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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Legislative Policy"”.
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Illinois Legislative Policy-Making: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Social Construction of Health Issues Related to Women
… influence, the future direction of health care policy at the state government level.
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A Multiple Case Study of Memorial Crime Control Legislation and the Disconnect Between Legislative and Empirical Success
… document and acknowledge the disconnect between legislative policy creation and scholarly research regarding, and to highlight the need for academic criminologists to take greater interest in the 'hot topics' that dominate legislative policy creation.
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Elderly Offenders: An American Corrections Catch-22?
… offender population. A review of sentencing policy in Kansas will then be conducted, with specific focus on downward departure sentencing based upon advanced age. Recommendations that are made to address the continued growth of the Kansas elderly offender population include both proposed …
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Assessing democratic quality and performance in legislatures
… thesis looks into the possibility of assessing legislative performance and democratic quality using performance management frameworks and methods used for organisational development and change and whether measurement of this kind is beneficial to improving democratic quality and the legitimation …
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Social Policy and Compliance: An Experimental Study on Taxpayer Behavior
… political stimuli have driven many governmental legislative policy changes. Funding for government initiatives primarily comes from federal tax dollars; thus, legislators regularly deliberate on the importance of taxpayer compliance. This study investigated the impact of morality and social …
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Energy Transition Impacts for Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Differences in Energy Transition Policies in Germany and Appalachia and their Impact on Coal Employment Outcomes
… framework, this thesis identifies potential policy actions to overcome barriers to a just transition and improve outcomes for workers with durable legislative policy. Extensive literature review including policies, analysis, commentary, and publicly available data, is employed to …
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The background of state forest practice legislation and its impact upon forest land use and management
… boards promulgating regulations based on legislative policy; (2) single agency enforcement; (3) classification of forest practices according to their potential for environmental damage; and (4) a priority inspection system.
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Access to educational and health care services for school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… with ADHD, but a change in special education legislative policy on ADHD occurred in 1997 that was expected to enable their access to these services. This dissertation research used a legal method to investigate access to educational services surrounding this change. In addition, parents were …
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Congressional Statutory Responses to Supreme Court Precedent: Comparing the Breadth and Potency of Statutes Invalidated by the Rehnquist Court and Analogous Statutes Subsequently Repassed by Congress
… survived judicial scrutiny, and lastly, whether legislative policy goals or Court precedents prevailed. The research focused on the Rehnquist Court because it invalidated an unprecedented 34 federal statutes. This analysis found that Congress offered 11 proposals, but only repassed four statutes …
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The tailored information sharing decision model: A qualitative study exploring how expert lobbyists influence state legislators
To share information effectively with state legislative policymakers, administrators of nonprofit organizations need policy practice knowledge and skills. This study presents a theory of tailored information sharing to help social workers and others who administer nonprofit organizations enhance …
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The impact of service-learning on cognitive development
… recently gained the attention of educators and legislative policy-makers. Participation in service activity has been positively correlated with attitudinal outcomes and the development of a responsible citizenry. While many philosophical and political proposals have been offered for why …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague legal language and selective enforcement to suppress gender nonconformity while maintaining plausible deniability of discriminatory intent. Despite significant scholarship on LGBTQIA+ rights, policy diffusion, and free …
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Immigration policy and the role of political discourses in the relationship between foreign nationals and crime in England and wales
… by examining the nature of immigration policy, foreign criminality discourses, and the media in the UK to understand how crime in particular has been used to define, refine, and inform control of immigrants. This study refers to the legislative, policy, and political factors that …
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What are social workers’ perceptions of needs and services to LGBT people living with dementia and what factors influence their perceptions?
… This is concerning, especially considering the legislative, policy and ethical framework in which providers of social care operate.<br/><br/>This study adopted a qualitative, constructivist approach utilising twelve in-depth semi-structured interviews. The findings demonstrated that services …
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Analysis of the land administration and housing management systems in view of adequate self-built incremental housing development in Lesotho
… Looking at the existing land and housing legislative, policy and process frameworks, and their implementation, SBIH continues developing in a fragmented, siloed, conflicting rationality space. Further analysis using the theory of spatial planning provides compelling insights into the LAS …
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An essay on liability insurance and accident compensation and five papers on liability insurance
… that satisfy both the security requirements of policyholders and their own need to price liability risks accurately and reduce their uncertainties to manageable proportions. Part 4 examines behavioural aspects of liability insurance and the issue of moral hazard: the possibility that the …
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Drug offences: substantive and procedural criminal law relating to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
… criminogenic effects were produced by this legislative activity. They include: Did premature restrictions cause amplification of the range of substances that became the subjects of abuse? Do the restraints that are now imposed have a scope and severity disproportionate to the social harm …
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Women's right to access family planning and maternal health care services in Hwange rural district, Zimbabwe: challenges and opportunities
… revealed that although most of Zimbabwe's legislative, policy and institutional frameworks have provisions that comply with international obligations, the frameworks also contain restrictive provisions which perpetuate the challenges women face in accessing reproductive health care …