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Barbara S. Romzek
Professor
School of Public Affairs and Administration
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., 4060T Wescoe Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-3177
(785) 864-9098 office (785) 864-5208 fax
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Faculty appointments at The University of Kansas
Professor of Public Administration, 1995-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Public Administration, 1985-1995
Research Associate, Center for Public Affairs, 1981-1984
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1979-1985
Administrative appointments at The University of Kansas
Provost Office, Interim Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, 2010-2011; Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, 2009-2010
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Interim Dean, 2005-2006; Associate Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2002-2005, 2006-2009; Associate Dean, Edwards Campus, 2000-2002
Dept. of Public Administration, Chairperson, 1988-1993
Visiting appointments
Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, 1995
Visiting Research Associate, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, summer 1980
Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Kansas July 2005-June 2006
Interim Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, August 2009-August 2011. The University of Kansas is comprised of nine professional schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Primary responsibility for academic programming, including curriculum, academic program review, institutional performance reporting to Board of Regents, distance education, learner outcomes, deans performance reviews, space planning and management, liaison with community colleges, and oversight of Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC programs. Project manager for university-wide strategic planning, 2010-11.
Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000-2005; 2006-2009. Primary administrative contact for social and behavioral sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The social sciences division was comprised of 14 academic units, 200 faculty, approximately 6,000 students, and approximately $33 million in budget.
Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas July 2005-June 2006. Chief academic officer for the unit. The College is home to 600 full-time faculty and 300 staff with an annual operating budget of $100 million. The College has an enrollment of 14,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in 55 academic departments and programs.
Associate Dean for Edwards Campus, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas, 2000-2002. The KU Edwards Campus is located in suburban Kansas City, approximately 35 miles east of the main Lawrence campus. Responsibility for primary administrative leadership for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences programs at Edwards and for the development of new academic programming at the Edwards Campus.
Chair, Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas, 1988-1992. The department has long been recognized as one of the top Public Administration programs in the country. It is ranked as the #1 program in local government specialization and #5 overall among Public Affairs programs by the U.S. News and World Report (most recently in 2008).
UNIVERSITY-WIDE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Project Manager, University-wide Strategic Plan, Bold Aspirations, 2010-11. Project involved a steering committee of over 50 faculty, staff, alumni, and community leaders, eight work groups and planning committees with over 160 committee members, and nearly a thousand individuals who participated in strategic initiative process. The Plan identifies six key goals and metrics for measuring performance and key strategic initiatives to build interdisciplinary networks of scholars to target societal challenges of sustainability, individual and community well-being, and harnessing information.
Co-chair, Strategic Planning Task Force, “Initiative 2015: Working for Kansas,” focus on institutional outreach (Spring semester 2008). Report issued in late April 2008.
University Liaison to the U.S. Army Combined Armed Services Center, Ft. Leavenworth, KS (2003-2007). Army units under this command include the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Foreign Military Studies Office, and the Center for Army Lessons Learned. Responsibility includes convening groups from both institutions to facilitate collaboration, especially in areas of internationalization and global security.
Chairperson, University Reaccreditation Steering Committee (2002-2005). For review by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. Responsibilities included leading a 22 member, multi-campus steering committee of administrators, faculty, and staff.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS
Kaufman Award, American Political Science Association, with Jocelyn Johnston. 2002
Fellow (elected), National Academy of Public Administration. 1999
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, 2004. Who’s Who in the Media and Communications, 1998. Who's Who of American Women, 1992.
Mosher Award, American Society for Public Administration, with Melvin Dubnick.1988
Dissertation fellowship, The American Association of University Women.
American Political Science Association
American Society for Public Administration
Midwest Political Science Association
National Academy of Public Administration
Public Management Research Association
Academy of Management: 1989-95 Executive Committee, Public Sector Division; 1989 Levine Best Paper Award Committee, Public Sector Division
American Political Science Association: 2007-08 Gaus Award Committee; 1993-97 Chair, Committee on Organized Sections; 1992-94 National Council
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences: 2006-2008. Research Universities Committee, Committee Chair 2007-08.
