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2023

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Overview

Jeffrey L. Brudney was affiliated with the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology and political science, demography, public administration, and political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in their work included:

  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Brudney contributed to several academic journals. The most frequent venues of publication were:

  • VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Public Administration Review
  • The Foundation Review
  • The American Review of Public Administration

Their recent papers included:

  • "You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering" (2021), published in VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • "Designing "National Day of Service" Projects to Promote Volunteer Job Satisfaction" (2020), published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • "Rethinking Volunteering as a Natural Resource: A Conceptual Typology" (2022), published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • "You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion" (2021), published in VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • "'Young, Fun, and Free:' Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania" (2021), published in VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

Brudney collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field. Most frequent coauthors included:

  • Lucas Meijs
  • Christopher R. Prentice
  • Stephanie Maas
  • Benjamin Y. Clark
  • John F. Brennan

Throughout their career, Jeffrey L. Brudney's research significantly contributed to understanding the dynamics of volunteering, nonprofit organizations, and public administration, with a particular focus on episodic volunteering, volunteer job satisfaction, and volunteer inclusion strategies.

Best Publications

  • Toward a Definition of the Coproduction Concept

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Robert E. England

  • The purpose (and perils) of government-nonprofit partnership

    Beth Gazley;Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • What Drives Morally Committed Citizens? A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation

    James L. Perry;Jeffrey L. Brudney;David Coursey;Laura Littlepage

  • Fostering volunteer programs in the public sector

    Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • Bureaucracy as a Representative Institution: Toward a Reconciliation of Bureaucratic Government and Democratic Theory

    Sally Coleman;Jeffrey L. Brudney;J. Edward Kellough

  • Public Perception of "Who is a Volunteer": An Examination of the Net-Cost Approach from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Femida Handy;Ram A. Cnaan;Jeffrey L. Brudney;Ugo Ascoli

  • Reinventing Government in the American States: Measuring and Explaining Administrative Reform

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;F. Ted Hebert;Deil S. Wright

  • Coproduction of Government Services and the New Information Technology: Investigating the Distributional Biases

    Benjamin Y. Clark;Jeffrey L. Brudney;Sung-Gheel Jang

  • Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Sergio Fernandez;Jay Eungha Ryu;Deil S. Wright

  • A Cross-cultural Examination of Student Volunteering: is it all about Resume building?

    Femida Handy;Ram A. Cnaan;Lesley Hustinx;Chulhee Kang

  • Applied statistics for public and nonprofit administration

    Kenneth J. Meier;Jeffrey L. Brudney;John Bohte

  • Learning Organizations in the Public Sector? A Study of Police Agencies Employing Information and Technology To Advance Knowledge.

    Mary Maureen Brown;Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • Motivations and benefits of student volunteering: comparing regular, occasional, and non-volunteers in five countries

    Karen Smith;Kirsten Holmes;Debbie Haski-Leventhal;Ram A Cnaan

  • Urban Policy Making and Subjective Service Evaluations: Are They Compatible?

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Robert E. England

  • Social and Cultural Origins of Motivations to Volunteer A Comparison of University Students in Six Countries

    Lesley Hustinx;Femida Handy;Ram A. Cnaan;Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • It Ain't Natural: Toward a New (Natural) Resource Conceptualization for Volunteer Management

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Lucas C. P. M. Meijs

  • The Adoption of Innovation by Smaller Local Governments: The Case of Computer Technology

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Sally Coleman Selden

  • Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration: Understanding the Administrative Role Concept

    Sally Coleman Selden;Gene A. Brewer;Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • The Effective Use of Volunteers: Best Practices for the Public Sector

    Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • Participation in formal and informal volunteering: Implications for volunteer recruitment

    Young Joo Lee;Jeffrey L. Brudney

Frequent Co-Authors

Ram A. Cnaan
Ram A. Cnaan University of Pennsylvania
Femida Handy
Femida Handy University of Pennsylvania
James L. Perry
James L. Perry Indiana University
Kenneth J. Meier
Kenneth J. Meier American University
Kaifeng Yang
Kaifeng Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sergio Fernandez
Sergio Fernandez Indiana University
Laurence J. O'Toole
Laurence J. O'Toole University of Georgia
William Duncombe
William Duncombe Syracuse University
J. Edward Kellough
J. Edward Kellough University of Georgia
Gene A. Brewer
Gene A. Brewer Arizona State University

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