Dissertation: “Assessing responsibility in professional street-level bureaucrats.”

Bio: John Petter graduated in 2002, one of the first four DPA graduates at UIS. He is retired from the State of Illinois nearly 20 years of that time as an administrator in the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Human Services. His research interests have been in public service motivation and organizational dynamics, as well as in understanding and applying research findings in administrative settings in the public sector.

Dissertation: "Home rule and local government autonomy: The determinants of fiscal health of Illinois municipalities"

Dissertation: "The impact of state capital budget and management programs on state capital budget decisions and economic performance"

Dissertation: Organization and democracy: Mary Parker Follett and the science of administration.

Dissertation: "Gender and governors’ policy agendas"