Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

Craig W. Thomas

Professor

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

205 Parrington Hall, Box 353055

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195-3055

206-221-3669 (office)

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington

Adjunct Professor, Political Science, University of Washington

Adjunct Professor, Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington

PAST APPOINTMENTS

Editor, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2009-2013

Associate and Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1997-2006

Associate and Assistant Professor, Center for Public Policy & Administration, University of Massachusetts-

Amherst, 1997-2006

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1997

M.P.P., Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 1988

B.A., International Studies, University of Washington, 1983

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Collaborative Governance

Public Management

Policy Process

Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Management

Research Design

BOOKS

2004. Koontz, Tomas M., Toddi A. Steelman, JoAnn Carmin, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Cassandra Moseley, and Craig W. Thomas. Collaborative Environmental Management:What Roles for Government?Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 210 pages.

Reviewed in Ecological Economics 62:373-374; Environmental Politics 15(4):666-670; Human Ecology (35:649-651); Journal of the American Planning Association 71(4):462-463; Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(1):105-107; Natural Resources Forum 29:181-182; Policy Sciences 38:201-204.

2003. Thomas, Craig W. Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 353 pages.

Reviewed in Administrative Sciences Quarterly 49(3):481-483; Human Dimensions of Wildlife 9:87-89; Natural Resources Forum 27(3):247-248; Perspectives on Politics 2(1):162-163; Policy Sciences 38:195-200; Public Administration Review 65(3):377-378.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Forthcoming. Thomas, Craig W., and Allen M. Solomon. “Adaptation to Climate Change in the U.S. Forest Service.” In Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change. Carl Bauer and Lance Gunderson, editors.University of Chicago Press.

2012. Thomas, Craig W. “The Impact of Institutional Design on the Adaptability of Governing Institutions: Implications for Transboundary River Governance.” In Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty.Barbara Cosens, editor. Oregon State Press.Pages 398-409.

2012 . Thomas, Craig W. “Bureaucracy and Natural Resources Policy.” Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy.Sheldon Kamieniecki and Michael Kraft, editors. Oxford University Press. Pages 355- 371.

2011.Gerring, John, and Craig W. Thomas. “Quantitative Versus Qualitative Methods: A Question of Comparability.” In International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino, editors. Sage Publications. Pages 2189-2196.

2007. Gerring, John, and Craig W. Thomas. “Internal Validity: Process Tracing.” In Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. John Gerring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages 172-186.

2003. Thomas, Craig W. “Habitat Conservation Planning.” In Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance. Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, editors. London: Verso Press. Pages 144-172.

ARTICLES

Forthcoming. Massaua, Meghan, Craig W. Thomas, and Terrie Klinger. “The Use of Science in Collaborative Management of Marine Environments.”Coastal Management.

Forthcoming. Scott, Tyler, and Craig W. Thomas. “Unpacking the Collaborative Toolbox: Why Public Managers Choose Collaborative Governance as a Function of Individual, Organizational, and Social Costs and Benefits.” Policy Studies Journal.

2015. “Do Collaborative Groups Enhance Inter-organizational Networks?” Public Performance Management Review 38:654-683.

2012.Koontz, Tomas M., and Craig W. Thomas. “Measuring the Performance of Public-Private Partnerships: A Systematic Method for Distinguishing Outputs from Outcomes.” Public Performance Management Review 35:769-786.

2011.Scullion, Jason, Craig W. Thomas, Kristina A. Vogt, Octavio Perez-Maqueo, and Miles G. Logsdon. “Evaluating theEnvironmental Impact of Payments forEcosystem Services in Coatepec (Mexico) Using Remote Sensing and On-Site Interviews.” Environmental Conservation 38: 426-434.

2011.Thomas, Craig W., and Tomas M. Koontz. “Research Designs for Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Management on Natural Resource Conservation.” Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 3(2): 97-111.

2010. Khagram, Sanjeev, and Craig W. Thomas. “Toward a Platinum Standard for Evidence-Based Assessment by 2020.” Public Administration Review70 (special issue on The Future of Public Administration in 2020), S100-S106.

