cognition , communication , coordination , and control—in response to COVID‐19 . This crisis decision‐making framework is applied to cases from South Korea , Italy , and the United States as public officials grapple with how to recognize , respond , and recover from this deadly , invisible threat . The authors acknowledge the harsh trade‐off between the compelling need to limit trans…
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Networks for Addressing Public Problems
While scholars and practitioners frequently laud the potential of networks to address complex policy problems, empirical evidence of the effectiveness of networks is scarce. This study examines how changes in network structure (centralization and transitivity), network composition (sector diversity and geographic range), and tie properties (stability and strength) influence community‐level outcomes. Relying on a statutory requirement in the state…
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
Navigating the labyrinth
Cross-Sector Emergency Information Networks on Social Media
A key challenge for public administrators is facilitating communication among diverse actors. This article illustrates the information seeking and sharing preferences of notable emergency information suppliers on social media who operate primarily within four states. Through homophily and brokerage analyses, two basic communication preferences were noted: (a) bridging patterns in which actors interact with diverse sources of information, and (b) …
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
Network exploration and exploitation
Omission and commission errors in network cognition and network estimation using ROC curve
A Cognitive Perspective on Policy Implementation
Utilizing a cognitive perspective, this article examines the social processes through which teachers come to understand the Common Core State Standards. The authors begin by identifying three beliefs that have important implications for policy implementation: self‐efficacy, resource adequacy, and value for clients. They measure those beliefs and the Common Core discussion networks that emerge among teachers at three points in time. Through the us…
Ignoring the Experts
Although much of the research on learning in the public sector examines collaborative arrangements and interorganizational networks, it often stresses the importance of individual dialogue and social interaction as primary methods of learning. Given the collective focus, the current emphasis on organizational interaction has left the individual mechanisms by which learning occurs unspecified and understudied. This study takes as its unit of analy…
It’s the Quality Not the Quantity of Ties That Matters
This study explores the role of knowledge access and peer influence as mechanisms by which networks may shape teacher self-efficacy. The basic premise is twofold: (a) that peer interaction provides opportunities to access teaching relevant knowledge and thus may reduce uncertainty and (b) that self-efficacy beliefs may be shaped by the efficacy beliefs of the peers one is directly connected to in the advice network. The results suggest that both …
Bringing the Individual Back In
Crisis Decision‐Making on a Global Scale
This essay examines basic functions of crisis decision‐making — cognition , communication , coordination , and control—in response to COVID‐19 . This crisis decision‐making framework is applied to cases from South Korea , Italy , and the United States as public officials grapple with how to recognize , respond , and recover from this deadly , invisible threat . The authors acknowledge the harsh trade‐off between the compelling need to limit trans…
Ignoring the Experts
Although much of the research on learning in the public sector examines collaborative arrangements and interorganizational networks, it often stresses the importance of individual dialogue and social interaction as primary methods of learning. Given the collective focus, the current emphasis on organizational interaction has left the individual mechanisms by which learning occurs unspecified and understudied. This study takes as its unit of analy…
A Cognitive Perspective on Policy Implementation
Utilizing a cognitive perspective, this article examines the social processes through which teachers come to understand the Common Core State Standards. The authors begin by identifying three beliefs that have important implications for policy implementation: self‐efficacy, resource adequacy, and value for clients. They measure those beliefs and the Common Core discussion networks that emerge among teachers at three points in time. Through the us…
Professional Networks and Street-Level Performance
Given the complexity of their work, street-level bureaucrats rely on their professional networks to access implementation resources and information. Despite the acknowledged importance of these networks, little research exists on how network structure and composition influence frontline performance. This study analyzes a unique data set that includes the professional networks of more than 420 teachers in 21 public schools along with 3 years of ad…
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
Cross-Sector Emergency Information Networks on Social Media
A key challenge for public administrators is facilitating communication among diverse actors. This article illustrates the information seeking and sharing preferences of notable emergency information suppliers on social media who operate primarily within four states. Through homophily and brokerage analyses, two basic communication preferences were noted: (a) bridging patterns in which actors interact with diverse sources of information, and (b) …
It’s the Quality Not the Quantity of Ties That Matters
