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Showing 1 to 20 of 25918 for “"policy"”.
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Policy communities and policy networks : educational policy making in Saskatchewan
The purpose of the study was to describe the policy community within which educational policies are currently developed in Saskatchewan. The study used the policy-community/ policy-network conceptual framework of Atkinson and Coleman (1985) and Coleman and Skogstad (199Gb). The assumption was made …
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The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Policy
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1921. Major: History. 1 computer file (PDF); 78, iv pages.
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Foundations for Policy Innovations: Exploring Local Policy Diffusion
… factors outside the county that influence policy adoption. Particular attention is given to external factors, or the possible ways that counties respond to the policies of their neighbors. This study focuses on the multiple external processes involved that contribute to policy adoption. …
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Chinese housing policy: Sociohistorical analysis and policy evaluation
This research analyzes housing policies in the People's Republic of China in the following three ways. First, it describes the current state of Chinese housing and housing policies. Second, it explores how Chinese housing policies have been influenced by the country's political and economic …
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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
… regime transitions raising expectations of policy change, the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive and transitions from authoritarianism to democracy —and vice versa— often fail to lead to policy change. In part, such inconclusiveness and mixed outcomes reflect …
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Predicting Policy Violations in Policy Based Proactive Systems Management
… In this thesis, our goal is to predict policy violations and take actions ahead of time in order to achieve proactive management in a policy based system.We implemented different prediction algorithm to predict policy violations. Based on the prediction decision, proactive actions are …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… thesis is primarily concerned with how and why policy entrepreneurs succeed in promoting their ideas or policy proposals. In examining this, the thesis uses the case of Indonesia’s foreign and domestic policies regarding the protection of its own migrant workers who work abroad, particularly …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… thesis is primarily concerned with how and why policy entrepreneurs succeed in promoting their ideas or policy proposals. In examining this, the thesis uses the case of Indonesia’s foreign and domestic policies regarding the protection of its own migrant workers who work abroad, particularly …
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Informing U.S. Electricity Policy: Independent Data-Driven Policy Tools to Support Regulators, Policy Makers, and Utilities
Electric grids are undergoing unprecedented changes to accommodate increased social demand for sustainability, better economics, improved reliability and greater efficiency. These transformed grids, or grids in transformation, are often referred to as “Smart Grids”. Achieving the objectives of the …
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Maximum entropy on-policy reinforcement learning with monotonic policy improvement
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2023-07-21 at 16:57.
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Retrospective Policy Gradient
Policy Gradient (PG) methods represent a notable category of reinforcement learning algorithms, particularly effective in continuous action domains. These techniques adjust the parameters of parametric policies through stochastic gradient ascent, typically utilizing on-policy trajectory samples to …
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Chinese Nuclear Policy
… and anti-access/area denial. Chinese nuclear policy will play a pivotal role in the future of China as it struggles to reduce the military superiority of the United States in East Asia. Innovative tactical nuclear weapons and advanced delivery vehicle technology will support China's military …
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Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
… as an example of social movement advocacy for policy change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for better federal social policy related to child care in Canada. I develop a policy and advocacy history to preface a theorization of child care advocacy according to …
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National Evaluation Policy Narratives: The Happening of Kenya's National Evaluation Policy
… of how NEP subgroups influence evaluation policy processes in sub-Saharan countries like Kenya. This dissertation identifies and explains the processes and dynamics of establishing national evaluation policies. Such policies strengthen and structure national evaluation capacities (NECs), …
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ECONOMIC VOTING DYNAMICS: ELECTORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY SHIFTS AND PARTISAN POLICY
… voting literature in relation to the monetary policy trade-off in two interrelated aspects. First, it refines the Rational Partisan Theory by developing a special case of the policy rule to the existing discretionary policy assumption. The refinement provides a macroeconomic interpretation of …
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Guerilla Government and Policy: Lessons From The Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
… Reuters to warn the public of a new immigration policy. This policy would see thousands of children separated from their parents; a humanitarian crisis engineered purposefully by the administration would be underway for the next years. Along the way, dissenters would try to stop the …
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Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy
… states by their relative involvement in climate policy (Wheeler 2010; Lutsey et al. 2008) and combines them into a single, six-point ranking scale. States are then cross-tabulated against EPA data showing the amount and trajectory of each state's carbon emissions from the electrical power sector …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
The development of public policy has been dogged for many decades by two main issues: the use of evidence and knowledge generated through research, and the engagement of external policy actors or non-state actors in the policy process. The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
The development of public policy has been dogged for many decades by two main issues: the use of evidence and knowledge generated through research, and the engagement of external policy actors or non-state actors in the policy process. The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has …
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Policy processes in relation to language in Tanzania: Examining shifts in policy
… and other developing nations worldwide, language policy has become one of the most contested factors linked to achieving the ‘global imperative.’ Language is particularly vital because of its purported necessity in the design of developmental initiatives leading to economic recovery. In other …
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