Research and experiential learning for public service
Research portfolio

Projects built for cumulative public-service research.

Explore CLEAR’s active platforms, research programs, and collaborative infrastructure. Each project record can be updated through the CloudCannon data editor.

Active platforms and research programs.

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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.

ActiveWorkforce, Technology, Data
Open project
Strategic workforce development

Forecasting AI’s public-service impact

The CAS framework evaluates complementarity, augmentation, and substitutivity across occupations to support responsible workforce planning.

ActiveTechnology, Workforce
Open project
Collaborative 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.

ActiveInstitutions, Workforce, Data
Open project
Federal workforce

Government shutdowns and administrative capacity

How shutdown exposure changes recruitment, voluntary and involuntary separations, employee behavior, agency operations, and policy implementation.

ActiveWorkforce, Institutions
Open project
Future of work

Remote work and federal recruitment

Whether remote eligibility changes the size, geography, composition, and quality of applicant pools—and how workplace flexibility functions as a labor-market amenity.

ActiveWorkforce, Technology
Open project
Political economy

Contracts, appointments, and multi-principal governance

How presidents, Congress, agencies, and markets shape federal appointments, vacancies, procurement, contractor relationships, and implementation capacity.

ActiveInstitutions, Workforce
Open project
Behavioral public administration

Motivation, burnout, and organizational experience

How emotional labor, workplace messages, crisis conditions, leadership, and institutional procedures shape public employee attitudes and behavior.

ActiveBehavior & equity, Workforce
Open project
Representation and equity

Intersectional experience in public organizations

How race, gender, generation, representation, inclusion, and organizational justice influence burnout, extra-role work, voice, and public-service careers.

ActiveBehavior & equity, Workforce
Open project
Democratic governance

Executive power and the administrative state

How presidents centralize control, politicize expertise, reorganize administration, use contractors, and alter the institutional counterweights that sustain democratic accountability.

ActiveInstitutions
Open project
AI and occupations

Complementarity, augmentation, and substitutivity

A retrieval-augmented modeling framework for evaluating how generative AI may change tasks, skills, and occupational resilience in government.

ActiveTechnology, Workforce
Open project
Labor-market amenities

The stability premium in public employment

Estimating the value workers place on federal job stability by connecting shutdown exposure, wage differentials, and applicant behavior across public and private labor markets.

DevelopmentWorkforce, Institutions
Open project