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POLICY NARRATIVES AND CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY MAKING OVER THE DISPUTED DIAOYU ISLANDS: TESTING SYSTEMS THEORY IN CHINA
(2012)
China's foreign policy has been making an assertive turn. Over the disputed Diaoyu Islands against Japan, China adopted the most assertive policy so far in 2010. However, in previous incidents of 1996 and 2004, such assertive ...
BIAS, GATEKEEPING, OR AMBITION?: FEMALE CANDIDATES IN STATE LEGISLATURES
(2015)
Women hold only 24.2% of the seats in state legislatures across the United States, despite being 50.8% of the total population. This low figure presents serious concerns about the quality of representation for half of the ...
THE KNOWLEDGE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A CONCEPT, CONTENT, AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOKS
(2011)
Disciplinary knowledge is what scholars pursue in their fields, what practitioners execute in practice, and what students learn for future careers. Despite various appraisals of the nature of the study (Waldo 2007[1948]; ...
From Outcast to Established Players - The Transformation of Non-Democratic Parties After Democratization
(2011)
This dissertation investigates and examine how the Kuomintang has
The Effects of Populism on Democratic Quality in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine
(2013)
This dissertation examines the impact of populism on democratic quality in post-Communist Europe. It focuses on three dimensions of democratic quality evaluating the effect of populism on responsiveness in the Czech Republic, ...
Defining Policy Issues: The Dynamics of Information Processing and Issue Definitions
(2013)
This dissertation examines how information is translated into issue
Nonprofit Collaboration: Building Relationships Across Sectors
(2014-05-09)
Discussions about nonprofit organizations often portray a very unique sector with a specific set of values, goals, and norms. And yet, there is a lot of diversity among nonprofit organizations in role, purpose and structure. ...
Emotion and Individual Reasoning about Crises and Disasters
(2012)
This dissertation advances our understanding of the way that individuals think about and respond to natural and anthropogenic disasters. I accomplish this by way of theoretical specification and empirical testing. With ...
The Politics of Partisan Issue Attention: Connecting Congress and Policy Subsystems
(2015-05)
Attention is a disruptive force in politics; it is also a scarce resource. Decision-makers must prioritize which issues receive attention—typically educing policy change—and which issues are ignored. While issue attention ...
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
(2018-07-18)
This dissertation examines the diffusion of performance-based funding policy in higher education based on the conceptual framework of policy innovation and diffusion. After examining the two waves of state adoption of ...