Faculty Publications

2026

Jared Abbott, The Promise of Participatory Democracy in Local Governance, with Stephanie McNulty (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Jared Abbott, "Captured Participatory Institutions: Theory and Evidence from Venezuela’s Consejos Comunales," With José Morales-Arilla, at the American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

He, S., Chen, X., Shiau E., Es, M., & Tao, S., "Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: the case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement," Urban Studies (forthcoming).

Timothy Lim, “Polarization, Hate, and Extremism in Two Asian Democracies: Japan and South Korea.” In The Social Science of Conspiracism, Extremism, and Hate, edited by Monica Miller (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 

2025

Jared Abbott, "How the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority," New Labor Forum (August 2025) 34(3), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960251364520.

Xian Gao, "Facilitating Collaboration with Collaborative Technology: Prerequisites and Evidence from an Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study," Chinese Public Administration Review (January 2025) 16(1), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754241309699 

Chongmyoung Lee, "Unpacking the Technical Determinants of Performance Information Use in Nonprofits: The Role of Training, Employee Involvement, and System Quality," Journal of Public Policy and Administration (July 2025) 9 (3), 153-162.

Timothy Lim, Ed., South Korea and the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025) • Editorial responsibilities included writing introductory and concluding chapters; also contributed substantive research-based chapter to the book (all three chapters listed in “Publications: Articles/Book Chapters” below). 

Timothy Lim, “South Korea and the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism” (Introduction). Pp. 1-18 in South Korea and the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025).

Timothy Lim, “Who is Korean?” (Conclusion) Pp. 175-184 in South Korea and the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025).

Timothy Lim, “The Transformative Impact of Marriage Migration.” Pp. 95-122 in South Korea and the Politics of Ethnic Nationalism (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025).

2024

Jared Abbott and Fred DeVeaux, "Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?" Electoral Studies (December 2024).

Jared Abbott, “Understanding Class Dealignment.” Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2024.

F. Resmini & Jared Abbott, "What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America," Comparative Political Studies (September 2024) 57(10), 1634-1667. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231194907.

Chongmyoung Lee, "Exploring the Utility of Performance Measurement in Nonprofits," International Review of Public Administration (September 2024), 29 (3), 220-244.

Timothy Lim,  Class, Race, and Power in American Politics: A Comparative Perspective. Self-Published, 2024). Specifically written as the primary textbook for POLS 1000, a lower-division, general education course on American Politics. Full text available online:  https://pressbooks.calstate.edu/tclim/ • Updated on ongoing basis. 

Michael Locke McLendon, “Rousseau’s Negative Liberty: Themes of Skepticism and Domination in The Social Contract,” in The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau’s Social Contract, ed. Matthew W. MacGuire and David Lay Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): 88-112.  

Devika Hazra and Ellen Shiau, "Housing, Recessions, Inequality and Policy Responses," California Research Bureau, 2024.

2023

Jared Abbott, K. McKiernan, & S. McNulty, "Technocracy for the People? The Impact of Government-Imposed Democratic Innovations on Governance and Citizen Well-Being," Comparative Political Studies (June 2023), 57(2), 187-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231178725.

Lindsay Mayka and Jared Abbott, "Varieties of participatory institutions and interest intermediation," World Development (November 2023), Volume 171.

Jared Abbott  & M. Touchton, "Designing democracy: How does institutional structure affect civic participation?" Governance (July 2023) 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12710

Emily Acevedo, “Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in Mexico: Why Is the Law Failing to Protect Mexico’s Women?” In D. Peterson & D. Zhang, eds. International Responses to Interpersonal Violence: Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches (Routledge, 2023)

Gabrielle Clark, "Under the Quasi‐Judicial State: H‐1B Employment Rights in An Era of Judicial Retrenchment," Law & Policy (January 2023), 10.1111/lapo.12213

2022


Jared Abbott, "When Participation Wins Votes: Explaining the Emergence of Large-Scale Participatory Democracy," Comparative Politics (October 2021),Volume 54, Number 1.

Jared Abbott, "Scaling-Up and Zooming-Out: Understanding How and When Participatory Institutions Matter,” with Benjamin Goldfrank, Comparative Politics, Volume 53, Number 4, July 2021, 735-754.

Emily Acevedo and Alexandra Lazar, “Active Learning and Interpersonal Skills Development among First-Generation College Students,” International Studies Perspectives (August 2021)

Tao Chen, Wenshan Guo, Xian Gao, Zhehao Liang, "AI-based Self-Service Technology in Public Service Delivery: User Experience and Influencing Factors," Government Information Quarterly (October 2021), Volume 38, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101520.

