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When politics is personal: The role of personal policy interests in legislative activity.
(2006)
Mainstream literature on congressional behavior continues to concentrate on reelection as members' primary motivator, rather than exploring the other reasons for the legislative activities in which members engage. Although ...
Work requirements and welfare participation: Analyzing the effects of the JOBS program.
(2000)
The 1996 welfare reform relies heavily on work as an antidote to "dependency." But have we any reason to expect work requirements to spur people to leave welfare? Recent experience provides an opportunity to analyze the ...
Model-building in political science :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1966)
The political theory of Henry David Thoreau :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1973)
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 ...
The politics and jurisprudence of F.S.C. Northrop /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1964)
Law enforcement planning in the American states :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1971)
The making of legislative agents: Interest group influence in congressional policymaking.
(2001)
These findings emphasize the importance of interest groups and their lobbyists in congressional policymaking. They make strategic decisions to use their resources to target members in key places along the paths of policymaking, ...
Civil rights of the mentally ill and mentally retarded in Oklahoma /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1966)
Neo-Populist Party emergence in advanced industrial democracies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
(2006)
This dissertation develops an explanatory model of neo-populist party emergence in advanced industrial democracies, specifically the founding of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Australia, the New Zealand First Party ...