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Congress, the intelligence community, and the president: Evolving institutional relationships in the Post-Cold War Era.
(2000)
This dissertation is a case study of Congressional-Executive Branch relations with respect to intelligence policy. The project utilizes the methods of secondary source assessment, interviews with key governmental officials, ...
Unexpected participants in democracy: Refuge, community, and activism in a congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church.
(2001)
The findings indicate that this denomination offers a unique contribution by empowering certain individuals who would otherwise not participate in the gay liberation movement. The ethnographic study suggests that in more ...
State party organizations as campaign service providers: A three-state study of candidate and party perceptions.
(2005)
The advent of the candidate-centered campaign in conjunction with an array of social, political, and economic changes have altered the electoral environment and the way traditional state political party organizations have ...
The influence of legislative fiscal analysts in the state budget process.
(2003)
This research found that the majority of all respondents perceived legislative fiscal analysts to be influential in the state budget process, although different degrees of influence were found among the four states under ...
Choosing to run: The dynamics of candidate emergence in the state legislature of Oklahoma.
(2001)
This research is a qualitative study on potential candidates who were in the process of deciding to run for the state legislature. From the interviews and observations of potential candidates, a greater understanding ...
The role of scientists and scientific information in public policy decisions: The case of drought planning.
(2005)
In addition to general interaction between the two communities, differences within elements of the communities also are highlighted. Scientists interact with policy-makers and the public at-large through several different ...
Perceptions of people, process, and policy on political trust.
(2007)
The qualities of the people serving in government, the processes used, and the policies that result have been put forth in the literature as possible determinants of political trust (Miller and Borrelli 1991; Ulbig 2002; ...