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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, ...
Predicting War, Predicting Peace
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the structure of a given situation and the way in which decision makers mentally process information interact to determine decisions. Decision are affected by the surrounding ecology, ...
Working in conflict: how bureaucrats navigate accountability pressures
(2022)
Bureaucrats make policy. So, understanding their motivations behind discretionary choices, or ultimate decisions about their role and agency are pivotal toward examining policy outcomes. This dissertation attempts to expand ...
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. ...
It's my party...: Examining women as partisans within the United States Congress.
(2002)
The present work utilizes multiple data sources and methodological approaches to offer a more thorough analysis of the nuances of women's legislative behavior. In the first section, interview data is combined with Member- ...
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 ...