Select Journal Publications

Lofaro, R. J., Bell, E., & Jensen, C. (2026). Representative Bureaucracy and Administrative Burdens: Exploring the Intersection of Lived Experience, Gender, and Professional Qualities. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Jackson, W., & Lofaro, R. J. (2026). Protecting the citadel of democracy: A political and administrative response. Public Administration Review.

Lofaro, R. J., Bohler, R., Smith, K., Vest, N., Harris, T., & Mase, W. (2026). Lived Experience and Rural Barriers: A Qualitative Analysis of Peer Leadership in Recovery Community Centers. Substance Use & Addiction Journal.

Lofaro, R. J., Entress, R. M., & Liu, G. (2025). Building resilient communities by fostering social equity in public administration: Analyzing the influence of social capital on COVID-19 vaccination rates in communities with varying social vulnerabilities. Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.13040

Lofaro, R. J., & Sapat, A. (2025). Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority. American Review of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241275715

Lofaro, R. J., Lungu, M., Sapat, A., & Witkowski, K. (2025). The opioid overdose crisis, policy

deservingness, and humanization: An analysis of first responders’ viewpoints on clients of color. Risks, Hazards, and Crises in Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.70006

Lofaro, R. J., Bohler, R., Spurgeon, R., & Mase, W. (2025). Rural and urban differences in treatment on demand for substance use treatment involving medications for opioid use disorder. Journal of Rural Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.70076

Lofaro, R. J., & Sapat, A. (2024). Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: Analyzing first responders’ attitudes. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muae015

Witkowski, K., Lofaro, R. J., Headley, A. M., Contreras, S. L., Remington, C. L., & Ganapati, N. E. (2024). Understanding problematic substance use among first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of law enforcement, fire, and EMS workers in the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104261

Miller, H. T., & Lofaro, R. J. (2023). Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program. Critical Policy Studies.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2021.2016453

Sapat, A., Lofaro, R. J., & Trautman, B. (2022). Policy responsiveness and institutions in a federal system: Analyzing variations in state-level data transparency and equity issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103066

Lofaro, R. J., & Miller, H. T. (2021). Narrative politics in policy discourse: The debate over safe injection sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contemporary Drug Problems.

https://doi.org/10.1177/009145092199382

Lofaro, R. J., & McCue, C. (2020). Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrative Theory & Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2020.1794745