Karen Baehler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5940687 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen Baehler |
| PRENOMES | Karen |
| SOBRENOME | Baehler |
| ASSINATURA | BAEHLER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7340-9187 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
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…
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…
Federal Welfare Time-Limit Extensions and Exemptions
Establishing public cash assistance as a time-limited benefit was a key and controversial feature of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. Many advocates and practitioners consider the formalization of program flexibility through time-limit exemptions and extensions to be critical in helping the most vulnerable families. Despite these options, including states’ ability to exempt up to 20 percent of their caseloads due to hardships without penalty …
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…
Mission-Extrinsic Public Values as an Extension of Regime Values
The academic fields of public administration and public management are diverging. Public management focuses primarily on the orthodox values of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value for money. It views accountability from the perspective of obtaining results (outcomes) defined in terms of core mission objectives and the operations that are ancillary to their achievement, such as deploying financial, human, and other resources cost-effectively…
Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition
International Conference News
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management
Improving the Quality of Public Services
A survey of the APPAM International conference on the area of Public Management
Behind the Beehive buzz
Described as quintessential knowledge workers and also practitioners of a public service ethic, policy officials generate vital inputs into good government. This article reports on sources of stress identified by 24 policy managers and senior advisers in the New Zealand State Service. Stressors were similar, but also different, to those commonly found in the stress literature. The differences were particularly noticeable in workload demands, whic…
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Managing for Outcomes’
Central agencies in New Zealand are now defining public management performance to include both the quality of a manager's ‘account’ of output‐outcome links and the manager's record of delivering efficient outputs. This article: (1) argues that the hard edge of accountability for deliverables must be dulled somewhat in order to pursue outcomes more vigorously; (2) shows how managers can use evaluation tools known as theories‐in‐action or logic mod…
Local Economic Development
Demonstration and evaluation strategies
Managing for Outcomes’
Central agencies in New Zealand are now defining public management performance to include both the quality of a manager's ‘account’ of output‐outcome links and the manager's record of delivering efficient outputs. This article: (1) argues that the hard edge of accountability for deliverables must be dulled somewhat in order to pursue outcomes more vigorously; (2) shows how managers can use evaluation tools known as theories‐in‐action or logic mod…
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management
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 …
Federal Welfare Time-Limit Extensions and Exemptions
Establishing public cash assistance as a time-limited benefit was a key and controversial feature of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. Many advocates and practitioners consider the formalization of program flexibility through time-limit exemptions and extensions to be critical in helping the most vulnerable families. Despite these options, including states’ ability to exempt up to 20 percent of their caseloads due to hardships without penalty …
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…
Mission-Extrinsic Public Values as an Extension of Regime Values
The academic fields of public administration and public management are diverging. Public management focuses primarily on the orthodox values of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value for money. It views accountability from the perspective of obtaining results (outcomes) defined in terms of core mission objectives and the operations that are ancillary to their achievement, such as deploying financial, human, and other resources cost-effectively…
Improving the Quality of Public Services
A survey of the APPAM International conference on the area of Public Management
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Demonstration and evaluation strategies
Demonstration and evaluation strategies
Local Economic Development
Managing for Outcomes’
Central agencies in New Zealand are now defining public management performance to include both the quality of a manager's ‘account’ of output‐outcome links and the manager's record of delivering efficient outputs. This article: (1) argues that the hard edge of accountability for deliverables must be dulled somewhat in order to pursue outcomes more vigorously; (2) shows how managers can use evaluation tools known as theories‐in‐action or logic mod…
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Behind the Beehive buzz
Described as quintessential knowledge workers and also practitioners of a public service ethic, policy officials generate vital inputs into good government. This article reports on sources of stress identified by 24 policy managers and senior advisers in the New Zealand State Service. Stressors were similar, but also different, to those commonly found in the stress literature. The differences were particularly noticeable in workload demands, whic…
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management
Improving the Quality of Public Services
A survey of the APPAM International conference on the area of Public Management
Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition
International Conference News
Mission-Extrinsic Public Values as an Extension of Regime Values
The academic fields of public administration and public management are diverging. Public management focuses primarily on the orthodox values of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value for money. It views accountability from the perspective of obtaining results (outcomes) defined in terms of core mission objectives and the operations that are ancillary to their achievement, such as deploying financial, human, and other resources cost-effectively…
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…
Federal Welfare Time-Limit Extensions and Exemptions
Establishing public cash assistance as a time-limited benefit was a key and controversial feature of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. Many advocates and practitioners consider the formalization of program flexibility through time-limit exemptions and extensions to be critical in helping the most vulnerable families. Despite these options, including states’ ability to exempt up to 20 percent of their caseloads due to hardships without penalty …
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…
Political science (15 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Public Administration (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (5 obras)