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Consolidations in Higher Education: How Collaborative Structures and Processes Impact the Outcomes of Organizational Change
(2018-08)
Over the past several decades, institutions of higher education have found themselves in a difficult environment. States have reduced funding, total enrollment has either fallen or flattened across several years, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gender, Partisanship, and Women's Issues in Congressional Communication
(2018)
Despite much scholarly attention to women’s issues and women’s representation in recent decades, the definition of a women’s issue is not settled either in political science or public opinion. In this project, I present a ...
Warning Intelligence in Nuclear Crisis Management: Avoiding Catastrophic Miscalculation
(2018-07-23)
Despite efforts to reduce nuclear weapons proliferation and the general norm against nuclear weapons use which has survived since 1945, the threat of nuclear war between the United States and Russia continues. The United ...
How Far "Above the Fray"? Unpacking the Mechanisms of the Monarchical Advantage in the Arab Uprisings
(2018-05)
Every one of the eight monarchies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained standing in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, giving rise to claims of a “monarchical advantage” or “monarchical exceptionalism.” ...