Research by Topic
Perry, James and Robert K. Christensen. (2015). Handbook of Public Administration, 3rd edition. Jossey Bass: Wiley.
Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. and Robert K. Christensen. (2012). American Intergovernmental Relations, 5th edition. CQ Press.
Wright, Bradley and Robert K. Christensen. (Accepted). Additional intervention evidence on the relationship between public service motivation and ethical behavior. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration
Shon, Jongmin, Greg Porumbescu and Robert K. Christensen. (2020). Can Program Funding Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation? Public Administration.
Christensen, Robert K., Rebecca Nesbit, Justin Stritch. (2018) The role of employee public service motives and organizational commitment in workplace giving campaigns. American Review of Public Administration, 48(7), 644-658.
Christensen, Robert K. and Bradley E. Wright. (2018). Public Service Motivation and Ethical Behavior: Evidence from Three Experiments. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 1(1), 1-8.
Thompson, Jeffery and Robert K. Christensen. (2018). Bridging the Public Service Motivation and Calling Literatures. Public Administration Review, 78(3), 444-456.
Christensen, Robert K., Laurie Paarlberg, James Perry. (2017). Public Service Motivation Research: Lessons for Practice. Public Administration Review, 77(4): 529-542.
Wright, Bradley E., Shahidul Hassan, Robert K. Christensen. (2017). Observational Analyses of Job Choice and Performance: Revisiting Core Assumptions about Public Service Motivation. International Public Management Journal, 20(1): 108-131.
Christensen, Robert K., Justin M. Stritch, J. Edward Kellough, and Gene Brewer. (2015). “Public service orientation among new college freshmen: Identifying motives and traits relevant to service-learning and engagement.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 19(4): 39-62.
Stritch, Justin M. and Robert K. Christensen. (2014). “Looking at a job’s social impact through PSM tinted lenses: Probing the motivation – perception relationship.” Public Administration, 92(4): 826-842.
Wright, Bradley E., Christensen, Robert K., and Pandey, Sanjay K. (2013). “Measuring Public Service Motivation: Exploring the Equivalency of Existing Global Measures.” International Public Management Journal, 16(2): 197-223.
Wright, Bradley E., Robert K. Christensen, and Kimberly R. Isett. (2013). “Motivated to Adapt? The Role of Public Service Motivation as Employees Face Organizational Change.” Public Administration Review, 73(5): 738-747.
Christensen, Robert K., Whiting, Steven, Im, Tobin, Rho, Eunju, Stritch, Justin, Park, Jung Ho. (2013). Public Service Motivation, Task, and Nontask Behavior: A Performance Appraisal Experiment with Korean MPA and MBA Students. International Public Management Journal, 16(1): 28-52.
Kim, Sangmook, Wouter Vandenabeele, Bradley E. Wright, Lotte B. Andersen, Francesco Paolo Cerase, Robert K. Christensen, Maria Koumenta, Peter Leisink, Bangcheng Liu, Jolanta Palidauskaite, Lene H. Pedersen, James L. Perry, Jeannette Taylor, Paola De Vivo. (2013). “Investigating the Meaning and Structure of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 23(1), 79-102.
Christensen, Robert K. & Wright, Bradley E. (2011). “The Effects of Public Service Motivation on Job Choice Decisions: Disentangling the Contributions of Person-Organization Fit and Person-Job Fit.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(4), 723-743.
Wright, Bradley E. & Christensen, Robert K. (2010). “Public Service Motivation: A Test of the Job Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model.” International Public Management Journal, 13(2), 155-176.
Christensen, Robert K. and Whiting, Steven. (2009). “Employee Performance Evaluations in the Public Sector: Public Service Motivation, Task, and Citizenship Behaviors.” The Korean Journal of Policy Studies, 24(2), 41-56.
Public Service Careers, Behaviors
Christensen, Robert K., Kuk-Kyoung Moon and Andrew Whitford. (Forthcoming). Genetics and Sector of Employment. International Public Management Journal.
Christensen, Robert K. and Steven Whiting. (2018). Evaluating Inrole and Extrarole Behaviors Across Sectors. Public Personnel Management, 47(3), 314-334.
Wright, Bradley E., Shahidul Hassan, Robert K. Christensen. (2017). Observational Analyses of Job Choice and Performance: Revisiting Core Assumptions about Public Service Motivation. International Public Management Journal, 20(1): 108-131.
