Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Kickham, Kenneth"
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Analyzing PAC's.
Resendez, Daniel (2013)Political action committees have been the subject of controversial court cases and legislative reform. Judicial decisions and legislative reforms are the product of creating campaign finance aiming at the creation of a ... -
Educating with the arts : how art education policy impacts educational outcomes
Deter-Billings, Mary Louisa (2015)The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of art education policy on educational outcomes. While past literature focuses on how art in the classroom can raise individual test scores, this research takes a broader ... -
It must be the money : family structure, child well-being, and public policy.
Nowlin, Matthew C. (2008)This study proposed to examine the interactions between income, family structure, race and child well-being. Educational achievement was used as a proxy for child well-being. -
Judicial activism : a study of the Warren through Rehnquist courts.
Viscosi, Ashland (2009)Despite the dismissive attitude toward the concept of judicial activism among some members of the academic community, it nevertheless continues to be a relevant theme in politics. Conservatives tend to use this phrase as ... -
National identities and the decolonization experiences of France and Great Britain.
Crawford, Christopher (2018)By the late twentieth century, both France and Great Britain achieved a similar status as economically-developed democracies of middling size within a global capitalist system. Yet each entered the twentieth century ... -
Opportunistic federalism is failing : a case for change in Ouroborosian policy making.
Kennedy, Philip C. (2014)The current federalism paradigm has been on a path to failure since its inception. The various methods of federalism from the past have attempted to effectively fuse both federal and state power based on the most pervasive ... -
Ratings agencies and governance.
Bagwell, Stephen (2012)As recently as last year, the United States was facing a monumental decision in regards to economic policy: should the debt ceiling be raised? The answer itself, while important, was not the motivation behind this research, ... -
Reforming the criminal justice system : a pragmatic approach to building a sustainable system.
Smith, Da'mon J. (2011)Much of the literature on the "administration of justice" literature is engrossed with topics that typically concern criminologist, judges, layers and police, and therefore, is absentminded of its own identity and purpose. ... -
Repairing a strategic partnership : Congress and US foreign policy with Turkey.
Bowyer, Jared W. (2012)The United States and Turkey have shared an important strategic partnership since Turkey was admitted to NATO in 1952. This relationship began to decline following Turkey's denial of Washington's request to position US ... -
Term limits and interest group influence.
England, Jessica (2009)Supporters of term limits argued that they would decrease interest group influence. Using data from 24 states from 1998 to 2008, this paper finds that this assumption is not the case. This analysis finds that states with ... -
The new deal for city management : a principal-agent theory policy analysis.
Pate, Steven Shane (2007)This thesis examines the historical development of principal-agent theory as it has been applied to municipal management, and how this theory helps us explain the high attrition rate in the city management profession. ... -
The persistence of the gender wage gap in the 21st century.
Stringham, Jennifer Irene Strobel (2012)The goal of this research project is to determine whether the gender wage gap still exists, and if so, why it continues to exist. It explores the evolution of federal wage equality legislation, the establishment of the ... -
The political economy of migration in China.
Yang, Yutong (2012)Since opening up its economy to international trade and investment in the 1970s, China has undergone the largest transfer of rural populations to urban eras in modern history. In order to achieve these growth levels, massive ... -
Why churches deserve tax exemption : the impact of Southern Baptists in Oklahoma.
Brodersen, Paul Michael (2007)This paper continues the research on faith-based nonprofit's relationship with government in providing social programs and provides a cost/benefit analysis of nonprofit tax-exemption--Abstract, Leaf 4."