2010.Jantarasami, Lesley C., Joshua J. Lawler, and Craig W. Thomas. “Institutional Barriers to Climate-Change Adaptation in National Parks and Forests of Washington State.” Ecology & Society 15(4), 33 [

2010. Thomas, Craig W., Arthur Bradley Soule, and Tyler Davis. “Special Interest Capture of Regulatory Agencies: A Ten-Year Analysis of Voting Behavior on Regional Fisheries Management Councils.” Policy Studies Journal 38, 447-464.

2009. Khagram, Sanjeev, and Craig W. Thomas. “Evidence for Development Effectiveness.” Journal of Development Effectiveness 1(3), 247-270.

2006. Koontz, Tomas M., and Craig W. Thomas. “What Do We Know and Need to Know About the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management?" Public Administration Review, Special Issue on Collaborative Management, supplement to issue 66:6, 111-121.

2004. Osterweil, Leon J., Charles M. Schweik, Norman K. Sondheimer, and Craig W. Thomas. “Analyzing Processes for E-Government Development: The Emergence of Process Definition Languages.” Journal of E-Government 1, 63-87.

2002. Schweik, Charles M., and Craig W. Thomas. “Using Remote Sensing to Evaluate Environmental Institutional Designs: A Habitat Conservation Planning Example.” Social Science Quarterly 83, 244-262.

2001. Thomas, Craig W. “Habitat Conservation Planning: Certainly Empowered, Somewhat Deliberative, Questionably Democratic.” Politics and Society 29, 105-130.

1999. Thomas, Craig W. “Linking Public Agencies With Community-Based Watershed Organizations: Lessons From California.” Policy Studies Journal 27, 544-564.

1998. Thomas, Craig W. “Maintaining and Restoring Public Trust in Government Agencies and Their Employees.” Administration and Society 30, 166-193.

1997. Thomas, Craig W. “Public Management as Interagency Cooperation: Testing Epistemic Community Theory at the Domestic Level.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 7, 221-246.

1995. La Porte, Todd R., and Craig W. Thomas. “Regulatory Compliance and the Ethos of Quality Enhancement: Surprises in Nuclear Power Plant Operations.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 5, 109-137.

1993. Thomas, Craig W. “Reorganizing Public Organizations: Alternatives, Objectives, and Evidence.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 3, 457-486.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Revise and resubmit. Thomas, Craig W. Thomas. “Conflicts in the Doctrines of Public Management. American Review of Public Administration.

Working paper. Thomas, Craig W. “A General Theory of Punctuated Policy Equlibria.”

Working paper. Jung, Chan Su, and Craig W. Thomas. “The Effects of Program Type and Goal Ambiguity on Performance.”

Working paper. Thomas, Craig W., and Christina Bernard. “Household Improvements in Environmental Behavior: A Three-Year Analysis of Yard Care, Product Purchase, and Waste Disposal Practices.”

Working paper. Thomas, Craig W., and Danielle Fumia. “The Effect of Program Size and Goal Ambiguity on Performance: An Analysis of PART Assessments for 165 Environmental Programs.”

BOOK REVIEWS

2008. Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, by Gary Goertz. Journal of Politics. 70, 287-289.

2006. Government Performance: Why Management Matters, by Patricia Ingraham, Philip Joyce, and Amy Kneedler Donahue. Policy Sciences 38, 293-298.

2005. The Making of Environmental Law, by Richard Lazarus. Perspectives on Politics 3, 906-907.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2010. Co-editor (with Stuart Bretschneider, Carolyn Heinrich, and Beryl Radin). Virtual collection of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Available at:

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2014. “Agency Theory, Policy Tooks, and Collaborative Management” (with Tyler Scott), Symposium on Exploring the Theoretical Nexus Between Public Policy and Public Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, October 16-18.

2013. “Do Collaborative Partnerships Enhance Interorganizational Networks?” (with Tyler Scott), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 29-September 1.

2013.“The Effect of Collaborative Partnerships on Interorganizational Networks” (with Tyler Scott), Public Management Research Conference. Madison, WI, June 20-22.

2013.“The Effect of Collaborative Partnerships on Interorganizational Networks” (with Tyler Scott), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management International Conference. Shanghai, China, May 25-27.

2012.“The Use of Science in Collaborative Management of Marine Environments” (with Meghan Massaua and Terrie Klinger), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference. Baltimore, MD, November 8-10.