Chongmyoung Lee, "Understanding the Diverse Performance Measures of Nonprofits: A Quantitative Study of Performance Measurement Adoption," Public Performance & Management Review (April 2021)

Chongmyoung Lee, "Factors Influencing the Credibility of Performance Measurement in Nonprofits," International Review of Public Administration (February 2021)

Timothy C. Lim, "Toward a Multicultural State in South Korea? A Social Constructivist Perspective" in Michael Weiner, ed., Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia  (Routledge, 2021)

Timothy C. Lim and Changzoo Song, "Editors’ Introduction: Socio-Cultural and Political Changes in South Korea through a Discursive Lens," International Journal of Korean History (August 2021).

Timothy C. Lim and Changzoo Song, "Ideas, Discourse, and the Microfoundations of South Korea’s Diasporic Engagement: Explaining the Institutional Embrace of Ethnic Koreans Since the 1990s," International Journal of Korean History (August 2021).

Lim book

Timothy C. Lim, The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea: Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State (London and New York: Routledge, 2021)

Timothy C. Lim, "Challenging the ‘Hierarchy of Nationhood’: Diasporic Entitlement and the Case of Korean Chinese (Chosŏnjok) in South Korea,” with Changzoo Song, European Journal of Korean Studies (October 2021).

Timothy C. Lim, “South Korea’s Dilemma: Foreign Workers in a ‘Homogenous Society,’” Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs (July 2021) 

2020

Jared Abbott, “Unfulfilled Promises or Unrealistic Expectations?” with Steven Levitsky, in Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise and Reality of Inclusive Citizenship (Notre Dame University Press, 2020), edited by Françoise Montambeault and Manuel Balán.

Gabrielle Clark, "The Southern and Western Prehistory of 'Liberty of Contract': Revisiting the Path to Lochner in Light of the New History of American Capitalism," American Journal of Legal History (September 2020).

Gar Culbert, The Dynamism of Political Power in the United States (Great River Learning: Dubuque, 2020)

2019

Jared Abbott and Michael McCarthy, "Grassroots Participation in Defense of Dictatorship: Venezuela's Communal Councils and the Future of Participatory Democracy in Latin America," Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 43 (2) (2019).

Gabrielle E. Clark, "The Business of Mass Migration: Fear, Exploitation, and the Political Economy of Immigration Restriction," New Labor Forum (April 2019), 28(2), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019838819

Gabrielle E. Clark, "Making 'Adversarial Legalism' the H-2 Way of Law", Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (2019) Vol. 80.

Gabrielle E. Clark, "Disaster Capitalism on the Southwest Border: Migration and Drug Trafficking Foster a New Economy," New Labor Forum (August 2019) 28(3), 70-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019864094.

Tao Chen, Longya Ran, and Xian Gao, "AI innovation for advancing public service: The case of China's first Administrative Approval Bureau," In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3325112.3325243

Chongmyoung Lee, " Understanding the Diverse Purposes of Performance Information Use in Nonprofits: An Empirical Study of Factors Influencing the Use of Performance Measures," Public Performance and Management Review (April 2019)

Timothy C. Lim, “’It’s Not Just Talk’: Ideas, Discourse, and the Prospects for Transformational Change in a Homogenous Nation-State,” Asian Ethnicity (December 2019)

Timothy C. Lim, Dong-Hoon Seol, and Atsuko Sato, “’Neither Fish nor Fowl’: An Examination of South Korea’s Diaspora Engagement Policies,” in Takeyuki Tsuda and Changzoo Song, eds., Diasporic Returns to the Homeland: The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave McMillan, 2019)

McLendon book

Michael McLendon, The Psychology of Inequality: Rousseau’s “Amour-Propre” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Marla Parker, Laurie Mook, L., Chen-Yu Kao, & Alex Murdock, "Accountability and Relationship-Definition Among Food Banks Partnerships,"VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (September 2019)

Gar Culbert and Alexandra J. Lazar, “An Extraordinary Set of Circumstances: Rouda vs. Rohrabacher in California’s 48th Congressional District,” in Randall E. Adkins and David A. Dulio. eds., Cases in Congressional Campaigns: Split Decision (Routledge: New York, 2019)

Marla Parker and Dimitri Seals, Introduction to Political Science: Civic and Social Innovation (Great River Learning, 2019)

2018

Jared Abbott, “Inculcating Populist Nationalism? Education and Ideological Change in Venezuela,” in Exploring Populist Nationalism, with Hillel Soifer and Matthias vom Hau, edited by Fernando López-Alves and Diane Johnson (Routledge, 2018). 

