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Municipal productivity in high-quality service cities /
(1983)
In this study, the topic of municipal productivity is taken from its broadest definitional aspects to the identification of specific factors statistically associated with relative productivity in a narrow stratum of United ...
The impact of rural water districts on state water policy :
(1982)
The interlinks developed into a complex communication system that enabled those public officials involved in the water policy arena to influence legislators and other policy makers, so that policy favorable to the local ...
Retrieving lost ideals :
(1980)
The Alliance for Progress, which was intended to intercept a social revolution that had been set in motion and enable the United States to channel the revolution toward peaceful change, promoted authoritarian and suppressive ...
Multipolarity and East Asia.
(1982)
The East Asian geographic subsystem was chosen as the region to be analyzed because of the author's belief that changes in the East Asian subsystem since 1945 have always preceded changes in the global international system. ...
Democracy and Emergency rule in India :
(1980)
An analysis of the actions of the Emergency reveals a systematic perversion of the fundamental concepts of constitutionalism and a corresponding attempt at the institutionalization of an authoritarian political system in ...
State government responsiveness to urban problems :
(1983)
The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the importance of city needs in the allocation of state aid to city governments. While the responsiveness of federal aid to cities has received some attention in the literature, ...
A strategy for survival of Thailand :
(1980)
The military governments favored policy changes that were in basic conformity with previous patterns. They generally favored continued alignment with the United States.
A study in acculturation and political development :
(1980)
A fundamental concept of this study is that the basic element of determining the nature of a political culture is the kind of orientation towards authority which characterizes it. Parochial, subject, and participant cultures, ...
American conservative utopias.
(1983)
An analysis of the four utopias demonstrates that conservatism has an ideology from which utopias can be formulated; that such utopias will not presume mankind to be perfect, good, equal one to another, or completely ...
Compliance-gaining strategies as revealed by the contents of selected federal funding proposals.
(1982)
This study involved the testing of a typology of persuasive strategies in a descriptive setting for the first time. The "Project Narrative" portion of a set of federal funding proposals was analyzed via content analysis.