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WORLDS APART: THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL WORLDVIEW ON THE POLICY PREFERENCES OF THE RICH AND POOR
(2018-05-11)
In March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law amid mixed reviews from the public. The primary research question for this dissertation is: what explains the public’s level of support ...
The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in Ireland and Italy
(2012)
How is European integration affecting patterns of capital-labour interaction? More specifically, how is the inclusion of interest associations at the European level affecting the behavior of domestic interest associations? ...
In the Footsteps of the Infallibles: The Effects of Shi`a Narratives on Shi`a Political and Socilal Behavior in the United States
(2011)
This dissertation examines the effects of religious narratives on the political and social behavior of Shi‘a Muslims in the contemporary United States. It finds that American Shi‘as utilize the narratives of ...
Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States
(2018-03-27)
The popular and academic consensus on the substance of conservative opinion on immigration is that it is universally and overwhelmingly in favor of restrictive policy, but the existence of pro-immigration figures such as ...
Collaboration and Indian Education: Exploring Intergovernmental Relationships Between Tribes and Public Schools
(2012)
The education of American Indian students in public schools requires the coordinated effort of managers at multiple levels of government including tribal, local, state, and federal. With more than 90% of American Indian ...
Bureaucracies and the Supply of Information in Higher Education Policy
(2019-04-30)
Most discussions of the policy process begin with and focus on the legislative branch, as this is the institution most directly responsible for crafting policies. Many also bring the chief executive or interest group ...
From the Mundane to the Profound: Developing a Political Model of Weather Information Processing and Climate Change Beliefs
(2019-08)
This dissertation examines the relationships between the mundane, our daily habits of weather information collection, and the profound, our beliefs about climate change and relevant policy solutions. Climate change is a ...
Organized Interests in Congressional Elections
(2011)
Why do political action committees (PACs) donate money to some candidates and not others? Answers to this PAC-strategy question take two different forms. First, scholars emphasize demand-side variables of the legislative ...
Subsystem Contexts and Policy Information: Conditional Effects on Information in Congressional Hearings
(2012)
While flows of policy information and the quest to acquire this information are generally accepted as important to the policymaking process (Krehbiel 1991; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993; Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Jones ...
The Cultural Origins of Mass Ideology
(2011)
What factors drive the thoughts that come to respondents' minds at the particular moment that a survey question is asked about their policy preferences? We have a partial answer to this question from the long tradition of ...