Sabina Schnell

• 2024 Spring
  • PAI 762 Challenges of International Management and Leadership
  • PAI 730 Problems in Public Administration - Public Admin, Gov & Dev
• 2023 Fall
  • PAI 762 Challenges of International Management and Leadership
  • PAI 756 International Development Policy and Administration
• 2023 Spring
  • PAI 762 Challenges of International Management and Leadership
• 2022 Fall
  • PAI 762 Challenges of International Management and Leadership
  • PAI 756 International Development Policy and Administration
• 2022 Summer
  • PAI 670 Experience Credit
• 2022 Spring
  • PAI 762 Challenges of International Management and Leadership

Sabina Schnell is assistant professor of public administration and international affairs and faculty research associate at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). She holds a Ph.D. in public administration from the George Washington University, an M.A. in development policy from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a B.A. in international business from the Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.

At Maxwell she has taught courses on International Development, Good Governance, International Management, and Research Design for IR Practitioners. Her research focuses on transparency, open-government, anti-corruption and good governance in developing countries. She has published articles in Governance, the American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration and Development and the International Review of Administrative Sciences.

Schnell also has extensive experience as a development practitioner, having worked on policy advisory and public sector reform projects with international organizations such as the German Agency for International Cooperation and the World Bank. 

• Journal Articles
  • Schnell, S., Kim, J., Munno, G. and Nabatachi, T., "How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values." Public Administration Review, 2023.
  • Schnell, S., "To Know Is to Act? Revisiting the Impact of Government Transparency on Corruption." Public Administration and Development, 2023.
  • Schnell, S., "Transparency in a post-fact world." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 2022.
  • Schnell, S., Gerard, C., "From bureaucrats to entrepreneurs to networkers: Reappraising human resources management ideals and practices in the public administration." Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA), 2022.
  • Schnell, S., "Vision, voice, and technology: Is there a global “open government” trend?." Administration & Society, 2020.
  • Beagles, J., Schnell, S. and Gerard, C., "Overcoming Parochialism in American Public Administration." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 2019.
  • Schnell, S., Jo, S., "Which countries have more open governments? Assessing structural determinants of openness." The American Review of Public Administration, 2019.
• Book Chapter
  • Schnell, S., Brinkerhoff, D., "Replicability and scaling up." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Anheier, H., Toepler, S. (eds.) Springer, 2010.
• Professional Publication
  • Schnell, S., Mihes, D., Sobjak, A. and van Acker, W., "Performance management in the public administration – Seven success factors." In Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Insight. The World Bank., 2021.
• Workshop Proceeding
  • Tertsunen, M., Schnell, S. and Henseler, J., Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and Agricultural Policy in PRSP countries. GTZ, Eschborn, WB, Washington DC, and IFAD, Rome, 2005.

Schnell, S., Nabatchi, T., Liu, Y., Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), Utrecht, Netherlands. , PMRA/Utrecht University, "Liberty or Science? Individual values and willingness to comply with Covid vaccine guidance in the US. " (June 29, 2023)

American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) Annual Conference, Section for International and Comparative Administration, ASPA, "Beyond the WEIRD* world: linking bureaucracy and democracy in developing countries. " (March 21, 2023)

Special PARCC Conversations Program, Syracuse University., "Autocratization by gunpoint or democratization by persuasion? The War in Ukraine" (2022)

Society for Romanian Studies Conference “Borders and Transfers”, West University of Timișoara, "Forms without function? Global isomorphic power and local administrative development. The case of Romania." (2022)

World Bank, Governance Global Practice, "Managers or Measures? Insights from an Analysis of Performance Management of Civil Servants in Romania" (2020)

6th Global Conference on Transparency Research (GCTR), "Does transparency deliver on its promise?" (2019)