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PUBLICATIONS

  • David J. Houston. 2011. The Implications of Occupational Locus and Focus for Public Service Motivation: Attitudes toward Work Motives across Nations. Public Administration Review 71(5):763-773.
  • David J. Houston. 2009. Motivating Knights or Knaves? Moving beyond Performance-Related Pay for the Public Sector. Invited e-commentary for the Public Administration Review's "Theory to Practice" on-line, 69(1):43-57,http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/custom/staticcontent/t2pdownloads/HoustonCommentary.pdf.
  • David J. Houston. 2008. Behavior in the Public Square. In James L. Perry and Annie Hondeghem (eds.), Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service, Oxford University Press. Pp. 177-199.
  • David J. Houston. 2006. 'Walking the Walk' of Public Service Motivation: Public Employees and Charitable Gifts of Time, Blood, and Money. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 16(1): 67-86.
  • David J. Houston. 2000. Public Service Motivation: A Multivariate Test. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10(4): 713-727.

PAPERS

  • Public Service Motivation and Sector Preference for Employment: A Cross-National Examination. Prepared for presentation at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Prague, Czech Republic, April 10-12, 2013.
  • Public Service Motivation across Continents: Occupational Locus or Occupational Focus. Presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Rome, Italy, April 11-13, 2012.
  • Public Service Motivation and Preference for Government Employment in Post-Communist Europe. Presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Dublin, Ireland, April 11-13, 2011.
  • Public Service Motivation and Preference for Government Employment Across Nations. Presented at the American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 11-15, 2011.