Our Mission
The Civic Leadership Education and Research (CLEAR) Initiative exhibits a research and education profile focused on public and nonprofit sector employment, which represents a significant proportion of the national labor economy. CLEAR will be dedicated to understanding and developing the talent needs of the civic leadership workforce for the 21st century.
The Center’s goals are to pursue this mission through research and education.
CLEAR Initiative Student Partners
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Research
Conduct large-N analysis on public and nonprofit labor markets focused on exploring activities related to leading inter-sector and inter-institutional relations, understanding public and nonprofit workforce dynamics, and developing civic leadership for the next generation.
Serve as a producer, broker, and supplier of public domain data on public and nonprofit labor markets.
Provide leadership in promoting, facilitating, and establishing partnerships of intellectual exchange about civic leadership and civil service among researchers and institutions. This would involve serving as a locus for conferences, workshops, and exploring workforce dynamics across local, state, federal, and global communities.
Develop programs and communication tools to connect researchers and public officials seeking to identify and secure funding and resources to support research on these topics.
Serve as the central communication point for Price School partnerships with local, state, federal, and global institutions with these concerns.
Current projects include…
- “Estimating the Public Sector Workforce Labor Market: Supply and Demand in the Los Angeles Region” (Funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation)
- “Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State” (Scott Limbocker, William Resh, and Jennifer Selin)
- The Political Appointees Project – ongoing data collection of Senate-confirmed appointments and vacancies (1989-Present)
- “The Effects of the Government Shutdown on US Federal Employees.” (William Resh, Yongjin Ahn, and Donald Moynihan)
- “The Distributive Benefits of Senate-Confirmed Appointee Vacancies” (William Resh, Nico Napoliono, and Keyeung Lee)
- “The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers.” (Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Esther Gonzalez, Stephanie Wong, and William Resh)
For more information on our current projects, please contact [email protected].
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Education
Develop and deliver an undergraduate cohort and degree program in Civic Leadership, intended to establish the Price School as the premier school in improving public policy and civic leadership across the world through the dissemination of cutting-edge research, teaching excellence, and institutional partnerships.
Develop a Civic Leaders program that is a cohort model following students from freshman year to graduation across majors, employing an “academy” archetype that houses a distinct set of elective curriculum and extra-curricular offerings intended to develop future civic leaders.
Publicly Available Data
For more information on these data and for any general use or publication, please contact [email protected].
- OPM Report on political appointees appointed to nonpolitical permanent positions in the US federal civil service in 2020
- US Senate-Confirmed Presidential Appointee Vacancies (1989-2020)
- US Civil Service Staff Morale Changes from Obama to Trump
- 2021 Agency Transition Scorecards
- US Agency GPRA Goals 2000-2012, Coded; by Heejin Cho, Yongjin Ahn, and William Resh
About the Director
William G. Resh is an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy where he holds the C.C. Crawford Professorship in Management and Performance. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration. He earned his doctoral degree at the American University’s School of Public Affairs in 2011. Prior to attaining tenure at USC, Dr. Resh was a tenure-track assistant professor in public management at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 2011 to 2014 and at USC from 2014-2017.
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