2012. “The Effects of Program Type and Goal Ambiguity on Performance” (with Chan Su Jung), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference. Baltimore, MD, November 8-10.

2011.“Principal-Agent Relationships on Regulatory Commissions: The Case of Regional Fishery Management Councils” (with Tyler Blake Davis and Arthur Bradley Soule), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 1-4.

2011. “The Effect of Program Size and Goal Ambiguity on Performance: An Analysis of PART Assessments for 165 Environmental Programs” (with Danielle Fumia), Public Management Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, June 2-4.

2010.“A Systematic Method for Categorizing Performance Measures across Types of Programs” (with Tomas M. Koontz), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference. Boston, MA, November 4-6.

2010.“Public Education Programs, Environmental Behavior, and Performance Management: A Case Study of King County, Washington” (with Christina Bernard), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference. Boston, MA, November 4-6.

2009. “Special Interest Capture of Regulatory Agencies: A Ten-Year Analysis of Voting Behavior on Regional Fishery Management Councils” (with Arthur Bradley Soule), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 5-7.

2009. “Discerning Outputs from Outcomes: How has it been done under PART?” (with Tomas M. Koontz and Danielle Fumia), Public Management Research Conference, Columbus, OH, October 1-3.

2009. “The Impact of Institutional Design on the Flexibility and Adaptability of Public Agencies: Implications for Transboundary River Governance.” Conference on Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty: The Columbia River Treaty, 2014. Coeur d’Alene, ID, April 2-4.

2008. “Does Collaborative Governance Improve Environmental Performance?” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-8.

2008. “What Effect Does Public Participation Have on Performance Management Systems?” (with Tomas M. Koontz), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 28-31.

2008. “Evaluating the Performance of Collaborative Environmental Governance,” Consortium on Collaborative Governance Mini-Conference, Santa Monica, April 10-12, 2008.

2007. “What Do We Know and Need to Know About the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management?" (with Tomas M. Koontz), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 8-10.

2006. “What Do We Know and Need to Know About the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management?" (with Tomas Koontz), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Madison, WI, November 2-4.

2005. “Comparability: A Key Issue in Research Design” (with John Gerring), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 1-4.

2003. “Conflicts in the Doctrines of Public Management,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 6-8.

2002. “The State as Good Cop and Bad Cop in Collaborative Environmental Management,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 29-September 1.

2001. “The State as Good Cop and Bad Cop in Collaborative Environmental Management,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 1-3.

2001. “Using Remote Sensing to Evaluate Habitat Conservation Plans: The Case of the Coachella Valley Fringe-Toed Lizard” (with Charles M. Schweik), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 15-17.

2000. “Using Remote Sensing to Evaluate Environmental Regulations” (with Charles M. Schweik), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3.

2000. “A Multi-Method Framework for Evaluating Habitat Conservation Plans Using Remote Sensing Analysis”(with Charles M. Schweik), Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Indiana University, Bloomington, May 31-June 4.

2000. “Habitat Conservation Plans: Certainly Empowered, Somewhat Deliberative, Questionably Democratic,” Real Utopias Project Conference V: Experiments in Empowered Deliberative Democracy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 14-16.

1999. “Regulatory Compliance Under the Endangered Species Act: A Time-Series Analysis of Habitat Conservation Planning Using Remote-Sensing Data” (with Charles Schweik), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 4-6.

1999. “Public Administration Confronts the Natural World: How Ecological Knowledge and Information Technology Bring Agencies Together,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 2-5.

1998. “The Role of Consensus-Based Groups in the Implementation of Resource Management Policies,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, New York, Oct. 29-31.

1998. “The Role of Consensus-Based Groups in the Implementation of Resource Management Policies,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, September 3-6.

1998. “Public Administration Confronts the Natural World: How Ecological Knowledge and Information Management Promote Agency Integration,” American Society for Public Administration National Conference, Seattle, May 9-13.

1997. “A Comparison of Ecological and Economic Forms of Analysis: Choosing Appropriate Techniques for Environmental Problems,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 6-8.

1996. “With Knowledge Comes Interdependence: The Ecological Epistemic Community, Resource Management Agencies, and Interagency Cooperation,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 29-September 1.