Tsai, Chin-Chang, Justin Stritch and Robert K. Christensen. (2016). Eco-helping and Eco-Civic Engagement in the Public Workplace. Public Performance and Management Review, 40(2): 336-360.
Stritch, Justin M. and Robert K. Christensen. (2016). Going green in public organizations: Exploring Eco-Initiative in Public Employees. American Review of Public Administration, 46(3): 337-355.
Stritch, Justin M. and Robert K. Christensen. (2016). Raising the Next Generation of Public Servants? Parental Influence on Volunteering Behavior and Public Service Career Aspirations. International Journal of Manpower, 37(5): 840-858.
LePere-Schloop, Megan, Brian N. Williams Robert K. Christensen, and Daniel Silk. (2015). Appraising the Appraisal Process: Manager and Patrol Officer Perspectives. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 88(3): 231-250.
Public Law: Judges, Courts, Attys
Osorio, Andrew, Sarah Nielsen and Robert K. Christensen. Systematically Reviewing American Law and Public Administration: A Call for Dialogue & Theory Building (Accepted). Perspectives on Public Management and Governance.
Moyer, Laura, Susan Haire, John Szmer, Robert K. Christensen. (Forthcoming). Diversity, Consensus, and Decision Making: Evidence from the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Kaheny, Erin; John J. Szmer, and Robert K. Christensen. (Forthcoming). Status characteristics and their intersectionality: Majority opinion assignment in state supreme courts. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Szmer, John, Robert K. Christensen, Samuel Grubbs. (2020). What influences the influence of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions? European Journal of Law and Economics.
Szmer, John, Christensen, Robert K. and Kaheny, Erin. (2015). “Gender, Race, and Dissensus on State Supreme Courts.” Social Science Quarterly, 96(2): 553-575.
Kreis, Anthony and Christensen, Robert K. (2013). “Law and Public Policy.” Policy Studies Journal, 41: S38-S52.
Szmer, John, Christensen, Robert K., Kuersten, Ashlyn. (2012). “The Efficiency of Federal Appellate Decisions: An Examination of Published and Unpublished Opinions.” Justice System Journal, 33(3), 318-338.
Christensen, Robert K., Szmer, John, Stritch, Justin M. (2012). “Race and gender bias in three administrative contexts: Impact on work assignments in state supreme courts.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(4), 625-648.
Christensen, Robert K. & Szmer, John. (2012). “Examining the Efficiency of the U.S. Courts of Appeals: Pathologies and Prescriptions.” International Review of Law and Economics, 32(1), 30-37.
Christensen, Robert K., Goerdel, Holly T., Nicholson-Crotty, Sean. (2011). “Management, Law and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Public Administration.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(supp), 125-140.
Christensen, Robert K. & Wise, Charles R. (2009) “Dead or Alive? The Federalism Revolution and Its Meaning for Public Administration.” Public Administration Review, 69(5), 943-955.
Christensen, Robert K. (2009). “Running the Constitution: Framing Public Administration.” Public Performance & Management Review, 32(4), 604-609.
Wise, Charles R. & Christensen, Robert K. (2005). “A Full and Fair Capacity: Federal Courts Managing State Policy Programs.” Administration & Society, 37(5) 576-610.
Moyer, Laura, Susan Haire, John Szmer, Robert K. Christensen. (Forthcoming). Diversity, Consensus, and Decision Making: Evidence from the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Kaheny, Erin; John J. Szmer, and Robert K. Christensen. (Forthcoming). Status characteristics and their intersectionality: Majority opinion assignment in state supreme courts. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Moon, Kuk-Kyoung and Robert K. Christensen. (2020). Realizing the Performance Benefits of Workforce Diversity in the U.S. Federal Government: The Moderating Role of Diversity Climate. Public Personnel Management.
Szmer, John, Christensen, Robert K. and Kaheny, Erin. (2015). “Gender, Race, and Dissensus on State Supreme Courts.” Social Science Quarterly, 96(2): 553-575.
Szmer, John, Christensen, Robert K., Kuersten, Ashlyn. (2012). “The Efficiency of Federal Appellate Decisions: An Examination of Published and Unpublished Opinions.” Justice System Journal, 33(3), 318-338.
