His research focuses primarily on public management, with a secondary emphasis on health policy. Pandey’s research has been published widely in leading public administration journals and has received awards such as the Marshall Dimock Award, the Charles H Levine Award, and the HICSS Best Conference Paper Award. He directed Phases II and IV of the National Administrative Studies Project. Pandey serves on the editorial boards of leading public administration journals, Public Administration Review (2010-), the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, and the International Public Management Journal.