CV - Nicolai Petrovsky

Nicolai Petrovsky
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NICOLAI PETROVSKY
Martin School, University of Kentucky
435 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington KY 40506-0027
USA
Office phone: +1-859-257-2857
Email: [email protected]
Web page: http://www.petrovsky.ws/
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Martin School of Public Policy and Administration,
University of Kentucky, 2009–present
• Research Fellow, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, 2006–2009
QUALIFICATIONS
• Ph.D. 2009, Texas A&M University, Political Science
Dissertation: Credible Commitments in Policy and Administration
(Committee co-chairs Kenneth J. Meier and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson)
• M.S. 2004, University of North Texas, Political Science
• Vordiplom 2001, University of Konstanz (Germany), Politics and Management
JOURNAL ARTICLES
• James, Oliver, Nicolai Petrovsky, Alice Moseley, and George A. Boyne. “The Politics of
Agency Death: Ministers and the Survival of Government Agencies in a Parliamentary
System.” British Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.
• Petrovsky, Nicolai, Oliver James, and George A. Boyne. “New Leaders’ Managerial
Background and the Performance of Public Organizations: The Theory of Publicness
Fit.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Advance Access:
doi: 10.1093/jopart/muu008
• Petrovsky, Nicolai and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2014. “Mayoral Public Sector Work
Experience and Tax Collection Performance in Colombian Local Governments.” International Public Management Journal 17 (2): 145-173.
doi: 10.1080/10967494.2014.905406
• Petrovsky, Nicolai and Adrian Ritz. 2014. “Public Service Motivation and Performance: A Critical Perspective.” Evidence-based HRM 2 (1): 57-79.
doi: 10.1108/EBHRM-07-2013-0020
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• Profiroiu, Marius Constantin, Nicolai Petrovsky, and Edward T. Jennings. 2012. “Does
Pendleton’s Premise Hold in New And Old Democracies Alike? Politicization and
Performance in the U.S. and Central and Eastern Europe.” Transylvanian Review of
Administrative Sciences 37 (October): 143-154.
http://www.rtsa.ro/en/431,37e-october-2012.html
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2012. “Party Control, Party Competition and Public Service Performance.” British Journal of Political
Science 42 (3): 641-660.
doi: 10.1017/S0007123411000482
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2011. “Leadership Succession and Organisational Success: When Do New Chief Executives Make a
Difference?” Public Money & Management 31 (5): 339-346.
doi: 10.1080/09540962.2011.598345
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2011. “Top
Management Turnover and Organizational Performance: A Test of a Contingency
Model.” Public Administration Review 71 (4): 572-581.
doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02389.x
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2010. “Does
Public Service Performance Affect Top Management Turnover?” Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory 20 (suppl. 2): i261-i279.
doi: 10.1093/jopart/muq024
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2010. “Does
Political Change Affect Senior Management Turnover? An Empirical Analysis of TopTier Local Authorities in England.” Public Administration 88 (1): 136-153.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2009.01751.x
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2009. “Democracy and Government Performance: Holding Incumbents Accountable in English Local
Governments.” Journal of Politics 71 (4): 1273-1284.
doi: 10.1017/S0022381609990089
• Patrick T. Brandt, T. David Mason, Mehmet Gurses, Nicolai Petrovsky, and Dagmar
Radin. 2008. “When and How the Fighting Stops: Explaining the Duration and
Outcome of Civil Wars.” Defence and Peace Economics 19 (6): 415-434.
doi: 10.1080/10242690701823267
• George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2008. “Executive
Succession in English Local Government.” Public Money & Management 28 (5): 267274.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2008.00655.x
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BOOK CHAPTERS
• James, Oliver, Alice Moseley, Nicolai Petrovsky, and George A. Boyne. 2012. “Agencification in the United Kingdom.” In Koen Verhoest, Sandra Van Thiel, Geert Bouckaert, and Per Laegreid, eds. Government Agencies: Practices and Lessons from 30
Countries. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9780230354357 (HB),
9780230354364 (PB). http://books.google.com/books?id=wny9JdFzsDMC
• Boyne, George A., Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2010. “Change
at the Top: Connecting Political and Managerial Transitions with Performance.” In
Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey, and Pauline Jas, eds. Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services: From Knowing to Doing. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 128-144. ISBN: 9780521195461.
http://books.google.com/books?id=IjBozd3KJ1cC
• Boyne, George A., Oliver James, Peter John, and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2010. “What If
Public Management Reform Actually Works? The Paradoxical Success of Performance
Management in English Local Government.” In Helen Margetts, Perri 6, and Christopher Hood, eds. Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 203-218. ISBN: 9780199573547 (HB),
9780199639618 (PB). http://books.google.com/books?id=a8B6Odkg4vwC
• Petrovsky, Nicolai. 2010. “The Role of Leadership.” In Rachel Ashworth, George A.
