Dr. Doug Goodman is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University. He teaches graduate students in his department's Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) and its Ph.D. program. His main teaching and research area focuses on public human resource management. Dr. Goodman received his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of Utah. He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Goodman's current research interests include at-will employment in the public sector, human resource management reforms, managing public employees following catastrophic events, and public sector retirement benefits. Dr. Goodman has a co-edited book, Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West. His articles appear in journals such as Review of Public Personnel Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Political Research Quarterly, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Public Personnel Management, Politics & Policy, Public Administration Review, and American Review of Politics.
