Recent Publications
Federman, P.S. (2025). Directives for Diversity: The Politics of Executive Orders and Diversity Policy in the Federal Government. Forthcoming.
Ennett, S., C. Curley, R. Shen, and P.S. Federman. (2025). Nuanced Preemption: A Case Study of State and Local Government Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Forthcoming.
Federman, P.S., S. Viswanath and N. Riccucci. (2023). Public Sector Collective Bargaining: A Meta-Review. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 45(2).
Curley, C., P.S. Federman, and R. Shen. (2023). Expanding the Political Market Framework to Explain Executive Decision-making During the COVID-19 Crisis. Public Administration Review, 83(5), 1281-1299.
Federman, P.S. and C. Curley. (2022). Exploring Intra-State Tensions in Government Responses to COVID-19. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 52(3), 476-496.
Federman, P.S. (2021). Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen-State Interactions. Administration & Society, 54 (5), 857-877.
Curley, C., N. Harrison., & P.S. Federman. (2021). Comparing Motivations for Including Enforcement in U.S. COVID-19 State Executive Orders. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(2), 191-203.
Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
Investigating Policy Discourse and Dialogue: Housing Insecurity and Substance Abuse at the (Literal) Intersection of Mass and Cass. American Association for Applied Linguistics, 2025.
Town Charter Reform in Massachusetts: Determinants, Outcomes, and Next Steps. Moderator, American Society for Public Administration, 2025.
Executive Orders, Race, and Political Pressure in the Federal Workforce. Public Management Research Conference, 2024.
Federman, Peter Stanley. Race, Social Equity, and Political Pressure in the Workplace. Convener and discussant. NAPA Social Equity Leadership Conference, 2024.
Investigating Policy Discourse and Dialogue: Housing Insecurity and Substance Abuse at the (Literal) Intersection of Mass and Cass. Public Administration Theory Network, 2024.
Analyzing the Antecedents of Preemption during the COVID-19 Crisis. Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2022.
2022 APSA Publius Roundtable on COVID-19 and Federalism. By invitation to the American Political Science Association, 2022.
2021 NASPAA-Voinovich Public Innovation Challenge Judge. By invitation to the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, 2021.