Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed scholarship on local government, public finance, civic technology, and environmental policy.

Work in Progress
Under Review
"Improving Disaster Recovery Using the Agile Government Framework"
Under Review
"Does Coproduction Influence Other Protective Actions & Decisions During Wildfires?"
With Shahinur Bashar
Under Review
"Internet of Things Enabled Co-Assessment: How Equitable is IoT Air Quality Monitoring?"
With Jay Matonte
In Progress
Police-Involved Fatal Shootings, Part II
In Progress
"Systematizing Equitable Visible and Invisible Faculty Service Assignments in an Academic Unit"
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2025
Guzman, T. & Clark, B.Y. (2025). Estimating the Negative Credit Impacts of Police-Involved Fatalities. Public Finance Review, 53(1): 3–28.
FinancePolice & Policy
2024
Clark, B.Y. & Parker, R. (2024). Determinants of the Coproduction of Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 9.
CoproductionPublic Health
2024
McDonald, B.D., et al. incl. Clark, B.Y. (2024). Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research. Public Finance Journal, 1(1): 9–28.
FinanceBudgeting
2023
Clark, B.Y. & Brudney, J.L. (2023). Transportation and Coproduction: Looking for Vulnerabilities to Boost and Enhance Co-Assessment. Public Money & Management, 43(8): 841–848.
CoproductionTransportation
2022
Guzman, T. & Clark, B.Y. (2022). Crime and Credit: The Empirical Study of How Crime Affects Credit Ratings in Large U.S. Cities. Social Science Quarterly, 103(5): 1234–1247.
FinanceCredit Ratings
2022
Clark, B.Y. & Guzman, T. (2022). Smarter City, Smarter Investment? A Study of the Relationship Between 311 Systems and Credit Ratings in American Cities. Government Information Quarterly, 39(4).
Civic TechFinance
2022
Matonte, J., Parker, R. & Clark, B.Y. (2022). The Failure of Opportunity Zones in Oregon. Cityscape, 24(1): 53–75.
FinanceUrban Policy
2022
Alexander, S., Agrawal, A.W. & Clark, B.Y. (2022). Local Climate Action Planning as a Tool to Harness GHG Mitigation and Equity Potential of AVs. Transportation Research Record, 2676(3): 521–534.
MobilityClimate
2021
Lewis, R. & Clark, B.Y. (2021). Retooling Transportation Financing in a New Mobility Future. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 10.
MobilityFinance
2021
Ngo, N., Götschi, T. & Clark, B.Y. (2021). The Effects of Ride-Hailing Services on Bus Ridership in a Medium-Sized Urban Area. Transport Policy, 105: 44–53.
Ride-HailingTransit
2021
Clark, B.Y. & Brown, A. (2021). What Does Ride-Hailing Mean For Parking? Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(2): 775–783.
MobilityParking
2020
Clark, B.Y., Brudney, J.L., Jang, S.G. & Davy, B. (2020). Determinants of 311 Response Time Biases: A Study of 15 US Cities. American Review of Public Administration, 50(3): 315–327.
311 SystemsCoproduction
2020
Clark, B.Y. (2020). The Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Local Government Budgeting and Finance: Case of Solid Waste Collection. National Tax Journal, 73(1): 259–282.
AVsFinance
2019
Clark, B.Y. & Brudney, J.L. (2019). Citizen Representation in City Government-Driven Crowdsourcing. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 28(5): 883–910.
CrowdsourcingCivic Tech
2017
Clark, B.Y. & Guzman, T. (2017). Does Technologically Enabled Citizen Participation Lead to Budget Adjustments? American Review of Public Administration, 47(8): 945–961.
ParticipationBudgeting
2017
Clark, B.Y., Zingale, N. & Logan, J. (2017). Intelligence and Information Gathering through Deliberative Crowdsourcing. Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 3(1): 55–78.
Crowdsourcing
2016
Clark, B.Y., Zingale, N., Logan, J. & Brudney, J.L. (2016). A Framework for Using Crowdsourcing in Government. International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age, 3(4): 57–75.
CrowdsourcingE-Government
2015
Clark, B.Y. (2015). Evaluating the Validity and Reliability of the Financial Condition Index at the Local Level. Public Budgeting and Finance, 35(2): 66–68.
Finance
2013
Clark, B.Y., Brudney, J.L. & Jang, S.G. (2013). Coproduction of Government Services and the New Information Technology: Investigating the Distributional Biases. Public Administration Review, 73(5): 687–701.
CoproductionIT
2013
Clark, B.Y. (2013). Multilateral, Regional, and National Determinants of Policy Adoption: The Case of HIV/AIDS Legislative Action. International Journal of Public Health, 58(2): 285–293.
Health Policy
2012
Clark, B.Y. & Llorens, J. (2012). Investments in Scientific Research: Examining Funding Threshold Effects on Scientific Collaboration. Policy Studies Journal, 40(4): 698–729.
Research Policy
2011
Clark, B.Y. (2011). Influences and Conflicts of Federal Policies in Academic-Industrial Scientific Collaboration. Journal of Technology Transfer, 36(5): 514–545.
Policy
2011
Clark, B.Y. & Whitford, A.B. (2011). Does More Federal Environmental Funding Increase or Decrease States' Efforts? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 30(1): 136–152.
EnvironmentFinance
2010
Clark, B.Y. (2010). The Effects of Government Academic and Industrial Policy on Cross-University Collaboration. Science and Public Policy, 37(5): 314–330.
Policy
2009
Clark, B.Y. (2009). Policy Adoption in Dynamic International Environments: Evidence from National AIDS Programs. Public Administration and Development, 29(5): 362–373.
Health Policy
2009
Hardee, K., Clark, B.Y., Yuan, V. et al. (2009). HIV and AIDS Stigma and Discrimination in China. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 24(2).
Health
2007
Whitford, A.B. & Clark, B.Y. (2007). Designing Property Rights for Water: Mediating Market, Government, and Corporate Failures. Policy Sciences, 40(4): 335–351.
Environmental PolicyWater
Book Chapters
2021
Clark, B.Y. & Brudney, J.L. (2021). Too Much of a Good Thing? Frequent Flyers and the Implications for the Coproduction of Public Service Delivery. In E. Welch (Ed.), E-Government Research Handbook. Edward Elgar.
Coproduction
2021
Clark, B.Y. (2021). Co-Assessment through Digital Technologies. In Loeffler & Bovaird (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave.
Coproduction
2018
Clark, B.Y. & Lewis, R. (2018). Future Transport and City Budgets. In W. Riggs (Ed.), Disruptive Transport. Routledge.
MobilityFinance
2016
Clark, B.Y. & Shurik, M. (2016). Improving Citizen Satisfaction with Local Government using 311 Systems. In Gibson & Julnes (Eds.), Innovations in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors. Routledge.
311 Systems
2015
Hexter, K., Hill, E., Clark, B.Y., et al. (2015). Revitalizing Distressed Older Suburbs. In K. Anacker (Ed.), The New American Suburb. Ashgate.
Urban Policy
2014
Clark, B.Y. (2014). Can Tax Expenditures Stimulate Growth in Rust Belt Cities? In W. Bowen (Ed.), The Road From the Rustbelt. Upjohn Institute Press.
FinanceUrban