Workforce & expertise
Recruitment, retention, mobility, remote work, skills, and the institutional conditions that attract and sustain public servants.
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Civic Leadership Education and Research
Research for a resilient public workforce.
CLEAR builds evidence, data tools, and learning partnerships that help public institutions understand their workforces, adapt to technological and political change, and sustain democratic capacity.
INSIGHT+ workforce trendsIllustrative dashboard view
2018–present
CLEAR and INSIGHT+ at a glance
2.4M+federal personnel records in the INSIGHT+ research infrastructure
400+occupational categories available for workforce analysis
85%+of the federal workforce represented outside the Washington region
3 levelsmacro, organizational, and individual analysis of public-service labor markets
What we study
Public institutions under pressure—and in transition.
CLEAR studies how workforce systems, political institutions, organizational behavior, and emerging technologies shape government capacity. Our work joins rigorous social science with public data, practitioner needs, and student learning.
AI & digital change
How artificial intelligence complements, augments, or substitutes for tasks—and what responsible workforce adaptation requires.
See the AI programInstitutions & capacity
Executive power, civil-service systems, shutdowns, contracting, implementation, and the democratic foundations of capable government.
Study institutionsBehavior & equity
Motivation, burnout, representation, organizational justice, and how public institutions can create equitable workplaces and services.
View behavioral researchCurrent platforms
From data infrastructure to democratic resilience.
CLEAR’s portfolio combines reusable data assets, predictive and explanatory research, communities of practice, and experiential learning for students.
Workforce analytics
INSIGHT+
Integrated Network Solutions in Government Hiring Trends brings federal personnel, job-posting, occupational, geographic, and institutional data into a common analytic environment.
Enter INSIGHT+Strategic workforce development
Forecasting AI’s public-service impact
Our CAS framework evaluates complementarity, augmentation, and substitutivity across occupations to support responsible workforce planning.
Explore the CAS frameworkCollaborative research network
Accountability and Reform Research Consortium
ARRC connects researchers and public-interest partners to document changes in government capacity, workforce expertise, communities, service delivery, and the data infrastructure needed for accountable reform.
Learn about the research pillars
CLEAR at Georgia State
An Atlanta base for nationally relevant public-service research.
At the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, CLEAR links a student-centered research enterprise to Atlanta’s dense network of public, nonprofit, civic, and private institutions.
That setting supports experiential learning, community-engaged scholarship, and research partnerships that move from evidence to tools, training, and public impact.
We connect academic research to the real workforce and institutional choices facing public leaders.
William G. Resh, Director of CLEAR
Featured research
Evidence on workforce shocks, institutional design, and public management.
Recent CLEAR-related scholarship examines how political dysfunction, workplace arrangements, and administrative institutions affect public employees and policy implementation.
2025
Employee Turnover Effects of the 2018–2019 United States Federal Government Shutdown
William G. Resh, Yongjin Ahn, Weijie Wang, and Keunyoung Eli Lee · Public Administration Review
2024
Populism and Administrative Dysfunction: The Impact of U.S. Government Shutdowns on Personnel and Policy Implementation
William G. Resh, Yongjin Ahn, and Donald P. Moynihan · Governance
2023
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government
Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Thai V. Le, and William G. Resh · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Work with CLEAR
Turn a public-service question into a research partnership.
We collaborate with scholars, students, governments, nonprofits, and civic organizations on data, research, convenings, and workforce strategy.