Boyne, and Tom Entwistle, eds. Public Service Improvement: Theories and Evidence.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 78-97. ISBN: 9780199545476 (HB), 9780199545483
(PB). http://books.google.com/books?id=vu5QnjQ6AIMC
BOOK REVIEWS
• Petrovsky, Nicolai. 2011. Review of George Argyrous (ed.): Evidence for Policy and
Decision-Making: A Practical Guide. Public Administration 89 (3): 1211-1213.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.01952 7.x
• Petrovsky, Nicolai. 2009. Review of Rein Taagepera’s Making Social Sciences More
Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models. Public Administration 87 (4): 977-980.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2009.01793 4.x
WORK UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS
• “What Explains Agency Heads’ Length of Tenure? Distinguishing Performance, Politics and Insider Managerial Background Effects for Different Forms of Exit” (with
Oliver James, Alice Moseley, and George A. Boyne). Under review.
• “From Public Service Motivation to Public Service Performance: A Theoretical Mechanism.”
• “Natural Resource Royalties and Particularistic Spending in Colombian Municipalities” (with Priyam Saharia and Claudia N. Avellaneda).
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• “Why Do Public Organisations Recruit Outsiders as Leaders? The Appointment of
Chief Executives in UK Central Government” (with George A. Boyne, Oliver James,
and Alice Moseley).
• “Chief Executives of British Executive Agencies: Differences between Inside and Outside Hires in Target Achievement” (with George A. Boyne, Oliver James, and Alice
Moseley).
• “A Factor Analysis of Two Dimensions of the Curse of Natural Resources: Do Different
Indicators Tap the Same Concepts?” (with Stacy R. Closson and Bethany Paris).
• “Construal Level Theory and Citizen Satisfaction: Testing an Enhanced Version of the
Expectation-Disconfirmation Model with a Survey Experiment ” (with Filadelfo Le´on
C´azares, Jue Young Mok, and Jing Zhu).
• “Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Police: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?”
(with Jinhai Yu).
• “Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Negotiates Peace in Civil Wars: Does Regime Type
Matter?” (with Mehmet Gurses, T. David Mason, and Anup Phayal).
GRANTS
• International co-investigator (all direct costs covered) on Economic and Social Research
Council (United Kingdom) grant “Chief executive succession and the performance of
central government agencies” (RES-062-23-2471), 2010-2013
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/research/public policy/
executive-agencies-project/index.php
PRESENTATIONS SINCE AUGUST 2009
• “Construal Level Theory and Citizen Satisfaction: Testing an Enhanced Version of
the Expectation-Disconfirmation Model with a Survey Experiment ” (with Filadelfo
Le´on C´azares, Jue Young Mok, and Jing Zhu). To be presented at the Association
for Public Policy Analysis & Management, Albuquerque, NM, November 2014 and
the International Conference on Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and
Practice: Looking Backward and Moving Forward, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,
People’s Republic of China, November 2014.
• “Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Police: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?”
(with Jinhai Yu). To be presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis &
Management, Albuquerque, NM, November 2014.
• “A Factor Analysis of Two Dimensions of the Curse of Natural Resources: Do Different
Indicators Tap the Same Concepts?” (with Stacy R. Closson and Bethany Paris). To be
presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
DC, August 2014.
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• “Why Do Public Organisations Recruit Outsiders as Leaders? The Appointment of
Chief Executives in UK Central Government” (with George A. Boyne, Oliver James,
and Alice Moseley). To be presented at the American Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2014.
• “The Survival of Agency Heads in the Public Sector: Insiders versus Outsiders in
UK Central Government Agencies” (with Oliver James, George A. Boyne, and Alice
Moseley). Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, April 2014.
• “Plata y Plomo: Assessing the Influence of Resources and Political Violence on Political
Ambition in Colombian Municipalities” (with Claudia N. Avellaneda). Presented at
the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2014.
• “Natural Resource Royalties and Particularistic Spending in Colombian Municipalities” (with Priyam Saharia and Claudia N. Avellaneda). Presented (in Spanish) at the
Seventh Latin American Political Science Conference, Bogot´a, Colombia, September
2013.
• “Determinants of Citizen Satisfaction in a Young Democracy: Distance-Based Construal of Local Government Services” (with Filadelfo Le´on C´azares and Jue Young
Mok). Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2013.