Christensen, Robert K., Szmer, John, Stritch, Justin M. (2012). “Race and gender bias in three administrative contexts: Impact on work assignments in state supreme courts.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(4), 625-648.
Rimes, Heather, Rebecca Nesbit and Robert K. Christensen. (2019). Giving at Work: Exploring Connections Between Workplace Giving Campaigns and Patterns of Household Charitable Giving in the United States. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
Paarlberg, Laurie E., Rebecca Nesbit, Richard Clerkin and Robert K. Christensen. (2019). The Generosity of Politics: Are Red Counties more Generous than Blue Counties? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Shaker, Genevieve and Robert K. Christensen. (2019). I Give at the Office: A Review of Workplace Giving Research, Theory and Practice. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.
Christensen, Robert K., Rebecca Nesbit, Justin Stritch. (2018) The role of employee public service motives and organizational commitment in workplace giving campaigns. American Review of Public Administration, 48(7), 644-658.
Shaker, Genevieve, Robert K. Christensen, Jon Bergdoll. (2017). What works at work? Towards an integrative model examining workplace campaign strategies. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 28(1): 25-46.
Christensen, Robert K., Rebecca Nesbit; and Brett Agypt. (2016). To Give or Not to Give: Employee Responses to Workplace Giving Campaigns over Time. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(6): 1258 - 1275.
Nesbit, Rebecca, Christensen, Robert K., Tschirhart, Mary, Paarlberg, Laurie, Clerkin, Richard. (2015). “Philanthropic Mobility and Influence of Duration of Donor Residency on Donation Choices” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26(1): 267-287.
Clerkin, Richard, Paarlberg, Laurie, Christensen, Robert K., Nesbit, Rebecca, Tschirhart, Mary (2013). “Place, Time, and Philanthropy: Exploring geographic mobility and philanthropic engagement.” Public Administration Review, 73(1), 97-106.
Nesbit, Rebecca, Christensen, Robert K., Gossett, Loril. (2012). “Charitable Giving in the Public Workplace: A Framework to Understand Employees’ Philanthropic Performance.” Public Performance & Management Review, 35(3), 449-474.
Agypt, Brett, Christensen, Robert K., Nesbit, Rebecca. (2012). “A Tale of Two Charitable Campaigns: Longitudinal Analysis of Employee Giving at a Public University.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41(5), 802-825.
Nesbit, Rebecca, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Robert K. Christensen. (2018). The Limits of Volunteering: A Framework for Explaining the Boundaries of Volunteer Involvement in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Public Administration Review, 78(4), 502-513.
Nesbit, Rebecca, Heather Rimes, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Robert K. Christensen. (2017). Exploring the Dynamics of Volunteer and Staff Interactions: From Satisfaction to Conflict. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 28(2), 195-213.
Walton, Michael, Richard Clerkin, Robert K. Christensen, Laurie E. Paarlberg, Rebecca Nesbit, Mary Tschirhart. (2017). Means, Motive, and Opportunity: Exploring Board Volunteering. Personnel Review, 46(1): 115-135.
Nesbit, Rebecca, Heather Rimes, Robert K. Christensen, and Jeffrey L. Brudney. (2016). Inadvertent Volunteer Managers: The Intersection of Employee Perceptions of Volunteer Managers’ and Volunteers’ Roles in the Public Workplace. Review of Public Personnel and Administration, 36(2): 164-187.
Stritch, Justin M. and Robert K. Christensen. (2016). Raising the Next Generation of Public Servants? Parental Influence on Volunteering Behavior and Public Service Career Aspirations. International Journal of Manpower, 37(5): 840-858.
Paarlberg, Laurie E., Lauren Dula, Richard Clerkin, Robert K. Christensen; Rebecca Nesbit, Stephen Meinhold, and Mary Tschirhart. (2015). Older Adult Secular Volunteering: Volunteer Engagement Pathways for Newcomers and Longer Term Residents in an American Community. Voluntary Sector Review, 6(3): 241-259.
Clerkin, Richard, Paarlberg, Laurie, Christensen, Robert K., Nesbit, Rebecca, Tschirhart, Mary (2013). “Place, Time, and Philanthropy: Exploring geographic mobility and philanthropic engagement.” Public Administration Review, 73(1), 97-106.
