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Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
A qualitative model for designing and implementing effluent trading programs.
(1999)
Effluent trading programs (ETPs) have been proposed as cost-effective alternatives to command-and-control regulations for surface water quality management. In addition to reducing environmental compliance costs, ETPs may ...
In the eye of the storm: Mediators' perspectives on resolving labor-management conflict.
(1999)
The participant observation portion of my research involved attending the FMCS new mediator training program. This training program consisted of four intensive week-long training sessions. The interview data were derived ...
Coping with limits: Responding to reform in Oklahoma.
(1998)
The model of legislative reform posited here include internal factors like: members' characteristics, professionalism, and internal political culture. It also include external influences like: the constitution, the states' ...
Total Quality Management implementation and leadership perspectives in a state agency.
(1997)
The population selected for this study was comprised of the entire groups of upper and middle-managers of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. This agency was selected based on information gathered on its activities as ...
Images of decision-making and the launch of the Challenger space shuttle.
(1997)
Furthermore, I found that the interpretation of events leading to the Challenger decision was subject to the analyst's preconception of what transpired. I confined my research primarily to theoretical interpretations of ...
Political principles and Indian sovereignty.
(1999)
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty starts by examining the connection between the well being of Indian people and the sovereignty of Indian Nations. External "locus of control" turns up consistently as a potential ...
An examination of the fiscal adequacy and equity effects of class size mandates embedded in extensive statewide education reform.
(1997)
The simple regression analysis did not show evidence of inadequacy in state general aid funding over the years of implementation. In the multiple regression statistical procedure, the district valuation variable was ...
A field of study investigating behavior change in high-risk groups.
(1997)
This dissertation investigates the effects of a multidimensional planned social change campaign on high risk behavior. The Oklahoma Zero Tolerance law, which provides sanctions to drivers under 21 testing positive for any ...