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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Policymaking Process"”.
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Modeling the dynamic complexity of the energy policymaking process
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2002.
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Analysis of the Policymaking Process Regarding the Rules and Regulations for Teacher Re -Certification in Illinois
"The result of the study verified that this policymaking process was quite contentious. Analysis, using the three policymaking frameworks, provided insight into the volatile nature of this process and possible explanations of why the implementation delays took place. Analysis revealed the struggle …
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The Language of Cultural Policy Advocacy: Leadership, Message, and Rhetorical Style
… Engaging in advocacy as part of a larger policymaking process requires actors inside and outside of government to employ various methods of persuasion. My dissertation explores some of these methods, particularly rhetorical techniques as a way to investigate policy change management. I …
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Exploring Experiences of Unofficial Actors in the Farm to School Policy-Making Process
… partially supported by unofficial actors in the policymaking process who promote legislation to encourage activities such as local procurement, school gardening, and agricultural education. However, farm to school legislation can vary in its level of effectiveness and implementation throughout …
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U.S. policy of conditioning China's most-favored-nation status on intellectual property protection, 1991-1993
… these institutions in the MFN decisionmaking process. By applying three conceptual models -- the rational actor model, the interest group model, and the interbranch politics model -- to the three distinct phases in the development of the MFN-IPR policy, this study finds that it is most useful …
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The Illinois Farmland Assessment Laws: A Case Study of the Political Passage and Implications for School Funding, 1977-1980
This study examines the policymaking process between March, 1977 and August, 1980 which resulted in the passage of the 1977 farmland assessment law, a major property tax reform. Examining the farmland assessment law as a dependent variable, the study focuses on identifying and analyzing the major …
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Japanese firms in the EU: Europeanization of lobbying strategies and enduring national characteristics
… features firms’ direct participation within the policymaking process. This thesis, based on four detailed case studies in automobile and electronics sectors, explores the Europeanization of Japanese firms' lobbying strategies, and assesses how they have adapted to the constantly evolving EU …
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Dignity'S Revolt: Threat, Identity, And Immigrant Mass Mobilization
… and its effects on the national electorate and policymaking process. Specifically, the study focuses on three research questions: 1) What explains the surprising rise and abrupt decline of the demonstrations across the country?; 2) How were the marches organized, and what explains variation in …
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The Politics of Evidence-Informed Policymaking: a case study of the Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy
… of research on effective evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM). However, studies on evidence use in policymaking tend to focus on singular aspects of the policy process, using ambiguous definitions and concepts for EIPM. Through a case study on the Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy (OPRS), …
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The power to define : newspaper representations of educational choice in Edmonton and Calgary, 1990-2005
… media public sphere as part of the educational policymaking process. The theory of definitional advantage suggests that powerful policy players have preferred access to media accounts of educational issues. Links between educational policy research and media research suggest that this …
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The roots of welfare reform: "the social forces underlying the Wisconsin Learnfare Program"
… are used sequentially in the analysis of the policymaking behind Learnfare. The first series consIsts of theories of the overall pollcymaking process, and includes the rational comprehensive, incrementalist, and two models of "organized anarchy" including the "garbage can" and "policy windows" …
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Privileged actors in environmental policymaking: the historical development of the aviation industry in the UK
… position of privilege in environmental policymaking. It is claimed that historically the aviation industry has occupied such a position, manifest in tax breaks for fuel, delayed entry into the emissions trading scheme and continuing ability to secure permission for new airport …
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The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War: Normalization, Nongovernmental Actors and the Politics of Human Rights, 1975-1995
… issues. I am particularly interested in the policymaking process, and this project is the first to examine U.S. policies regarding missing American soldiers, boat and land people, Amerasians, and reeducation camp detainees in a single study and to place these issues in the context of …
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What's swimming in my glass? The debate over the Southern Nevada Water Authority's use of the return flow credit policy
… politically engage this growing community in the policymaking process.
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Money and Migration: Firm Behavior and Labor Immigration Policy
… expected to wield a stronger influence on the policymaking process due to their superior lobbying capabilities compared to their domestic counterparts. To empirically test this theory, I construct a novel labor immigration dataset to track changes in labor immigration across 25 high-income …
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Intermediated securities holding infrastructure an avant - garde system jeopardised by the usual suspects
… at the heart of the financial markets and the policymaking process i.e. (i) the policymaker’s role on the critical features of the intermediated holding infrastructure that exacerbate securities shortfall; and (ii) the purposeless effect of policymaking. The main aims of this study are to …
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The presidency and environmental policymaking: A critical assessment of George Bush
… become integrated into the American policymaking process. Recognized as an essential aspect of human quality of life, environmental policy receives ever increasing attention from American policymakers. Owing to developments such as the passage of the Clean Air Act and the United …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
… was. Additionally, this thesis will examine the policymaking process that took place within the Conservative Party between 1975 and 1979, assessing how far the role of neoliberal economic ideas played a part in the Party’s economic design. Lastly, this thesis will analyse the impact of the …
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Non-automotive manufacturing in the Eastern Cape: a study of the sector's decline and possible policy solutions
… identified constraining factors. The interview process was conversational, aimed at engaging in a meaningful dialogue with firms and industry representatives. The secondary aim of this thesis is to utilise the information obtained through firm interviews to provide possible targeted policy …
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Post-9/11 US civil-military relations and control of military strategy during Operation Iraqi Freedom
… of civil-military power occur. Using the policymaking process as an analytical framework, OIF is deconstructed into a series of decision points from 2001 to 2008 and the relative balance of civil-military power is identified at each according to one of five variations: Civilian Dominance; …
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