Publications

Kirley, R. A. E., & Varriale, C. (2025). Agency, interrupted: Does organizational restructuring improve managerial gender parity? Testing a disruption hypothesis. Public Administration Review.  86, no. 4: 930–950. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70065. 

Conference proceedings

Ripamonti, J. P., Nasi, G., Kirley, R. A. E., & Cucciniello, M. (2027). Incumbency advantage narrows after FOI adoption, but only in smaller U.S. cities. Proceedings of the 60th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Forthcoming. 

Manuscripts under review

Kirley, R. Ripamonti, J. P., Cucciniello, M. Citizen voice mediation: comparing ombuds’ strategies for systemic influence across policy ecosystems  [abstract] - Resubmitted

Kirley, R. Pragmatic responsiveness to citizen voice: Workforce diversity as a learning device  [abstract]  - Resubmitted

Kirley, R. Citizen voice as democratic data: public administration’s role in knowing the public in representative government  [preprint]

Selected works in progress (drafts available on request)

Mele, V., Kirley, R. & Ospina, S. Surfacing and Addressing Systemic Harm:Cross-Sector Accountability Arrangements in Public Services 

Kirley, R. Exit Leviathan, enter the octopus: Proprioceptive learning in structurally insulated organizations

Sancino, A., Kirley, R., Bryson, J., Crosby, B., George, B., Hansen, J. & Pop, M. Strategy and governance research need each other to deal with grand challenges

Research in progress

Finding her voice: women's peer-to-peer conversations about negative or ambiguous healthcare experiences (with E. Liu & G. Fattore) - Data collection

Policy and practice engagement

Kirley, R. (2026). Policy brief submitted to the Independent Review of UK Police Force Structures — 'Mergers and Senior Talent in Public Organisations: Evidence from the Italian NHS'. [link to PDF] 

Kirley, R. (2026). Written evidence submitted to the Ethics and Integrity Commission Public Sector Ombudsman Review. 

June 2026: Invited verbal evidence given to the Ethics and Integrity Commission Public Sector Ombudsman Review.