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2023

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Business and Management

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69
Citations
22099
World Ranking
322
National Ranking
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Political Science

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72
Citations
23640
World Ranking
46
National Ranking
25

Donald P. Moynihan publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald P. Moynihan sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 270 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Donald P. Moynihan D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald P. Moynihan sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2000 - Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1983 - Hubert H. Humphrey Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • 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

Donald P. Moynihan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on political science, public administration, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • "Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions" (2020), published in Public Administration
  • "Rising to Ostrom's challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service" (2021), Policy Design and Practice
  • "Public Management for Populists: Trump's Schedule F Executive Order and the Future of the Civil Service" (2021), Public Administration Review
  • "Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine" (2020), Public Administration Review
  • "Kafka's Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era" (2021), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

Moynihan has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Pamela Herd (31 joint publications)
  • Martin Bækgaard (7 joint publications)
  • Barry C. Burden (6 joint publications)
  • Bradley M. Jones (5 joint publications)
  • Sebastian Jilke (5 joint publications)

The most common venues for their published work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
  • Public Administration Review (6 publications)
  • Harvard Dataverse (6 publications)
  • Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (4 publications)
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (3 publications)

Moynihan's book publications include "Behavioral Public Performance" (2020), published by Cambridge University Press.

Their research covers a range of topics with significant publication counts in the following areas:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research (20 publications)
  • Healthcare Policy and Management (20 publications)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation (16 publications)
  • Employment and Welfare Studies (14 publications)
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies (10 publications)
  • Political and Economic history of UK and US (8 publications)
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements (6 publications)

Fields of study include social sciences broadly, with particular emphasis on:

  • Political Science and International Relations (24 publications)
  • General Health Professions (20 publications)
  • Economics and Econometrics (18 publications)
  • Public Administration (10 publications)
  • Sociology and Political Science (9 publications)

Awards received by Moynihan encompass:

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States (2000)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2000)
  • Hubert H. Humphrey Award, American Political Science Association (1983)
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Best Publications

  • The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • The Role of Organizations in Fostering Public Service Motivation

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • Pulling the Levers: Transformational Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Mission Valence

    Bradley E. Wright;Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • The Big Question for Performance Management: Why Do Managers Use Performance Information?

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • Finding Workable Levers Over Work Motivation Comparing Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement, and Organizational Commitment

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Person-Organization Value Fit, and Turnover Intention

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • Testing How Management Matters in an Era of Government by Performance Management

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • Administrative Burden: Learning, Psychological, and Compliance Costs in Citizen-State Interactions

    Donald Moynihan;Pamela Herd;Hope Harvey

  • Managing for Results in State Government: Evaluating a Decade of Reform

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • Setting the Table: How Transformational Leadership Fosters Performance Information Use

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sanjay K. Pandey;Bradley E. Wright

  • Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • Public Service Motivation and Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations: Testing a Preliminary Model

    Sanjay K. Pandey;Bradley E. Wright;Donald P. Moynihan

  • Goal‐Based Learning and the Future of Performance Management

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means

    Pamela Herd;Donald P. Moynihan

  • Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform

    Barry C. Burden;David T. Canon;Kenneth R. Mayer;Donald P. Moynihan

  • The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration

    Barry C. Burden;David T. Canon;Kenneth R. Mayer;Donald P. Moynihan

  • Explaining Turnover Intention in State Government Examining the Roles of Gender, Life Cycle, and Loyalty

    Donald P. Moynihan;Noel Landuyt

  • How Do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Cultural and Structural Perspectives

    Donald P. Moynihan;Noel Landuyt

  • Integrative Leadership in the Public Sector A Model of Performance-Information Use

    Donald P. Moynihan;Patricia Wallace Ingraham

  • NORMATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Citizen Summits in Washington, D.C.

    Donald P. Moynihan

  • Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions.

    Julian Christensen;Lene Aarøe;Martin Baekgaard;Pamela Herd

  • The Dynamics of Performance Management

    Donald P. Moynihan

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjay K. Pandey
Sanjay K. Pandey George Washington University
Barry C. Burden
Barry C. Burden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bradley E. Wright
Bradley E. Wright University of Georgia
Thomas DeLeire
Thomas DeLeire Georgetown University
Alasdair S. Roberts
Alasdair S. Roberts University of Massachusetts Amherst
Patricia W. Ingraham
Patricia W. Ingraham Binghamton University
Sergio Fernandez
Sergio Fernandez Indiana University
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
Kaifeng Yang
Kaifeng Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tina Nabatchi
Tina Nabatchi Syracuse University

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