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William G. Resh

Assistant Professor


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wresh@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7671
SPEA Room 451


Education
Ph.D., The American University, 2011
M.A., University of Baltimore, 2007
B.A., West Virginia University, 1997

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2011 to present
  • Associate Editor, "Theory to Practice", Public Administration Review, 2008 - 2010
  • Research Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, 2010
  • Graduate Fellow, Schaefer Center for Public Policy, University of Baltimore, 2006 - 2007

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research, Junior Research Grant Award administered by the American Political Science Association, 2011
  • University Dissertation Award (American University), 2010
  • Merit Doctoral Assistantship, August 2007 - May 2010
  • Schaefer Center for Public Policy Graduate Fellowship, University of Baltimore, August 2006 - May 2007

Professional Interests
Public Management, Executive Branch Politics, U.S. Presidency, Administrative Rulemaking, Organization Theory and Behavior, and Public Personnel Management

Current Projects

  • “Political Control, Managerial Trustworthiness, and Active Dyadic Trust: Identifying the Antecedents of Bureaucratic Discretionary Effort”
  • "Appointee-Careerist Relations and the Impact on Presidential Transition"
  • “Governors, Gubernatorial Appointees, and Strategic Politicization”
  • "Studying the Administrative Presidency: A Bibliometric Analysis"
  • “Using HBO’s The Wire to Teach the Politics of Street-level Bureaucracy and Performance Measurement”
  • “Multi-attribute Utility Analysis: An Alternative and Transparent Method of Making Democratic Hiring Decisions”
  • “A Step toward Explaining Managerial and Client Support in Street-Level Bureaucracy,” with John D. Marvel
  • “Client Demographics, Public Managers, and Street-level Bureaucrats’ Discretion,” with John D. Marvel

Selected Publications
Full Vita

  • “Who Participates Now… and Why? A Case Study of Modern Interest Participation and Bureaucratic Decision-Making in the Age of E-Government.” In E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy, ed. Aroon Manoharan and Marc Holzer. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, Inc., 2011.
  • "Faithful Infidelity: 'Political Time', George W. Bush, and the Paradox of 'Big Government Conservatism'", with Robert F. Durant and Edmund Stazky, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2010.
  • "The role of regulation: A discussion of Rick Melberth's 'Restoring Public Protections'". In What Do We Expect from Our Government?, ed. Beryl Radin and Joshua Chanin. New York: Lexington Books, 2010.
  • "'Presidentializing' the bureaucracy", with Robert F. Durant, In Handbook of the American Bureaucracy, ed. Robert F. Durant. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • “Presidential agendas, administrative strategies, and the bureaucracy,” with Robert F. Durant. In Handbook of the American Presidency, ed. George Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.