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Do Police Officers in the USA Protect and Serve All Citizens Equally?
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-10)Survey research has clarified the extent to which racial minorities and majority white Americans disagree about whether police should be trusted. Racial minorities are generally far more suspicious of the police officers ... -
Public Service in the 21st Century: Nonprofits Take the Lead
(2013-03-16)This presentation was prepared for the American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference (2013). It examines historical public service, public administration and nonprofit management. -
Getting Published in the Middle of the List: ASPA PhD Summit
(2013-03-17)This lecture was given at the PhD Summit of the Annual Conference of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA). It focused on what it means to get a paper published in a respectable journal in the middle of the ... -
Gauging Good Governance: A Practical Tool for Normative Evaluation Research
(2021-04)This PowerPoint presentation at the 2021 ASPA conference introduces a new research purpose for Public Administration and applied research generally. Traditionally, scholars have recognized three purposes for empirical ... -
The Potential of Working Hypotheses for Deductive Exploratory Research
(Springer, 2020-12)While hypotheses frame explanatory studies and provide guidance for measurement and statistical tests, deductive, exploratory research does not have a framing device like the hypothesis. To this purpose, this article ... -
The COVID-19 Enemy is Still Advancing
(United States Army War College Press, 2020-08)The US military has a historical precedence for dealing with a pandemic while simultaneously conducting large-scale combat operations. Two twentieth-century examples assess the extent to which the military adapted operations ... -
It Is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World (Part 2)
(Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019-02)Public administration research methodology should be flexible and comprehensive enough to include many methodologies and approaches to inquiry. In this paper we show how certain kinds of qualitative and mixed method ... -
It Is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World (Part 1)
(Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019-02)Public administration research methodology should be flexible and comprehensive enough to include many methodologies and approaches to inquiry. In this paper we show how certain kinds of qualitative and mixed method ... -
The U.S. Sanitary Commission: Recovering Women's Leadership, Management and Compassion During the Civil War
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Dynamic Intersection of Military and Society
(Springer Nature, 2020-03)The military and society interact and shape each other every day. This chapter examines the diverse, interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to understand and explain that interaction. It begins by defining and situating ... -
College Students and Alcohol Use: A Test of Social Learning, Strain, and Acculturation Theories
(Wiley, 2014-09)This article uses an original data set to explore the utility of three classic sociological theories to test patterns of college student alcohol consumption: social learning, strain, and acculturation. The survey data ... -
Women’s Historic Public Engagement: Finding Public Administration in the Peace and Suffrage Movements
(2019-11-07)This powerpoint presentation looks at the intersection of public administration with the women's peace and suffrage movements. It uses the contributions of Mary Livermore and Jane Addams as a way to capture these movements ... -
Cassandra and Bread Givers: The College Speeches of Jane Addams
(Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2019-05-15)This Blog for the Ramapo College Jane Addams Papers Project highlights Addams’s college speeches. In both, Bread Givers and Cassandra, Addams speculates about the future roles and challenges of educated women. -
Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams's Legacy
(2019-03-29)In episode 84 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Dr. Eric Thomas Weber and Dr. Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Patricia Shields on “Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams's Legacy.” -
Jane Addams' Social Ethics
(2018-04-24)This video presents a penetrating examination of the legendary Jane Addams' view of social ethics.
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Armed Forces and Society: Building Civil-Military Relations Scholarship
(2009-06)This presentation for the Swedish National Defense College examines the role the journal Armed Forces & Society plays in developing civil-military relations literature. It examines the works of Samuel Huntington and Morris ... -
Exploring Civil-Military Relations: Janowitz, Pragmatism and Peace Support Operations
(2011-01-28)This presentation was prepared for the Civil-Military Relations Peace Support Operations Seminar Series at the Swedish National Defense College (2011). It examines the pragmatism informed, civil military relations perspective ... -
Exploring the Working Hypothesis
(2019-05-30)This PowerPoint presentation complements the conference paper It is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World. It highlights ... -
It is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World
(2019-05)Public administration research methodology should be flexible and comprehensive enough to include many methodologies and approaches to inquiry. In this paper we show how certain kinds of qualitative and mixed method studies ... -
Recovering Jane Addams: Public Administration Pioneer
(2019-03-10)This presentation makes the case that the field of public administration should recover diverse voices from its past. It does this by showcasing Jane Addams as an unrecognized pioneer. It highlights her remarkable life and ...
