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Public Affairs Faculty

James L. Perry
Chancellor's Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Adjunct Professor, Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Indiana University

Ph.D., Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1974

James L. Perry is Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs ( SPEA) and Adjunct Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has held faculty appointments at the University of California, Irvine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis, and University of Hong Kong. He has twice been selected for Fulbright Fellowships. In 1986, he was Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His second Fulbright was in 2007 at Yonsei University, where he was Distinguished Lecturer. In 2006-2007, he served as Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Public Management Institute of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Perry received his B.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Chicago in 1970 and a M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Perry is the author or editor of eight books and more than 135 journal articles and book chapters. Professor Perry’s recent research has focused on public service motivation, performance-related pay, community and national service, and government reform. During his career, he has conducted innovative and cutting-edge research on public sector collective bargaining, public technological innovation, civil service reform, and public organizational behavior. His research on public service motivation has stimulated research now underway in more than a dozen countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. During the twenty-year period from 1985-2005, he was the sixteenth most cited scholar in public policy, public administration, and public law. Perry’s scholarly contributions have been recognized with many awards, most recently the 2008 Dwight Waldo Award, which is conferred for outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career.

In addition to his scholarly contributions, Perry has served in a wide range of leadership positions in universities and professional associations. His university roles include serving as associate dean, faculty chair and doctoral program director at the University of California, Irvine and Indiana University. His leadership contributions to professional associations such as the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, and the Academy of Management span more than three decades. Perry serves on many editorial boards and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education from 1998 to 2000.

In addition to consulting and public service, on two occasions Perry has served full time in federal agencies. In 1992, he was special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 1999-2000, he was senior evaluator at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Perry is former commissioner and chair of the Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism. He was elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 1998.

Awards

Recent Books and Monographs
For a full list of publications and links to pdf files, see James L. Perry

Perry, J. L. and A. Hondeghem. (2008). Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Perry, J. L. and S. Jones. (2006).Quick Hits for Educating Citizens. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Chen, Y.C. and J.L. Perry. (2006). Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology Can Address Pandemics and Disasters. Armonk, NY: IBM. (Accessed on June 10, 2008 at http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/healthcare/doc/content/bin/Global_Healthcare_Crises_How_Information.pdf).

Perry, J. L. and A.M. Thomson. (2004). Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. (Winner of the Best Book Award, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management).

Chen, Y. C. and J.L. Perry. (2003). Managing Government and Healthcare IT Outsourcing in Europe: A Relationship-based Approach. Washington, D.C.: IBM Center for Healthcare Management and IBM Center for the Business of Government. (Accessed on June 10, 2008 at http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/chm_gov-health-it-outsourcing-europe.pdf).

Chen, Y. C. and J.L. Perry. (2003). IT Outsourcing: A Primer for Public Managers. Arlington, VA: IBM Endowment for the Business of Government. (Accessed on June 10, 2008 at http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/ChenReport.pdf).

Selected Recent Publications

Thomson, A.M., J.L. Perry, and T.K. Miller. (2008). "Conceptualizing and measuring collaboration," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. (forthcoming)

Lah, T.J. and J.L. Perry. (2008). "The diffusion of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 in OECD countries: A tale of two paths to reform." Review of Public Personnel Administration, 28(3).

Park, H.M. and J.L. Perry. (2008). "Do campaign web sites really matter in electoral civic engagement?" Empirical evidence from the 2004 post-election Internet tracking survey. Social Science Computer Review, 26(2):190-212.

Coursey, D., J.L. Perry, J. Brudney, and L. Littlepage. (2008). "Psychometric verification of Perry’s public service motivation instrument: Results for volunteer exemplars." Review of Public Personnel Administration, 28(1):79-90.

Perry, J.L., J.L. Brudney, D. Coursey, and L. Littlepage. (2008). "What drives morally committed citizens?" A study of the antecedents of public service motivation. Public Administration Review, 68(3):445-458.

Perry, J.L. and A. Hondeghem. (2008). "Building theory and empirical evidence about public service motivation." International Public Management Journal, 11(1):3-12.

Paarlberg, L. and J.L. Perry. (2007). "Values management: Aligning employee values and organizational goals." American Review of Public Administration, 37(4):387-408.

Perry, J.L. (2007). "Democracy and the new public service." American Review of Public Administration, 37(3):3-16.

Littlepage, L., J.L. Perry, J. Brudney, and P. Goff. (2007). "Exemplary volunteers: What is the role of faith?" The International Journal of Volunteer Administration, 24(5):13-25.

Imperial, M.T., J.L. Perry, and M.C. Katula. (2007). "Effective service learning in public affairs: Lessons from the literature." Journal of Public Affairs Education, 13(2):231-252.

Harlow, K. and J.L. Perry. (2006). "Public affairs and healthcare administration: Crosscutting competencies and multiple accreditation challenges for academic programs." Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(2):197-211. (Winner of the 2006 Outstanding JPAE Article Award).

Thomson, A.M. and J.L. Perry. (2006). "Collaboration processes: Inside the black box." Public Administration Review, 66:19-32 (December, Special Issue).

Perry, J.L., D. Mesch, and L. Paarlberg. (2006). "Motivating employees in a new governance era: The performance paradigm revisited." Public Administration Review, 66:505-514. (July/August). (A significantly expanded online version, accessed on June 10, 2008, is available at http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/custom/staticcontent/t2pdownloads/PerryArticle.htm).

Perry, J.L. (2004). "Civic service in North America." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33S:161S-183S. (December).

Lee, G. and J.L. Perry. (2002). "Are computers boosting productivity?" A test of the paradox in state governments. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 12:77-102.

Perry, J. L. and M.C. Katula. (2001). "Does service affect citizenship?" Administration & Society, 33(3):330-365.

Tschirhart, M., D. Mesch, J.L. Perry, T.K. Miller, and G. Lee. (2001). "Stipended volunteers: Their goals, experiences, satisfaction, and likelihood of future service." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 30:422-443.

Lenkowsky, L. and J.L. Perry. (2000). "Reinventing government: The case of national service." Public Administration Review, 60:298-307. (July/August).

Perry, J L. (2000). "Bringing society in: Toward a theory of public service motivation." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 10:471-488.