21st Century Expeditionary Mindset and Core Values: A Review of the Literature (2009)
This paper reviews literature on the expeditionary mindset and core values taking into account the 21st century security and technology environments. The paper begins by developing the historical...
History of Women in Public Administration: Redefining Theory and Practice, Past and Present (2009)
This paper traces ideas in public administration that emerged from women's historical experience. The story begins with Florence Nightingale and the insights about hospital administration that...
Shields, Patricia M., Casillas, Cassandra
This paper explores the problem of meeting professional association member needs at the local level. Three functions of local affiliates of national professional associations are identified...
Applying Pragmatism to Public Budgeting and Financial Management (2008)
Bartle, John R., Shields, Patricia M.
Pragmatism is a philosophy that emphasizes learning through action and building a knowledge base from experience and reflection. It is a potentially compelling approach for public budgeting and...
Democracy and the Social Feminist Ethics of Jane Addams: A Vision for Public Administration (2006)
In Democracy and Social Ethics, feminist, settlement worker, peace activist, social reformer, and scholar Jane Addams articulates a bottom up participatory democracy. The elements of her social...
Intermediate Theory: The Missing Link to Successful Student Scholarship (2006)
Shields, Patricia M., Tajalli, Hassan
Since 1998, five Texas State University students' capstone papers have won the Pi Alpha Alpha master's student paper award. This success rate is attributed to students' mastery of the art of building...
Using Pragmatism to Bridge the Gap Between Academe and Practice (2006)
This paper is to first, describe the nature of the academe/practitioner divide. Second, the practitioner friendly philosophy, classical pragmatism is introduced as a way of addressing the divide....
Classical Pragmatism does NOT Need an Upgrade: Lessons for Public Administration (2005)
In 2003, Administration & Society published Patricia Shields's "The Community of Inquiry: Classical Pragmatism and Public Administration." Shortly thereafter, Hugh Miller responded with "Old...
The Community of Inquiry: Classical Pragmatism and Public Administration (2003)
This article argues that the "community of inquiry" notion of the classical pragmatists has much to offer PA theory and practice. The "community of inquiry" is an ideal position from which public...
Getting Organized: A Pragmatic Tool for Writing Graduate Papers (1999)
This article describes the contents of a successful Teaching Assistant workshop. The workshop introduces the "Notebook Method" of writing scholarly papers. The notebook method is viewed as a...
In the classic Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig clarifies the meaning of quality in higher education. He identifies two ways of viewing quality - classic and romantic. He...
Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Science: A Tool for Public Administration (1998)
This chapter demonstrates how pragmatism as a philosophy of science is used in a Public Administration Research Methods Class. This class is designed to get students ready to write an empirical...
This paper applies the economics "Law of Demand" to the problems of local government decision making. As the title implies, fees can be tools to help local government administrators allocate...
Using Volunteers in Adult Probation (1983)
Shields, Patricia M., Chapman, Charles W., Wingard, David R.
The Burden of the Draft: The Vietnam Years (1981)
This study explores the draft during the Vietnam era. Using a national longitudinal sample of young men who were draft vulnerable over the period, it estimates the likelihood of being drafted for...
MCA and Logit: A Comparison (1981)
In this paper a technique is developed which shows how both logit and MCA can be adapted for comparison purposes. The technique is developed for the special case of dichotomous dependent variables....