Papers and Projects

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Wolff, Johnathan Noah.  “Is It Going Above and Beyond or Breaking the Rules? How Clients’ Identities, Perceived Deservingness, and Outcomes Affect Citizens’ Judgements of Bureaucrats’ Rule Decision"

    • Forthcoming at Public Administration

Working Papers

  • Wolff, Johnathan Noah, Deven E. Carlson, and Adam Tyner. “Abstract vs. Applied: How Policy Type Moderates the Relationship between Issue and Social Polarization” 
    • Preparing for submission to Policy Studies Journal

  • Wolff, Johnathan Noah. “Whose Fault? How Citizens Assign Blame When Clients Experience Negative Outcomes” 
    • Under review at Administration & Society
    • Presented at Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), June 2024.

  • Carlson, Deven E. and Johnathan Noah Wolff. “Choice Designs: Variation in Voluntary Interdistrict Open Enrollment Policies”
    • Submitted to Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard

  • Carlson, Deven E., Johnathan Noah Wolff, and Sam Stormer. “Identifying Patterns in School Districts’ Participation in Voluntary Interdistrict Open Enrollment Programs”
    • Data analysis complete 

  • Carlson, Deven E., and Johnathan Noah Wolff. “Where Policy Ends and School Begins: The Case of Oklahoma School Districts’ Compliance with State Interdistrict Open Enrollment Policy” 
    • Data collection complete, analyzing data

Research Projects in Development

  • Wolff, Johnathan Noah. "Heavier Burdens? Exploring Heterogeneity in Administrative Burden’s Effects on Neurodivergent Citizens.” 
    • Proposal accepted for the Midwest Political Science Association annual conference, April 2024.

  • Wolff, Johnathan Noah. “Contextual Compliance: How Bureaucratic Rule Abidance Depends on Client Characteristics” 
    • Research design phase