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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Tracing methodology"”.
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Renewable Energy: The Roles of States, Social Movements, and Policy in California and Germany
… uses a qualitative, comparative, process tracing methodology, supported by critical discourse analysis, to analyze environmental social movement engagements with the state in relation to the development of renewable energy policymaking in the state of California and in the Federal Republic …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
… from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing methodology to identify variations in performance between the two services and to determine the source of these differences when they exist. Predictions drawn from functional and cultural theories are employed to determine which theory …
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Greening the Cement Industry in Morocco: The Role of Multinational Corporations
… environmental best practices. Using a process tracing methodology, this research showed how the adoption of environmental best practices was induced in the cement industry. By conducting in-depth interviews with actors involved in the cement environmental program, and analyzing relevant …
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The U.S. Air Force Transformed Approach to Military Family Housing: An Organizational Routine Case Study in Change and Learning
… housing units. Using an outcome-oriented process tracing methodology, I examine the process changes, organizational structure modifications, and strategy adjustments the AF instituted to implement this latest attempt at providing military family housing. To understand how those adjustments …
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Strategic Renewal, Unlearning, and Forgetting: Understanding Post-Campaign Organisational Knowledge Loss in the British Army After Afghanistan and Northern Ireland
… knowledge loss, employing a longitudinal process-tracing methodology and leveraging the author’s military insider status. Document analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with serving military personnel provide empirical data, adding to studies on organisational knowledge loss in …
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Strategic Renewal, Unlearning, and Forgetting: Understanding Post-Campaign Organisational Knowledge Loss in the British Army After Afghanistan and Northern Ireland
… knowledge loss, employing a longitudinal process-tracing methodology and leveraging the author’s military insider status. Document analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with serving military personnel provide empirical data, adding to studies on organisational knowledge loss in …
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Not about rules, but about good deals: The political economy of securing inclusive capital investment and transformation in South African mining
… produce predation and isomorphism? Using process tracing methodology, the research traces deal in platinum mining between 1994 and 2018. Part II examines the extent to which this investment is socially inclusive in alleviating local poverty, creating local employment, and reducing local …
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Assessing the Success of Dual Use Programs: The Case of DARPA's Relationship with SEMATECH—Quiet Contributions to Success, Silenced Partner, or Both
… and Brown, 2010. The study utilizes the process tracing methodology, and structured interviews to make some level of commentary concerning the effectiveness of the SEMATECH model and whether or not this model enabled the government and its primary sponsor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects …
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Fish cannot See Water: Rethinking China's Quest for Great Power Status through a Cultural Lens (1992-2021)
… for analysis. Subsequently, it employs a process-tracing methodology to test how ‘face’ shapes China’s pursuit of status (or recognition, in this context), positing that cultural nuances are most vividly expressed through behavioral patterns that guide actions. To empirically operationalize “face …
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Offline mediators online: writing activity in two middle school classes
… systems analysis (Engeström, 1987) and a tracing methodology (Prior, 2004) guided data collection and analysis. Findings indicated that students’ online literate activity in the two classes was unequal and inequitable. In the class with the mandated curriculum, student activity was …
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Time as a Policy Mechanism and Intelligible Principle: An Examination of the National Emergencies Act
… emergencies intensify. Employing a policy tracing methodology augmented by survival and qualitative comparative analysis, this dissertation analyzes national emergency data composed of declarations, continuations, amendments, and terminations. The analysis incorporates Supreme Court …
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Understanding bargaining outcomes in Europe’s migration and refugee crisis: The Refugee Relocation Scheme and the EU-Turkey Statement
… was gathered primarily by means of a process-tracing methodology complemented with documentary research, vote analysis and semi-structured elite interviews. The core argument advanced in this thesis is that, despite the incremental supranationalization of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), …
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The Impact of Protest on Policy-Making in the European Union
… for each case. Employing a process tracing methodology, the empirical evidence in this thesis is primarily constructed by triangulating the analysis of policy documents, protest campaign materials, parliamentary votes, parliamentary questions and debates, and in-depth interviews with …
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
… used, including normative, qualitative process-tracing, and quantitative analysis.</p> <p>First, the dissertation draws insights from ancient and modern political philosophy and the political thought and example of Jane Addams in 19th Century Chicago. It begins with Josiah Ober’s work on civic …
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The development of dual signature, fluorescent magnetic sediment tracing technology
… soil and sediment types. Active sediment tracing is a field technique which uses materials designed to replicate the movement of sediment, whilst remaining identifiable within the native sediment load. Active sediment tracing techniques have been developed over the last century, yet …