Lachezar “Lucky” Anguelov, PhD, a Member of the Faculty for The Evergreen State College Masters of Public Administration (MPA) program, presented his research: “Contract Oversight Choices and Cost of Government: The Impact of Different Control Mechanisms Used in Outsourced Public Service Provision” at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This research explained how different oversight mechanisms in outsourced public service delivery affect the cost of government by drawing on transaction costs economics and inter-organizational control literatures. Additionally, he served as a panel chair of the panel of “Public Sector Job Satisfaction Under Intense Accountability.”
The Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference was held in Chicago, Illinois in 2017 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana. MPSA conference sessions are organized by topic in more than 80 sections based on different subfields or areas of study. Many of these are interdisciplinary and provide participants with a new perspective on the research. The MPSA conference was held under one roof at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, and included multiple receptions, formal networking events, organized mentoring opportunities, and access to our extensive exhibit hall. Additionally, MPSA offered a variety of conference-related scholarships for working parents and graduate students, as well as a fee waiver scholarship for those from the developing world and outside of the discipline.