June 2012
CURRICULUM VITAE
NICHOLAS P. LOVRICH
PERSONAL BACKGROUND & CONTACT INFORMATION
Birthplace:San Pedro, California
Marital Status:Married, 1 Child (Nichole, age 27)
Home Address:220 N.W. Brandon Drive, Pullman, WA 99163
Telephone/e-mail:509/332-7673 (home) 509 432-4358 (cell)
509/335-4811 (office) [FAX 509 335-2362]
E-Mail: ;
EDUCATION: Degrees and Institutions
B.A. cum laude, International Relations, Stanford University, 1966
M.A., Political Science,University of California, Los Angeles, 1967
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Co-Director, Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach [CEREO] [2011-2012]
Director of Development,Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service[2011-2012]
Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science [2010-2011]
Interim Chancellor, Washington State University Spokane [7/1/2004-1/15/2005]
Faculty Representative to State Legislature, WSU Faculty Senate[2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010]
[Entailed residence in state capitol (Olympia) and service on the Council of Faculty Representatives for period of the legislative session along with counterparts from the five other public universities]
PRESENT POSITIONS(retired to emeritus status June 15, 2011): Title, Rank and Honor
RegentsProfessor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice Program, WSU-Pullman [Promoted to Regents Professor in 2010; promoted to Professor in 1985; tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 1980]
Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science (original appointment in 1998)
Senior Research Affiliate, Division of Governmental Studies & Services, WSU
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Director, Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) at WSU [1977-2010]
Unit jointly supported by the College of Liberal Arts and WSU Extension. Unit provides applied research services to agencies of federal, state and local government, manages grant and research contract activities, promotes and assists faculty and graduate student research, and prepares research reports. [Annual grant & contract activity ranged from $250,000 to $1,000,000.]
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, DePauw University (Indiana), 1974-1977
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1974
Research Associate, Denver Urban Observatory,City of Denver, 1972-1974
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Metropolitan State College (Denver), 1971-1973
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AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Public Administration—Public Administration Theory & Practice; Evaluation Research; Criminal Justice Policy and Administration; Environmental Policy and Administration
American Government—State and Local Government; Public Policy Analysis
LANGUAGE AND RESEARCH SKILLS
Spanish—basic reading and some speaking ability
Italian—basic reading and some speaking ability [Year of study, Stanford-in-Florence, 1965]
Croatian—conversant in Dalmatian Dialect; basic reading and speaking
Considerable experience with survey research (mail, telephone, on-line, focus group and personal interview) and related quantitative methods. Extensive experience with mixed-methods designs and utilization-focused (collaborative) evaluation studies for government agencies.
Visiting Scholar in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan—Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (Summer 1975).
Ph.D. DISSERTATION [U.C.L.A. 1971; Robert C. Fried, Chair]
Political Culture and Civic Involvement: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Ethnic Communities in San Pedro, California
[Revised and published as monograph Yugoslavs and Italians in San Pedro: Political Culture and Civic Involvement (Palo Alto: Ragusan Press, 1977)]
AWARDS
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Mentor of the Year Award for 2010 presented at the ACJS annual conference in Toronto.
American Political Science Association, Section on Public Policy Outstanding Mentoring Award for 2008 presented at the APSA annual conference in Boston.
WSU College of Liberal Arts, 2006Dean's Award for Exceptional Service to the College.
Western Extension Directors’ Award of Excellence for WRICOPS – the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (2005).
WSU Program in Criminal Justice,2004Faculty Appreciation Award.
WSUCollege of Liberal Arts,2004Distinguished Faculty Award.
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education(WICHE),Faculty Mentor of the Year Award for 2000. Award made to faculty working with minority graduate students.
State of Washington,1998 Governor’s Award for Service and Quality Improvement as member of a multi-agency and union team assembled by the Washington State Department of Personnel to recommend updates to an employee-development oriented performance appraisal system.
Department of Political Science (WSU), AnnualGraduate Students' Faculty Appreciation Award for Mentoring and Advising bestowed by departmental graduate students: 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-2003, and 2009-2010.
Washington State University,President's Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service, 1990-91. (Annual awards granted by a campus-wide faculty committee for teaching, research service.)
