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Lisa Bingham
Professor
Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service
J.D., University of Connecticut, 1979 |
Lisa Blomgren Bingham is the Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service
at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs,
Bloomington, Indiana. A graduate of Smith College (A.B. 1976 magna
cum laude with high honors in Greek) and the University of Connecticut
School of Law (J.D. 1979 with high honors), she has authored over
fifty articles and book chapters on dispute resolution and collaborative
governance. She has served as a consultant on matters of dispute system
design and new governance processes to the Korean Supreme Court Task
Force on Civil Justice Reform, the Korea National Relations Commission,
the Korean Environmental Institute, the Korea Development Institute,
and World Bank. She also served as consultant and outside evaluator
for the U.S. Postal Service employment mediation program (REDRESS),
and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of
Health, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, U.S. Department
of the Air Force, and Department of Justice. Recipient of five teaching
awards at Indiana University, she received the Association for Conflict
Resolution’s Abner Award in 2002 for excellence in research
on dispute resolution in labor and employment in the public sector,
and research awards for conference papers from the American Bar Association
Section of Dispute Resolution (2004), Industrial Relations Research
Association (1997, 1998—IRRA, now Labor and Employment Relations
Association), and International Association for Conflict Management
(IACM -1994, 2004). Together with Professor Rosemary O’Leary
of the Maxwell School, she received the Section of Environmental and
Natural Resource Administration of the American Society of Public
Administration’s Best Book award for The Promise and Performance
of Environmental Conflict Resolution (2005). In June 2006, she
received the Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from IACM and Harvard
Project on Negotiation for research that makes a significant impact
on the practice of conflict resolution.
Awards
Recent Publications
Books and Monographs
Bingham, Lisa Blomgren and O’Leary, Rosemary (Eds.). (2008,
forthcoming). Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
O’Leary, Rosemary and Bingham, Lisa B. (Eds.) (2003). The
Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution.
Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press.
Bingham, Lisa B. (2003). Mediation at Work: Transforming Workplace
Conflict at the United States Postal Service. Arlington, VA:
IBM Endowment for the Business of Government (October).
Publications in Peer or Expert-reviewed Journals and Law Reviews
(*peer-reviewed)
*Nabatchi, T., Good, D. and Bingham, L.B. (2008, forthcoming). “Organizational
Justice and Mediation: A Six Factor Model.” International
Journal of Conflict Management.
*Moon, Y. and Bingham, L.B. (2007, forthcoming). “Transformative
Mediation at Work: Employee and Supervisor Perceptions on USPS REDRESS
Program.” International Review of Public Administration.
O’Leary, R. and Bingham, L.B. (2007). “Introduction to
Symposium on the Collaborative Public Management.” International
Public Management Journal, Vol. 10(1): 3-7.
O’Leary, R. and Bingham, L.B. (2007). “Symposium Conclusion:
Conflict and Collaboration in Networks.” International Public
Management Journal, Vol.10(1): 103-109.
Bingham, L.B., Lee, S.W., and Chang, W.K. (2007) “Legal Infrastructure
and Dispute Resolution: The Case of South Korea.” Pacific
McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, Vol.
19(2): 375-399 (formerly, “The Transnational Lawyer”,
invited article for symposium issue on Legal Infrastructure, Economic
Development, and Judicial Independence).
O’Leary, R. Gerard, C. and Bingham, L.B. (2006). “Introduction
to the Symposium on Collaborative Public Management.” Public
Administration Review 66(s1): 6-9.
Bingham, L.B. and O’Leary, R. (2006). “Conclusion: Parallel
Play, Not Collaboration: Missing Questions, Missing Connections.”
Public Administration Review 66(s1): 161-167.
*Bingham, L.B. (2006). “The New Urban Governance: Processes
for Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders.” Review of Policy
Research, Vol. 23(4): 815-826.