Gabrielle E. Clark, "Coercion and Contract at the Margins: Deportable Labor and the Laws of Employment Termination Under US Capitalism (1942–2015)," Law & Social Inquiry (Summer 2018) (3):618-646. doi:10.1111/lsi.12255

Taylor Dark, "Partisan Polarization and Political Access: Labor Unions and the Presidency," Interest Groups & Advocacy (May 2018)

Jessica DeShazo,“What about the Public? The Role of Government in the Creation of Public Art in Berlin from the Third Reich to Today,” The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts (September 2018).

Timothy Lim and Dong-Hoon Seoul, “Explaining South Korea’s Diaspora Engagement Policies,” Development & Society (December 2018)

Marla Parker and Lisa Turner DeVera, "Intro Essay: Setting the Stage for Highlighting Work in Cultural Competency Pedagogy," eJournal of Public Affairs (August 2018).

Marla Parker and Christoper Hayter, “Factors that Influence the Transition of University Postdocs to Non-Academic Scientific Careers: An Exploratory Study,” Research Policy (October 2018)

Marla Parker and Barry Bozeman, "Social Media as a Public Values Sphere," Public Integrity (March 2018)

Barry Bozeman, Jan Youtie, Eriko Fukumoto, and Marla Parker, “When is Science Used in Science Policy? Examining the Importance of Scientific and Technical Information in National Research Council Reports,” Review of Policy Research (December 2018)

April Jackson, Marla A. Parker, Lisa Turner DeVera, Ivis Garcia, Tisha Holmes, Ellen Shiau & Christina Medina, "Moving the Needle: Early Findings on Faculty Approaches to Integrate Culturally Competent Pedagogy into Educational Spaces," eJournal of Public Affairs (August 2018)

Marla Parker and Ellen Shiau, "Cultural Competency in Public Human Resource Management: Handling Bureaucratic Discretion in an Age of Cultural Pluralism," in Ali Farazmand, ed., Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance (New York: Springer, 2018)

Ellen Shiau, "Coalition Building in Los Angeles," in Marion Orr and Domingo Morel, eds., Latino Mayors: Power and Political Change in the Post Industrial City (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018)

2017

Jared Abbott, HD Soifer, M. Vom Hau, "Transforming the Nation? The Bolivarian Education Reform in Venezuela," Journal of Latin American Studies (July 2017) 49(4):885-916. doi:10.1017/S0022216X17000402

Gabrielle E. Clark, "From the Panama Canal to Post-Fordism: Producing Temporary Labor Migrants Within and Beyond Agriculture in the United States (1904–2013)," Antipode (September 2017), 49: 997–1014. doi: 10.1111/anti.12218.

Xian Gao and Jooho Lee, "E-government services and social media adoption: Experience of small local governments in Nebraska state," Government Information Quarterly (December 2017),Volume 34, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2017.09.005.

Xian Gao, "Networked Co-Production of 311 Services: Investigating the Use of Twitter in Five U.S. Cities," International Journal of Public Administration (March 2017) 41(9), 712–724. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1298126

Chongmyoung Lee and Richard Clerkin, "Exploring the Use of Outcome Measures in Human Service Nonprofits: Combining Agency, Institutional, and Organizational Capacity Perspectives," Public Performance and Management Review (March 2017)

Chongmyoung Lee and Richard Clerkin, "The Adoption of Outcome Measures in Human Service Nonprofits," Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs (July 2017)

Timothy C. Lim, "The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea,” ­Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (October 2017)

2016

lim book

Timothy C. Lim, Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, 3rd edition (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016)

 
REDD book

Jessica DeShazo, Chandra Lal Pandey, and Zachary A. Smith, Why REDD Will Fail (New York: Routledge, 2016)

Jessica DeShazo, "Adverse Action," In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2731-1.

Jessica DeShazo, "Millennials in the Public Workforce," In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2737-1.

Stuart Bretschneider and Marla Parker, "Organization Formalization, Sector and Social Media: Does Increased Standardization of Policy Broaden and Deepen Social Media Use in Organizations?" Government Information Quarterly (October 2016)

Martin J. Adamian, “Privacy Rights and Public Employment” Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (Springer 2016)

Emily Acevedo and Atsuko Sato, "Why Collective Action? Explaining the Rise of Social Movements,” in Timothy C. Lim, Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, 3rd edition (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016)

Gabrielle E. Clark and Christine B. Harrington, "Juridical Takings in NAFTA: Disputing Investors in the World of 'Free Trade',” in Property Rights and Neoliberalism: Cultural Demands and Legal Actions, eds. Laura J. Hatcher and Wayne V. McIntosh (Routledge, 2016).
 

