Current Research

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications

 

Books and Book Chapter

bulletPersonnel Management in Government, 6th edition (co-authored with Norma Riccucci, with senior editorial assistance provided by Jay M. Shafritz, David H. Rosenblooom and Albert C. Hyde). Forthcoming Summer 2007. Taylor-Francis
bullet To Look Like America (Westview Press, 2001)
 
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"Toward a Representative Bureaucracy: Can Gender Make a Difference?" in Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders? 4th edition, edited by Lois Duke Whitaker. Prentice Hall. Forthcoming.

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Prospects for Civil Service Reform in California: A Triumph of Technique over Purpose? in Civil Service Reform in the States, edited by J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd Nigro. 2006. SUNY Albany Press
 

 Reports

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Evaluation of the Student Support Services (SSS-TRIO) Program AY 2007-08 Nov. 2008
 

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A Study of Reprisals in the Customs Service. Prepared for the U.S. Customs Service July 2003
 

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Diversity in Higher Education  Prepared for California State Assembly, November 1998


Recent Journal Articles

bullet"Footprints through the Courts: Comparing Judicial Responses to Affirmative Action Litigation in South Africa and the U.S." (co-authored with Ockert Dupper)  International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 25 (2): 157-190.

bullet "Nancy Alfaro as an Exemplary Collaborative Public Manager: How Customer Service was Algned with Customer Needs" Public Administration Review 69(3): 487-493

bullet"The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of the Legal and Medical Professions in California" (figures)  2008. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy 14 (1) .

 
bullet"From Bakke to Grutter and Gratz: The Supreme Court as  Policymaking Institution" .2004   Review of Policy Research 21(3): 405-427.

 
bullet"Identity Politics and Local Political Culture: Some Comparative Results from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey" (co-authored with Richard De Leon). 2004 Urban Affairs Review 39(6): 689-719.
 

Recent Conference Papers

bullet “The Status of Law in Contemporary Public Administrative Literature, Education, and Practice” (co-authored with David H. Rosenbloom). Paper presented at Minnowbook III, Lake Placid, NY, September 5-7, 2008.

bullet "Elusive Equity: Women's Representation in the South African Civil Service." Paper presented to the annual  meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 3-6, 2008.

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"Passive Representation in the South African Bureaucracy: A Lot Has Happened, but it's a Lot More Complicated..." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30-September 2, 2007. Chicago, IL.

bulletWhich Side Can Claim Victory? Judicial Interpretation of Disparate Impact Theory Following the 1991 Civil Rights Act." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30-September 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.

 
bullet"Civil Service Modernization in the Post Reform Era: A New Institutional Perspective." (co-authored with Albert C. Hyde). Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 20-23, 2006, Chicago, IL.
 

Work in Progress

bulletAt the End of the Rainbow. Book in progress on South Africa's efforts to achieve a representative public service