USC Price School of Public Policy

David Suarez

David Suarez

Assistant Professor

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 201D
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626

Phone: (213) 740-6841

Fax: (213) 740-0001

Ph.D.

Stanford University

Expertise

Nonprofit organizations, management and leadership, civic engagement, comparative education, human rights.

Biographical sketch

David Suarez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at USC Price. He teaches courses on public management, organizational theory, and leadership in the nonprofit sector. His current work focuses primarily on the relationship between managerialism and organizational outcomes and the consequences of professionalization for the nonprofit sector. He is particularly interested in collaboration, advocacy, and civic engagement, issues that link nonprofits to public agencies and the policy process. Ongoing projects include research on: management in international and local NGOs; foundations and social justice grantmaking; public-nonprofit partnerships in national parks; education and the human rights movement. His work has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration & Society, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas, Sociology of Education and many additional outlets.

Publications

  • Suárez, D. and H. Hwang, “Resource Constraints or Cultural Conformity? Nonprofit Relationships with Businesses”; Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations; Forthcoming
  • Suárez, D. and P. Bromley, “Professionalizing a Global Social Movement: Universities and Human Rights”; American Journal of Education; Forthcoming
  • Suárez, D., “Grantmaking as Advocacy: The Emergence of Social Justice Philanthropy”; Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 22(3): 259-280; 2012
  • Suárez, D. and Y. Lee, “Participation and Policy: Foundation Support for Civic Engagement and Community Organizing in the United States”; Public Management Review, 13(8): 1117-1138; 2011
  • Suárez, D., “Collaboration and Professionalization: The Contours of Public Sector Funding for Nonprofits”; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(2): 307-326; 2011
  • Suárez, D., “Street Credibility and Management Credentials: Careers of Nonprofit Executives in an Evolving Sector”; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 39(4): 696-716; 2010
  • Suárez, D., “Nonprofit Advocacy and Civic Engagement on the Internet”; Administration & Society, 41(3): 267-289; 2009
  • Suárez, D., F. O. Ramirez, and J.W. Koo, “UNESCO and the Associated Schools Project: Symbolic Affirmation of World Community, International Understanding, and Human Rights”; Sociology of Education, 82(3): 197-216; 2009
  • Suárez., D., “Rewriting Citizenship? Civic Education in Costa Rica and Argentina”; Comparative Education, 44(4): 485-503; 2008
  • Suárez, D. and H. Hwang, “Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California”; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 37(1): 92-112; 2008
  • Suárez., D., “Human Rights and Curricular Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean”; Comparative Education Review, 51(3): 329-352; 2007
  • Suárez, D., “Education Professionals and the Construction of Human Rights Education”; Comparative Education Review, 51(1): 48-70.; 2007
  • Suárez, D. and F. O. Ramirez., “Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education”; In Carlos A. Torres (Ed.), Critique and Utopia: New Developments in the Sociology of Education, 43-64. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.; 2007
  • Ramirez, F. O., D. F. Suárez, and J. W. Meyer., “The Worldwide Rise of Human Rights Education, 1950-2005″; In Aaron Benavot and Cecilia Braslavsky (Eds.)n The Changing Contents of Primary and Secondary Education: Comparative Studies of the School Curriculum, 35-52. Hong Kong: CERC.; 2006
  • Suárez, D., “The Institutionalization of Human Rights Education”; In David Baker and Alex Wiseman (Eds.), The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Neoinstitutional Theory, 95-120. Oxford: Elsevier Science.; 2006
  • Hwang, H. and D. Suárez., “Lost and Found in the Translation of Strategic Plans and Websites”; In Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon (Eds.), Global Ideas: How Ideas, Objects and Practices Travel in the Global Economy, 71-93. Herndon: Copenhagen Business School Press.; 2005

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