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The Strain of the Herd: Risk Perceptions, Policy Preferences, and Parental Decision-Making for Childhood Vaccination
(2012)
As the vaccine controversy continues to deepen in the United States, this dissertation research addresses how we can better understand and deal with this issue in respect to public policy in general and public health policy ...
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 ...
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 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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
State Participation in United Nations Peackeeping Operations: An Empirical Analysis
(2012)
This dissertation examines states and their motivations in contributing troops to UN peacekeeping operations through the three primary International Relations approaches of realism, liberalism and constructivism. Current ...
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AS A PROFESSIONAL FIELD
(2012)
This dissertation is based on an exploratory study of GIS as it has evolved as a professional field. This study is relevant because it provides a fundamentally different approach to study professionals within a particular ...