AWARDS (continued)
Department of Political Science (WSU), Annual Graduate Students' Faculty Appreciation Award bestowed upon one faculty member by graduate students [1988-89, 1993-94, 1996-97].
Academic Senate, U.C.L.A., Dissertation research grant by the Research Committee, 1969.
Department of Political Science at U.C.L.A., Competitive Teaching Assistantships for the years 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.
Stanford University, William W. Carson Scholarship for "students of marked scholastic ability who are wanting the means of getting their education,"1962-66.
WSU Ph.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED, YEAR, FIELD & PLACEMENTS:
1980-1989
Dennis Daley, North CarolinaStateUniversity (1980) [Public Administration]
David Hood, MontanaStateUniversity—Billings (1984) [Political Science]
Antonio Sisneros, University of Illinois—Springfield (1984) [Public Administration]
Dennis Soden, University of Texas—El Paso (1985) [Public Administration]
ChunohPark,MyongJieUniversity (Seoul, Korea) (1986) [Public Administration]
Stephanie Witt, BoiseStateUniversity (1989) [Political Science]
1990-1999
Mary Stohr, Missouri State University (1990) [Criminal Justice]
Craig Curtis, BradleyUniversity (1995) [Political Science]
Sue Butkus, WashingtonStateUniversity [WSU Extension] (1995) [Interdisciplinary]
Rosanne London, Eastern Washington University (1995)[Political Science/Public Administration]
Elizabeth Fredericksen, BoiseStateUniversity(1995)[Political Science/Public Administration]
Michael Reisig, Arizona State University (1996) [Criminal Justice]
Christopher Simon, University of Utah (1997) [Political Science/Public Administration]
Mark Correia, San Jose’ State University (1998) [Criminal Justice]
Nancy Rodriguez,ArizonaStateUniversity(1998) [Criminal Justice]
Arthur McCurdy, State of Oregon (1998) [Political Science/Public Administration]
Catherine Grott, MontanaStateUniversity, Billings (1999) [Public Administration]
William Schreckhise, University of Arkansas (1999) [Political Science]
2000-
Maria Chavez Pringle, PacificLutheranUniversity (2002) [Political Science]
Ricky Gutierrez, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Sacramento (2002) [Criminal Justice]
Stephen Ziegler, Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne (2003) [Public Policy]
Steven Ellwanger, Eastern TennesseeStateUniversity (2005) [Criminal Justice]
Ryan Patten, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico (2006) [Criminal Justice]
Hasan Buker, Turkish National Police[Research Division](2007) [Political Science]
Robert Lincoln, Director, SpokanePublicSafetyCommunicationCenter (2008)[Criminal Justice]
Charles Johnson, University of MainePresque Isle(2008) [Criminal Justice]
Danielle Lively, University of Nebraska at Kearney (2009) [Criminal Justice]
Yu-sheng (Linus) Lin, National Taipei University (2009) [Criminal Justice]
Jason Lee, University of Wyoming (2009) [Criminal Justice]
Pete Collins, Seattle University(2011) [Criminal Justice]
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Clayton, Cornell and Nicholas Lovrich (eds.), Governing Washington: Politics and Government in the Evergreen State. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2011)
Simon, Christopher, Brent Steel, and Nicholas Lovrich, State and Local Government and Politics: Prospects for Sustainability. (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Clayton, Cornell, Lance LeLoup and Nicholas Lovrich, (eds.), Washington State Government and Politics. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2004)
Steel, Brent, Richard Clinton and Nicholas Lovrich.Environmental Politics and Policy: A Comparative Approach. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003)
Patton, W. David, Stephanie Witt, Nicholas Lovrich and Patricia (Elizabeth) Fredericksen, Human Resource Management: The Public Service Perspective. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002)
