Francisco J. Santamarina

Francisco J. Santamarina

PhD Candidate focusing on nonprofit and NGO research, text analysis, rationalization of processes, and inequality.

Publications

Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies

Published in World Development, 2021

For several decades, the aid effectiveness movement has called for more robust, informed and independent impact evaluation of aid activities, but the prevalence and adoption of these practices remain unclear… [See full abstract at link above]

Recommended citation: Gugerty, M. K., Mitchell, G. E., & Santamarina, F. J. (2021). Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies. World Development, 146, 105596. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X21002114

Do nonprofit missions vary by the political ideology of supporting communities? Some preliminary results

Published in Public Performance & Management Review, 2019

Nonprofit missions reflect the values of those that create, manage, and support them. We know that the U.S. population has undergone a “big sort” that has resulted in increased community homogeneity along racial, economic, and political lines… [See full abstract at link above]

Recommended citation: Lecy, J. D., Ashley, S. R., & Santamarina, F. J. (2019). Do nonprofit missions vary by the political ideology of supporting communities? Some preliminary results. Public Performance & Management Review, 42(1), 115-141. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15309576.2018.1526092

Characterization and engineering properties of dry and ponded class-F fly ash

Published in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2019

Characterization studies conducted on Class-F fly-ash specimens gathered from different producers in the southeastern United States confirm general trends reported for fly ash worldwide… [See full abstract at link above]

Recommended citation: Bachus, R.C., Terzariol, M., Pasten, C., Chong, S.H., Dai, S., Cha, M.S., Kim, S., Jang, J., Papadopoulos, E., Roshankhah, S., Lei, L., Garcia, A., Park, J., Sivaram, A., Santamarina, F. J., Ren, X., Santamarina, J.C. (2019). Characterization and Engineering Properties of Dry and Ponded Class-F Fly Ash. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 145(3), 04019003. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GT.1943-5606.0001986