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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 ...
Liberation and liberal freedom: A critique of Rawls's "Law of Peoples" in light of positive freedom.
(2006)
1T.H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 2000.
When politics is personal: The role of personal policy interests in legislative activity.
(2006)
Mainstream literature on congressional behavior continues to concentrate on reelection as members' primary motivator, rather than exploring the other reasons for the legislative activities in which members engage. Although ...
Work requirements and welfare participation: Analyzing the effects of the JOBS program.
(2000)
The 1996 welfare reform relies heavily on work as an antidote to "dependency." But have we any reason to expect work requirements to spur people to leave welfare? Recent experience provides an opportunity to analyze the ...
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 making of legislative agents: Interest group influence in congressional policymaking.
(2001)
These findings emphasize the importance of interest groups and their lobbyists in congressional policymaking. They make strategic decisions to use their resources to target members in key places along the paths of policymaking, ...
Neo-Populist Party emergence in advanced industrial democracies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
(2006)
This dissertation develops an explanatory model of neo-populist party emergence in advanced industrial democracies, specifically the founding of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Australia, the New Zealand First Party ...
Strategic arms limitations :
(1981)
The focus of this research is twofold: (1) to evaluate selected factors affecting progress in arms control, and (2) to analyze the proposed deployment of the mobile land-based ICBM concept in conjunction with a low altitude ...