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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

Public Perceptions, Elections Administration, and the Role of Street Level Bureaucrats

SARA RINFRET, CHRISTINA BARSKY and SAMUEL SCOTT
PAQ, Vol. 42 No. 4, (2018)

A great deal of research has examined how and why individuals vote in the United States. Yet, due to increased accusations of fraudulent electoral practices, more research is needed to explore the role of street- level bureaucrats or front-line actors in the administration of elections. The purpose of this research is to examine a different perspective of electoral processes – public perceptions of county level election administration. We conducted a telephone survey of 605 randomly selected registered voters from Missoula County, Montana to develop an index documenting public confidence in elections administration. The results provide strong support for the important role county level election administrators’ play in shaping and strengthening the future of electoral processes for their communities and states more broadly.

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