2015

Developing Civic Engagement book

Jessica DeZhazo and Zachary Smith, eds., Developing Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art Programs (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)

Jessica DeShazo and Zachary Smith, "The Fragile Desert: Managing the Great Basin’s Environmental Crisis," in Dennis R. Judd and Stephanie L. Witt, eds., Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude: Urban Change and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin (Reno, NV:  University of Nevada Press, 2015)

Chongmyoung Lee and Branda Newell, "A Framework for Assessing the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations," American Journal of Evaluation (August 2014)

Ellen Shiau, Juliet Musso, and Jefferey M. Sellers, "Change Afoot: Neighborhood Politics in the Post-Industrial City" in Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker, eds., Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Ellen Shiau, Juliet Musso, and Jefferey M. Sellers, "City Fragmentation and Neighborhood Connections: The Political Dynamics of Community Revitalization in Los Angeles." in Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker, eds., Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Michael McLendon, "The General Will after Rousseau: The Case of Tocqueville,” in David Lay Williams and James Farr, eds. The General Will:  The Evolution of a Concept (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Gar Culbert, Michael Pomirchy, and Raphael Sonenshein, “Determinants of Political Participation in Urban Politics: A Los Angeles Case Study,” California Journal of Public Policy (2015)

Gar Culbert, “Realizing 'Strategic' Voting in Presidential Primaries,” Rationality and Society (April 2015)

Timothy C. Lim, “Late Migration, Discourse, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in South Korea: A Comparative Perspective,” in John Lie, ed., Multiethnic Korea? Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood: Diversity in Contemporary South Korea (UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies, 2015)

Heidi R. Riggio, R. Priscilla Lui, Amber L. Garcia, Brigitte K. Matthies, Gar Culbert, and Jessica Bailey, “Initial Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Perceptions of Interpersonal Attraction,” in Personality and Individual Differences (February 2015) 

Timothy C. Lim and David Haines, “The Korean Search for Multiculturalism,” in Yuk Wah Chan, David Haines, Jonathan H. X. Lee, eds., The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity and Susceptibility (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)

Gabrielle Clark, "'Humbug” or “Human Good?': E.P. Thompson, the Rule of Law and Coercive Labor Relations Under Neoliberal American Capitalism," Journal of Social History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Summer 2015, Pages 759–788, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv041

2014

Lim

Timothy C. Lim, Politics in East Asia: Explaining Change and Continuity (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014)

Timothy C. Lim, “Migrant Korean Women in the US Commercial Sex Industry: An Examination of the Causes and Dynamics of Cross-Border Sexual Exploitation,” Journal of Research in Gender Studies (2014)

Timothy C. Lim, International Political Economy: An Introduction to Approaches, Regimes, and Issues • Open-source textbook published by the Saylor Foundation (Saylor.org, 2014)

Michael McLendon, “Rousseau and the Minimal Self:  A Solution to the Problem of Amour-Propre,” European Journal of Political Theory (July 2014)

2013

Emily Acevedo, "State Building and Development: How Mexico’s Past Still Matters to its Present," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (Summer 2013)

Xian Gao, Yingfa Song, and Xiaorui Zhu, "Integration and Coordination: Advancing China's Fragmented E-government to Holistic Governance," Government Information Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-181, ISSN 0740-624X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.12.003.

Michael McLendon, “The Politics of Sour Grapes:  Sartre, Elster, and Tocqueville on Frustration, Failure, and Self-Deception,” Review of Politics (Spring 2013)

John S. Treantafelles, "Socratic Testing: Protagoras 310a–314b," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy (Fall 2013).

2012

Taylor E. Dark, “Trade Unions and the Democratic Party,” in David Coates, ed. The Oxford Companion to American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Timothy C. Lim, "South Korea as an ‘Ordinary’ Country: Industrialization, Democracy and the Politics of Immigration,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (March 2012)

Gregg Santori, "Sula and the Sociologist: Toni Morrison on American Biopower after Civil Rights," Theory & Event (January 2012)

2011

Taylor E. Dark, "The Economic Crisis and Organized Labor: Resentment over Solidarity," New Political Science (December 2011)

Taylor E. Dark, "Liberals, Labor, and Party Government,” Polity (July 2011)

2010

Timothy C. Lim, "Rethinking Belongingness in Korea: Transnational Migration, ‘Migrant Marriages,’ and the Politics of Multiculturalism,” Pacific Affairs (Special Issue), (March 2010)

Timothy C. Lim, Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, Second Edition (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010)