Richard M. Clerkin is an Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Department in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina Sate University. He received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs from Indiana University-Bloomington, where he was a Chancellor's Fellow. The main focus of his research focuses on the interplay of government and nonprofit organizations. In particularl, he studies the role nonprofits play in advocating and lobbying in the policy process and how nonprofits are accountable to their multiple stakeholders. In a new research project, he is examining state level regulation of charitable solicitation. Additional areas of research include examining the institutional pressures that shape organizational structures and procedures in nonprofits, applying the concept of public service motivation to volunteering and donating behavior, as well as using charitable gaming to explore the paradoxes and tensions nonprofits face as they try to achieve their mission. His research has been published in Public Administration Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and children.
