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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"policy innovation"”.
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Targeting of Ecosystem Goods and Services:Directing Agri-Environmental Policy Innovation
… nature of agricultural landscapes, makes policy efficiency an important consideration. Incorporating targeting mechanisms in the design of agri-environmental policy instruments could improve the efficiency of such policies. This thesis illustrates the efficiency gains from policy …
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Poor law reform and policy innovation in rural southern England, c.1780-1850
… of the poor laws. This thesis deploys a ‘policy process’ understanding of social policies, a concept developed in the social sciences, to understand the processes driving social policies under the poor laws.<br/><br/>The thesis deploys a more holistic approach to understanding the poor …
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Policy innovation and change: the diffusion and modification of the renewable portfolio standard, 1994 – 2014
… has not enacted a national renewable energy policy. Inertia at this level of government creates a policy space that allows American states to take the lead. State policy drives clean energy development. By the fall of 2014, every state in the nation had adopted at least one policy supportive …
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Pathways to Sustainable Housing
… sustainable housing goals: climate protection, policy innovation, environmental protection, social equity, and economic growth. I use data and empirical analysis to show sustainable development challenges and conflicts are significant. I share lessons learned from cities and states that act as …
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Informational Environmental Regulation in Practice
… approach to environmental regulation, a policy innovation implemented after direct regulation and economic incentive mechanism, has exhibited its positive results on pollution reduction. Since 1995, this approach has been exported from the developed world to more than ten developing …
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Predicting the Diffusion of Next Generation 9-1-1 in the Commonwealth of Virginia: An Application Using the Deployment of Wireless E9-1-1 Technologies
… and Wireless E9-1-1 Phase Two as a diffusion of innovation. The research method used in this study is a cross-sectional study employing secondary data in a discriminant function analysis. The study population is Virginia units of local governments (95 counties and 39 cities) that had not deployed …
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Enhanced semiconductor carrier generation via microscale radiative transfer : MPC--an electric power finance instrument policy : interrelated innovations in emerging energy technologies
… MTPV and a related potential new energy policy MPC. MTPV is an electronic device concept for the conversion of heat or light to electricity using existing and emerging microelectronic technology. MPC is a financial instrument based energy policy which could both foster the emergence of …
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Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017
… affect this mayoral administration’s efforts at policy innovation and administrative practice. In particular, how, if at all, do public employee unions shape the administration’s decisions about the balance between providing public services directly versus contracting them out to nongovernmental …
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Learning through competition : resilience on the Jersey Shore after Rebuild By Design
… broader recommendations for future exercises in policy innovation for resilience planning.
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
… It does so though an examination of social policy expansion in early years education and care (EYEC) in England and Canada/Ontario; two liberal welfare states. This thesis contends that EYEC policy, often neglected in comparative welfare literature, is an important social dimension of the …
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Shaping up to womanhood: A study of the relationship between gender and girls' physical education in a city-based Local Education Authority
… in order to initiate debate and anti-sexist policy innovation and also to contribute to wider feminist theoretical analysis particularly in relation to an understanding of physicality, sexuality and patriarchal power relations.
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Making land fly : the institutionalization of China's land quota markets and its implications for urbanization, property rights, and intergovernmental politics
… China's land quota markets, a recent land policy innovation that virtually transfers urbanization permission from the countryside to cities. To circumvent national government's quota restrictions on converting agricultural land to urban land, local governments have created new land quotas …
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"Parent trigger" Legislation in the United States: A Key to Parent Empowerment in the Local Context
… empowerment and arguably may be part of a larger policy movement to secure parent voice in equity-focused education reform. The policy innovation allows parents with students in persistently underperforming schools to force a change in school governance. Since the passage of the first parent …
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The role of science, stakeholder engagement, and decision making process design in advancing innovation around water management in Massachusetts
… of two committees, one technically- and one policy-oriented, advising the state on its drafting of new water management policies. While this represents an expanded commitment by the state environmental agencies to stakeholder engagement, the initiative does not conform to all best practices …
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION, AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSES
… is comprised of three essays which examine innovation, both technological and institutional, as a response aimed to adapting to climate change and natural disasters. Specifically, the first two papers seek to understand the drivers and implications of adaptation-related technological …
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Effectiveness of flood response mechanisms for enhancing resilient livelihoods in Tsholotsho District of Zimbabwe
… Tsholotsho and provide actionable insights for policymakers and rural development practitioners. The research used an exploratory sequential mixed methods design, combining qualitative (semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and document analysis) with quantitative methods …
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Factors Predicting Depression Among Cancer Survivors in Integrative Care: A Mixed-Method Design
… to advocate for cancer care reform. Health policy innovation will be beneficial if a friendly community-based integrative cancer care network is built to increase the accessibility for the cancer population. Healthcare insurance policies should consider adding acupuncture under the cover …
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Alternative Food Landscapes. Designing Food-Sensitive Landscapes beyond Urban-Rural Bonundaries
… implementation strategies for urban planners and policymakers. Then, the research advances key principles for AFL integration, focusing on their recognition as multifunctional infrastructure, evidence-based planning tools, participatory governance, and policy innovation. The thesis is structured …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… shows that citizens often underestimate climate policy support, contributing to a Spiral of Silence that discourages advocacy. Whether politicians hold such misperceptions remains an open empirical question, with serious implications for democratic representation, trust, and the pace of climate …
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Essays On Labor Economics And Public Policy
… essay of this thesis, which studies a public policy innovation using administrative records. The effects of single-sex education are hotly contested, both in academic and policy circles. Despite this heated debate, there exists little credible empirical evidence of the effect of a U.S. public …
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