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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 ...
Health care reform at the subnational level: An analysis of the diffusion of health policy innovations among American states.
(1997)
This dissertation uses the framework of Walker's (1969) seminal study on the diffusion of policy reforms to identify independent variables which help explain why some states are more likely than others to be innovative in ...
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)
Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ...