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Showing 1 to 20 of 286 for “"policy change"”.
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Breast Cancer Fund: Power Mapping for Policy Change
… goals through public awareness and pushing for policy change. In April 2015, Senators Diane Feinstein and Susan Collins introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act. This is the first bill of its kind in the last 75 years designed to close the gaps on outdated federal law that allows the use …
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Explaining Foreign Policy Change on the Korean Peninsula
… the US and China. This study aims to analyse how changes in the relationship between two different actors around the Korean Peninsula impact another country’s foreign policy. Specifically, this study focuses on three different relations, (1) the relationship between US–China relations and South …
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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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Power politics : renewable energy policy change in US states
Addressing climate change requires societies to transition towards renewable energy resources. In the United States, most states have passed renewables portfolio standards (RPS), creating goals for electricity's share of renewables, and instituted net energy metering (NEM) policies, compensating …
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School Libraries, Disabilities, and a Phenomenological Progression to Policy Change
… a conceptual framework culled from the public policy process literature, this phenomenological study used interviews with Washington, DC, policy workers--some of whom advocate for students with disabilities--to explore the possible connection between library experiences and the placement of …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… a gap in the healthcare system's management and policy literature. The first paper studies patients with diabetes who are non-adherent to scheduled appointments with physicians in a specialized diabetes clinic setting in Boston. I developed and introduced new and interesting ''technology comfort" …
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Teacher perceptions of policy change in teaching Thai: an ethnographic study.
… can appropriately influence educational change. Initiatives and texts to guide educators in the critical use of neuroscience research and research on teachers' perspectives on the educational relevance of neuroscience have been studied widely in many countries, particularly in Western …
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'Agrarwende' : cognitive-normative approaches to policy change in German agro-biotechnology
… Germany's biggest post-war food crisis, BSE, changed the terms of the public debate on agro-biotech significantly. Before the BSE-crisis, Germany's policy had been predominantly driven by a neo-liberal framing of biotechnology as a central tool for innovation and international competitiveness. …
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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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The Politics of Foreign Policy Change : Explaining the Swedish Reorientation on EC Membership
This study addresses the problem of foreign policy change. While the 1990s has been characterized by remarkable changes in world affairs, political scientists have been slow to study the processes through which such changes take place. Drawing on the limited research that does exist in this field, …
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The dynamics of policy change in dominant subsystems: Colorado, Oregon, and the politics of growth
The dynamics of sudden and major change in the output of long-stable policy monopolies has been studied for several decades. A variety of political scientists have sought to identify the crucial dynamics involved when this type of change occurs (Bosso. 1987; Baumgartner and Jones, 1993; Sabatier …
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Understanding Large Scale Policy Change National Policy Reform Under External Constraints – The Case of Hungary
… the content and the quality of national level policy making has essential influence on the overall economic performance of the individual countries. The qualitative characteristics of economic policies affecting the macro-level and thechange of these policies over time(i.e. fiscal policy in …
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The Life Cycle of Dams: An Analysis of Policy Change on the Rogue River, Oregon
… Lowry’s (2003) “Theoretical Framework for Policy Changes” to provide an analysis of fundamental policy change that occurred on the Rogue River in southwest Oregon through a comparative case study of the removal of two dams: Savage Rapids Dam (SRD) and the Gold Ray Dam (GRD). Fundamental …
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Differing perceptions of legislative and policy change in children and families services: a vertical analysis
… and managers, who struggle to accommodate changes whilst meeting statutory organisational responsibilities, linked to legislative and policy shifts that are implemented on the shifting sands of changing ideological, political and economic imperatives. Within this environment the nature of …
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The political economy of aid-oriented foreign policy change: elite perspectives on mercantilism in Korea and Ghana
… dependence. The focus is on aid-seeking foreign policy change. Two foreign policy change cases are examined for the study, which took place in Korea under Park Chung-hee and in Ghana under Rawlings through a lens of comparative historical analysis. The thesis aims to make two original …
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Standards, Shame, and Outrage: A Rhetorical History of Sexual Assault and Policy Change in the US Military
… the discourse surrounding sexual assault and policy change in the U.S. military. As rhetoricians continue to embrace public sphere theory, the field has started asking what rhetoric's role is in solving public problems. My research questions were twofold: how do rhetorical processes construct …
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