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Overview

David J. Houston is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on topics related to religion and its intersections with society and work.

The scientist's main fields of study include social sciences, with subfields in sociology and political science, health, accounting, and demography. Their work addresses a variety of topics such as religion, spirituality, and psychology; religion, society, and development; religion and society interactions; Islamic finance and banking studies; and workplace spirituality and leadership.

Recent publications by David J. Houston include the following papers:

  • Religion and Public Administration: American Exceptionalism or Global Norm? (2021) published in the International Journal of Public Administration
  • Religiosity and work motives among public sector employees (2024) published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

David J. Houston has collaborated notably with Patricia K. Freeman, with whom they have co-authored at least two publications.

Their research has been featured mostly in the International Journal of Public Administration and the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, reflecting a concentration on public administration contexts in their investigation of religion-related topics.

Best Publications

  • Public-Service Motivation: A Multivariate Test

    David J. Houston

  • “Walking the Walk” of Public Service Motivation: Public Employees and Charitable Gifts of Time, Blood, and Money

    David J. Houston

  • Public Administration Research: An Assessment of Journal Publications

    David J. Houston;Sybil M. Delevan

  • Implications of Occupational Locus and Focus for Public Service Motivation: Attitudes Toward Work Motives across Nations

    David J. Houston

  • Spirituality and Public Service

    David J. Houston;Katherine E. Cartwright

  • Motorcyclist fatality rates and mandatory helmet-use laws.

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Motorcycle Safety and the Repeal of Universal Helmet Laws

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Getting Americans to buckle up: The efficacy of state seat belt laws

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Traffic safety and the switch to a primary seat belt law: The California experience

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Are helmet laws protecting young motorcyclists

    David J. Houston

  • Drinking-and-Driving in America: A Test of Behavioral Assumptions Underlying Public Policy:

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Public Trust in Government Administrators

    David J. Houston;Lauren Howard Harding

  • THE POLITICS OF AIR BAG SAFETY: A COMPETITION AMONG PROBLEM DEFINITIONS

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Legislating Traffic Safety: A Pooled Time Series Analysis

    David J. Houston;Lillard E. Richardson Jr.;Grant W. Neeley

  • Risk Compensation or Risk Reduction? Seatbelts, State Laws, and Traffic Fatalities*

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Reducing Traffic Fatalities in the American States by Upgrading Seat Belt Use Laws to Primary Enforcement.

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Citizen Trust in Civil Servants: A Cross-National Examination

    David J. Houston;Nurgul R. Aitalieva;Andrew L. Morelock;Chris A. Shults

  • Safety belt use and the switch to primary enforcement, 1991-2003.

    David J. Houston;Lilliard E. Richardson

  • Implications of the 65-mph speed limit for traffic safety.

    David J. Houston

  • PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION IN THE POST‐COMMUNIST STATE

    David J. Houston

  • How Naked Is the Public Square? Religion, Public Service, and Implications for Public Administration

    David J. Houston;Patricia K. Freeman;David L. Feldman

  • Safety Belt Use and the Switch to Primary Enforcement

    David J. Houston

Frequent Co-Authors

Lilliard E. Richardson
Lilliard E. Richardson Pennsylvania State University
Clifford Winston
Clifford Winston Brookings Institution

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