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Predicting War, Predicting Peace
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the structure of a given situation and the way in which decision makers mentally process information interact to determine decisions. Decision are affected by the surrounding ecology, ...
It's my party...: Examining women as partisans within the United States Congress.
(2002)
The present work utilizes multiple data sources and methodological approaches to offer a more thorough analysis of the nuances of women's legislative behavior. In the first section, interview data is combined with Member- ...
Facilitative leadership in public organizations: A study of federal agency supervisors.
(2004)
Using secondary analysis of raw data from two federal government employee surveys, this study examines the concept of facilitative leadership by supervisors within federal agencies. Results from bivariate and multivariate ...
Working in the 'gray' area of a "permanent campaign": The routine, political and campaign activities of congressional district staff.
(2001)
The district staff members of incumbents in the United States House of Representatives perform vital representational and electoral functions. Nearly half of all personal staff in the United States Congress work 'back home' ...
Is human resources management in the leading states being reinvented?
(2004)
Reinventing government is an approach to public sector management theory that may be the most influential and significant in the past half century. It claims that the traditional government employment principles of fitness ...
Framing the Faith-Based Initiative: Black Church Elites and the Black Policy Agenda
(2009)
The Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a puzzle for black politics. In an academic realm where black faces in Congress are widely hailed as integral to black representation (e.g. Tate 2003), it behooves ...
Framing the Faith-Based Initiative: Black Church Elites and the Black Policy Agenda
(2009)
The Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a puzzle for black politics. In an academic realm where black faces in Congress are widely hailed as integral to black representation (e.g. Tate 2003), it behooves ...
The socialization of new employees in state government agencies.
(2004)
The most important finding from the analysis of the relationship between the agency type, agency size, and employee type and the type of tactics used to socialize new employees is the disconnect between the types of tactics ...
Reassessing Representative Bureaucracy: An Exploratory Analysis Using Role Perception
(2009)
Despite theoretical and empirical advances in the field of representative bureaucracy, scholars have yet to come to consensus on how to best define and measure the term. Many contemporary studies of representative bureaucracy ...
A study of female commanders in the United States Army: Culture, command and the women who lead.
(2003)
Organizational changes occurred at the individual level through the development of personal relationships. Organizational changes were manifested in several ways. Organizational changes occurred through personal interaction ...