Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr. is the Margaret Hughes and Robert T. Golembiewski Professor of Public Administration. He has lectured and conducted research widely in North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. He is past President of the Public Management Research Association as well as co-editor for public management of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. O'Toole has conducted research for numerous governmental agencies, including the US Agency for International Development, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the US National Science Foundation, and the European Commission. He is author, coauthor, or editor of 11 books and many articles and chapters.
Research Interests
Larry O'Toole focuses much of his energy on issues of policy implementation in complex institutional settings, the impact of public management on government performance, networks and public management, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, and environmental and educational policy and management.
Honors and Awards
Among O'Toole's research honors are the Burchfield, Mosher (twice), Stone, and Wholey Awards of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA); as well as the best article award in public and nonprofit management from the Academy of Management. He is also a recipient of the Charles Levine Award provided jointly by ASPA and NASPAA, for outstanding instruction, scholarship, and public service. O'Toole has also been honored with the Dwight Waldo Award of the American Society for Public Administration, for outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career.
Teaching
Policy Implementation, Public Administration and Democracy, Capstone Doctoral Seminar
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Ph.D., Public Administration, Syracuse University
M.P.A., Public Administration, Syracuse University
B.S., Chemistry, Clarkson University |
Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books
American Intergovernmental Relations, ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press). Fourth edition, 2006.
Public Services Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Co-editors: George Boyne, Kenneth J, Meier, and Richard Walker.
Bureaucracy in a Democratic State: A Governance Perspective (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
Articles and Chapters
“Plus ça Change: Public Management, Personnel Stability, and Organizational Performance,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13, 1 (January 2003): 43-64. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Bureaucracy and Uncertainty,” in Barry Burden, ed., Uncertainty in American Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 98-117. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Interorganizational Relations in Implementation,” in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre, eds., Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2003): 234-44
“Public Management and Educational Performance: The Impact of Managerial Networking,” Public Administration Review 63, 6 (November-December 2003): 689-99. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier)
“Multilevel Governance Networks and the Use of Policy Instruments in the European Union,” in Hans Th.A. Bressers and Walter Rosenbaum, eds., Achieving Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Governance across Social Scales (New York: Praeger, 2003): 257-79. Co-author: Kenneth I. Hanf.
“Multilevel Governance and Organizational Performance: Investigating the Political-Bureaucratic Labyrinth,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 23, 1(January 2004): 31-47. Co-authors: Kenneth J. Meier and Sean Nicholson-Crotty.
“Public Management and Organizational Performance: The Case of Law Enforcement Agencies,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14, 1 (January 2004): 1-18. Co-author: Sean Nicholson-Crotty.
“The Theory-Practice Issue in Policy Implementation Research,” Public Administration (UK) 82, 2 (2004): 309-29.
“Shaping Formal Networks through the Regulatory Process,” Administration and Society 36, 2 (May 2004): 1-22. Co-author: Thad E. Hall.
“Parkinson's Law and the New Public Management? Contracting Determinants and Service Quality Consequences in Public Education,” Public Administration Review 64, 3 (May/June 2004): 297-307. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Public Management in Intergovernmental Networks: Matching Structural and Behavioral Networks,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14, 4 (October 2004): 469-94. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Instrument Selection and Implementation in a Network Context,” in Pearl Eliadis, Margaret Hill, and Michael Howlett, eds., From Instrument Choice to Governance: Future Directions for the Choice of Governing Instrument (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2005): 132-53. Co-author: Hans Bressers.
“Implementation Theory and the Challenge of Sustainable Development: The Transformative Role of Learning on Both Theory and Practice,” in William Lafferty, ed., Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004): 32-60.
“Desperately Seeking Selznick: Cooptation and the Dark Side of Public Management in Networks,” Public Administration Review 64, 6 (November-December 2004): 681-93. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Conceptual Issues in Modeling and Measuring Management and Its Impacts on Performance,” in Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Patricia W. Ingraham, Eds., Effective Government: How Organization and Management Affect Performance (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005): 195-223. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Managing Upward, Downward, and Outward: Networks, Hierarchical Relationships, and Performance,” Public Management Review 7, 1 (2005): 45-68. Co-authors: Kenneth J. Meier and Sean Nicholson-Crotty.
“Representative Bureaucracy, Organizational Strategy, and Public Service Performance: An Empirical Analysis of English Local Government,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15, 4(October, 2005): 489-504. Co-authors: Rhys Andrews, George Boyne, Kenneth J. Meier, and Richard Walker.
“Where Next? Research Directions on Performance in Public Organizations,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15, 4 (October 2005): 633-39. Co-authors: George Boyne, Kenneth J. Meier, and Richard Walker.
“Managerial Networking: Issues of Measurement and Research Design,” Administration and Society 5 (November, 2005): 523-41. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital,” Public Administration Review 66, 1(January - February, 2006): 24-36. Co-authors: Kenneth J. Meier and Holly Goerdel.
“All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Disaggregating Networks and the Impact on Performance,” in George A. Boyne, Kenneth J. Meier, O'Toole, and Richard Walker, eds., Public Services Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Co-authors: Yi Lu and Kenneth J. Meier.
"Political Control Versus Bureaucratic Values: Reframing the Debate," Public Administration Review 66, 2 (March - April, 2006): 177-92. Co-author: Kenneth J. Meier.
“Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences,” International Public Management Journal 9, 3 (2006): 271-94 (co-author: Kenneth J. Meier)
“Governing Outputs and Outcomes of Governance Networks,” in Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing, eds., Theories of Democratic Network Governance (London: Palgrave, 2007): 215-30.
“Explaining Policy Punctuations: Bureaucratic Centralization, Organizational Size, and the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory of Public Agency Budgets,” American Journal of Political Science 51, 1 (January 2007): 140-50. (co-authors: Scott Robinson, Kenneth J. Meier, and Floun'say Caver)
“It's Where You Are That Matters: The Networking Behaviour of English Local Government Officers,” Public Administration (UK) 85, 3: 739-56 (September 2007) (co-authors: Richard Walker and Kenneth J. Meier)
“Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas against Recent Theories,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 17, 3 (July 2007): 357-77 (co-authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Richard Walker, and George Boyne)
"Networking in Comparative Context: Public Managers in the US and UK," Public Management Review 9, 3: 401-20 (September 2007) (co-authors: Richard M. Walker, Kenneth J. Meier, and George A. Boyne)
"Modeling Public Management: Empirical Analysis of the Management-Performance Nexus," Public Management Review 9, 4 (December 2007): 503-27 (co-author: Kenneth J. Meier)
"Management Theory and Occams Razor: How Public Organizations Buffer the Environment," Administration and Society 39, 8 (January 2008): 931-58 (co-author: Kenneth J. Meier)
"Serpents in the Sand: Managerial Networking and Nonlinear Influences on Organizational Performance," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 18, 2 (April 2008): 253-73 (co-authors: Alisa Hicklin and Kenneth J. Meier)
"Trading Speed for Accuracy? Managing Goal Conflict and Accommodation in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Program," Policy Studies Journal 36, 2 (May 2008): 175-98 (co-authors: Jeffrey B. Wenger and Kenneth J. Meier)
"Calming the Storms: Collaborative Public Management, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Disaster Response," in Rosemary OLeary and Lisa Bingham, eds., The Collaborative Manager (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, forthcoming 2008) (co-authors: Alisa Hicklin, Kenneth J. Meier, and Scott Robinson)
"The Dog That Didnt Bark: How Public Managers Handle Environmental Shocks," Public Administration (forthcoming) (co-author: Kenneth J. Meier)
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