L Douglas Kiel

Biographic Data

ID363360
NAMEL Douglas Kiel
GIVEN NAMESL Douglas
FAMILY NAMEKiel
SIGNATUREKIEL L D
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Dallas
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX4

  • Introduction to the Symposium

    Open AccessR Paul Battaglio, L Douglas Kiel et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2008

  • Affective Leadership and Emotional Labor

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P Kiel et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2008Cited by: 5

    At first glance, readers of Professors Newman, Guy, and Mastracci’s article may conclude that emotional labor and affective leadership are obvious qualities that we should expect from adults in the workplace. It seems that effective employees and managers have always shown strengths in these competencies. Is this another academic effort to explore an area that practitioners already understand and manage fairly well? Further reflection reveals, ho…

  • Chaos in Social Systems

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielCHAPTERUnderstanding Change2006

    From the rise of Social Darwinism in the 19th century to the behavioral revolution in the 20th century, social scientists have looked to both theory and method from the natural sciences to understand the dynamics of change in social systems. Paul Higgins’ chapter ‘Climate Change: Complexity, Chaos and Order’ offers insights from chaos theory and the complexity sciences as means for better understanding change in social systems. These insights hav…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessDouglas J Watson, L Douglas Kiel et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2006References: 1

    This article serves as the introduction to a special issue on natural disasters and public works management and policy. The authors note that large-scale natural disasters provide the occasion for public attention turning to the public works infrastructure, as basic necessities for living in a modern society are threatened or interrupted. The recent experience with Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States showed that without the critical i…

  • The Call to Public Service

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielARTICLEPublic Administration Review2003Cited by: 2

    Books reviewed in this article: Richard P. Nathan, So You Want to Be in Government? Handbook for Appointed Officials in America's Governments Kenneth H. Ashworth, Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or, How to Survive Public Service O.C. McSwite, Invitation to Public Administration

  • Long-Wave Economic Cycles, Techno-Economic Paradigms, and the Pattern of Reform in American Public Administration

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P Kiel et al.ARTICLEAdministration & Society1999Cited by: 3References: 17

    Previous public administration research has failed to systematically explore the relationships between changing techno-economic paradigms and reform in American public administration. This article examines the linkages between bureaucratic reform and long-wave economic cycles. Specifically, the authors contend that the techno-economic paradigms that drive economic long waves are consistent with a pattern of initiation and eventually confirmation …

  • Measuring Temporal Complexity in the External Environment

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P Kiel et al.ARTICLEThe American Review of Public…1998References: 7

    Forty years ago, Herbert Simon reminded public managers of the limits of rationality, or the bounded rationality, of the individual decision maker. New analytical techniques from the sciences of complexity now provide a means to measure the complexity in the environment of public managers using actual organizational data. Time series analysis is used to examine data from the external environment of two urban police divisions. Results of the analy…

  • Chaos as Opportunity

    Karen G Evans, L Douglas Kiel et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1996Cited by: 2

  • Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis

    L Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielARTICLEPublic Administration Review1993Cited by: 7References: 2

  • Nonequilibrium Theory and Its Implications for Public Administration

    L Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielARTICLEPublic Administration Review1989Cited by: 9References: 2

  • Thematic Mapping With Microcomputers

    Open AccessL Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielARTICLESocial Science Computer Review1988Cited by: 2

    This paper presents the current state of thematic mapping with microcomputers. It is intended to afford social scientists a view of the potential of using microcomputer-generated thematic maps as data presentation and research tools. Readers will take from this work an understanding of the types of map they might use for research and data presentation, an understanding of the general process of creating maps with microcomputers, and a view of the…

  • Information Systems Education in Masters Programs in Public Affairs and Administration

    L Douglas Kiel, Douglas P KielARTICLEPublic Administration Review1986Cited by: 7

    Public administration scholars and practitioners have long been aware of the need for computer related education for students of public affairs and administration. Rufus Miles, in 1967, proposed that computer training become a basic component of graduate-level training in public administration.' In 1974, Roy G. Saltman called for an increased emphasis on science in public administration curricula and further proposed the establishment of a commit…