*Gazley, B., Chang, W.K., and Bingham, LB. (2006). “Collaboration
and Citizen Participation in Community Mediation Centers.” Review
of Policy Research, Vol. 23(4): 843-863.
Bingham, L.B. (2006). “When We Hold No Truths to be Self-Evident:
Truth, Belief, Trust, and the Decline in Trials.” Journal
of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2006: 131-154.
*Bingham, L.B., Nabatchi, T., and O’Leary, R. (2005). “The
New Governance: Practices and Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen
Participation in the Work of Government.” Public Administration
Review, Vol. 65(5), 547-558.
*Bingham, L.B., O’Leary, R. and Nabatchi, T. (2005). “New
Governance Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen Participation in
the Work of Government.” National Civic Review, Vol.
94(1), 54-61 (special issue devoted to civic engagement and deliberative
democracy).
*Bush, Robert A. Baruch, and Bingham, Lisa B. (2005). “Knowledge
Gaps: The Final Conference of the Hewlett ADR Theory Centers.”
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Vol. 23(1): 99-122.
*O’Leary, R., Nabatchi, T., and Bingham, L.B. (2005). “Assessing
and Improving Conflict Resolution in Multiparty Environmental Negotiation.”
International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior,
Vol. 8(2): 181-209.
*Bingham, L. B. (2004). “Employment Dispute Resolution: The
Case for Mediation.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly,
Vol. 22(1&2): 145-174.
*Emerson, K., O’Leary, R., and Bingham, L.B. (2004). “Commentary:
Comment on Frank Dukes’s ‘What We Know about Environmental
Conflict Resolution.’” Conflict Resolution Quarterly,
Vol. 22(1&2): 221-231.
Bingham, L.B. (2004). “Control over Dispute System Design and
Mandatory Commercial Arbitration.” Law and Contemporary
Problems, Vol. 67(1&2): 221-251.
Bingham, L.B. (2002). “Self-determination in Dispute System
Design and Employment Arbitration”. University of Miami
Law Review, Vol. 56(4), 873-908.
*Bingham, L.B. (2002). “The Next Step: Research on How Dispute
System Design Affects Function”. Negotiation Journal,
Vol. 18(4), 375-379
*Bingham, L.B. and Pitts, David W. (2002). “Research Report:
Highlights of Mediation at Work: Studies of the National REDRESS Evaluation
Project.” Negotiation Journal, Vol. 18(2), 135-146.
Bingham, L.B. (2002). “Why Suppose? Let’s Find Out: A
Public Policy Research Program on Dispute Resolution.” Journal
of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2002(1), 101-126. [Invited as part
of symposium issue; The Journal is a law review published
by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.]
Bingham, L.B., Kim, K., and Raines, S. Summers. (2002). “Exploring
the Role of Representation In Employment Mediation at the USPS.”
Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 17(2), 341-377.
*Bingham, L.B. and Novac, M.C. (2001). “Mediation’s Impact
on Formal Complaint Filing: Before and After the REDRESS‰ Program
at the United States Postal Service.” Review of Public Personnel
Administration, Vol. 21(4), 308-331.
Bingham, L. B. (2001). “Addressing the ‘Redress’:
A Discussion of the Status of the United States Postal Service’s
Transformative Mediation Program.” Cardozo On-Line Journal
of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 2. Accessed at http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/cojcr/final_site/symposia/vol_2_symposia/postal_trans.htm.
Nabatchi, T. and Bingham, L.B. (2001). “Transformative Mediation
in the United States Postal Service REDRESS Program: Observations
of ADR Specialists.” Hofstra Labor & Employment Law
Journal, Vol. 18(2), 399-427.
*Bingham, L.B. and Mesch, D. (2000). “Decision-making in Employment
and Labor Arbitration.” Industrial Relations, Vol.
39(4), 671-694.
