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Invited Articles and Book Chapters

“Achieving High Performing Schools and Institutes of Administration: The Role of Standards of Excellence in J-M,” in Building the Public Sector: The Role of Education and Leadership (Ed. By Kauzya and A. Rosenbaum), published by the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs-Division of Public Administration and Development Management, United Nations, 2007.

The field dependence/field independence learning styles: Implications for Adult Student Diversity, Outcomes Assessment and Accountability” with M. Haimes-Bartolf in Learning Styles and Learning: A Key to Meeting the Accountability Demands in Education (Ed. By R. P. Sims and S. J. Sims), Nova Publishers, 2005.

"Increased Diversity of the Workforce: Opportunities for Research in Public and Non-Profit Organizations," with Jackie Smith-Mason, and Barbara Maddox in Diversity and Public Administration: Theory, Issues, and Perspectives, Revised Edition, Edited by Mitchell F. Rice. M. E. Sharpe, August, 2004.

"Management development in a turbulent environment: new roles and responsibilities for schools and Institutes of Administration," in State Modernization and Decentralization Implications for Public Administration Education and Training: Selected Central European and Global Perspective (Ed. by Allan Rosenbaum and Ludmila Gajdosova) published by the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2003.

"Using Theory to Inform Practice: Predicting the Success of Privatization Efforts Through an Understanding of Public Choice Theory", with Francis Amagoh and Mary Menefee. Public Administration (Lithuania), Vol. 1, 2002.

"Enhancing the Management Training Curriculum: A Strategic-Contingency Approach," in Constructing the Public Administration Curriculum: Issues, Themes, and Perspectives, (John Greenwood and Lynton Robins, Eds.), Ashgate Publishing Company. (forthcoming).

"Improving Public Administration Education Through an Instructional Design Approach," with Carol Bracey, in Teaching Public Administration: What and How, (Stuart Nagel, Ed.) Nova Science Publishers 1999.

"Workforce Diversity, Identity Groups and Management Theory." Diversity and Public Organizations: Theory, Issues, and Perspectives. Mitchell F. Rice, ed. Kendell Hunt Publishing Company. 1996.

"Meeting the Challenge: Being a Successful Leader of an Increasingly Diverse Workforce, "Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1995.

"Increasing the Effectiveness of University/College Instruction: Integrating the Results of Learning Style Results into Course Design and Delivery." In The Importance of Learning Styles: Implications for Learning, Course Design, and Education, (Sims, R.R. & S. J. Sims, Eds). Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1995.

"Demographic Changes and Diversity in Personnel: Implications for Public Administrators" with Barbara Maddox. (Rabin, J., et al, Eds) Handbook of Public Personnel Administration & Labor Relations, 2nd edition. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1994.

"Squeezing Blood from the Library Turnip: Productivity Improvement Strategies for Public Libraries." Virginia Librarian, Vol XXXVII, No. 3, July-September, 1991.

"Financing Local Government in the 1980s: Expansion Through Diversification," with Catherine L. Spain (first author), in State and Local Finances in the 1980s, (Norman Walzer and David Chicoine, Eds.), Oelgeschlager, Guinn, & Hain Publishers, 1981.

"Local Property Tax Alternative: The Role of Non-Property Taxes and Charges," with Catherine L. Spain (first author), Government Financial Management Resources in Review, Vol. No. 4, May 1981.
Reprinted in the Daily Bond Buyer, Special Conference Supplement, No.1, June 15, 1981.

"Schools of Public Administration Are Not Adequately Preparing Managers for the Public Service," The Bureaucrat, Summer, 1981.

"Increasing the Role of Elected Officials in Local Budgeting," with Lucia Edmonds (first author), Focus, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1981.

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L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Blue Wooldridge, associate professor of public administration
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