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Nearly 30 states have adopted or are transitioning to performance-based funding programs for community colleges that allocate funding based on institutional performance according to defined metrics. While embraced by state lawmakers and...
While early childhood education has received increasing attention in the developing world in recent years, relatively little evidence is available from sub-Saharan Africa on its effects on child development and subsequent school...
Political fragmentation is often considered superior for advancing allocation efficiency in the provision of public services. On the other hand, the multiplicity of local governments in a metropolitan area, acting alone, can produce...
Competing Paradigms for Analyzing Policy Development in Everglades Restoration: Case Study Using Advocacy Coalition Framework and Habermas' Critical Theory
Using a constructionist approach, this study applies the critical theory of Jürgen Habermas to analyze public policies surrounding the Florida Everglades. Habermas argues that policymakers in advanced industrial democracies are caught...
Public sector leadership calls on public administrators to possess skills to resolve complex policy problems/crises and balance political interests and values through negotiation and conflict resolution. However, current leadership...
Street level bureaucrats, especially those in the criminal justice system, are expected to be neutrally competent. Yet local and state police have an unusual level of discretion on the job making them especially vulnerable to more...
This is a study to critically explain how Korean street-level fire service officials make sense of problematic working situations in which they find themselves. The study wanted to three interrelated questions. First, how do Korean...
Recent studies on emotional labor address how worker emotional behavior is influenced by and influences organizational routines. To build upon existing theories, this dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of...
The field of Emergency Management is in a period of dramatic knowledge expansion. Practitioners from diverse public and private organizations and all levels of government are enjoying increased visibility and resources in combating a...
This dissertation provides an analysis and evaluation of factors influencing states to enact inpatient health care transparency laws between 1971 and 2006 inclusive, using event history analysis. The primary research question...
The Case of the Commercial Fisheries Constitutional Net Ban Amendment in Florida: An Illustration of the Impact of Special Interest Associations on Institutional Change
The research question is how does institutional change take place? The question is answered in part by the case of the impact of special interest associations on the net ban in Florida. The constitutional ban on the use of most types of...
This study examines the social and cultural contexts, and factors of global and local sources, which influence teacher preparation and which may serve to impede or facilitate the training of public and private school English teachers at...
What are the causes of administrative reform? Even though the question is critical in understanding administrative reform efforts and their impacts on administration and society, much remains to be understood about this process. In this...
A number of suggestions about the source and nature of Euroskepticism have been put forward over the last few decades, but none of these broad definitions truly capture the phenomenon in all of the European Union's member states. In the...
A policy phenomenon sometimes has multi-facets like a polyhedron because many stakeholders with different preferences or goals are involved in the policy process. The case of tax competition in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) is also a...
The literature on decision-making in public organizations is replete with debate on how they pursue expenditure reductions in conditions of fiscal strain. Typically, their strategies are described as being either "across-the-board" or ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the import of the policy network for policy conflict resolution. Emergent networks, or self-organizing informal relationships that appear below the surface of formal networks or...
What is green governance? Governance is generally defined as steering rather than rowing the changing processes of policy decisions and actions across the boundaries of the private, public and civic sectors (O'Leary, Gerard, and Bingham...
The policy of the State of Florida recognizes high-level public administration as a profession and expects administrators to be competent and to practice managerial, political, and ethical roles. Conceptual frameworks of high-level...
This dissertation proposes a new theoretical approach to the study of coproduction; it does so by providing a refined definition of the phenomenon, and responds to two of the largest criticisms of the literature, and incorporating the...
This dissertation is about policy decision making in transportation infrastructure. With this dissertation an attempt is made to understand factors which affect policy decisions in state governments or within the public sector. The...
This study identified characteristics and benchmarks of Athletic Training Education Programs (ATEPs) considered exemplary by a national sample of ATEP program directors. These exemplary characteristics and benchmarks can be used as...
Fragmented local governmental units will cooperate to address needs that span across regional boundaries while retaining local autonomy. These efforts, referred to as institutional collective action (ICA), come forth when local...
The article examines the state of the educational system in Sierra Leone before and after the civil war there and its role in the reintegration of former child soldiers. The perspectives of former child soldiers, caregivers, and...
As state governments grapple with reconciling budgets, administrative changes, political upheaval and technological advancements public employees are confronted with years without raises, wavering objectives, heavy workloads, and the...