*Bingham, L.B., Chesmore, G., Moon, Y., and Napoli, L.M. (2000). “Mediating
Employment Disputes at the United States Postal Service: A Comparison
of In-house and Outside Neutral Mediators.” Review of Public
Personnel Administration, Vol. XX(1), 5-19.
Bingham, L.B. (1998) “McGeorge Symposium on Arbitration: On
Repeat Players, Adhesive Contracts, and the Use of Statistics in Judicial
Review of Arbitration Awards.” McGeorge Law Review,
Vol. 29(2), 223-260 (invited article).
Bingham, L.B. (1998). “An Update on Employment Arbitration and
the Courts.” Perspectives On Work, Vol. 2., 25-29 (invited
article).
Bingham, L.B. (1998). “An Overview of Employment Arbitration
in the United States: Law, Public Policy and Data.” New
Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 23(2), 5-19 (invited
article).
*Bingham, L. B. (1997). Employment Arbitration: The Repeat Player
Effect. Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 1(1),
189-220.
Anderson, J.F. and Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Upstream Effects From
Mediation of Workplace Disputes: Some Preliminary Evidence from the
USPS.” Labor Law Journal, Vol. 48, 601-615.
*Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Mediating Employment Disputes: Perceptions
of REDRESS at the United States Postal Service.” Review
of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. XVII(2), 20-30.
Bingham, L.B. (1996). “Emerging Due Process Concerns in Employment
Arbitration.” Labor Law Journal, Vol. 47(2), 108-126.
*Bingham, L.B., and Wise, C.R. (1996). “The Administrative Dispute
Resolution Act of 1990: How Do We Evaluate its Success?” Journal
of Public Administration, Research and Theory, Vol. 6(3), 383-414.
*Bingham, L.B. (1995). “Is there a Bias in Arbitration of Nonunion
Employment Disputes? An Analysis of Actual Cases and Outcomes.”
International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol. 6(4),
369-386.
Bingham, L.B. (1994). “Employee Free Speech and Wrongful Discharge.”
Labor Law Journal, Vol. 45, 387-401 (lead article).
Bingham, L.B. (1994). “Teacher Bargaining in Indiana: The Courts
and the Board on the Road Less Traveled.” Indiana Law Review,
Vol. 27, 989-1032.
Bingham, L.B. (1994). “Employee Free Speech in the Workplace:
Using the First Amendment as Public Policy for Wrongful Discharge
Actions.” Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 55, 341-391.
*Bingham, L.B. (1992). “Arbitration of Disputes for The Olympic
Games: A Procedure That Works.” Arbitration Journal,
Vol. 47, 33-39, 72.
Bingham, L.B. (1985). “Mid-term Bargaining Disputes and Binding
Interest Arbitration for Public Sector Employees.” Published
as part of a symposium devoted to public sector labor law in Connecticut,
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 17, 365-386.
Book Chapters (* refereed)
Contributor, Amsler, T., Speers, J., Roselle, S., and Bingham, L.B.
Public Involvement Strategies: Questions to Guide Public Officials.
Sacramento, CA: Institute for Local Government.
Bingham, L. B., Hallberlin, C. J. and Walker, D. (forthcoming, 2007).
“Transformative Mediation: Purpose Drives Practice,” in
Bruce C. McKinney (Ed.), Readings and Case Studies in Mediation.
Bingham, L.B. (2006). “Avoiding Negotiating,” in Andrea
Schneider and Christopher Honeyman (Eds.), The Negotiator’s
Fieldbook. Washington, DC: American Bar Association.
*Nesbit, B. and Bingham, L.B. (2005). “Alternative Dispute Resolution
in Administrative Decision-making,” in Encyclopedia of Public
Administration and Public Policy. Marcel Dekker, Inc. [www.dekker.com].
*O’Leary, Rosemary, Bingham, Lisa B., and Nabatchi, Tina. (2004).
“Environmental Conflict Resolution,” in Robert Durant,
Daniel Fiorino, Rosemary O’Leary (Eds.). Building Common
Purpose: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities for Environmental
Governance in the 21st Century, 323-354. MIT Press: Cambridge,
MA.