Pierce, John, Nicholas Lovrich, Brent Steel, Mary Ann Steger and John Tennert, A Border Apart? Political Culture and Public Policy in Canada and the United States. (Lewiston, NY and London: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)
Dalton, Russell J., Paula Garb, Nicholas Lovrich, John Pierce and John Whitely, Critical Masses: Citizen Responses to the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Production in the United States and Russia. (Boston: MIT Press, 1999)
Pierce, John, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent Steel and Nicholas Lovrich, Citizens, Political Communication and Interest Groups: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Canada & the US. (New York: Praeger, 1992)
Pierce, John, Nicholas Lovrich, TaketsuguTsurutani and Takematsu Abe, Public Knowledge and Environmental Politics in Japan and the United States. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989)
Pierce, John and Nicholas Lovrich, Water Resources, Democracy and the Technical Information Quandary. (New York: Associated Faculty Press, 1986)
Lovrich, Nicholas and Max Neiman, Public Choice Theory in Public Administration: An Annotated Bibliography.[Garland Reference Book Series in Public Administration] (New York: Garland Press, 1984)
PUBLICATIONS – Journal Articles (from most recent)
Saavedra, Casilda, William W. Budd and Nicholas P. Lovrich, “Assessing Resilience to Climate Change in U.S. Cities,” Urban Studies Research[Vol. 2012, Article ID 458172, 2012](10 pages)
Pierce, John C., William Budd and Nicholas Lovrich, “Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. Urban Areas: An Empirical Analysis of 40 Cities,” Environmental Politics[Vol. 20, No. 4, 2011](566-584)
Simon, Christopher and Nicholas Lovrich, “Support for Military Expenditures: A Pooled Time Series Analysis of Public Opinion Prior to and Following September 11, 2001,” Armed Services and Society[Vol. 36, No. 3, 2010](454-480)
Thomas, Kyle J., Peter A. Collins and Nicholas P. Lovrich, “Conducted Energy Device Use in Municipal Policing: Results of a National Survey on Policy and Effectiveness Assessments,” Police Quarterly[Vol. 13, No. 3, 2010]
Zhao, Jihong, Ling Ren and Nicholas Lovrich, “Police Organizational Structures During the 1990s: An Application of Contingency Theory,” Police Quarterly[Vol. 13, No. 2, 2010]
PUBLICATIONS – Journal Articles (continued)
Simon, Christopher and Nicholas Lovrich, “Sources of Support for Mandatory Military Service in the Context of the War on Terrorism: Survey Evidence Pre- and Post-September 11th , 2001,” Social Science Quarterly[Vol. 90, No. 2, 2009]
Mosher, Clayton, Travis Pratt, Mitch Pickerill, Nicholas Lovrich and Michael Gaffney, “The Importance of Context in Understanding Biased Policing: State Patrol Traffic Citations in Washington State,” Police Practice and Research: An International Journal [Vol. 9, No. 1, 2008]
Zhao, Jihong, Ling Ren and Nicholas Lovrich, “Political Culture vs. Socioeconomic Approaches to Predicting Police Strength in U.S. Police Agencies: Results of a Longitudinal Study, 1993-2003,” Crime and Delinquency[June 20, 2008]
Budd, William, Nicholas Lovrich, John Pierce and Barbara Chamberlain, “Cultural Sources of Variation in U.S. Urban Sustainability Attributes,” Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning[Vol. 25, 2008]
Daley, Dennis and Nicholas Lovrich, “Assessing the Performance of Supervisors: Lessons for Practice and Insight into Middle Management Resistance to Change,” Public Administration Quarterly [Vol. 31, No. 3, 2007]
Weber, Edward P., Nicholas P. Lovrich and Michael J. Gaffney, “Assessing Collaborative Capacity in a Multidimensional World,” Administration and Society[Vol. 39, No. 2, 2007]
Zhao, Jihong, Ni He and Nicholas Lovrich, “The Effect of Local Political Culture on Policing Behaviors in the 1990s: A Test of Wilson’s Theory in More Contemporary Times,” Journal of Criminal Justice [Vol. 34, No. 6, 2006]
Pratt, Travis, Michael Gaffney, Nicholas Lovrich and Charles Johnson, “This Isn’t ‘CSI’: Estimating the National Backlog of Forensic DNA Cases and the Barriers Associated with Case Processing,” Criminal Justice Policy Review [Vol. 17, No. 1, 2006]