• “Endogenous Target Setting and Performance Measurement in UK Executive Agencies” (with George A. Boyne, Oliver James, and Alice Moseley). Presented at the
Public Management Research Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2013.
• “Testing the Civic Duty-Performance Linkage with External Performance Indicators”
(with Julian Gould-Williams). Various versions presented at:
– the Southern Political Science Association 84th Annual Meeting, Orlando, January 2013;
– International Public Management Mini-Conference, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte, March 2013;
– Cardiff University (invited presentation), March 2013.
• “Chief Executives of British Executive Agencies: Differences between Inside and Outside Hires in Target Achievement and Target Difficulty” (with George A. Boyne, Alice
Moseley, and Oliver James). Various versions presented at:
– the Southern Political Science Association 83rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
January 2012;
– the Martin School Workshop, University of Kentucky, April 2012;
– the 16th International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Rome, Italy, April 2012;
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– Public Management Research Conference, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China,
May 2012;
– University of Incheon, Incheon, Republic of Korea, May 2012;
– China Three Gorges University, Yichang, People’s Republic of China, June 2012.
• “The Desire to Serve the Public in a Young Democracy: Do Work Experience under the Old Regime and Citizen Perceptions of Corruption Attenuate Public Service
Motivation?” (with Filadelfo Le´on C´azares). Presented at the Public Management
Research Conference, Shanghai, May 2012.
• “The Influence of Public Service Motivation on Employee Satisfaction at Different
Levels of the Hierarchy: A Study of Swiss Local Governments” (with Adrian Ritz).
Presented at the 16th International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
Conference, Rome, Italy, April 2012.
• “Public Service Motivation: An Overview of the Concept and Research into its Effects.”
Presented at the University of Kentucky Department of Sociology Speaker’s Series,
November 2011.
• “Do High Public Service Motivation and High Salaries Go Hand-in-Hand? Exploring
the Motivational Pattern and Remuneration of Swiss Local Government Officials” (with
Adrian Ritz). Presented at the 7th International Conference on Public Administration,
Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, October 2011.
• “Measuring the Performance of Federal Agencies and Programs in the U.S.A.: An
Overview and Some Reflections.” Presented at the International Conference on Public
Management and Administration, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania,
June 2011.
• “Does Pendleton’s Premise Hold in New and Old Democracies Alike? Politicization and
Performance in the U.S. and Central and Eastern Europe” (with Marius Constantin
Profiroiu and Ed Jennings). Presented at the 11th Public Management Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, June 2011.
• “Performance, Stakeholder Stability and the Survival of UK Executive Agencies” (with
Alice Moseley, Oliver James, and George A. Boyne). Presented at the 11th Public
Management Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, June 2011.
• “Where Does Natural Resource Wealth Flow? Testing the Rentier Hypothesis in
Colombian Local Government” (with Priyam Saharia and Claudia N. Avellaneda).
Presented at the the 69th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference,
Chicago, April 2011.
• “Does Managerial Quality Determine Whether Easy Money Will Increase Organizational Slack? Testing the Rentier Hypothesis in Colombian Local Governments” (with
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Priyam Saharia). Presented at:
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– the Public Management Research Conference: Research Directions for a Globalised Public Management, University of Hong Kong, October 2010;
– the Martin School Workshop, University of Kentucky, December 2010.
• “Do Motivated Elephants Gallop Faster? An Assessment of the Effect of Public Service Motivation on Government Performance at the Individual and Organizational
Levels” (with Adrian Ritz). Presented at the Public Management Research Conference: Research Directions for a Globalised Public Management, University of Hong
Kong, October 2010.
• “Democracy as a Virtuous Circle? Performance Voting and Leadership Turnover in
English Local Government” (with George A. Boyne, Oliver James, and Peter John).
Presented at:
– the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario,
September 2009;
– the Network of Regional European Scholars Conference, Texas A&M University,
July 2010.
• “From Public Service Motivation to Public Service Performance: A Theoretical Mechanism.” Presented at:
– the 14th International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Bern, Switzerland, April 2010;
– the 4th Conference on Empirical Studies of Organizations and Public Management, Texas A&M University, May 2010;
– the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, July 2010.
• “How Managerial Quality Affects Tax Collection Rates: Colombian Local Governments” (with Claudia N. Avellaneda). Presented at:
– the 14th International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Bern, Switzerland, April 2010;
– the 68th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April
2010.
• “When Do New Agency Chief Executives Make a Difference to Policies and Performance? A Theoretical Model” (with George A. Boyne and Oliver James). Presented
at:
– the Public Management Research Association Conference, Columbus, OH, October 2009;
– the 68th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April
2010.
