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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 ...
Empty Chairs in an Empty Chamber: Deconstructing the Myth of Debate in the U.S. Senate
(2022)
Debate in the U.S. Senate has been revered and mythologized throughout much of our history. The historical impression of Senate debate is that it is robust, civil, and well informed. At the same time, the terms deliberation ...
Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio
(2022-07-18)
This dissertation has two goals. The first goal is to understand better the Chicano Movement, which is understudied in political science. The second goal is to find which movement theory best explains why movements take ...
Citizens and Sectors: An Examination of Sector Preferences and Blame Attribution During Times of Certainty and Uncertainty
(2022)
The current era of sector convergence and blurred sector boundaries has important implications for the study of public and private management and how citizens interact, perceive, and experience public service deliveries ...