New (to me) LaTeX package

Since moving to LaTeX, I have had many moments of "ohhh, that's how they made X look so nice."  The most recent is "pstricks."  This package lets you develop professional looking figures relatively easily. 

I am still working on getting the output to work in PDF rather than PS - but otherwise I am quite happy with it.  I think it looks much nicer than the standard STATA figure.

Here is an example image of a figure.  It only takes about 7 lines of code.

Revised Version of "Partner Choice in Emergency Management Collaboration"

Here is the revised version of the partner choice paper.  I have cleaned it up for submission but welcome any comments.

Midwest PS Association Paper - Evolution of Emergency Management Networks

This is my first actual social network analysis piece - and boy does it show.  This manuscript is not where I want it to be - especially in the development of testable propositions and the validity of the data.  However, I welcome any comments.

The paper is after the jump.

Practitioner-oriented Network Analysis Piece

I was asked to turn a presentation I gave at the Texas ASPA annual meeting into a short, practitioner oriented article for The Public Manager.  My graduate assistant and I put this together as a result.

The original submission draft is after the jump.

Nonprofit Collaboration Paper

Here is the promised paper on the resilience of collaborative partnerships between schools and nonprofits following Hurricane Katrina.  It is a project I have been working on with Angela Bies - also of the Bush School.  Now I am back to revise the Partner Choice paper for submission to Public Administration - the European journal.

From there it is on to my first papers with actual network level data - an informal, practitioner oriented piece solicited for The Public Manager and an academic piece for the Midwest/Political Network conferences.