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This thesis elaborates and tests a model of nonprofit leadership development. Nonprofit leaders create meaning for other nonprofit participants through their activities and words and thus need to possess skills for interpreting the...
This research contemplates the influence of donors' security concerns on humanitarian aid and development. The phenomenon has been referred in the literature with various titles including securitization of aid, politics of aid, security...
This research has shown that the theory underlying the responsibility for government to report on its performance with both financial and nonfinancial information goes back over 100 years. Public reporting to citizens on government's...
The choice of economic development incentives involves a complex system of political and economic considerations. Policy tools theory has largely focused on the individual characteristics of each particular tool and has not considered...
Considered as a popular and effective practice in public agencies, teleworking is an alternative work arrangement that is believed to benefit both individuals and organizations. However, the research on teleworking remains centered on...
Interlocal energy collaboration builds upon network structures among local policy actors dealing with energy, climate change and sustainability issues. Collaboration efforts overcome institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas, and...
There is a vast, and expanding, literature concerning public services contracting. This growing body of scholarship often examines governments’ decisions to outsource service production, as well as the resulting relationships and service...
This dissertation examines the influence that political institutions have had over Florida's growth-management policy process at two levels of government during dissimilar periods of environmental conditions. It is an advancement on...
This dissertation uncovers the underlying structure of inter-organizational information sharing in the public sector from three different theoretical perspectives. Drawing on theories in social networks, policy networks and public...
This is a study about how participants in a public network understand and construct meanings for their relationships, where this construction of meanings comes from, and the effect they produce in the network operation. Three...
Population ageing is a world-wide phenomenon. The number of older people is expected to increase both absolutely and relatively, and a lot of Western and Asian countries already entered into the aged society beyond the aging society....
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....
In this study, I employed a mixed-method design to understand how nonprofit resource centers originate, operate, and evolve using a transaction cost framework to evaluate both sides of the supply vs. demand equation. The quantitative...
After Chun and Rainey's seminal study in 2005, goal ambiguity is widely accepted as "the extent to which an organizational goal or set of goals allow leeway for interpretation." (Chun and Rainey 2005a; b). The mainstream discussion so...
Publicness is a critical concept in the field of public administration as it relates to the unique characteristics of public organizations. Not surprisingly, publicness has long been studied in the public administration literature, ...
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...
Considering the effects of public and non-profit managers’ actions in federal-level programs and community services at the local level, my dissertation seeks to contribute to three separate bodies of scholarship: public and non-profit...
Discretion and its uses have been a central part of scholarly concern in public administration. Important as it is, however, it remains an unresolved issue. Scholars debate about how much discretion political principals should give to...
South Korea, having experienced a recent transition from developing to developed country, is useful for examining the application of theories about U.S. disaster policy process, and the April 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster provides a...
This is a study about the role, structure, and evolution of rural community collaborative networks and partnerships as well as a subsequent aquaculture policy network. The study uses ethnographic methods with long-term qualitative data...
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