Wise, Charles, Brian Clemow, Saranne Murray, and Lisa Bingham. 2004.
“When Things Go Wrong,” in Siegrun Fox Freyss (Ed.), Human
Resource Management in Local Government, 2nd ed. International
City Management Association.
*Nabatchi, T. and Bingham, L.B. (2004) “Ombuds and Ombuds Programs,”
in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy.
Marcel Dekker, Inc. [www.dekker.com].
*Nabatchi, T. and Bingham, L.B. (2004) “Alternative Dispute
Resolution Processes,” in Encyclopedia of Public Administration
and Public Policy. Marcel Dekker, Inc. [www.dekker.com].
Bingham, L.B., Chesmore, G., Moon, Y., and Napoli, L.M. (2004). “Mediating
Employment Disputes at the United States Postal Service: A Comparison
of In-house and Outside Neutral Mediators,” in Estreicher, S.
and Sherwyn, D. (Eds.), Alternative Dispute Resolution in the
Employment Arena: Proceedings of New York University 53rd Annual Conference
on Labor, 921-942. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.
Bingham, L.B., and Sarraf, S. (2004) “Employment Arbitration
Before and After the Due Process protocol for Mediation and Arbitration
of Statutory Disputes Arising out of Employment: Preliminary Evidence
that Self-Regulation Makes a Difference,” in Estreicher, S.
and Sherwyn, D. (Eds.), Alternative Dispute Resolution in the
Employment Arena: Proceedings of New York University 53rd Annual Conference
on Labor, 303-329. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.
*Bingham, L.B. and Nabatchi, T. (2003). “Dispute System Design
in Organizations,” in William J. Pammer, Jr. and Jerri Killian
(Eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Management, 105-127. New
York: Marcel-Dekker.
Nabatchi, Tina and Bingham, Lisa B. (2003). “Grievance Procedures
and Administration,” in Richard Kearney (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Public Administration and Public Policy. Marcel Dekker, Inc.
Bingham, L.B. and Prell, D.C. (2002). “Arbitration of Environmental
Disputes that Cross National Boundaries,” in The Encyclopedia
of Life Support Systems. Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd.
Bingham, L.B. and Napoli, L.M. (2001). “Employment Dispute Resolution
and Workplace Culture: The REDRESS‘ Program at the United States
Postal Service,” in Breger, M. and Schatz, J. (Eds.), The
Federal Alternative Dispute Resolution Deskbook, 507-526. Washington,
DC: The American Bar Association.
*Bingham, L.B. and Chachere, D.R. (1999). “Dispute Resolution
in Employment: The Need for Research,” in Eaton, A.E. and Keefe,
J.H. (Eds.), 1999 Industrial Relations Research Association Research
Volume: Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing
Workplace, 95-135. Champaign, IL: Industrial Relations Research
Association.
Wise, C.R., Clemow, B., Murray, S.P., Boston, E.S., and Bingham, L.B.
(1999). “When Things Go Wrong,” in Freyss, S.F. (Ed.),
Human Resource Management in Local Government: An Essential Guide,
181-200. Washington, DC: International City/County Managers Association.
*Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Public
Administration,” in C. Newland and P. Cooper (Eds.), The
Handbook of Public Law and Public Administration, 546-566. San
Francisco, Cal.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc.
*Bingham, L.B. (1996). “Negotiating to Achieve Public Objectives,”
in J. Perry (Ed.), The Handbook of Public Administration (2d
Ed.), 647-664. San Francisco, Cal.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc.
Published Book Reviews
Bingham, L.B. (2004). “Book Review: Emerging Systems for
Managing Workplace Conflict: Lessons form American Corporations for
Managers and Dispute Resolution Professionals,” by David
B. Lipsky, Ronald L. Seeber, and Richard D. Fincher. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 57(4), 615-617.
