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Medicaid and the politics of state health care reform.
(1998)
This research draws upon the framework established by Oliver and Paul-Shaheen (1997). They argue that two general types of elements influence health care reform; contextual conditions and dynamic factors. Contextual ...
Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
The determinants of community college faculty attitudes toward unionization.
(1999)
This study examines unionization among faculty in higher education. Specifically, C. Wright Mills' theory of white-collar unionism is used to analyze the factors affecting attitudes toward unionization among community ...
The Catholic Church and the rebirth of civil society: Elite convergence, mobilization and democratic transitions in east-central Europe.
(1998)
In addition to these developments at the elite level, the Church also nurtured moral and religious values at the grassroots level, sometimes in difficult conditions such as in Czechoslovakia. The stronger and more visible ...
Political learning in adolescence: A survey of political awareness and attitudes of middle school students in the heartland.
(1998)
The results of this study of 942 middle school students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools reveal that family discussions of politics and group membership provide a pull into the world of politics for many adolescents. ...
Out of the shadow of organization: An exploration of work and the human spirit.
(1998)
Recently, the organizational literature has acknowledged the human spirit and the need for organizations and their leaders to tend to the spiritual needs of organizational members. There is agreement that human beings at ...
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...
In the eye of the storm: Mediators' perspectives on resolving labor-management conflict.
(1999)
The participant observation portion of my research involved attending the FMCS new mediator training program. This training program consisted of four intensive week-long training sessions. The interview data were derived ...
The Christian Right and congressional elections in Oklahoma: Can a social movement impact candidate-centered elections?
(1999)
The research indicates a flaw in McAdam's model, the need to develop continuing leadership if a social movement is to avoid decline. The surge and decline nature that McAdam builds into his political process model of social ...
Coping with limits: Responding to reform in Oklahoma.
(1998)
The model of legislative reform posited here include internal factors like: members' characteristics, professionalism, and internal political culture. It also include external influences like: the constitution, the states' ...