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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - H. George Frederickson Award, Public Management Research Association
  • 2006 - John Gaus Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Kenneth J. Meier is affiliated with American University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, particularly focusing on public administration and related subdisciplines.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Meier has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Race: The Limits of Symbolic Representation" (2021) in Public Administration Review
  • "Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education" (2020) in Public Administration
  • "Sector Bias and the Credibility of Performance Information: An Experimental Study of Elder Care Provision" (2021) in Public Administration Review
  • "Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China" (2021) in Public Management Review
  • "Quality standards, implementation autonomy, and citizen satisfaction with public services: cross-national evidence" (2020) in Public Management Review

Collaborative efforts are a prominent feature of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Seung-Ho An
  • Miyeon Song
  • Anna A. Amirkhanyan
  • Jourdan Davis
  • Xiaoyang Xu

Meier has published regularly in a variety of venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Public Management Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Public Administration Review
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Their research contributions cover diverse subfields such as Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and General Health Professions.

Over the course of their career, Kenneth J. Meier has been recognized with awards including the H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Management Research Association in 2011 and the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Principal-Agent Models: An Expansion?

    Richard W. Waterman;Kenneth J. Meier

  • Lipstick and Logarithms: Gender, Identity, Institutional Context, and Representative Bureaucracy

    Lael R. Keiser;Vicky M. Wilkins;Kenneth John Meier;Catherine A. Holland

  • Modeling the impact of public management: implications of structural context

    Kenneth J. Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Public Management and Educational Performance: The Impact of Managerial Networking

    Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights: Expanding the Scope of the Conflict

    Donald P. Haider-Markel;Kenneth J. Meier

  • Managerial Strategies and Behavior in Networks: A Model with Evidence from U.S. Public Education *

    Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Representative Bureaucracy: An Empirical Analysis

    Kenneth John Meier

  • Gender, Representative Bureaucracy, and Law Enforcement: The Case of Sexual Assault

    Kenneth John Meier;Jill Nicholson-Crotty

  • Representative Bureaucracy and Policy Preferences: A Study in the Attitudes of Federal Executives

    Kenneth John Meier;Lloyd G. Nigro

  • Subjective Organizational Performance and Measurement Error: Common Source Bias and Spurious Relationships

    Kenneth J. Meier;Kenneth J. Meier;Laurence J. O’Toole

  • The Politics of Hispanic Education: Un paso pa'lante y dos pa'tras

    Kenneth J. Meier;Joseph Stewart

  • Public management and organizational performance: The effect of managerial quality

    Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Bureaucracy in a Democratic State: A Governance Perspective

    Kenneth John Meier;Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research. By Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 212. $60.00.)

    Kenneth J. Meier

  • Desperately Seeking Selznick: Cooptation and the Dark Side of Public Management in Networks

    Laurence J. O'Toole;Kenneth John Meier

  • Public Management in Intergovernmental Networks: Matching Structural Networks and Managerial Networking

    Laurence J. O'Toole;Kenneth J. Meier

  • Representative Bureaucracy and Distributional Equity: Addressing the Hard Question

    Kenneth J. Meier;Robert D. Wrinkle;J. L. Polinard

  • Goal Displacement: Assessing the Motivation for Organizational Cheating

    John Bohte;Kenneth J. Meier

  • Latinos and Representative Bureaucracy Testing the Thompson and Henderson Hypotheses

    Kenneth J. Meier

  • The Impact of Representative Bureaucracies: Educational Systems and Public Policies

    Kenneth J. Meier;Joseph Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence J. O'Toole
Laurence J. O'Toole University of Georgia
Richard M. Walker
Richard M. Walker Lingnan University
George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen
Rhys William Andrews
Rhys William Andrews Cardiff University
Kevin B. Smith
Kevin B. Smith University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Sean Nicholson-Crotty
Sean Nicholson-Crotty Indiana University
George A. Krause
George A. Krause University of Georgia
David L. Leal
David L. Leal The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Jeffrey L. Brudney University of North Carolina Wilmington
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Donald P. Haider-Markel University of Kansas

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