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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Ann O'm. Bowman is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, public administration, economics and econometrics, transportation, and global and planetary change.

Their research spans various main topics, highlighting public policy and administration research, disaster management and resilience, regional resilience and development, urban transport and accessibility, nonprofit sector and volunteering, land use and ecosystem services, and employment and welfare studies.

Ann O'm. Bowman has published extensively across multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Public Management Journal
  • IET Smart Cities
  • Cities
  • The American Review of Public Administration
  • Urban Affairs Review

Among notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Bowman are:

  • "Managing a Pandemic at a Less Than Global Scale: Governors Take the Lead" (2020), published in The American Review of Public Administration
  • "A New and Reinvigorated Research Agenda for U.S. Local Governments" (2020), published in State and Local Government Review

Other recent significant papers related to the same research network include:

  • "Urban resilience: Analyzing the policies of U.S. cities" (2021), Cities
  • "Relations, resources, and costs: exploring cross-sectoral collaboration at the local level in a developing country" (2020), International Public Management Journal
  • "Ecological, Engineering and Community Resilience Policy Adoption in Large US Cities" (2023), Urban Affairs Review

Ann O'm. Bowman frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Khaldoun AbouAssi, Jocelyn M. Johnston, Sierra Woodruff, Bryce Hannibal, and Kent E. Portney, with multiple joint publications reported.

In addition to journal articles, Bowman has contributed to book publications. One such work is New Governance for Rural America, published by University Press of Kansas eBooks in 2022.

Recognition for Bowman's contributions is reflected in their status as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • State and Local Government

    Ann O'm. Bowman;Richard C. Kearney

  • Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development

    Michael A. Pagano;Ann O'm. Bowman

  • Dimensions of State Government Capability

    Ann O'm. Bowman;Richard C. Kearney

  • PUBLIC POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: EVOLUTION OF THE FIELD AND AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

    James P. Lester;Ann O'm. Bowman;Malcolm L. Goggin;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies

    Ann Bowman

  • Hazardous wastes, politics, and public policy: a comparative state analysis.

    James P. Lester;James L. Franke;Ann O'm. Bowman;Kenneth W. Kramer

  • Competition for Economic Development among Southeastern Cities

    Ann O'm. Bowman

  • Can You Find It on the Web? An Assessment of Municipal E-Government Transparency:

    Domonic A. Bearfield;Ann O.M. Bowman

  • Horizontal Federalism: Exploring Interstate Interactions

    Ann O'm. Bowman

  • A current inventory of vacant urban land in America

    Galen D. Newman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Ryun Jung Lee;Boah Kim

  • Policy Diffusion and the Pro-innovation Bias

    Andrew Karch;Sean C. Nicholson-Crotty;Neal D. Woods;Ann O.M. Bowman

  • Transforming America’s Cities Policies and Conditions of Vacant Land

    Ann O’M. Bowman;Michael A. Pagano

  • Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System: A Test of the Sabatier-Mazmanian Model

    James P. Lester;Ann O'm. Bowman

  • Vacant urban areas: Causes and interconnected factors

    Galen Newman;Yunmi Park;Ann O'.M. Bowman;Ryun Jung Lee

  • Urban resilience: Analyzing the policies of U.S. cities.

    Sierra Woodruff;Ann O'm. Bowman;Bryce Hannibal;Garett Sansom

  • Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts

    Ann O'm. Bowman;Neal D. Woods

  • Second-Order Devolution: Data and Doubt

    Ann O’M. Bowman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Ann O’M. Bowman;Richard C. Kearney

  • Power Shift Measuring Policy Centralization in U.S. Intergovernmental Relations, 1947-1998

    Ann O’ M. Bowman;George A. Krause

  • Are U.S. Cities Losing Power and Authority? Perceptions of Local Government Actors:

    Ann O’M. Bowman;Richard C. Kearney

  • Elasticity and urban vacancy: A longitudinal comparison of U.S. cities

    Galen Newman;Donghwan Gu;Jun Hyun Kim;Ann O.M. Bowman

  • Adverse Selection, Political Parties, and Policy Delegation in the American Federal System

    George A. Krause;Ann O'm. Bowman

  • The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management

    James P. Lester;Ann O'm. Bowman

Frequent Co-Authors

Neal D. Woods
Neal D. Woods University of South Carolina
Sean Nicholson-Crotty
Sean Nicholson-Crotty Indiana University
George A. Krause
George A. Krause University of Georgia
David M. Konisky
David M. Konisky Indiana University
Kent E. Portney
Kent E. Portney Texas A&M University
Laurence J. O'Toole
Laurence J. O'Toole University of Georgia

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