1995. “Avoiding Environmental Train Wrecks Under the Endangered Species Act: What Bureaucrats in California Do and Why They Do It,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, March 15-18.

1994. “Protecting Cooperative Turf: Interagency Strategies for Managing Human Impacts on Native Species in California,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, March 10-12.

1992. “New Trends in Local Government Lobbying,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 19-21.

1991. “Public Trust in Organizations and Institutions: A Sociological Perspective,” Workshop on Establishing Institutional Credibility, National Academy of Sciences, Denver, October 24-25.

1990. “Internalizing the Regulatory Ethos: Consequences for Nuclear Power Plants” (with Todd La Porte), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 30-September 2.

INVITED TALKS AND OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2013.Chair. Panel on “Collaboration as a Change Instrument.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management International Conference. Shanghai, China, May 25-27.

2013. Roundtable. “Editors of Policy and Management Journals.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management International Conference. Shanghai, China, May 25-27.

2013.Invited talk. “Analysis of Organizations Engaged in Puget Sound Ecosystem Recovery.” Puget Sound

Partnership. Tacoma, Washington. April 3.

2012.Invited talk. “The Effect of Policy Tools on Collaborative Organizations.” University of Southern

California, April 24.

2012.Invited talk. “Learning from Others: Best Practices in Complex Resource Management,” Conference on Managing the Delta: The Governance Challenges of Adaptive Management, University of California, Berkeley, March 2.

2011.Invited talk. Forum on “Collaborative Environmental Governance,” University of Washington, Bothell, WA, October 26.

2011. Discussant. Panel on “Governance, Policy, Learning, and Change,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 1-4.

2011.Invited talk. “Political Bias in Performance Management Systems: A Multi-Agency Analysis of OMB’s Program Assessment Rating Tool.” Arizona State University. March 22.

2011.Invited talk. “Political Bias in Performance Management Systems: A Multi-Agency Analysis of OMB’s Program Assessment Rating Tool.” University of Arizona, March 21.

2011. Symposium. “Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change.” Biosphere 2, Arizona, March 18-19.

2010. Organizer and discussant. Doctoral Mini-Conference, Consortium on Collaborative Governance, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-10.

2009. Roundtable. “Speaking Truth to Power: Publishing in the Public Policy Literature.”Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference. Boston, MA, November 4-6.

2009. Chair. Panel on “The Challenges of Evidence-Based Environmental Management,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, October 5-7.

2009. Discussant. Panel on “Implementing Management Reform in State and Local Government,” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, October 5-7.

2009. Roundtable. “The Future of Public Management Research: New Research Questions and New Research Methods,” NASPAA Annual Conference, Washington, DC, October 15-17.

2009. Invited talk. “Can Public Agencies Adapt to Climate Change?” Conference on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Desert Southwest: Impacts and Opportunities, University of Arizona, January 22-23.

2009. Roundtable. Editors Forum Plenary. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference on Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective, Singapore, January 7-9.

2009. Discussant. Two panels on pension systems. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference on Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective, Singapore, January 7-9.

2008. Discussant. Panel on “Environmental Justice: Moving from Finding Evidence to Evaluating Policy.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-8.

2008. Invited talk. “Performance Management in King County and Bellevue, Washington,” Association of Government Accountants Annual Performance Management Conference, Seattle, WA, October 27-28.

2008. Chair. Panel on “Using Data Appropriately,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 28-31.

2008. Invited talk. “Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government?” Department of the Interior Executive Forum, February 27.

2007. Invited talk. “What Effect do Collaborative Decision-Making have a on the Environment?” Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, October 24.

2007. Invited talk. “Methodological Issues in Evaluating the Environmental Outcomes of Collaboration,” Symposium on Collaborative Governance in the West, Oregon State University, Corvallis, October 1.

2007. Discussant. Panel on “Causal Inference and External Validity in Qualitative Research,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2.

2007. Invited talk. Roundtable on “Should Surprise be Surprising? Institutional Frameworks and Managerial Strategies for Effective Adaptation to Surprise,” Symposium on New Challenges for Public Organizations,” University of California, Berkeley, April 12-14.

2007. Chair. Panel on “Citizenship and Support for Science-Based Environmental Policy.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 8-10.

2006. Chair. Panel on “Collaborative Decision Making for Protecting Environment and Health,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3.