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Best paper, PAQ 2022

Congratulations to Barbara Patrick and Aaron C. Rollins on the selection of their paper, "Delivering Culturally Competent and Equitable Police Services Via Social Media: Assessing Two Way Dialogue between Police Agencies and Vulnerable Citizens" as the best paper published by PAQ in 2022. We are pleased to make this scholarship freely available here.

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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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PAQ Articles

Crossing the Influence Gap: Clarifying the Benefits of Earlier Interest Group Involvement in Shaping Regulatory Policy

JEFFREY J. COOK
PAQ, Vol. 42 No. 4, (2018)

Extant literature demonstrates that interest groups impact regulatory outcomes at each stage in the rulemaking process. It is unclear whether earlier involvement during the pre-proposal stage affects a group’s ability to influence outcomes during the notice and comment stage as well. This research addresses this gap, through an analysis of three case studies of rulemakings completed at the Environmental Protection Agency. The original interviews and public comment analysis illustrate a relationship between earlier involvement and influence during the notice and comment stage. Those interviewees that participated during the pre-proposal stage were more successful in receiving rule changes than those that did not. This suggests that scholars should analyze interest group involvement and impact across the rulemaking process to more effectively explain rulemaking outcomes and clarify group influence.

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