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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 ...
Forced political reorientation in Japan :
(1984)
The research leads to the conclusion that the Occupation had considerable "product-affect" but little "system-affect, " that broad liberalization of the pre-war utranationalism was perhaps the most significant product of ...
The Politics of Partisan Issue Attention: Connecting Congress and Policy Subsystems
(2015-05)
Attention is a disruptive force in politics; it is also a scarce resource. Decision-makers must prioritize which issues receive attention—typically educing policy change—and which issues are ignored. While issue attention ...
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...
In the eye of the storm: Mediators' perspectives on resolving labor-management conflict.
(1999)
The participant observation portion of my research involved attending the FMCS new mediator training program. This training program consisted of four intensive week-long training sessions. The interview data were derived ...
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 ...
The policy and electoral implications of increasing gender representation in politics
(2021-05-14)
Despite more than a century since the first woman was elected to the U.S. Congress and women gained the right to vote, women remain underrepresented in Washington D.C., making up only about a quarter of lawmakers. In three ...