Tina Nabatchi

Tina Nabatchi is the Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and a professor of public administration and international affairs at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She also is co-director of the Collaborative Governance Initiative at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC).

Assessing the Past and Future of Public Administration: Reflections from the Minnowbrook at 50 Conference

Government leaders rely on expert analyses from academia to help them understand their impact on the citizens and nations they serve. Scholars advance the profession through their writings and dialogues. Students benefit by learning about the influences on and the outcomes of public sector action in a way that helps build a future workforce. Understanding how public administration has evolved in the past can help all stakeholders to address challenges and capitalize on opportunities that matter for all stakeholders in this diverse profession.

A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation

The Obama administration’s Open Government Initiative is now three years old. But is it making a difference?  Dr. Nabatchi’s report is a practical guide for program managers who want to assess whether their efforts to increase citizen participation in their programs are making a difference. She lays out evaluation steps for both the implementation and management of citizen participation initiatives, as well as how to assess the impact of a particular citizen participation initiative.

Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
United States
(315) 443-2367

Tina Nabatchi is the Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and a professor of public administration and international affairs at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She also is co-director of the Collaborative Governance Initiative at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Her research, which focuses on citizen participation, collaborative governance, conflict resolution, and challenges in public administration, has been published in numerous journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and white papers. Dr. Nabatchi is also the lead editor of Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the coauthor of Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (Jossey-Bass, 2015) and Collaborative Governance Regimes (Georgetown University Press, 2015). Before joining the Maxwell School, Dr. Nabatchi was the research coordinator for the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was responsible for various research projects involving alternative dispute resolution in the Department of Justice, US Postal Service, National Institutes of Health, Department of Agriculture, and US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, among other federal agencies.