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• “Does Public Service Motivation Predict Higher Public Service Performance? A Research Synthesis.” Presented at:
– the Martin School Workshop, University of Kentucky, September 2009;
– the Public Management Research Association Conference, Columbus, OH, October 2009.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
• Editorial Board
– Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, from 2014
• Manuscript Reviewer (in order of recency)
– Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Public Performance & Management Review, Public Management Review, Review of Public
Personnel Administration, Governance, Public Money & Management, Journal
of Public Policy, Public Administration Review, Local Government Studies, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Academy of Management (2012
conference), European Journal of Political Research, International Studies Perspectives, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, African Journal
of Business Management, State and Local Government Review, Oxford Economic
Papers, British Academy of Management (2008 and 2009 conferences), British
Journal of Management, International Studies Quarterly
• Southern Political Science Association
– Section head for panels on Comparative Public Administration at the 2016 Annual
Meeting
• University of Kentucky
– Martin School director recruitment committee, 2014/15
– Martin School international programs committee, 2014/15
– Martin School PhD committee, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15
– Outside examiner for Timothy Brock’s dissertation defense (Geography), June 19,
2014
– Member of Patterson School Master’s Comprehensive Exam Committee for Ellie
McBroom, April 24, 2014
– Martin School faculty search committee, 2009/10, 2012/13, 2013/14
– Quantitative Initiative for Policy and Social Research (QIPSR) advisory board,
2011/12, 2012/13
– Martin School workshop committee, 2010/11
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• Texas A&M University
– Graduate Mentor. Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Summer 2006
– Judge for oral undergraduate presentations. Student Research Week. March 2006
COURSES TAUGHT
• University of Kentucky
– PA 642 Public Organization Theory and Behavior (Master’s level), Fall 2009 (2
sections), Fall 2010 (2 sections), Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 (2
sections)
– PA 667 Policymaking in an International Context: Political and Organizational
Dimensions (Master’s and PhD levels), Fall 2010, Spring 2012 (course listed as
PA 795 Special Topics until Spring 2012), Spring 2013, Spring 2014, scheduled
for Spring 2015
– PA 681 Master’s Capstone Seminar, Spring 2012, Spring 2013 (co-taught with Ed
Jennings until Spring 2013)
– PA 742 Theory of Public Organizations (PhD level), Spring 2010, Spring 2011,
Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, scheduled for Spring 2015
– PA 796 Special Topics: Administrative Costs of Public Health Insurance Overheads in Kentucky and Nova Scotia (David Bachert, Master’s student), Spring
2014
– PA 796 Special Topics: The Survival of Government Agencies (Changgeun Yun,
PhD student), Fall 2013
– PA 796 Special Topics: Differences between Insider and Outsider Chief Executive
Officers (Michelle Schardein, Master’s student), Summer 2012
– PA 796 Special Topics: Microfinance (Bethany Paris, PhD student), Fall 2011
– PA 796 Special Topics: Theories of Development and Institutions (Amanda Deerfield, PhD student), Fall 2010
• University of North Texas
– Political Science 2300: The Study of Politics, Spring 2004
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SUPERVISION OF STUDENT RESEARCH
• Dissertation Committees
– Seungjin Choi, co-chair, in progress
– Changgeun Yun, co-chair, in progress
– Austin Trantham (Political Science), in progress
– Anup Phayal (Political Science), in progress
– Jack East (Political Science), 2014
– Bethany Paris, 2013
– Jeremiah Olson (Political Science), 2013
– Biniv Maskay (Economics), 2012
– Jacklyn Arinaitwe, 2012
• Master’s Capstone Projects
– 2014: David Bachert (chair); Rob Sutter; Jeong Tack Yi (chair)
– 2013 (chair for all): Boya Chen; Michaela Miles; Chris Record; Theresa Simcic
– 2012: Tara Bopp (chair); Jon Davis (chair); Juanita Espinoza (chair); Kris Harmon (chair); Maiduo Li; Aung Phyo (chair); James Woodward
– 2011: Andrea Lamb; D’Arcy Robb; Shelley Sellwood-Davis
– 2010: Meredith Howes (chair), winner of the SECOPA Robert Kline Award for
Outstanding Paper by a Master’s Student; Robert McAtee
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration,
Asociaci´on Latinoamericana de Ciencia Pol´ıtica, Public Management Research
Association
FLUENT IN:
• German (native speaker), English, Spanish
CITIZENSHIP AND RESIDENCE STATUS
• German citizen
• Permanent resident of the U.S.A. (since November 2010)
REFERENCES
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