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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Comparative Public Policy"”.
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The Impact of Utilitarian Public Policies on Minority Communities: A Comparison of New York City and New South Wales, Australia.
… ways in which utilitarianism manifests itself in comparative public policy. While public policy studies tend to focus on national levels, cities, and states can also be major sites of theoretical and policy formulation that are adopted globally. The moral ethics that are involved in public policy …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
<p>My dissertation advances the theory of democratic representation by separating descriptive representation from substantive representation. Although there has been a substantial amount of research on the relationship between gender and legislative representation, there are conflicting findings …
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The Role of the Epistemic Community in Influencing Privacy Legislation: The United States and the European Union
… community that informed and influenced privacy policy and legislation in the United States and the European Union. Because the United States was more advanced in computer technology than the European nations, awareness of privacy issues, and the privacy epistemic community, emerged first in the …
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Handcuffs or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination of the Influence that Political Institutions and Bureaucracy have on Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs
… and political institutions may have on drug policy. This research argues that bureaucrats define problems in ways that make their services the best possible solution to policymakers. Mediating the ability of bureaucrats to influence drug policy outcomes are political institutions. Certain …