Ren, Ling, Jihong Zhao, Nicholas Lovrich and Michael Gaffney, “Participating in Community Crime Prevention: Who Volunteers for Police Work,” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management[Vol. 29, No. 1, 2006]
Zhao, Jihong, Ni He and Nicholas Lovrich, “Pursuing Gender Diversity in Police Organizations in the 1990s: A Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Associated with the Hiring of Female Officers,” Police Quarterly [Vol. 9, No. 4, 2006]
Weber, Edward P., Nicholas Lovrich and Michael Gaffney, “Collaboration, Enforcement, and Endangered Species: A Framework for Assessing Collaborative Problem Solving Capacity,” Society and Natural Resources [Vol. 18, No. 8, 2005]
He, Ni, Jihong Zhao and Nicholas Lovrich, “Community Policing: A Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impact with Panel Data on Program Implementation in U.S. Cities,” Crime and Delinquency [Vol. 51, No. 7, 2005]
Zhao, Jihong, Ni He and Nicholas Lovrich, “Predicting the Employment of Minority Officers in U.S. Cities: OLS Fixed-Effect Panel Model Results for African American and Latino Officers for 1993, 1996 and 2000,” Journal of Criminal Justice [Vol. 33, No. 4, 2005]
He, Ni, Jihong Zhao and Nicholas Lovrich, “The Relationship between Environment and Police Innovations: A Panel Data Analysis,” Crime and Delinquency[Vol. 51, No. 3, 2005]
Lamb, Berton Lee and Nicholas Lovrich, “Agency Bargaining Behavior in Multi-party Environmental Negotiations: A Symposium,” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior [Vol. 8, No. 3, Part II, 2005]
PUBLICATIONS – Journal Articles (continued)
Lovrich, Nicholas, Michael Gaffney, Edward Weber, R. Michael Bireley, Dayna Matthews and Bruce Bjork, “Inter-agency Collaborative Approaches to Endangered Species Act Compliance and Salmon Recovery in the Pacific Northwest,” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior[Vol. 8, No. 2, 2005].Re-published as chapter in: Khi V. Thai, Dianne Rahm and Jerrell D. Coggburn (eds.), The Handbook of Globalization and the Environment (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006)
Steel, Brent, Nicholas Lovrich, Denise Lach and ValentinaFomenko, “Correlates and Consequences of Public Knowledge Concerning Ocean Fisheries Management,” Coastal Management [Vol. 33, No. 1, 2005]
Ren, Ling, Liqun Cao, Nicholas Lovrich and Michael Gaffney, "Linking Confidence in the Police with the Performance of the Police: Community Policing can Make a Difference," Journal of Criminal Justice[Vol. 33, No. 1, 2005]
Nicholas Lovrich and Meredith Newman, “The Hearing of Local Government Interests in State Legislatures: The Effects of Prior Service in City or County Government,” State and Local Government Review[Vol. 36, No. 1, 2004]
Pierce, John and Nicholas Lovrich, “Internet Technology Transfer and Social Capital: Aggregate and Individual Relationships in American Cities,” Comparative Technology Transfer and Society [Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003]
Zhao, Jihong, Ni He and Nicholas Lovrich, “Community Policing: Did It Change the Basic Functions of Policing in the 1990s? A National Follow-up Study,” Justice Quarterly[Vol. 20, No. 4, 2003]
Ziegler, Stephen J. and Nicholas P. Lovrich, “Pain Relief, Prescription Drugs and Prosecution: A Four-State Survey of Chief Prosecutors,” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics [Vol. 31, No. 1, 2003]
Gibson, Chris, Jihong Zhao, Nicholas Lovrich, Michael Gaffney, “Social Integration, Individual Perceptions of Collective Efficacy, and Fear of Crime: An Empirical Assessment Across Three Cities,” Justice Quarterly [Vol.19, No. 3, 2002]
Gibson, Chris, Jihong Zhao and Nicholas Lovrich, “Sociological Measurement Confusion, Paradigmatic Imperfection, and Etiological Nirvana: Striking a Pragmatic Balance in the Pursuit of Science,” Justice Quarterly [Vol. 19, No. 4, 2002]