Midwest Political Science Association: 1999-2000 President, Midwest Public Administration Caucus.
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration: 1999-2002 Standards Committee; 2001, 1990-93 Executive Council; 1989-92 Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation
Public Management Research Association: 2009- present Governing Board; 2010-12 Search committee for editor of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Books
New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships, coauthored with Beryl Radin, Robert Agranoff, Ann Bowman, C. Gregory Buntz, J. Steven Ott, and Robert H. Wilson, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
New Paradigms for Government: Issues for the Changing Public Service, with Patricia W. Ingraham, Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc., 1994.
American Public Administration: Politics and the Management of Expectations, with Melvin Dubnick, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991.
Refereed Articles
“A Preliminary Theory of Informal Accountability among Network Organizational Actors,” Barbara S. Romzek, Kelly LeRoux and Jeannette M. Blackmar, Public Administration Review, forthcoming.
“Social Welfare Contracts as Networks: The Impact of Network Stability on Management and Performance,” Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, Administration and Society, v. 40(2):115-146, April 2008.
“State Social Services Contracting: Exploring Determinants of Effective Contract Accountability,” Barbara S. Romzek and Jocelyn M. Johnston, Public Administration Review, v. 65(4):436-449, July/August, 2005.
“The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability Across the Federal System: From Ambulances to Space Shuttles,” Jocelyn Johnston, Barbara S. Romzek, and Curtis Wood, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, v. 34(3):155-182, (Summer) 2004.
“Contract Implementation and Management Effectiveness: A Preliminary Model” Barbara S. Romzek and Jocelyn M. Johnston, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, v. 12 (3):423-453, (July) 2002. Above article also published in a 20 year retrospective collection of 30 exemplary articles representing the range of high quality research published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: Origins and Early Development, H. George Frederickson, editor, 2010, http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jopart/collectionspage.html
“Politics, Administration and Markets: Conflicting Expectations and Accountability” Donald Klingner, John Nalbandian, and Barbara S. Romzek, American Review of Public Administration, v. 32 (2):117-144 (June) 2002. Above article also published by the Latin American Center for Development Administration, entitled “La Política, la Administración y el Mercado: Expectativas de ámbitos de responsabilidad en conflicto,” in Reforme y Democracia, no. 24:71-113, Octubre, 2002. This journal is published in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
“Cross Pressures of Accountability: Initiative, Command and Failure in the Ron Brown Plane Crash,” Barbara S. Romzek and Patricia W. Ingraham, Public Administration Review, v. 60(3):240-253, May/June 2000.
"Accountability of Congressional Staff," Barbara S. Romzek, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 10 (3):413-446, April 2000.
“Dynamics of Public Sector Accountability in an Era of Reform,” Barbara S. Romzek, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 66:19-42, March 2000 (published in Arabic, French and English).
"Contracting and Accountability Issues in a State Medicaid Reform: Rhetoric, Theories, and Reality," Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, Public Administration Review, 59 (5):383-399, (September/October) 1999.
“Reforming Medicaid through Contracting: The Nexus of Implementation and Organizational Culture,” Barbara S. Romzek and Jocelyn M. Johnston, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 9(1999): 1:107-139.
"Congressional Legislative Staff: Political Professionals or Clerks?" Barbara S. Romzek and Jennifer Utter, American Journal of Political Science, 41(4): 1251-1279, October 1997.
"Career Dynamics of Congressional Legislative Staff: Preliminary Profile and Research Questions," Barbara S. Romzek and Jennifer Utter, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 6(3): 415-442, July 1996.
"Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena: The National Rural Development Partnership," Beryl Radin and Barbara S. Romzek, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 26(2): 59-81, Spring 1996.
"Employee Investment and Commitment: The Ties That Bind," Barbara S. Romzek, Public Administration Review, 50: 374:382, May/June 1990.
"The Personal Consequences of Employee Commitment," Barbara S. Romzek, Academy of Management Journal, 32: 649-661, September 1989.
"Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger Tragedy" Barbara S. Romzek and Melvin Dubnick, Public Administration Review, 47:227-238, May/June 1987. Received the William E. and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best academic article of the year. Article reprinted in
Frederick S. Lane, ed., Current Issues in Public Administration, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions, 1989, 1991, 1994.
David H. Rosenbloom, Deborah D. Goldman, and Patricia W. Ingraham, eds., Contemporary Public Administration, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.
Camilla Stivers, ed., Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Administration. Boulder, Westview Press, 2001.
J Steven Ott and E.W. Russell, eds., Introduction to Public Administration: A Book of Readings, Longman, 2001.
"Perceptions of Agency Effectiveness as the Basis for Differences in Organizational Involvement," Barbara S. Romzek, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 6:76-85, Fall, 1985.
"Work and Nonwork Psychological Involvements: The Search For Linkage," Barbara S. Romzek, Administration and Society, 17:257-281, November, 1985.
"The Effects of Public Service Recognition, Job Security and Staff Reductions on Organizational Involvement," Barbara S. Romzek, Public Administration Review, 45:282-291, March/April, 1985.
Article reprinted in
John L. Bryam, (ed.) Personnel Management for the Fire Service, Lexington, MA: Ginn Press, 1986.
Mark Holzer, ed., Public Service: Callings, Commitments, and Constraints, Westview Press, 2000.
"The Human Factor in the Federal Workforce: Work Experiences, Self-Esteem and Organizational Involvement," Barbara S. Romzek, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 5:43-56, Fall, 1984.
"Organizational Involvement and Representative Bureaucracy: Can We Have It Both Ways?" Barbara S. Romzek and J. Stephen Hendricks, American Political Science Review, 76:75-82, March 1982. Article reprinted in Gary L. Jones and Jerry L. Simich (eds.), America the Beautiful: Readings in American Politics, 2nd ed., Burgess Publishing Company, 1987.
Chapters in Books
“The Tangled Web of Accountability in Contracting Networks” Barbara S. Romzek, in Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises, Melvin Dubnick and H. George Frederickson, editors, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2011.
“The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting,” Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, in Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy, Robert Durant, editor, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Business and Government,” Barbara S. Romzek, chapter 9 in The Administrative State Revisited, David Rosenbloom and Howard McCurdy, eds., Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
“Traditional Contracts as Partnerships: Effective Accountability in Social Services Contracts in the American States,” Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, in Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve, eds., The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships- Learning from International Experience, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
“Contracting and accountability: A model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience,” with Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, in Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation, Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot, eds., New York: Routledge, 2004.
“Implementing State Contracts for Social Services: An Assessment of the Kansas Experience,” Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, ch. 5 in New Ways of Doing Business, Mark A. Abramson and Ann M. Kieffaber, eds., New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 2003.
“From Turbulence to Tragedy: The Crash of Ron Brown’s Flight in Croatia,” A Case Study of Leadership and Accountability, Patricia W. Ingraham and Barbara S. Romzek, in Security in a Changing World: Case Studies in U.S. National Security Management, Volker Franke, ed., Westport, CN: Praeger, 2002.
“Accountability Implications of Civil Service Reform,” Barbara S. Romzek, ch. 7 in The Future of Merit, edited by James Pfiffner and Douglas Brook, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
"Accountability," Barbara S. Romzek and Melvin Dubnick in International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 1: A-C, pp. 6-11, Jay Shafritz, editor in chief, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Reprinted in Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Jay Shafritz, ed., Westview Press, 2000.
“Reforming State Social Services Through Contracting: Linking Implementation and Organizational Culture,” Barbara S. Romzek and Jocelyn Johnston, ch. 10 in Advancing Public Management: New Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice, Jeffrey Brudney, Laurence O’Toole, Jr., and Hal G. Rainey, eds., Washington, Georgetown University Press, 2000.
