Jay Rickabaugh
Bio
Jay Rickabaugh is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at North Carolina State University’s School of Public and International Affairs since 2024. He researches how governments cooperate on a wide array of policy issues, including the sustainable management of phosphorus through NCSU’s STEPS Center. His research has been published by the American Review of Public Administration and Public Administration journals. He is a contributing author to the 2019 book Discovering American Regionalism: An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations.
Education
B.A. Political Science / Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison 2000
M.P.A. Policy Research and Analysis University of Pittsburgh 2011
Ph.D. Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh 2018
Publications
- Historical criminology, a moving target: Understanding and challenging trends in British and American periodization , Journal of Criminal Justice (2023)
- Digital Literacy and Co-Regional Activity in Southwestern North Carolina , Research and Creative Activity at Appalachian Conference (ReCAPP) (2022)
- Mapping Co-Regional Landscapes and the Roles of Regional Leaders , 2022 Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association (2022)
- Rural Broadband and Co-Regional Activity in Southwestern North Carolina , Deil Wright Symposium, American Society for Public Administration (2022)
- Applying Your Knowledge: Incorporating Examples from Your Research into the Courses You Teach , Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) (2021)
- Developing Co-Regional Activity to Conceptualize Constellations of Governance Mechanisms , Urban Affairs Review (2021)
-
Regional Public Sector Organizations: A broader taxonomic classification to
cross‐pollinate empirical research , Public Administration (2021) - Collaboration for the Services You Can’t Afford to Lose and You Can’t Afford to Keep , NC Local Government Budget and Policy Association (2020)
- Not State, Not Local: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations , Cooperation and Conflict between State and Local Government (2020)
- Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations , The American Review of Public Administration (2020)