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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Sabatier"”.
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The Mazmanian-Sabatier Implementation Framework Examined: an Application to Storm Water Policy
… thesis examines the usefulness of the Mazmanian-Sabatier implementation framework in analyzing the implementation of the EPA’s Phase II Storm Water regulations at the local level, specifically in the city of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, with three major questions in mind. First, are statutory …
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Facilitating policy formulation and policy implementation : a case study of policy on the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission in South Africa
… advocacy coalition framework developed by Paul Sabatier to analyse the factors that have hindered and facilitated the alteration and subsequent implementation of PMTCT policy. It provides a clear illustration of the impact that actors outside of the government can have on policy change and …
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Exploring the Use of a Gender Equity Lens in Local Government Recreation Policies
… the Advocacy Coalition Framework developed by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1988) and adapted by Jenkins-Smith, Nohrstedt, Weible, and Sabatier (2014), the perspectives of ten recreation professionals within an Ontario local government recreation department were examined through document analysis …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
… leading apologists for this School were Auguste Sabatier and Eugene Menegoz, who developed their theories during a long and close association on the Paris Faculty of Protestant Theology.</p> <p>Sabatier's scientific theology developed a neo-Kantian distinction, between religious, knowledge and …
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An Elaboration and Analysis of Two Policy Implementation Frameworks to Better Understand Project Exile
… Kingdon's (1995) Multiple Streams model with Sabatier's (1999) Advocacy Coalition Framework to develop a "Specific Collins Classification and Elaboration Model" and a "Generic Collins Classification and Elaboration Model" that will be used to analyze the formation and implementation of Project …
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Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
… through the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier 2007) in order to map out the connections between neoliberal social policies and local level conflict.
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Negotiating identity within the Sustainable Agriculture Advocacy Coalition
… Advocacy Coalition Framework developed by Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith are offered.
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The Public-Private Dilemma: A Strategic Improvement Agenda for U.S. Department of Defense Depot Maintenance
… decision-making approach that draws upon Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is proposed to improve the situation. It addresses key problems identified in the analysis and rests upon an approach to strategic decision making that is politically rational in …
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En route towards advanced catalyst materials for the electrocatalytic water splitting reaction
… hydrogen (and oxygen) evolution reaction. The Sabatier principle has been used as the principal guideline towards successful tuning of catalytic sites. Furthermore, two pathways have been chosen to ameliorate the electrocatalytic performance, namely, the direct improvement of intrinsic …
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The use of coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy as a diagnostic technique for studying the hydrogenation of carbon moxide in a tube-wall reactor
The methanation reaction, discovered in 1902 by Sabatier and Senderens, still remains a subject of intense interest. It is currently used in numerous industrial processes to remove carbon monoxide traces in hydrogen-rich gases of ammonia plants. Since the early 1980's there has been a renewed …
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Exploring Strategies to Break Adsorption-Energy Scaling Relations in Catalytic CO Oxidation
… neither too strong nor too weak, which is the Sabatier's principle. It is extremely useful for searching promising catalysts, but also imposes serious constraints on design flexibility. Therefore, how to circumvent scaling constraints is crucial for advancing catalytic science. It has been …
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A case study: the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards in a secondary school setting
… policy actors (Anderson, 2011; Fullan, 2007; Sabatier & Mazmanian, 1980). The utilization of an embedded case study design provides an examination of the perceptions and beliefs of those individuals who operate between formal policy implementers and the target population (Fowler, 2004), which …
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Bankruptcy and politics: a framework for bankruptcy policymaking in the united states congress and courts
… policy. Following Baumgartner and Jones (1993), Sabatier (1988), and others, the dissertation tracks bankruptcy policymaking and implementation over a seventy-five year period to demonstrate that policy is made in three distinct venues: Congress; a policy community made up of lawyers, bankruptcy …
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Mathematical tools and budgetary mechanisms for hospital cost control
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1985.
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Repartição de receitas tributárias:delimitações político institucionais da experiência constitucional do modelo brasileiro (1987-1988)
… utilizadas as contribuições teóricas de Paul A. Sabatier sobre o Modelo de Coalizões de Defesa para a compreensão dos padrões de mudança na formulação e implementação de políticas públicas.
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The dynamics of policy change in dominant subsystems: Colorado, Oregon, and the politics of growth
… (Bosso. 1987; Baumgartner and Jones, 1993; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith. 1993; and Thurber. 1991). This cumulative body of research has identified the key variables and their dynamic interactions that are indicative of imminent major policy shifts. This research builds on earlier works by …
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The Political Economy and Coalitions in Botswana’s Water Sector Reform 2009-13: to what extent can the process of reform be understood?
… Coalition Theory (Weible et al 2009, 2008; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1999, 1993) provides the theoretical basis to give insights into the processes of policy reform. The research uses documents and observations of government policy planning and implementation processes from 2010 to 2013. …
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A technical, economic and environmental analysis of renewable gas produced from power to gas systems
… dioxide (CO2) to produce methane (CH4) via the Sabatier reaction (4H2 + CO2 = CH4 + 2H2O). Storage of renewable electricity as CH4 allows for long term storage by utilising the existing natural gas grid infrastructure. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the viability of renewable gas produced …
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HUD-VASH Efficiency and Effectiveness: Homelessness and Veterans' Housing Policy
… for homeless veterans. Melding the Jenkins-Smith/Sabatier advocacy coalitions perspective with narrative, punctuated equilibrium, and multiple stream theories, the research highlights that limiting the program's funding evidently had little to do with its effectiveness at reducing homelessness. …
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Spatial distribution of canopy gaps in a tropical forest landscape and its influence on the tree community
… in forests remains poorly understood (Molino and Sabatier, 2001). This gap in understanding in large part reflects the lack of appropriate tools that allow measurement of disturbance patterns at fine spatial scale (Chambers et al. 2009). In old growth tropical forests, the creation of canopy gaps …
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