Public Management
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Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick S. Roberts, Joseph Arvai, and Kelly Redmond. 2019. “How Emergency Managers (Mis?)Interpret Forecasts,” Disasters 43(1): 88-109.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Wernstedt, Kris. 2018. “Herbert Simon’s Forgotten Legacy for Improving Decision Processes,” International Public Management Journal, (early view) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10967494.2018.1502223
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2018. “Decision Biases and Heuristics Among Emergency Managers: Just Like the Public They Manage For?” American Review of Public Administration. September, 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074018799490
Roberts, Patrick S. and Robert P. Saldin. 2017. “Why Presidents Sometimes Do Not Use Intelligence Information.” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 131, Issue 4, (Winter): 779-802.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2016. “Managing Uncertainty: Using Climate Forecasts Across a State’s Emergency Management Network,” Natural Hazards Review, 7 (3): 05016002-1-11.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2015. “Retroview: The Centralization Paradox,” The American Interest, Vol. X, No. 6, (June/July): 90-96. (Essay on the work of Martha Derthick).
Roberts, Patrick S. 2013. “Discrimination in a Disaster Agency's Security Culture.” Administration & Society, 45 (4): 387-419.
Dull, Matthew, Patrick S. Roberts, Michael Keeney, and Sang Ok Choi. 2012. “Appointee Confirmation and Tenure: The Succession of U.S. Federal Agency Appointees, 1989-2009,” Public Administration Review, vol. 72, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2012): 902-913.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Searching for a Network Administrative Organization in the Niger Food Crisis, 2004-2006,” Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 8, no. 4 (July/August) 1-11.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “How Security Agencies Control Change: Executive Power and the Quest for Autonomy in the FBI and CIA,” Public Organization Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June): 169-198.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2007. “What the Catastrophist Heresy Teaches Public Managers,” Administrative Theory & Praxis, 29(4): 546-566.