Karen J Baehler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen J Baehler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Baehler |
| SIGNATURE | BAEHLER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Public Administration and Policy, American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complexity in US Social Welfare Administration
Complexity emerges as a prevailing theme across 21 distinguished lectures delivered by the most recent recipients of the American Political Science Association’s John Gaus Award. This chapter draws insights from these lectures to illuminate recent thinking in the United States about how to design US social welfare institutions to help citizens adapt effectively to complex, ever-changing, economic and social pressures, while also meeting the endur…
Introduction to the Handbook
This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its two conceptual hemispheres—social policy and social administration—have too often missed opportunities…
The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy
This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its two conceptual hemispheres—social policy and social administration—have too often missed opportunities…
Hostages to Compliance”
Administrative burden on its most basic level refers to “an individual’s experience of policy implementation as onerous”. The concept of administrative burdens raises complex questions of both theory and practice for public administrators and scholars. Ambitious agendas have been laid out for investigating the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of administrative burdens, and for building practical knowledge about how to minimize administrative burd…
Governance for adaptive capacity and resilience in the U.S. water sector
Water utility managers play potentially important roles in current and future transitions toward more adaptive and sustainable approaches to water management. We report the results of qualitative interviews and focus groups designed to explore the perspectives of 22 water utility managers in the United States regarding pressures, challenges, and opportunities facing their organizations and communities. Overall, the study participants characterize…
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
International Conference News
Local Economic Development
Governance for adaptive capacity and resilience in the U.S. water sector
Water utility managers play potentially important roles in current and future transitions toward more adaptive and sustainable approaches to water management. We report the results of qualitative interviews and focus groups designed to explore the perspectives of 22 water utility managers in the United States regarding pressures, challenges, and opportunities facing their organizations and communities. Overall, the study participants characterize…
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
Local Economic Development
International Conference News
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
Governance for adaptive capacity and resilience in the U.S. water sector
Water utility managers play potentially important roles in current and future transitions toward more adaptive and sustainable approaches to water management. We report the results of qualitative interviews and focus groups designed to explore the perspectives of 22 water utility managers in the United States regarding pressures, challenges, and opportunities facing their organizations and communities. Overall, the study participants characterize…
Hostages to Compliance”
Administrative burden on its most basic level refers to “an individual’s experience of policy implementation as onerous”. The concept of administrative burdens raises complex questions of both theory and practice for public administrators and scholars. Ambitious agendas have been laid out for investigating the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of administrative burdens, and for building practical knowledge about how to minimize administrative burd…
Complexity in US Social Welfare Administration
Complexity emerges as a prevailing theme across 21 distinguished lectures delivered by the most recent recipients of the American Political Science Association’s John Gaus Award. This chapter draws insights from these lectures to illuminate recent thinking in the United States about how to design US social welfare institutions to help citizens adapt effectively to complex, ever-changing, economic and social pressures, while also meeting the endur…
Introduction to the Handbook
This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its two conceptual hemispheres—social policy and social administration—have too often missed opportunities…
The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy
This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its two conceptual hemispheres—social policy and social administration—have too often missed opportunities…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)