@book{kearney_2014, title={Labor relations in the public sector}, publisher={Boca Raton: CRC Press}, author={Kearney, R. C.}, year={2014} }
 @article{bowman_kearney_2012, title={Are US Cities losing power and authority? Perceptions of local government actors}, volume={48}, number={4}, journal={Urban Affairs Review}, author={Bowman, A. O. and Kearney, R. C.}, year={2012}, pages={528–546} }
 @article{coggburn_daley_kearney_2012, title={Public Sector Retiree Health Care Benefits: A View from the American States}, volume={41}, ISSN={["0091-0260"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865482507&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1177/009102601204100202}, abstractNote={ This paper reports findings of a survey on retiree health care benefits in the American states. It begins with an overview of the challenges the states face following the reporting of their unfunded liabilities for other (non-pension) post employment benefits, as required by GASB 45. Next, it reports survey data on the perceived effects of health care benefits on human resources goals (recruitment, retention, and retirement), the current structure of state retiree health care programs, and measures being considered and/or adopted to deal with retiree health care costs. Survey results show that the states have adopted cost containment strategies and cost-sharing programs. They have now begun to introduce preventive medicine and wellness efforts while continuing with further cost-sharing. A few states have even begun to contemplate major cost shedding options. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for retiree health care policy and human resource management. }, number={2}, journal={PUBLIC PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Coggburn, Jerrell D. and Daley, Dennis M. and Kearney, Richard C.}, year={2012}, pages={219–240} }
 @book{bowman_kearney_2012, title={State and local government: the essentials}, publisher={Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning}, author={Bowman, A. and Kearney, R. C.}, year={2012} }
 @article{kearney_2011, title={Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers, and the challenges of policy leadership in a hostile environment}, volume={71}, number={5}, journal={Public Administration Review}, author={Kearney, R. C.}, year={2011}, pages={772–781} }
 @article{bowman_kearney_2011, title={Second-order devolution: Data and doubt}, volume={41}, number={4}, journal={Publius: the Journal of Federalism}, author={Bowman, A. and Kearney, R. C.}, year={2011}, pages={563–585} }
 @article{kearney_2010, title={Public Sector Labor-Management Relations: Change or Status Quo?}, volume={30}, number={1}, journal={Review of Public Personnel Administration}, author={Kearney, R. C.}, year={2010}, pages={89–111} }
 @article{coggburn_kearney_2010, title={Trouble Keeping Promises? An Analysis of Underfunding in State Retiree Benefits}, volume={70}, ISSN={["1540-6210"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-73849089554&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02114.x}, abstractNote={ This article examines the funding of two key components of state government total compensation: pensions and other postemployment benefits (OPEB), the latter consisting primarily of retiree health care. A brief overview of the economic, political, and legal environments of state pensions and OPEB is followed by an analysis of the unfunded liabilities for these respective benefits. Regression results suggest the importance of state management capacity, per capita income, and public employee density in understanding differences in the states' pension and OPEB funding performance. Additionally, employers' level of pension contributions, legislative professionalism, and fiscal constraint are significantly related to pension funding, while political ideology and levels of state pension funding are significantly related to OPEB funding. The article concludes by discussing the tensions that states face in attempting to balance the fiscal imperative of funding retiree benefits liabilities with the human capital challenge of attracting and retaining a professional workforce. Failure on either could be costly to state government. }, number={1}, journal={PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Coggburn, Jerrell D. and Kearney, Richard C.}, year={2010}, pages={97–108} }
 @article{paynter_kearney_2010, title={Who Watches the Watchmen? Evaluating Judicial Performance in the American States}, volume={41}, ISSN={["1552-3039"]}, DOI={10.1177/0095399709349698}, abstractNote={ Scholars and human resource practitioners agree that effective performance appraisal systems have clear objectives, reliable and valid appraisal methodology, separation of personal judgments from job-based performance assessments, acceptance by employees, and leadership commitment. Using data from state reports, surveys, case histories, personal interviews, and judicial performance appraisal studies, this article juxtaposes judicial performance evaluation (JPE) and the criteria for effective appraisal systems to address the question of whether judicial independence can be preserved when judges’ performance is systematically evaluated by multiple raters. The authors conclude that JPE is an effective performance appraisal tool that can satisfy the need for accountability to the public while protecting judicial independence. }, number={8}, journal={ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY}, author={Paynter, Sharon and Kearney, Richard C.}, year={2010}, month={Jan}, pages={923–953} }
 @book{kearney_2009, title={Labor relations in the public sector (4th. Ed.)}, ISBN={9781420063141}, publisher={Boca Raton : CRC Press}, author={Kearney, R. C.}, year={2009} }
 @article{scavo_kearney_kilroy_2008, title={Challenges to federalism: Homeland security and disaster response}, volume={38}, ISSN={["0048-5950"]}, DOI={10.1093/publius/pjm029}, abstractNote={This article examines the state of federalism in the Bush Administration from the perspective of the policy area of homeland security and disaster response. The article uses the International City and County Management Association homeland security survey completed in the spring and summer of 2005 as a source of data. The article argues that while it is tempting to look for one single agency to control homeland security and disaster response, a networked model is better supported by the survey data and by recent experience in terrorist and natural disaster response. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.}, number={1}, journal={PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM}, author={Scavo, Carmine and Kearney, Richard C. and Kilroy, Richard J., Jr.}, year={2008}, pages={81–110} }