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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"Political Science, Public Administration"”.
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The Incremental Budgetary Theory Revisited: An Empirical Study of Congressional Appropriations
… explain the resource allocation process in the public sector: (1) the traditional (or rational) theory; and (2) the incremental theory. Through the work of Aaron Wildavsky and other empirical researchers, the incremental theory has received substantial, though not universal, support in the …
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An Institutional Analysis of Differences: The Design of Masters' Programs in Public Affairs
… it to the design of 240 masters' programs in public affairs that are members of NASPAA, APPAM, or both. I found much variation in the coverage and structure of the programs' curricula. I discovered, for example, that programs that are affiliated only with NASPAA tend to be located in political …
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Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
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Housing policy under a planned economy: Towards an alternative housing policy in China.
Housing policy under a planned economy: Towards an alternative housing policy in China.
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Political influence in urban resource allocation: A revised model of urban distributive politics.
Political influence in urban resource allocation: A revised model of urban distributive politics.
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Investigating the Impact of Organizational Resilience and Turnover in U.S. Local Governments: the Mediating Effect of Strategic Human Resources Management Practices
Research on resilience has mainly focused on crisis, or disaster management. However, more recently the concept of resilience has emerged into management research and organization studies, with scholars examining how organizations can prepare for the daily challenges that come with an ever changing …
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Advisory boards and responsible government in Canada
Abstract not available.
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Essays on Economic Aspects of Corruption
In the last part, an exercise which uses a natural resource extraction model to theoretically examine corrupt privatization is presented. Corrupt officials have been known to use their authority to manipulate the privatization process in return for private benefits. The optimal time path of …
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Privatization of Public Services: Market Structure, Analysis of Performance and Implications for Anti-Trust
"Privatization through contracting has been promoted as a way for government to control costs, yet many services are still provided through apparently less efficient mechanisms. Researchers have speculated why this should be the case. Others have questioned whether privatization can meet all its …
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Three Essays in Public Economics
The last essay is a survey and discussion about the core of an economy with production. With constant returns, equilibrium profits are zero and consequently the problem of profit distribution among members of a coalition does not arise. In the presence of decreasing returns to scale, however, …
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Regulating China's State Enterprises: Environmental Policy as a Bargaining Game
The study recognizes the obvious shortcomings in China's environmental performance. However, it argues that it is insufficient to focus exclusively on either enforcement problems or the design flaws of individual policies. By contrast, the study identifies some of the macroeconomic and …
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Debt Financed Budget Deficit and Capital Accumulation in Cote d'Ivoire
Furthermore, it is found that between 1974 and 1995 the positive impact of ODA did more than compensate the negative effect of non concessional borrowing on private investment. Thus, in Cote d'Ivoire the effect of debt financed government budget deficits on output and private investment are …
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An Institutional Analysis of Reforming the *State. The Case of Peru
… as there is credible change in the governance of public organizations.
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The Inefficiency of the Judiciary and Alternative Forms of Social Control: A Case Study of Rental Contracts in Brazil
The main purpose of this study is to analyze how institutions, the legal system among them, affect the economic performance of a country. Specifically, a malfunctioning legal system creates uncertainties that might hamper the completion of new transactions, particularly those involving previously …
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Unwanted in the 'White Highlands': The Politics of Civil Society and the Making of a Refugee in Kenya, 1902--2002
… of civil society and the related concept of public sphere in colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Conceiving refugees as objects of restrictive policies of the asylum states and as subjects of management and control by agencies and voluntary organizations, the study examines civil society in …
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MIB Adsorption in Drinking Water Treatment
It was observed that chlorine had a deleterious effect on the ability of both PAC and GAC to adsorb MIB. From this, it was encouraged to avoid contacting activated carbon with chlorine.
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Welfare Impacts of Alternative Public Policies for Environmental Protection in Agriculture in an Open Economy: A General Equilibrium Framework
In contrast to previous studies in the field of environmental regulation in the presence of distortionary income taxes, this dissertation shows that examined policies, except for land retirement, may generate a double-dividend (an economic gain over and above the environmental gains) for two main …
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Customer Focus in Highway Transportation Asset Management
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Civil Society, Ideas, and Policymaking: Building a New Framework for Democratization Research
The case of the Czech Republic is used as an illustration of the dynamic process, both as a means for analyzing past political development, and as a means for projecting its future prospects for political development. Data used in this analysis are from field research conducted in 1995--96, and …
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The Psychological Sequelae of Police Work Stress: Exploring Potential Mediators and Moderators
This study examined the degree to which several types of police work stressors (critical incidents, routine operational and organizational stressors) were associated with various kinds of problem behaviors (e.g., problem gambling, problem drinking), and explored several possible mediators and …
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