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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Policy history"”.
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A policy history of Hanford's atmospheric releases
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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An Analysis of the Collaboration between Child Welfare and Early Childhood Education Systems in Cuyahoga County
A review of the legislative and policy history of child welfare and early childhood education systems highlights gaps in communication, data sharing and planning between the two agencies. Closing these gaps can have a significant, positive effect on many aspects of the development and achievement …
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The role of special interest groups in agricultural policy: a case study of the 1995 Farm Bill
… important role in the formation of agricultural policy. History has shown that agricultural policy has developed gradually over time and major reform is rare. When reform does take place, however, it is not without the support of interest groups. This study describes the manner in which these …
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Automating user privacy policy recommendations in social media
… have been proposed to assist users with privacy policy configuration. These approaches are however, limited to either protecting only profile attributes, or only protecting user-generated content. This is problematic, because both profile attributes and user-generated content can contain …
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West German foreign policy towards the Arab states, 1967-1979: history of a disappointment
… on archival material, on West German foreign policy towards the Arab states during the Cold War. It shows how, during the 1970s, West Germany attempted to engage in a specific ‘Arab policy’, which ran along five dimensions: the dynamics of the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the …
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Brand new China: performing heritage, culture, and harmony in the global business of national identity
… weaving through an examination of nationhood, policy, history, and culture. The dissertation consists of 4 chapters, besides the introduction and conclusion. Chapter 1 outlines the historical path of China’s global image, from isolation in ancient times to Mao’s aggressive propaganda to the …
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Alcohol policy as defined by path dependency and Prohibition
… more inclined to prohibit alcohol sales reached policy equilibrium that enabled regulation to persist. This paper will use an original data set that combines historical data from the U.S Census and archival data with modern measures of religiosity, along with constructed composite variables that …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
… for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on this process using an analytic framework developed by the National Research Council (NRC) (Hayes, 1982). Analyses focused on …
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A policy story of continuity and change : reflections on the Obama Administration's Metropolitan Agenda
… really was. This thesis is an exploration of policy history and transformation purposed to address the following question: where did the Obama Metropolitan Agenda come from and how is this effort different from past ones that aimed to achieve similar goals? By understanding the evolution and …
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Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis
… restructuring of unemployment and taxation policy in the 1980s and 1990s. Theoretically it is inspired by a post-Marxist discourse analytical approach that focuses on discourses as political strategies. This approach has made it possible, through an analysis of changing citizenship …
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Co-operative Commonwealth or New Jerusalem? The Co-operative Party and the Labour Party, 1931-1951.
… argue that Co-operative Party contributions to policy discussions provide an alternative perspective from which a growing recognition of the diversity of influences on the Labour Party can be explored. In doing so this thesis will also provide an original interpretation of the organisational and …
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Asset utilization efficiency and energy asset turns: a new approach for evaluating and comparing renewable energy projects
… ex-ante expectations based on the regional policy-history of the industry. The second case study examines impacts in the performance of physical-assets that may result from technological advances in a given energy-production system. This case study uses cross-sectional data from surveys and …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… framework to interpret the ethics of US foreign policy. They rendered the book of Revelation’s symbol of a “lamblike” beast that behaves like a “dragon” as a prophetic indictment against the United States for professing to champion civil and religious liberty while carrying out an imperialistic …
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Gender Integration Into The Military: A Meta-Analysis Of Norway, Canada, Israel, And The United States
… compares and contrasts the American current policy divergent to three other countries’ policies that have successfully integrated women into combat: Norway, Canada, and Israel. Through this examination, an opportunity to recognize gaps in training and procedural information that are most …
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Are Condo Owners Changing San Francisco's Voting Habits?
<p> As San Francisco grows and continues to draw more people to its shores, the question of how these changes will impact the city’s political identity is one that desires a lot of time, research, and attention. This paper seeks to provide some light on one of these questions; how are condo owners …
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China-U.S Relations: Techno‑Nationalism, Strategic Entrapment, and Taiwan.
… security. Through historical analysis and policy tracing, the thesis develops the concept of strategic entrapment to explain how both Washington and Beijing have become politically and institutionally constrained from de-escalating rivalry, even when continued escalation produces …
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Partisanship and Opportunities for Additional Bipartisanship in Tech Immigration and Privacy Reform
This paper explores the history of technology and government by analyzing the longstanding partisan advantage Democrats have had in the Silicon Valley and other tech hubs. Additionally, this paper seeks out opportunities for bipartisanship, specifically in the legislative realms of tech privacy and …
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Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History
… definition. Then, I explain the institutional history of modern day propaganda. Finally, I offer suggestions on how to better adapt modern American propaganda to the 21st century.</p>
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