This study explores the role of knowledge access and peer influence as mechanisms by which networks may shape teacher self-efficacy. The basic premise is twofold: (a) that peer interaction provides opportunities to access teaching relevant knowledge and thus may reduce uncertainty and (b) that self-efficacy beliefs may be shaped by the efficacy beliefs of the peers one is directly connected to in the advice network. The results suggest that both …
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies
Many of the most pernicious contemporary urban problems require local governments to organise collectively across jurisdictions and reorganise or coordinate internally across bureaucratic silos. Climate change, for example, is a complex system phenomenon impacting a range of interconnected socio-environmental systems in a region, such as water, transportation and energy infrastructures which may not be directly under the control of a single depar…
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery
Local governments face revenue constraints and increasing demands for public service delivery. Confronted with fiscal pressures, cities, and counties engage in collaborative arrangements to save costs or improve service levels. However, the same pressures can also prevent them from seeking collaboration. Two distinguishable arguments in tension can be identified: fiscal stress as a driver or as a deterrent for collaboration. This study reconciles…
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
Compare and Draw Lessons — Designing Resilience for Communities at Risk
Since the catastrophic 2004 Sumatran earthquake and tsunami, tsunami early warning systems have been established in every major ocean. These systems rely on Deep-ocean sensors for Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART buoys) as well as seismic stations and tidal gauges for detection. Yet these systems have largely missed the early detection of near-field tsunamis. To evaluate the potential impact of near-field tsunamis generated by earthquak…
Estimating network structure via random sampling
Compare and Draw Lessons — Designing Resilience for Communities at Risk
Since the catastrophic 2004 Sumatran earthquake and tsunami, tsunami early warning systems have been established in every major ocean. These systems rely on Deep-ocean sensors for Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART buoys) as well as seismic stations and tidal gauges for detection. Yet these systems have largely missed the early detection of near-field tsunamis. To evaluate the potential impact of near-field tsunamis generated by earthquak…
Bringing the Individual Back In
Professional Networks and Street-Level Performance
Given the complexity of their work, street-level bureaucrats rely on their professional networks to access implementation resources and information. Despite the acknowledged importance of these networks, little research exists on how network structure and composition influence frontline performance. This study analyzes a unique data set that includes the professional networks of more than 420 teachers in 21 public schools along with 3 years of ad…
Advice Networks in Public Organizations
Interpersonal networks are increasingly important for organizational learning and performance. However, little is known about how these networks emerge. In this article, exponential random graph models are employed to explore the underlying processes of advice network formation in 15 organizations. The author examines the influence of (1) structural effects (reciprocity, transitivity, multiplexity), (2) actor attribute effects (job function, tenu…
It’s the Quality Not the Quantity of Ties That Matters
This study explores the role of knowledge access and peer influence as mechanisms by which networks may shape teacher self-efficacy. The basic premise is twofold: (a) that peer interaction provides opportunities to access teaching relevant knowledge and thus may reduce uncertainty and (b) that self-efficacy beliefs may be shaped by the efficacy beliefs of the peers one is directly connected to in the advice network. The results suggest that both …
Network exploration and exploitation
Omission and commission errors in network cognition and network estimation using ROC curve
A Cognitive Perspective on Policy Implementation
Utilizing a cognitive perspective, this article examines the social processes through which teachers come to understand the Common Core State Standards. The authors begin by identifying three beliefs that have important implications for policy implementation: self‐efficacy, resource adequacy, and value for clients. They measure those beliefs and the Common Core discussion networks that emerge among teachers at three points in time. Through the us…
Ignoring the Experts
Although much of the research on learning in the public sector examines collaborative arrangements and interorganizational networks, it often stresses the importance of individual dialogue and social interaction as primary methods of learning. Given the collective focus, the current emphasis on organizational interaction has left the individual mechanisms by which learning occurs unspecified and understudied. This study takes as its unit of analy…
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
Navigating the labyrinth
Cross-Sector Emergency Information Networks on Social Media
A key challenge for public administrators is facilitating communication among diverse actors. This article illustrates the information seeking and sharing preferences of notable emergency information suppliers on social media who operate primarily within four states. Through homophily and brokerage analyses, two basic communication preferences were noted: (a) bridging patterns in which actors interact with diverse sources of information, and (b) …
Crisis Decision‐Making on a Global Scale
This essay examines basic functions of crisis decision‐making — cognition , communication , coordination , and control—in response to COVID‐19 . This crisis decision‐making framework is applied to cases from South Korea , Italy , and the United States as public officials grapple with how to recognize , respond , and recover from this deadly , invisible threat . The authors acknowledge the harsh trade‐off between the compelling need to limit trans…