This dissertation is composed of three essays dealing with renewable energy generation and the demand-side management (DSM) of electric utilities. The first two essays tackle small-scale and large-scale supply of electricity from...
From the dawn of civilization, political science and public administration have developed a close relationship. The development of a more stable society could not take place without the improvement and coordination of political and...
The first chapter examines what motivates airports to deploy on-site solar PV system. Currently, over 20% of U.S. public airports have adopted solar photovoltaic (PV) on their property. Yet, the vast majority of research on solar energy...
Community-based care networks have become more prevalent in health and human services over the past twenty years (Rice 2001; Romzek and Johnston 2002; Smith and Smyth 1996; Provan and Milward 1995, 2001; Lynn 1996), spurred on by the...
Executive succession has been defined as the planned or unplanned permanent change of the formal leader of a group or organization (Gorden & Rosen, 1981). The scholarly work in this area can be traced back to 1952 and the publication of...
This study examined administrative appeals under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) at two federal government agencies: the Department of the Army and the U.S. Forest Service. The study reviewed all provided case files for...
This dissertation examines the process of informal situated learning and conscientization in a Florida coastal community that faced rapid environmental change from 1989 to 2003. By examining this poorly understood process of learning in...
The decentralization or devolution of public service delivery has been prevalent in modern governance. Such transformation of governance enhances the roles of sub-national governments or nonprofit and private organizations for public...
The Diffusion and Effectiveness of Self-Managed Work Teams (SMWTS) in Municipal Management: A Combined Model of Institutional and Behavioral Approaches
This research draws from new institutionalism and organizational behavior to address questions regarding how self-managed work teams (SMWTs) are diffused among jurisdictions and how effective they are when adopted. This work first...
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have gained prominence and attention at the local, national and international scene during the last two decades. NGOs are considered as important actors on the landscape of development. The NGO...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how horizontal and vertical governance structure affects energy and sustainability policymaking at the local level. Although sustainability is an important issue at all levels of government...
This research builds on the studies of politics-administration relationships at local government level. According to the public administration literature, the politics-administration relationship has dynamically evolved from orthodox...
Delegation of decision-making authority has important ramifications for democracy, the public interest, transparency in government, and political accountability, yet the factors that explain this phenomenon at the local level remain...
In Florida, Medicaid expenditures have grown more quickly than Medicaid caseloads. Since the Medicaid program comprises a large share of all state budgets, controlling Medicaid spending has been the first priority for state governments....
Many studies have attempted to determine the relationship between education and HIV status. However, a complete and causal understanding of this relationship requires analysis of its mediating pathways, focusing on sexual behaviors. We...
Over the past sixty years, many cities in the United States have experienced the evaporation of independently owned neighbourhood grocery stores and the proliferation of large, full-service suburban supermarkets, leaving behind 'grocery...
It is a solemn obligation to provide high quality healthcare to veterans who sacrificed themselves to protect their country and democratic values. Although the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has conducted numerous highly regarded...
This dissertation explores the campus climate of a Historically Black University in the Southeastern United Sates by providing an overview of the campus' sexual assault policy and Black women students' and administrators' perceptions of...
Racial Threat, Residential Segregation, "Punishment Power," and Public Policy: The Role of Racial Threat in Predicting Juvenile Transfer to Adult Court
Discretionary decision-making plays a major role in juvenile transfer to adult court, yet little is known about how and why juvenile transfer is used. In particular, although substantial evidence exists that race and ethnicity play a...
Although there is general acceptance of law enforcement’s use of criminal profiling, such actions become problematic when they appear to be discriminatory in nature. One of the most frequently examined and contested profiling tactics is...
The goal of this research is to understand the interwoven relationships among policy, market, and organizations in health care. Investigating how transparency and competition influence health care providers’ performance from a three...
Despite the stereotype as a patriarchal region, several Latin American countries score higher in the global gender gap index than some developed countries. According to the UNWOMEN (2014), these countries are making substantial progress...
Veterans in higher education are not a new phenomenon, but over the past decade, policies put in place in organizations designed to support this population have grown in number and impact. This manuscript is assembled as a series of...
My dissertation "Moral Rhetoric, Affective Polarization, and Direct Democracy" contributes to an emergent literature on the effects of affective polarization on political behavior by highlighting the role that moral rhetoric plays in...
This dissertation examines the needs, preferences, policies, programs, and institutions surrounding localfood systems to better understand how they align with sustainability principles and goals. Both food system governance at the local...
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