Dr. Nicholas Lovrich
Room 403K, Academic Center
Phone: 509.358.7652
Fax: 509.358.7933
E-mail: faclovri@wsu.edu
Profile
Nicholas P. Lovrich Jr. has been the Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science since 1998 and has served as the director of the Division of Governmental Studies and Services at Washington State University for the past 29 years.
The division provides applied research services to agencies of federal, state, and local government; promotes faculty and graduate student research; and publishes reports and produces manuscripts for publication in professional journals in political science and criminal justice.
Dr. Lovrich holds a BA, cum laude, in International Relations from Stanford University, and the MA and PhD degrees in Political Science (comparative politics, political psychology, and public administration subfields) from UCLA.
He has chaired the PhD dissertation committees of 23 students who have gone on to academic careers at such institutions as Florida State University, Arizona State University, North Carolina State University, Montana State University, Boise State University, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Nevada, Bradley University, University of Illinois, and the University of Arkansas.
Areas of Research Interest
Public Administration
Public Policy Analysis
Public Personnel Administration
Natural Resource and Environmental Administration
Media and Politics
State and Local Government
Selected Publications
His research on administration, politics, and public policy has been published in a number of journals, including:
- Justice Quarterly
- Criminal Justice Policy Review
- Crime and Delinquency
- Journal of Criminal Justice
- Police Practice and Research: an International Journal
- Police Quarterly
- Journal of Politics
- Comparative Political Studies
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Social Science Quarterly
- Political Behavior
- Political Communication
- Western Political Quarterly
- Publius
- State and Local Government Review
- Judicature
- Justice System Journal
- Policy Studies Review
- Policy Studies Journal
- Public Administrative Review
- American Journal of Public Administration
- Public Administration Quarterly
- Public Productivity and Management Review
- Social Science Journal
- Urban Affairs Quarterly
- Journal of Urban Affairs.
He served as editor-in-chief of the Review of Public Personnel Administration for the period 1990–2000 and has served on the editorial board of the Social Science Quarterly since 1983.
Research Spotlight
Projects Dr. Lovrich has been and is currently working on with his colleagues in Spokane include:
- Project Safe Neighborhoods with the US Attorney for Eastern Washington
- Racial Profiling Study for the Washington State Patrol
- Drug Task Force Study for CTED
- HITS Program Evaluation for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office
- Judicial Performance Evaluation for the Washington State Bar Association
- Evaluation of the Office of Professional Accountability of Seattle Police Department
- WRICOPS studies related to Community Oriented Policing