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Democracy and Emergency rule in India :
(1980)
An analysis of the actions of the Emergency reveals a systematic perversion of the fundamental concepts of constitutionalism and a corresponding attempt at the institutionalization of an authoritarian political system in ...
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 ...
State government responsiveness to urban problems :
(1983)
The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the importance of city needs in the allocation of state aid to city governments. While the responsiveness of federal aid to cities has received some attention in the literature, ...
The representative method: Legislative behavior in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
(2006)
This dissertation presents a model which examines three facets of representation. The study of legislative representation has been discussed within the categories of representative focus, constituency responsiveness, and ...
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 ...
A study in acculturation and political development :
(1980)
A fundamental concept of this study is that the basic element of determining the nature of a political culture is the kind of orientation towards authority which characterizes it. Parochial, subject, and participant cultures, ...
The tenuous majority: The effect of two-party competition on the House of Representatives.
(1999)
This dissertation relies on interviews of members of Congress and their staff, in conjunction with the historical record, to illustrate how the new race for the House and the new era of tenuous, narrow House majorities is ...
Executive budget success: Evidence from the American states.
(2006)
Budgeting is among the executive's most important powers in a separated political system. The extent to which executive budget proposals are adopted by the legislature is an important measure of the executive's political ...
NGOs in the crosshairs: Non-governmental organizations and the terrorist threat.
(2004)
This study addresses the impact of terrorism and political violence on non-governmental organizations. The research is divided into two main sections. The first utilizes secondary source material to evaluate the nature and ...