Election of New PMRA Board Members

The Public Management Research Association (PMRA) is pleased to formally announce the election of new members to its Board of Directors. We extend our warmest congratulations to the newly elected board members and express our appreciation for their willingness to serve. Their leadership and scholarly contributions will play a vital role in guiding the future direction of the Association and furthering the advancement of public management research.

We look forward to their term of service and to the continued growth of PMRA under their guidance.

Nathan Favero

Nathan Favero is a Provost Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He received a PhD in political science from Texas A&M University in 2016. His research focuses on internal management, performance, research methodology, social equity, and citizen satisfaction. Much of his empirical work has considered these topics in the context of education, drawing data from public school systems in Texas, New York City, California, South Korea, and Denmark.

Sharon Gilad

Sharon Gilad is a political scientist who studies public administration. She is a Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Political Science Department and the Federmann School of Public Policy. Her work centres on the ramifications of bureaucrats’ and citizens’ multiple social and political identities for their attitudes, behaviours, and interactions. She employs mixed methods to make sense of real-world bureaucratic settings. Where politically feasible and ethically appropriate, she designs research in collaboration with government organizations. Her most recent interest is in the consequences of political polarization and democratic backsliding on individuals' partisan self-selection into and out of the civil service. Other recent work pertains to citizen strategies in bureaucratic encounters, bureaucratic discrimination of minorities, and the effect of representative bureaucracy. 

George Krause

George A. Krause is the Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Administration (PhD, West Virginia University, 1994). His previous faculty appointments include serving both as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina (1994-2005) and, more recently, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2005-2017). Professor Krause’s core scholarly interests center on issues pertaining to governance, accountability, and representation in the United States. These interests span a diverse and eclectic set of fields and subfields, including Public Administration & Bureaucracy, Organizational Theory, Executive Politics, Political Economics, Legislative Politics, and Subnational Politics & Policymaking. His current research activities investigate both the selection and the role of bureaucratic leadership in U.S. federal government agencies; the exercise of executive authority; administrative performance; the implications of shared power arrangements for democratic governance and policymaking within the administrative state; and the institutional and organizational aspects of fiscal policymaking in the realm of democratic politics.

Amanda Rutherford

Amanda Rutherford is an associate professor and chair of the Governance and Management faculty in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research focuses on political control and accountability; personnel management; and issues of race, equity, and representation in bureaucratic institutions.  She is the author or editor of three books and has published in Public Administration Review, the American Political Science Review, Educational Researcher, and the Stata Journal, among others.   She has served on committees and in leadership positions for the Public Management Research Association, the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, the Academy of Management, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Southern Political Science Association. 

Lars Tummers

Lars Tummers is Professor of Public Administration and Organization Science at Utrecht University. He was appointed in 2018, at the age of 36. He is an internationally recognized expert on public management, leadership and behavior change. Previously, he worked at PwC and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He also was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. His goal is to understand how people can change behavior to improve lives of themselves and others. Related to this, Tummers is one of the initiators of an interdisciplinary field combining psychology and public administration, called 'Behavioral Public Administration'. He and his colleagues kicked of this field by organizing a KNAW Colloquium on this, where 50 top scholars from various fields united. He subsequently developed core overview articles in the most highly regarded journals in the field.