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Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Political Science, 2012

• Major Field: Public Policy and Administration
• Minor Field: American Political Behavior

M.A., University of Kentucky, Political Science, 2007

B.A., Southeast Missouri State University, Political Science, cum laude, 2004

B.S., Southeast Missouri State University, Business Administration, cum laude, 2004

• Social Policy Adoption & Administration 
• Administrative Contracting & Cross-Sector Collaboration 
• Street-Level Implementation & Administrative Discretion 
• Program Evaluation & Performance 
• Policy Innovation & Diffusion 
• Public Policy Process 
• Race & Representative Bureaucracy 
• Urban Affairs & Metropolitics  
• Social Equity 
• Organizational Behavior 
• Immigration Policy 

Books:

• B. A. Kennedy, Adam M. Butz, Nazita Lajevardi; and Matthew J. Nanes. (2017).     Race and Representative Bureaucracy in American Policing. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer Reviewed Publications:

• An, B., M. K. Cha, J. L. Mitchell, and Adam M. Butz. (2022). Dynamic Policy Adoption in the Metropolis: Unpacking Geographic Variations in Local Climate Policy Diffusion. Revise and resubmit at Policy Sciences.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and J. E. Kehrberg. (2022). “”. Accepted for publication at Journal of Public Management & Social Policy.
   
• Negron, D. P., P. J. Vinzant, Adam M. Butz, and S. M. Zavattaro. (2022). “”. Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, Vol. 29 (1), 67-88.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and T. S. Gaynor. (2022). “Intersectionality and Social Welfare: Avoidance and Unequal Treatment among Transgender Women of Color”. Public Administration Review, Special Issue, Vol. 82 (3), 433-445.
   
• An, B., Adam M. Butz, and J. L. Mitchell. (2022). “A Contingent Diffusion Model of Local Climate Policy Adoption: Evidence from Southern California Cities”. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy & Planning, Vol. 120, January 2022.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and R.C. Fording. (2022). “The Color of Corrections: Racial Politics and Prison Privatization”. Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 56 (1), 180-194.
   
• Kehrberg, J. E., Adam M. Butz, and M. L. West. (2021). “From Exclusion to More Exclusion: Immigration and Social Welfare Access in the United States”. In E. Koning (Eds.), Exclusion of Immigrants from Welfare Programs. University of Toronto Press.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and D.C. Powell. (2020). “Privatization and Performance in Northern California’s Battle with the Opioid Epidemic”. Electronic Hallway: Public Policy and Management Case Study Database. University of Washington, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance.
   
• Mitchell, J. L. and Adam M. Butz. (2019). “Social Control Meets New Public Management: Examining the Diffusion of State Prison Privatization, 1978-2010”. Politics & Policy, Vol. 47(3), 506-544.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and J.E. Kehrberg. (2019). “Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy.” Policy Studies Journal. Special Issue, Vol 47(3), 605-623.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and J.W. Ostrowski. (2017). “Bicycling and Coast City”. Electronic Hallway: Public Policy and Management Case Study Database. University of Washington, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance.
   
• Butz, Adam M. (2016). “Theorizing About Poverty and Paternalism in Suburban America: The Case of Welfare Sanctions”.  Poverty & Public Policy, Vol. 8(2), 129-140.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and J.E. Kehrberg. (2016). "Estimating Anti-Immigrant Sentiment for the American States Using Multi-Level Modelling and Post-Stratification 2004-2008".  Research & Politics, Vol. 3(2), 1-7.
   
• Butz, Adam M. (2015). “Administrative Privatization and Employment Outcomes in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families”. Evaluation Review, Vol. 39(4), 363-394. 
   
• Butz, Adam M., M.P. Fix, and J.L. Mitchell. (2015). “Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand-Your-Ground Laws”. Politics & Policy, Vol. 43(3), 347-377.
   
• Butz, Adam M. and J. E. Kehrberg. (2015). “Social Distrust and Immigrant Access to Social Welfare Programs”. Politics & Policy, Vol. 43(2), 256-286.
   
• Butz, Adam M. (2014). “Privatization and the Poor: Exploring Patterns in Welfare Contracting”. Journal of Policy Practice, Vol. 13(3), 156-176.
   

Other Publications:

• Butz, Adam M., B.A. Kennedy, N. Lajevardi; and M. Nanes. (2018). “Race and Representative Bureaucracy in American Policing: New Data, New Opportunities”. Comparative Politics Newsletter, Vol. 28 no. 1, Spring 2018.
   
• Butz, Adam M. (2017). “Does Racial Representation Impact American Policing?”. Research at the Beach Newsletter, Spring 2017. California State University, Long Beach, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
   
• D. Steven Voss, Jason E. Kehrberg, and Adam M. Butz. (2013). “The Structure of Self-Interest: Applying Comparative Theory to American Immigration Attitudes” in Gary P. Freeman, Randall Hansen, and David L. Leal, eds. Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies. New York, NY: Routledge Publishing.
   
• Butz, Adam M. (2011). “Privatization and Employment in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families: A Multi-Level Analysis”. United States Department of Labor, ETA Publication Series, No. ETAOP 2011-08.

Extramural Awards:

• United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, [Contract Number: DOLJ061A20380]. “Administrative Privatization and Employment Outcomes in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families”, July 2009: $7,500

Other Awards:

• CHHS RSCA Small Faculty Grant: “Harnessing the Promise of Public-Private Partnerships: Examining Contracting Oversight Measures in the U.S. States”, Spring 2018: $2,250
• Quinlan Endowment Travel Grant, Marshall University, Spring 2013, 2014: $500
• Malcolm E. Jewell Award for Most Outstanding Political Science Graduate Student at the University of Kentucky, Spring 2006: $500