Zhao, Jihong, Chris Gibson, Nicholas Lovrich and Michael Gaffney, “Participation in Community Crime Prevention: Are Volunteers More or Less Fearful of Crime Than Other Citizens?” Journal of Crime and Justice[Vol. 25, No. 1, 2002]
McCurdy, Arthur, Meredith Newman and Nicholas Lovrich, “Family-Friendly Workplace Policy Adoption in General and Special Purpose Local Governments: Learning from the Washington State Experience,” Review of Public Personnel Administration[Vol. 22, No. 1, 2002]
Hendryx, Michael, Melissa Ahern, Nicholas Lovrich and Arthur McCurdy, “Access to Health Care and Community Social Capital,” Health Services Research [Vol. 37, No. 1, 2002]
He, Ni, Jihong Zhao and Nicholas Lovrich, “Police and the Policed: A Comparison of Value Orientations and Ideological Perspectives,” Police Practice and Research: An International Journal [Vol. 3, No. 3, 2002]
Brody, David, Christianne De Marco, and Nicholas Lovrich, “Community Policing and Job Satisfaction: Suggestive Evidence of Positive Workforce Effects from a Multijurisdictional Comparison in Washington State,” Police Quarterly [Vol. 5, No. 2, 2002]
PUBLICATIONS – Journal Articles (continued)
Zhao, Jihong, Ni He and Nicholas Lovrich, “Predicting Five Dimensions of Police Officer Stress: Looking More Deeply into Organizational Settings for Sources of Police Stress,” Police Quarterly [Vol. 5, No. 1, 2002]
Brody, David and Nicholas Lovrich, “Social Capital and Protecting the Rights of the Accused in the American States: An Investigation of the Dark Side of Social Capital,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (symposium issue on social capital) [Vol. 18, No. 2, 2002]
Pierce, John, Nicholas Lovrich and C. David Moon. “Social Capital and Government Performance: An Analysis of Twenty American Cities,” Public Productivity and Management Review[Vol. 25, No. 4, 2002]
Moon, C. David, John C. Pierce and Nicholas Lovrich, “Political Culture in the Urban West–Is It Really Different? A Research Note,” State and Local Government Review [Vol. 33, No. 3, 2001]
Zhao, Jihong, Nicholas Lovrich and H. Robinson, “Community Policing: Is it Changing the Basic Functions of Policing? Findings from a Longitudinal Survey of 200+ Municipal Police Departments,” Journal of Criminal Justice [Vol. 29, No. 5, 2001]
[Reprinted in Chris W. Eskridge (ed.), Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues – An Anthology, 4th Ed. (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2004)]
Zhao, Jihong, Leigh Herbst and Nicholas Lovrich, “Environmental and Institutional Effects Present in the Employment of Women Police Officers: Separating the Predictors of Minority and Non-minority Female Officer Hiring,’ Journal of Urban Affairs [Vol. 23, 2001]
Pierce, John, Nicholas Lovrich and C. David Moon, “Political Culture in Canada and the US: Comparing Social Trust, Self Esteem and Political Liberalism in Major Canadian and American Cities,” Social Science Quarterly [Vol. 81, No. 3, 2000]
Weber, Edward, David Nice and Nicholas Lovrich, “Understanding Urban Commuters: How are Non-SOV Commuters Different from SOV Commuters?” Transportation Quarterly[Vol. 54, No. 2, 2000]
Lutze, Faith E., R.P.P. Smith and Nicholas P. Lovrich, “Premises for Attaining More Effective Offender Accountability Through Community Development,” Corrections Management Quarterly[Vol. 4, No. 4, 2000]
Mikkelsen, Aslaug, TorvaldOgaard and Nicholas P. Lovrich, “Modeling the Effects of Organizational Setting & Individual Coping Style on Employee Subjective Health, Job Satisfaction and Commitment,” Public Administration Quarterly [Vol. 24, No. 3, 2000]
Steel, Brent S. and Nicholas Lovrich, “Growth Management Policy and County Government: Correlates of Policy Adoption Across the United States,” State and Local Government Review [Vol. 32, No. 1, 2000]
Pierce, John, Nicholas Lovrich and Russell Dalton, “Contextual Influences on Environmental Knowledge: Public Familiarity with Technical Terms in Nuclear Weapons Production in Russia and the United States,” Environment and Behavior[Vol. 32, No. 2, 2000]