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Networks for Addressing Public Problems
While scholars and practitioners frequently laud the potential of networks to address complex policy problems, empirical evidence of the effectiveness of networks is scarce. This study examines how changes in network structure (centralization and transitivity), network composition (sector diversity and geographic range), and tie properties (stability and strength) influence community‐level outcomes. Relying on a statutory requirement in the state…
Government as Network Catalyst
Governments have long-standing interests in preventing market failures and enhancing innovation in strategic industries. Public policy regarding domestic technology is critical to both national security and economic prosperity. Governments often seek to enhance their global competitiveness by promoting private sector cooperative activity at the inter-organizational level. Research on network governance has illuminated the structure of boundary-sp…
The “Levels” Problem in Assessing Organizational Climate
The Federal Employees Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has gained prominence as the primary vehicle through which agencies assess the work-related attitudes of their employees. Within the discipline, the FEVS results have proven a fertile source of data on the job-related attitudes of public employees. However, concerns have been raised with the instrument and with how the FEVS data has been used by scholars. This article highlights a concern with the use…
Public School District Characteristics and the Formation of Longitudinal Interdistrict Collaboration Networks
Purpose: School leaders rely on a number of collaborative policy tools to address fiscal and governance issues. While prior research has examined the dynamics and implications of research-practice and public-private partnerships, this study addresses a third form of collaboration: interdistrict cooperative agreements. Method: We develop a unique data set to study the formation of interdistrict agreements formed among 333 public school districts i…
Network Effects Research
This article contributes to the network effectiveness literature by identifying the theoretical mechanisms and network measures scholars in public administration and policy use to draw inferences between network structures and network effects. We conducted a systematic review of empirical network effects research in 40 public administration and policy journals from 1998 to 2019. We reviewed and coded 89 articles and described the main social theo…
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration
A truism of modern organizational life is that organizations collaborate. They may collaborate to meet client needs, acquire resources, or gain legitimacy. They may be required to collaborate by funders, but have little direction beyond this basic mandate. In this situation, how do managers choose collaborative partners? What is important to them and when is it important? While institutional and resource-dependence theories emphasize environmenta…
Network Interventions
Public management and policy scholars have engaged in extensive development of theory and empirical study of networks and collaborative systems of governance. This scholarship has focused on understanding the mechanisms of network formation and the implications of network properties on individual and collective outcomes. Despite rich descriptive work and inferential analyses, little work has attempted to intervene in these systems. In this articl…
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts
The wide application of networks in public administration has been driven by the practical need to address increasingly complex management and policy problems. To understand the outcomes of network structures, we reviewed empirical network research and examined the effects of six network structural properties across the five most studied policy domains. We found that certain structural properties such as global connectedness were consistently ass…
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change
State and local governments in the United States are the implementation agents for a vast swath of federal policies. As the country embarks on an unprecedented foray into fiscal federalism to combat climate change, we face a stark reality: many local governments are not ready. Drawing from recent data and evidence on local sustainability activities, we argue policy makers and managers at all levels of governance need to apply the lessons learned …
A cognitive network perspective for public administration and policy
This article introduces the concept of cognitive social structures to public administration and policy scholars. Cognitive social structures are the perceptions, or mental maps, actors hold of the relationships that exist among the members of their network. These perceptions and their accuracy have implications for actor behavior, decisions, and outcomes. The literature on network cognitions has developed in the fields of psychology and organizat…
Putting the Environment Back in “Environmental Justice”
State-level environmental justice (EJ) policies have traditionally focused on defining EJ areas solely based on community-level socioeconomic characteristics, potentially overlooking overburdened communities due to omitting environmental factors. In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, which emphasizes the “fair treatment” and “meaningful involvement” of overburdened communities to address environmental and health disparities, thi…
Political science (20 obras) · Business (16 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (16 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Public relations (13 obras) · Social Capital and Networks (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras)