Dr. Brewer is a nationally recognized public management scholar who publishes in the top-ranked journals in the field.  His current research interests include public sector reform, governmental performance, and bureaucratic accountability in democratic political systems.  He is an editorial board member of the Public Administration Review, and an Overseas Advisor for the UK's Advanced Institute for Management Research, Cardiff University, in Wales. 

Research Areas
Public Administration, Public Management, and Public Policy

Teaching
PADP 6910     Public Administration and Democracy
PADP 6920     Public Personnel Administration
PADP 7110     Research Methods in Public Administration
PADP 8630     Policy Implementation

Public Service Outreach
Dr. Brewer has more than thirty years of work experience in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Education
DPA, The University of Georgia 

Selected Recent Publications
“Designing and Implementing E-Government Systems: Critical Implications for Public Administration and Democracy.”  Forthcoming in Administration & Society (with Bruce J. Neubauer and Karen Geiselhart).

“All Measures of Performance are Subjective: More Evidence on U.S. Federal Agencies.”  Forthcoming in Richard M. Walker, George A. Boyne, Kenneth J. Meier, and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. (eds.), Public Services Performance Perspectives on Measurement and Management .  Cambridge, England:    Cambridge University Press.

“In the Eye of the Storm: Frontline Supervisors and Federal Agency Performance.”  Forthcoming in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

“Organizational Development in the Public Sector.”  Forthcoming in Thomas G. Cummings (ed.), Handbook of Organizational Development.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (with Robert T. Golembiewski).

“Does Administrative Reform Improve Bureaucratic Performance?  A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis.”  Forthcoming in Public Finance and Management.

“Virtual Scholarly Collaboration: A Case Study.”  The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 19, 4 (April 2004): 92-98 (with Bruce J. Neubauer).

“Building Social Capital: Civic Attitudes and Behavior of Public Servants.”  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13, 1 (January 2003): 5-26.

“Bureaucratic Politics.”  In Jack Rabin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy.  New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003, pp. 141-146.

“Measuring Power and Presence: Bureaucratic Representation in the American States.”  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 11, 3 (July 2001): 379-402 (with Vernon L. Greene and Sally Coleman Selden).

“The Great Transformation?  Administrative and Civil Service Reform in Western Democracies.”  In Stephen E. Condrey and Robert A. Maranto (eds.), Radical Reform of the Civil Service.  Lexington, MA: Lexington Press, 2001, pp. 43-68.

A Portrait of Public Servants: Empirical Evidence From Comparisons With Other Citizens.  DPA dissertation, The University of Georgia, 2001.

“Why Elephants Gallop: Assessing and Predicting Organizational Performance in Federal Agencies.”  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10, 4 (October 2000): 685-711 (with Sally Coleman Selden).

“Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation.”  Public Administration Review 60, 3 (May/June 2000): 204-214 (with Sally Coleman Selden and Rex L. Facer II).

“Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service: Testing the High Performance Cycle Theory.”  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10, 3 (July 2000): 531-550 (with Sally Coleman Selden).

“Comparing the Roles of Political Appointees and Career Executives in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch.”  The American Review of Public Administration 30, 1 (March 2000): 69-86 (with Robert A. Maranto).

Administrative Reform and Organizational Change in the Public Sector.  Democracy Project AP 24/2000.  Copenhagen, Denmark: University of Copenhagen, 2000.

“Determinants of Graduate Research Productivity in Doctoral Programs of Public Administration.”  Public Administration Review 59, 5 (September/October 1999): 373‑382 (with James W. Douglas, Rex L. Facer II, and Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.).

“What's in a Name?  Comparing DPA and Ph.D. Programs.”  Journal of Public Affairs Education 5, 4 (October 1999): 309-317 (with Rex L. Facer II, Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., and James W. Douglas).

“The Role of City Managers: Are They Principals, Agents, or Both?”  The American Review of Public Administration 29, 2 (June 1999): 124-148 (with Sally Coleman Selden and Jeffrey L. Brudney).

“Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration: Understanding the Administrative Role Concept.”  Administration & Society 31, 3 (May 1999): 171-204 (with Sally Coleman Selden and Jeffrey L. Brudney).    

“Supervisors' Perceptions of the Performance of Cooperative Education Employees Working in Federal Agencies.”  Review of Public Personnel Administration 19, 2 (Spring 1999): 50-60 (with James W. Douglas).

“Whistle-blowers in the Federal Civil Service: New Evidence of the Public Service Ethic.”  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 8, 3 (July 1998): 413-439 (with Sally Coleman Selden).

“The State of Doctoral Education in Public Administration: Developments in the Field's Research Preparation.”  Journal of Public Affairs Education 4, 2 (April 1998): 123-135 (with Rex L. Facer II, Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., and James W. Douglas).