Bingham, L.B. (1999). “Book Review: Mediation and Arbitration
of Employment Disputes,”by John T. Dunlop and Arnold Zack.
International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol. 10(1),
91-95.
Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Book Review: The Mediation Process
(2d Ed.).” by Christopher W. Moore. International Journal
of Conflict Management, Vol. 8(2), 166-170.
Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Book Review: Negotiating at an Uneven
Table,” by Phyllis Beck Kritek. International Journal
of Conflict Management, Vol. 8(1), 85-89.
Conference Proceedings (*peer-reviewed)
Bingham, L.B. (2007, forthcoming). “Evaluating Dispute Resolution
Programs: Traps for the Unwary.” Proceedings of the 2007
Conference of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Bingham, L.B. (2005). “The Effect of Dispute Resolution on Workplace
Outcomes: A Discussion. Labor and Employment Relations Association
Series.” Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting (LERA,
formerly IRRA), pp. 131-134.
*Bingham, L.B. (1998). “Unequal Bargaining Power: An Alternative
Account for the Repeat Player Effect.” 50th Proceedings
of the Industrial Relations Research Association 1998 Annual Conference,
pp. 33-43
*Bingham, L.B. (1997). “Employment Arbitration: Differences
between Repeat Player and Non-repeat Player Outcomes”. 49th
Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association 1997
Annual Conference, pp. 201-211
Contract Research Reports
Raines, S. S, Hedeen, T., Napoli, L. M., and Bingham, L. B. (2003).
A Tale of Three Cities: Communication and Conflict Before and After
REDRESS.
Bingham, L.B., Nabatchi, T. and Jackman, M.S. (2001). Evaluation of
the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission E-Z Trial Program,
available at www.spea.indiana.edu/icri/oshrc-eztrial.pdf.
Bingham, L.B., Nabatchi, T. and Jackman, M.S. (2000). Evaluation of
the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Settlement Part
Program, available atwww.spea.indiana.edu/icri/oshrc-eval.pdf.
Published News Articles
Bingham, L.B. (2003). “Florida provides a model for conflict
resolution.” Letter to the Editor published in Tallahassee
Democrat, June 4, 2003.
Bingham, L.B. (2002). “REDRESS at the USPS – A Breakthrough
Mediation Program,” ACResolution, Vol. 1(3), 34 (Spring
2002).
Bingham, L.B. and Hallberlin, C.J. (1998). “Postal Service Expanding
Workplace Dispute Program,” Consensus, No. 40, pp.
1, 9 (October 1998).
Bingham, L.B. and Hallberlin, C. (1997) “Mediating Employment
Disputes at the United States Postal Service,” ADR Report,
Vol. 1(1), pp. 1-4 (April 1997). This is a new publication of Pike
and Fisher, a division of the Bureau of National Affairs.
Bingham, L.B. (1997) “The Repeat Player Effect in Employment
Arbitration,” ADR Report, Vol. 1(12), pp. 3-5 (October
15, 1997).
Bingham, L.B. (1985). “Wethersfield Board of Education Wins
Important Appeal on Negotiations Issue.” News article on teacher
evaluation procedures as a permissive subject of bargaining published
in Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) Journal,
May/June 1985, at 4.
Bingham, L.B. (1983). “Labor Board Rules on Reduction in Force.”
News article on administrators’ seniority in teacher bargaining
units and the scope of bargaining in CABE Journal, September/October
1983, at 4.
Bingham, L.B., (1982). “State Labor Board Rules on ‘Agency
Fees’.” News article on scope of bargaining over fair
share fees published in CABE Journal, September/October 1982,
at 1.
Bingham, L.B., (1982). “Is It Permissive, Mandatory, or Illegal?
Your Team Must Know the Difference.” News article summarizing
the scope of bargaining under public employee labor relations statutes
in Connecticut in CABE Journal, August 1982, at 6.