Juliet Ann Musso

Biography

Juliet Musso, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, and the Vice Dean for Academic Programs at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Vice Dean Musso has expertise in state and local governance, federalism, and urban political economy, with specific research interests in fiscal resilience, state and local institutional reform, and civic engagement in governance institutions. She has published on neighborhood governance and urban revitalization, state and local government performance, and intergovernmental finance and service provision arrangements.  Current research topics focus on fiscal resilience and coproduction in local service provision as well as state and local performance management.

Selected Publications

• Musso, J. A., & Weare, C. (2020). Performance Management Goldilocks Style: A Transaction Cost Analysis of Incentive Intensity in Performance Regimes. Public Performance & Management Review, 43(1), 1-27.
• Musso, J.A., Young, M., & Thom, M. (2018). Volunteerism as Co-Production in Public Management: Application to Public Safety in California. Public Management Review, 21(4), 473–494.
• Musso, J. A., & Weare, C. (2017). Social Capital and Community Representation: How Multiform Networks Promote Local Democracy in Los Angeles. Urban Studies, 54.