Roy L Heidelberg
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Public Administration
Contact
royh@lsu.edu
225-578-1397
3039 Business Education Complex East
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
Education
PhD, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, 2013
Heidelberg, R. (2024). What’s old is new: AI and bureaucracy. In R. Paul, E. Carmel, & J. Cobbe (Eds), Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (pp.53-65). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922171.00010
Heidelberg, R. L. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise. Administration & Society, 56(1), 73–95. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997231204968
Heidelberg, R. (2021). “The Impersonal Sovereign.” Administration and Society, 53(5), 787-810. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720978367
Heidelberg, R. and Surak, S. (2020). “The Administrative Making of the Recycler.” Policy Studies 41(4), 331-349 https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2020.1724925
Heidelberg, R. (2020). “The Becoming of the Policy Maker” Administration and Society 52(8), 1239-1267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399719890301
Eckerd, A and Heidelberg, R. (2020). “Administering Participation” American Review of Public Administration 50(2), 133-147 (online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074019871368 )
Heidelberg, R. (2019). “Ten Theses on Accountability.” Administrative Theory & Praxis 42(1) 6-26. (online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2018.1512340 )
Heidelberg, R. (2019). “The Democracy Problem.” Administration and Society, 51(5) 692-723. (First published online 2017 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095399717709858
Heidelberg, R. (2018). “Getting it Right: Public Administration Undergoing Epistemology.” Administrative Theory & Praxis, 40(1), 23-42.
Heidelberg, R. (2017). “Public Administration and the Logic of Resolution.” Critical Policy Studies 11(3). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19460171.2016.1147364
Heidelberg, R. (2017). “Political Accountability and Spaces of Contestation.” Administration and Society. 49(10), 1379-1402. (First published April 14, 2015 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095399715581033 )
Heidelberg, R. (2016). “The Power of Knowing the Rules.” The American Review of Public Administration. 46(6), 734-750 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0275074015575353
Teaching Interests: public administration theory and history, public policy, political theory, bureaucracy
Research Interests: accountability, administrative state, public participation, statecraft, and democracy
Member, BREC Foundation (2017-present)
Executive Committee– President-elect (2022-present)
Executive Committee–Commission Liaison (2020-21)
BREC Foundation Special Projects Committee—Committee Member (2017-2018)
Member, Budget Prioritization and Needs Advisory Committee (report to Provost), Louisiana State University (2022-present)
Member, Academic Policy Advisory Committee (report to Provost), Louisiana State University (2021-present)
Member, LSU University Faculty Benefits Committee, Louisiana State University (2021-present)
Member, LSU Faculty Senate, Louisiana State University (2021-present)
Executive Committee–Commission Liaison, BREC Foundation, (2020-21)
Faculty Advisor, Public Administration Institute Student Association (PAISA), Louisiana State University, (2016-2021)
Board Member, Palacios House of Arts, (2020-present)
Conference Chair, PA Theory 2020 at Malmö, the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Public Administration Theory Network, (2020)
Board Member, Public Administration Theory Network (2016-2020)
Chair (2020)
Vice Chair (2020)
Treasurer (2017, 2018, 2019)
Secretary-Treasurer (2016)
Editorial Board, Administrative Theory & Praxis, (2018-2020)
Chair, Site Selection Committee for PA Theory 2019 and PA Theory 2020, (2017)
Judge, NASPAA Student Simulation Competition (Seattle Site), (2017)
Committee Member, Editor Selection Committee for Administrative Theory & Praxis, (2017)
Judge, NASPAA Student Simulation Competition (USC Site), (2016)
Judge, NASPAA Simulation Competition (Dallas Site), (2015)
Organizing Committee Member, Beyond Bricks, (2015)
Program Committee Member, 2014 Public Administration Theory Network Conference, (2014)
Founding President, Glenn Colloquium Series, (2009-2011)
Outstanding Untenured Professor Teaching Award, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2015
Research Excellence Award, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2015
University Dissertation Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2012
Distinguished University Fellow, The Ohio State University, 2010-2012
Heidelberg, Roy (co-investigator). Analysis and Projection of Medicaid Enrollees.
Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
Amount: $127,758
(2018-2020)
Heidelberg, Roy (Principal Investigator). LHC Community Needs Assessment Guide.
Sponsor: Louisiana Housing Corporation
Amount: $749,839
(2017-2020)
Heidelberg, Roy (Principal Investigator). Data Analysis for East Baton Rouge Housing Plan.
Sponsor: HousingNOLA
Amount: $38,362
(2018)
Heidelberg, Roy (co-investigator). Evaluating Impact of Medicaid Expansion on the State Budget.
Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Amount: $121,999
(2017-2018)
Heidelberg, Roy (co-investigator). Service Learning Project for Act 3.
Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Education
Amount: $60,254
(2015-2016)
Heidelberg, Roy (Principal Investigator). Housing Needs Assessment and the Future of Housing in Louisiana.
Sponsor: Louisiana Housing Corporation
Amount: $500,000
(2013-2015)
Heidelberg, R. (2014). Review of Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives by Ruth Grant, Public Administration, 92(1)
Heidelberg, R. (2012). “Exploring Assumptions through Possible Worlds.” In Simulation for Policy Inquiry, ed. Anand Desai
Richardson, J.A., & Heidelberg, R. (2012). “Using Simulation as a Scenario Builder for Decision Making: A Case Study of the Nurse Family Partnership Program in Louisiana.” In Simulation for Policy Inquiry, ed. Anand Desai
Heidelberg, R. (2011). Review of Qualitative Research Methods for Public Administration by Larry S. Luton, Journal of Public Affairs Education, 17(2)
“AI in Mass Communication”, 2024 John Breaux Symposium, Manship School of Mass Communication, LSU, April 16, 2024
“Finding Solace in the Impersonal” Transatlantic Dialogue Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, June 2022 (paper accepted, unable to attend due to illness)
“Fitting the public into administration” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2022
“Questioning the good of accountability”. Invited paper to the Leviathan Project on Accountability in the European Monetary Union, September 2021
“‘Machinery hurtful to the commonality’: a consideration of the public and the commons” 2021 Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, online, June 30-July 2, 2021
“The Impersonal Sovereign and the Political Problem of our Time” 2019 Public Administration Theory Network Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 2019
“Propaganda and Progress: Bringing Roads to America” 2019 American Society for Public Administration, Washington, D.C., March 2019
“The Impersonal Sovereign” 2019 Southern Political Science Association, Austin, TX, January 2019
“Waste, Ownership and the Environment” 2018 European Consortium of Political Research, Hamburg, Germany, August 2018