"Where the Buck Stops: Accountability in Reformed Public Organizations” Barbara S. Romzek, in Transforming Government: Lessons from the Reinvention Laboratories, Patricia W. Ingraham, James R. Thompson and Ronald P. Sanders, editors, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
"Employee Commitment," Barbara S. Romzek, in International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 1: A-C, pp. 426-431, Jay Shafritz, editor in chief, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
"Accountability Challenges in an Era of Deregulation," Barbara S. Romzek, in Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns -- Future Challenges, 2nd., Carolyn Ban and Norma Riccucci, eds., Longman Publishing, 1997.
"Enhancing Accountability," Barbara S. Romzek, in the Handbook in Public Administration, 2nd ed., James L. Perry, editor, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
"Issues of Accountability in Flexible Personnel Systems" Barbara S. Romzek and Melvin Dubnick, in New Paradigms for Government: Issues for the Changing Public Service, Patricia W. Ingraham and Barbara S. Romzek eds., San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers, Inc., 1994.
"Accountability and the Centrality of Expectations for Public Administration" Melvin Dubnick and Barbara S. Romzek, in Research in Public Administration, Vol. 2:37-78, James Perry, ed. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993.
"Dynamics of Employee Commitment" Barbara S. Romzek, in Agenda for Excellence: Public Service in America, Patricia Ingraham and Donald Kettl, eds., Chatam House, 1992.
"Balancing Work and Nonwork Obligations," Barbara S. Romzek, in Public Personnel Management, Carolyn Ban and Norma Riccucci eds., Longman Publishing, 1991.
Research Monographs and Other Publications
“Implementing State Contracts for Social Services: An Assessment of the Kansas Experience” Report to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, with Jocelyn Johnston, May 2000.
“From Turbulence to Tragedy: The Crash of Ron Brown’s Flight in Croatia,” A Case Study of Leadership and Accountability, CS 0398-07, with Patricia W. Ingraham, National Security Studies Program, Syracuse University, 1998.
Above monograph reprinted in Security in a Changing World: Case Studies in U.S. National Security Management, Volker Franke, ed., Westport, CN: Praeger, 2002.
"Accountability," with Melvin Dubnick in International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 1: A-C, pp. 6-11, Jay Shafritz, editor, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
Above article reprinted in Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Jay Shafritz, ed., Westview Press, 2000.
"Employee Commitment," in International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 1: A-C, pp. 426-431, Jay Shafritz, editor in chief, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
"Management Constraints Come to Capitol Hill: The Times They Are A Changin' " in Extension of Remarks, Newsletter, Legislative Studies Section of American Political Science Association, July, 1996.
"Management Constraints Come to Capitol Hill: The Times They Are A Changin'" in Extension of Remarks, Newsletter, Legislative Studies Section of American Political Science Association, July, 1996.
Intergovernmental Partnerships and Rural Development: An Overview Assessment of the National Rural Development Partnership, with Beryl Radin, Robert Agranoff, Ann Bowman, C. Gregory Buntz, J. Steven Ott, and Robert H. Wilson, ERS Staff Paper No. 9508, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C., 1995.
Kansas Rural Development Council, A report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C., 1994.
"Accountability and the Rural Development Initiative," with Beryl Radin, Occasional paper published by the National Rural Development Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1994.
Kansas Rural Development Council, A report to the State Rural Policy Program of the Aspen Institute, October, 1991
Book review, of Controlling the Federal Bureaucracy by Dennis Riley for American Political Science Review, 82:301-302, March, 1988.
The Multidimensional Bureaucrat: Identities, Loyalties and Conflicts of Professional Level Federal Employees, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979.
Ph.D. Seminars
Public Management and Administrative Behavior
Public Management and Theories of Administrative Organization
M.P.A. Seminars Undergraduate Courses
Administrative Behavior
Human Resources Management
Leadership
Public Management & Organizational Analysis
Professional Development Seminar I and II
Dynamics of Employee Commitment
Undergraduate Courses
Behavior in Public Organizations
Democracy and the Bureaucratic State
Introduction to American Government
Introduction to Public Administration
Introduction to Public Administration – Honors
Introduction to U.S. Politics-Honors
Politics of Bureaucracy
Public Personnel Administration
Public Service Leadership
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