Christensen, Robert K., Perry, James L. & Littlepage, Laura. (2005). “Making a Difference in a Day: An Assessment of Join Hands Day.” The Journal of Volunteer Administration, 23(4), 23-30. Reprinted (2008) as “Making a Difference in a Day: An Assessment of Join Hands Day.” International Journal of Volunteer Administration, 25(3).
Pearl, Drew and Robert K. Christensen. (2017). First-Year Student Motivations for Service-Learning: An Exploratory Investigation of Minority Student Perceptions. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 21(4), 117-138.
Pearl, Drew and Robert K. Christensen. (2017). First-year student motivations for service-learning: An application of the Volunteer Functions Inventory. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Spring: 66-82.
Christensen, Robert K., Justin M. Stritch, J. Edward Kellough, and Gene Brewer. (2015). “Public service orientation among new college freshmen: Identifying motives and traits relevant to service-learning and engagement.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 19(4): 39-62.
Public Sector Institutions: Capacity, Collaboration, Values
Wightman, Breck, Robert K. Christensen and Paula Sanford. (Forthcoming). Exploring the Perceived Barriers to Intergovernmental Collaboration: Schools and Local Governments in Georgia. Public Performance and Management Review.
Ryu, Sangyub and Robert K. Christensen. (2019). Student Performance in Turbulent Environments: The Contingent Role of Administrative Intensity in Hurricane Rita. American Review of Public Administration.
Clerkin, Richard, Robert K. Christensen, Harin Woo. (2017). A Quasi-experimental Design Testing Public Administration’s Separation of Powers Theory: Values, Motives and Sector. Public Performance and Management Review, 40(3): 581-600.
Duncan, Michael and Christensen, Robert K. (2013). “An exploratory institutional analysis of park-and-ride provision at light rail stations in the US.” Transport Policy, 25: 148-157.
Christensen, Robert K. & Gazley, Beth. (2008). “Capacity for Public Administration: Analysis of Meaning and Measurement.” Public Administration and Development, 28(4), 265-279.
Tschirhart, Mary, Christensen, Robert K. & Perry, James L. (2005). “The Paradox of Branding and Collaboration.” Public Performance & Management Review, 29(1), 67-84.
Christensen, Robert K., Rakhimkulov, Edward & Charles Wise. (2005). “The Ukrainian Orange Revolution Brought More Than a New President: What Kind of Democracy Will the Institutional Changes Bring?” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 38(2), 207-230.
Nonprofit Institutions, Policy
Haslam, Alyson, Robert K. Christensen, and Rebecca Nesbit. (2019). Nonprofit Entry, Exit and Community Impact: Are Health-Related Nonprofit Organizations Associated with Improvements in Community Health Outcomes Over Time. Nonprofit Policy Forum.
Paarlberg, Laurie E., Rebecca Nesbit, Robert K. Christensen, Seung-Ho An, and Justin Bullock. (2018). A Field Too Crowded? Measuring The Relationship between Nonprofit Density and Financial Health. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(3), 453-473.
Bushouse, Brenda, Brent Never, Robert K. Christensen. (2016). Elinor Ostrom’s Contribution to Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Studies. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(4): 7s-26s.
Christensen, Robert K.; Clerkin, Richard; Nesbit, Rebecca; Paarlberg, Laurie. (2016). Are Parent Teacher Groups Leading? An Exploratory Study Assessing Nonprofits’ Financial Support of Public Schools. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 6(1): 47-59.
Paarlberg, Laurie, Nesbit, Rebecca, Clerkin, Richard, Christensen, Robert K. (2014). “Leading, Following or Complementing in Economic Crisis: A Conceptual Model Illustrating Nonprofit Relationships with Public Schools.” Administrative Sciences, 4(2): 120-136.
Christensen, Robert K., Clerkin, Richard, Nesbit, Becky & Paarlberg, Laurie. (2009). “Light and Dark Sides of Nonprofit Activities and the Rules to Manage Them: The Case of Charitable Bingo.” Administration & Society, 41(2), 213-234.
Christensen, Robert K. (2006). “International Nongovernmental Organizations: Globalization, Policy Learning, and the Nation-State.” International Journal of Public Administration, 29(4-6), 281-303.
Paarlberg, Laurie, Nesbit, Becky, Clerkin, Richard & Christensen, Robert K. (2005). “Charitable Gaming: Bingo’s Boon and Bane.” Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 15(4), 433-448.