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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"policy preference"”.
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term contextual …
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21st century biomedical advances: Technology acceptance and policy preferences
… States. A new TA instrument was created, and two policy measures were assessed: “Who decides?” and “Who pays?” An on-line survey produced 353 usable responses to answer five research questions, the most important of which were “Were there any significant differences in the TA responses for the …
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Understanding the formation of American mental health policy preferences, 1952-1981
… Health Systems Act, that American mental health policy tipped over definitively into the outpatient-centered, drug-based model. In this quantitative study of the formation of policy preference, the delay between the feasibility of the outpatient-centered, drug-based model and its adoption was …
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Essays on the Impact of Social Influence in Industrial Organization and Political Economy
… in policies favorable to future voters to signal policy preference congruence with the latter. Our key finding, both theoretically and experimentally, is that when future and past voters do not perfectly overlap, reelection motives may constrain the intrinsic reciprocity of an elected leader to …
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Traffic Safety Investigations for Local Agencies
… cities for developing effective traffic safety policy preference by identifying the characteristics of those cities that have been successful in reducing collision rates as examples. In particular this research is important for non-engineering administrative staff and political bodies in terms …
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The Effect of Energy Policy on Cleantech Venture Capital and Private Equity Investment in Canada: Investors’ Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity.
… and diffusion. This has led academics and policymakers to fervently examine which energy policies are the most effective for deploying cleantech and lowering carbon emissions. However, these policies can also impact cleantech venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investors’ …
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Sandra Day O'Connor: Moderate or Something More?
… behavior scholarship by examining O'Connor's policy preferences for possible ideological change during her twenty-five year tenure on the Court. Average liberalism scores for her overall and civil rights/civil liberties issue area votes show an increase in liberalism over time. The researcher …
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The impact of sustainability assessment of renewable gas systems on policy implications and optimum end use
… the EU. While the analysis demonstrates a clear policy preference for a transport end use renewable gas has been proposed as a solution to decarbonise industrial processes in Ireland, specifically heat demand (which is part of the ETS sector). As part of this effort, the breast-milk substitutes …
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Origins and Use of Presidential Polling in Mexico, Presidential Approval in Mexico, Government Spending and Public Opinion in Mexico
… and use of presidential polling, its role in the policy activity of the president, and the dynamics of presidential approval between 1989 and 2011. The dissertation draws upon the presidential polling, opinion-policy and approval research done in the United States. The first paper explores a topic …