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The aim of this dissertation is to fill in the vacant spots in the innovation and diffusion study, which are meaningful but have not had much work done previously. First, most policy diffusion studies have focused on the adoption of a...
The decision to be self-employed has been studied in numerous scholarly papers. In particular, there has been interest in the decision to become an entrepreneur in relation to the macroeconomic climate. Scholars reference the potential...
Abstract This study examines state agency leadership and the viability of the traditional politics-administration dichotomy in state government. Despite all the academic theorizing about how appointed public managers should be involved...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
My dissertation investigates the dynamics of international capital flows, distinguishing between net and gross flows. Chapter One considers both net and gross capital flows. I develop a small open economy model which endogenous sudden...
There is a breadth of literature analyzing how particular institutional frameworks affect the propensity to engage in violent conflict. The democratic peace theory suggests that democracies will be less likely to engage in conflict with...
We live in a highly connected world and individuals rarely, if ever, make decisions in complete isolation. Rather, our decisions and subsequent outcomes are often influenced by the decisions of others around us. Social, economic, and...
Seagrasses are valued for the range of ecosystem services they provide such as nursery and adult habitat for commercially and recreationally fished species, a critical food resource for threatened species, and filtration systems for...
Against the backdrop of constrained resources and increasing demands, governments across the world have adopted performance budgeting systems. However, it is also true that most countries implementing performance budgeting systems don't...
How can regional organizations create differences in coordination and planning decisions based on their organizational and institutional makeup? As metropolitan areas are increasingly expanding beyond the geographical and political...
Since its inception the European Union has made great strides in the realm of regional integration. However, the political and economic crises of the last decade have fundamentally changed the political landscape of the EU and have had...
One of the main concerns about immigration is knowing whether immigrants will assimilate into American society. To assess whether immigrants have fully assimilated, the economic outcomes of their children must be analyzed. Previous...
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...
Urban growth causes environmental changes on a global scale. Coastal regions which undergo fast landscape transitions and population growth are facing higher risks from ecological degradation and severe natural hazards. However, the...
Local governments are becoming an increasingly important arm of governance and public goods provision. As the role of counties and municipalities continues to expand so must our understanding of their inner workings and relationships to...
One of the key determinants of health and wellbeing for adolescents is the utilization of preventive health services. While adolescents are generally healthy, public health officials warn that access to health insurance, preventive care, ...
This dissertation explores two distinct lines of inquiry that are linked thematically through their focus on how narrow or broad an individual's world is affects that individual's beliefs and actions, as well as their regional focus on...
This dissertation seeks to understand the human decision-making process, not only in the context of neoclassical economics, but also in consideration of social and psychological factors. Through both qualitative and quantitative...
Older United States (U.S.) veterans are a population at risk for disability due to their early life experiences with military service and increasing age. Military service was a normative part of early adult life for today's older U.S....
The essays comprising this dissertation intersect public policy and consequential personal decisions: attending college, adopting a child, or choosing the right neighborhood. These selections have an enduring effect on an individual’s...
My dissertation "Inequality, Context, and Prosocial Behavior: An Examination of Redistributive Preferences" contributes to an emergent literature on the effects of inequality on policy outcomes by illuminating the psychological and...
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...
Many states within the U.S., including Florida, have seen steady population growth since the 1950s. While population growth can lead to economic growth, excessive growth of urban areas can lead to negative externalities such as road...
The percentage of older adults residing in America’s auto-oriented suburbs is projected to grow significantly in the coming decades. When these individuals are no longer able to safely drive themselves, they may seek alternative modes of...
In two empirical studies, this dissertation explores the how young mothers spend their time constructing motherhood. The first study (Chapter 2) explores self-reported teen mother time use and compares it to their non-mother counterparts...
Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado...
Although several studies have examined race and gender differences in gun-related attitudes, little is known about how racialized and gendered attitudes might contribute to the gun policy preferences and gun ownership rates of Americans....
The proportion of individuals aged 65 and over is growing at an astronomical rate in the United States, and some estimate that this demographic age group will double by the year 2025. Aging adults are primarily dependent on the personal...
Numerous scholars have argued that highly autonomous executives are a threat to democracy, which makes understanding the conditions surrounding the use of unilateral action an important topic for research. Accordingly, I turn to the...
In this dissertation, I attempt to answer the question, what are the important factors that predict whether or not people will learn political facts? I make the case that two mechanisms of motivated reasoning theory—confirmation bias and...
The link between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and mortality has been well-established, but evidence continues to suggest that this relationship begins in early life with parental SES. There is evidence that allostatic load (AL)...
This dissertation investigates teachers’ views and uses of Hip Hop culture. Many sociologists have used cultural capital theory to explain educational disparities among social groups. Cultural capital theory posits that because schools...
Living wage laws are a common local government policy to mandate higher wages for a subsection of the labor market. Advocates of these policies suggest the higher mandated wage will lead to greater effort contrary to predictions made by...
The importance of older adults' health is increasing with extending lifespans. Despite a large amount of research conducted on older adults' health, little is known about sexual orientation differences. Although some studies have...
Capital control policies, such as certificate of need (CON) regulations, are often touted as a means of combatting the rising costs of healthcare. However, such policies often have little to no concern with their impact on health...
The gendered allocation of time to household labor has important consequences for marital well-being. However, much of what is known about gendered patterns in housework and their consequences is derived from cross-sectional studies....
Do transnational ethnic linkages between third party states and disputants affect the probability of intervention? If so, how does regime type, power distribution of groups, and borders affect this decision? Do these interventions help...
The goal of this research is to understand the role, influence, and attitudes of downtown Atlanta business elites on downtown redevelopment policies. The downtown business elites has dominated the local politics of Atlanta for decades in...
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are third-party administrators that assist employers and insurers in managing prescription drug benefits. The practices of PBMs remain largely unregulated at the national level and lack transparency, ...
Hurricane evacuation refers to an individual’s or household’s response to a hurricane threat by temporarily relocating somewhere safe. However, it is rarely the case that everyone will comply when he/she is ordered to evacuate by...
This dissertation investigates the effects of federal grant-in-aid programs on metropolitan area economic growth and recovery in "green" energy and environmental sectors of the economy, focusing on the role of self-organizing...
Within movement scholarship, there is insufficient research that examines how social identities influence frame resonance and alignment. How macro frames are used by activists to narratively construct their micro mobilization narratives, ...
This qualitative study, which examines media representation issues of China’s Zhuang people and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is based on a content analysis of the People’s Daily, the official media organ of the Chinese Communist...
While significant scholarly attention has been given to the literatures on civil war and on alliances, there has not been any exploration of the important role international alliances play in civil war onset. This dissertation posits...
Unprecedented shifts in age structure has important implications for the number of people ages 65 and older living with disabilities and requiring long-term care. Further, health care trends, including the early discharge of hospital...
My dissertation explores the Comité Pro Santa Cruz, a Bolivian rightwing social movement which developed to promote the political and economic interests of the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz’s white and mestizo “elite” social...
In my dissertation I evaluate perspectives of development participation in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Using semi-structured interviews and Q methodology, I assess what priorities exist in Foz economic strategies, what groups are perceived to...
This dissertation consists of three individual studies on the role of state governments in social welfare. The first paper discusses the relationship between gubernatorial administrative capacity and the ability for Democrats to increase...
The dissertation investigates what forms the relationship between collaboration risks and collaborative action takes and what patterns of collaborative action emerge, to what extent of political homophily affects the pattern of networked...
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