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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...
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...
Local economic development is in transition to "green economic development." Local governments in the U.S. and other countries have adopted a variety of policy tools to promote green economic development and are appying them to to their...
Charter schools have now been in operation for two decades in the U.S., and for 15 years in Florida. Florida took the third place in the U.S. in the number of charter schools operated and the student enrollment in 2010. This study...
There is a vast literature concerning the political control that elected officials have over agency actors in the development of bureaucratic policymaking outputs. In the context of rulemaking, I theorize that, while political signals...
Economic development is always a central concern for local governments, and has become increasingly important as the federal role in this area has been reduced in the last two decades. More recently, county governments have extended...
This research examines the extent to which nonprofit organization engage in collaboration as a strategic tool using the lenses of network theory, strategic alliances, and interorganizational relations literature. It provides a unique...
With the data from Florida cities' comprehensive annual financial reports, first, we identified and categorized debt into three groups: (1) general obligation (GO) bonds, (2) notes, loan, leases, certificates of participation (NLL), and ...
Civil Service reform has swept through all levels of government during the last decade. These reforms call for greater managerial flexibility at the expense of civil servant employment security and tenure. This work examines the effects...
Recent research on local sustainability investigates the challenges to public health triggered by health disparities and inequalities. Modern public health sectors recognize that health behavioral changes among small groups and...
This is a study about organizational effectiveness in research centers and institutes (CIs) within public higher education institutions. In particular, this study focuses on how to measure their effectiveness by integrating competing...
Organizational Ownership and Service Quality: An Empirical Study on the Effect of for-Profit, Nonprofit, and Government Organizations on Nursing Home Quality
A nursing home includes a mixture of for-profit, nonprofit, and government-owned organizations as service providers. These organizations compete with each other to provide a better service quality. Thus, the nursing home service provides...
This study explores the relationship between social capital and police performance. Since substantial academic interest in social capital emerged, many studies demonstrate that social capital has a significant influence on social and...
The topic of municipal incorporation is increasingly reemerging as a topic dissevering of our attention. Metropolitan regions continue to grow and residents maintain a desire to live beyond the cities' borders. As these processes...
Over the past several decades, governments have carried out many public administration reforms in order to enhance public sector performance. However, the focus of the research on administrative reforms has been on their adoption 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...
During the past quarter century, efforts have been made to control rising hospital costs, which are the largest component of U.S. health care expenditures. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship among five community...
This dissertation research addresses issues related to how recent and pending public policies reframe the mission, operations, and evaluation of community colleges as a sub-sector of the post-secondary education in Florida. It focuses on...
State legislatures face many challenges in obtaining reliable information about the policy choices they face and the effectiveness of previously established programs, and they have limited ability to enforce agency compliance with...
Executive Order 99-281 (1999), commonly known as the "One Florida Initiative, abolished affirmative action policies in university admissions, state employment, and state contracting. This dissertation studies the impact that the...
Three Essays on Tax Collection: A Historical Review, A Formal Model, and an Empirical Test of the Government's Contractual Choice of Tax Collection Between Tax Farming and Tax Bureaucracy
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore questions about the government's contractual choice of tax collection between tax farming and tax bureaucracy. It is commonly assumed that tax collection is an inherent function of the...
The purpose of internal audit, according to the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), is to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of an organization's risk management, control, and governance processes. Weaknesses in any of these areas...
This dissertation investigates the formation and change of city boundaries in the United States since World War II (WWII). By drawing on previous literatures, it extend a political economy perspective that emphasizes trade-offs in the...
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...
Argyris and Schon (1996, p.xvii) contend, it is conventional wisdom that business firms, governments, nongovernmental organizations, schools, health care systems, regions…need to adapt to changing environments, draw lessons from past...
This dissertation examines the role of agency in county level decision making regarding Wal-Mart development within Florida counties. Framed by the theories of principal-agent, local government decision making and open systems this...
This project focuses on the intergovernmental relationship between states and their local communities in environmental policy in the United States. The dissertation examines both state and local policy tool choices using a single...
This study originated from the following two questions: to what extent do city governments engage in policy actions to restrict development and manage growth; and how do local political institutions shape the restrictiveness of local...
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...
This dissertation seeks to understand the prolong question, why local communities adopt or change land use policies. The previous literature has provided partial and incomplete explanations about this issue. Property rights model does...
In a recent conception, Frumkin (2002) identified expressive and instrumental activities as distinct functions of nonprofit/voluntary organizations, employing them as one component of a two-dimensional classificatory scheme to frame the...
A number of scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the effects of emotional labor on organizational performance (Hochschild, 1983). The literature's focus on private industry reports a negative influence on its consequences...
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...
The Diffusion and Reinvention of a Spatially Targeted Economic Development Program in Florida: Contextual Influences on the Adoption of Enterprise Zones, Policy Tools, and State Authorized Local Incentives by Urban Governments
This dissertation describes the nature of and causes of urban economic decline and highlights government policy strategies to address this problem. It reviews the policy adoption, policy tools, and policy reinvention literature. It...
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...
The interaction of policy and management presents a close relationship in administrative practices. This dissertation estimates the impacts on use of local performance measures related to local service contracting. The previous research...
What factors account for local institutional choices such as adoption of impact fees? Is there a pattern to impact fee adoptions? These questions are of critical importance because in the United States, local governments are primarily...
Studies of local emergency management and homeland security collaboration have rapidly grown in the public administration research. Local governments are viewed as key actors in the U.S. to coordinate national counterterrorism efforts...
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...
In recent years, the legalization of medical marijuana in states has been a controversial topic. Despite conflicting with the federal government ban on marijuana use, 28 states and D.C. have legalized medical marijuana by the year 2016...
While there is a robust business management research field on rater motivation related to personnel appraisals, almost no research in the public sector exists on this topic. This paper makes the case for a theory based, on the public...
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 research seeks to uncover why communities adopt and policies that influence growth by affecting the cost and timing of new development. It also seeks to account for variation across specific development decisions that result from...
One of the most important questions rising out of the War on Terror and the end of the Cold War is how changes in a country's defense spending will affect its economic performance. Despite the significant amount of work on the defense...
Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) has received considerable attention in business and other social sciences disciplines. However, no study has examined the link between workplace and non-workplace PEB; almost no research study has focused...
What factors account for management innovations such as utilization of strategic planning in local governments? Do management innovations depend on the same explanatory factors as policy innovations? What additional factors are relevant...
The research question guiding of this dissertation asks, How and to what extent do network relations of a city with organizations within its community and external networks with external governmental and other development actors...
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...
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