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Showing 1 to 20 of 489 for “"Public Affairs"”.
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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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Public affairs advertising: corporate influence, public opinion and vote intentions under the third-person effect
This study examined corporate public affairs and brand awareness advertising under the third-person effect. Third-person effect studies examine the interaction between the media and its effect on public opinion. Past research in third-person effect indicates that individuals perceive that the media …
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An organizational culture study of Missouri State University faculty/staff in relation to the University's public affairs mission
… was to address a problem of practice of the public affairs mission through the perceptions of faculty and staff members at Missouri State University (MSU) of the University's organizational culture. This study took the three pillars (community engagement, cultural competence, and ethical …
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Accountability as an Instrument of Power: The Louisiana Broadband Technology Opportunities Program Grant and the Spaces of Public Affairs
… the federal government was trying to become a public telecom.Despite the open opposition, the grant was awarded to the Board of Regents, but the story of the grant only begins at the point when the Division of Administration became involved in the administration of the grant. The Division of …
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"We band of brothers"? A social-identity-based study of military public affairs professional identity, organizational socialization, and collaboration
Today, military public relations, or military public affairs (Levenshus, 2013), is drawing attention for the lessons it might have to offer to organizations more broadly. Yet, military public affairs has been neglected within the public relations scholarly field (Toledano, 2010). In the present …
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The impact of culture on the right of women to participate in public affairs : a comparative analysis of Swazi and Buganda Kingdoms
… have denied women their rightful place in public life. There are certain cultural practices within these patriarchal societies, which impede the realisation of the human rights of women. Such cultural practices have impacted on the division of power and perpetuated the stereotypical roles …
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Identity crisis : the role of organizational culture in defining public affairs and its roles, missions, and value in the United States Marine Corps
… the valuation of soft power, specifically public affairs, and the understanding of public affairs missions within the U.S. Marine Corps from the perspective of public affairs practitioners and Marine Corps infantry officers. Marine Corps majors in the public affairs field and in …
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The Widening Information Gap between High and Low Education Groups: Knowledge Acquisition from Online vs. Print News
… gain, namely news exposure preferences (public affairs vs. entertainment) of citizens. To this effect, news exposure was examined using a behavioral measure, which is more rigorous than the heavily relied on self-report measure. The findings show strong support of the existence of …
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The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit
… of the United States and the American people as public affairs officers in the Department of the Treasury. Using interviews conducted with political appointees who served as Treasury spokespeople during the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, civil servants who served …
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The development of a municipal bond market in Brazil : a comparative case study of the Deodoro F1 race track : Rio de Janeiro & COTA, Austin, TX
… in Brazil. Mired by institutional corruption and public distrust, this paper offers a comparative examination of the capital infrastructure development of Formula 1 racetrack in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, TX: a case study which examines …
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Egyptian Attitudes toward Democracy: What the Afrobarometer Reveals about the Influence of Individuals' Social Characteristics
… income, type of residence, interest in public affairs, social and political trust, and employment status on attitudes toward and interpretations of democracy among 1200 Egyptians living in urban and rural areas who participated in Afrobarometer survey in 2013. The author uses principle …
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Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China
… a few cadres still dominate decision making over public affairs, while, in others, villagers actively participate in the decision making in one way or another. How do the different institutional structures of villages influence governance performance in terms of providing public goods and …
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Special Interest Group Coalitions : Grassroots or Astroturf? : Establishing Ethical StandardsTo Develop or Evaluate Broad-Based Support Efforts
… use of the coalition technique to accomplish a public affairs agenda. The study provides a brief overview of the history of special interest group activity in the United States; discusses the legal restrictions placed on special interest groups by the laws of the State of Iowa and the United …
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Organisational climate: variance across functional units
… employees in four units: marketing, personnel/public affairs, finance and production, at all levels - general employees, supervisory/foremen, middle management, senior management - completed a measure of their perceptions of the organizational climate of their individual units. The …
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Creighton University's M.B.A. Profile Statistics — Spring 1973
… and organizations dealing with urban and public affairs. There is a current movement among M.B.A. graduates toward positions in medium and smaller size business enterprises and a return to the individual, entrepreneurial venture, the so-called "small business." Clearly, the options open to …
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Social Equity for the Long Haul: Preparing Culturally Competent Public Administrators
Each year, over 6,000 students complete Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in over 200 university accredited programs. Many of these graduates commit to a career in the public service in one of thousands of public sector organizations at all levels of government or in the non-profit …
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James M. Dunn and soul freedom : a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena.
… As the leader of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Dunn's understanding of church-state separation was a battleground in the Southern Baptist Controversy of the 1980s. "Conservative Resurgence" leaders opposed Dunn and the Southern Baptist Convention eventually withdrew from the BJC. …
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