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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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 2004-05, Nov. 2005
 

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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"The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of the Legal and Medical Professions in California" (figures)  Forthcoming Fall 2007.
 
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.
 
bullet "Responding to a Wake Up Call: An Examination of Federal Agency Diversity Management Programs" (co-authored with J. Edward Kellough). 2004. Administration and Society. 36 (1): 62-90.
 

Recent Conference Papers

bullet"Which 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.
 
bullet"Representative Bureaucracy in South Africa? Success or Failure?" (co-authored with Frederik Uys.) Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 7-10, 2005, Chicago, IL.
 
bullet "Faultlines in the California Recall Election: Was There a Gender Gap?" (co-authored with Melissa Levitt). Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2004, Chicago, IL
 

Work in Progress

bullet"Descriptive Representation in the South African Bureaucracy: A Lot Has Happened, but it’s a Lot More Complicated…" Paper in preparation for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2007, Chicago, IL.
 
bulletRealizing a Representative Bureaucracy in South Africa (ongoing research project)