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PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
(2018-07-18)
This dissertation examines the diffusion of performance-based funding policy in higher education based on the conceptual framework of policy innovation and diffusion. After examining the two waves of state adoption of ...
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' ...
Municipal productivity in high-quality service cities /
(1983)
In this study, the topic of municipal productivity is taken from its broadest definitional aspects to the identification of specific factors statistically associated with relative productivity in a narrow stratum of United ...
The impact of rural water districts on state water policy :
(1982)
The interlinks developed into a complex communication system that enabled those public officials involved in the water policy arena to influence legislators and other policy makers, so that policy favorable to the local ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Government Performance and Results Act and the Department of Defense: A view from the bottom.
(2004)
At least five government-wide reform initiatives have been attempted since the end of World War II. The latest is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed into law in 1993. A review of literature on government ...
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 ...
Images of decision-making and the launch of the Challenger space shuttle.
(1997)
Furthermore, I found that the interpretation of events leading to the Challenger decision was subject to the analyst's preconception of what transpired. I confined my research primarily to theoretical interpretations of ...