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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"policy research"”.
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Cross-sector policy research: insights from the UK energy and transport sectors
… anthropology and sociology, where cross-border research helps to identify important themes which benefit from comparative study, this dissertation introduces cross-sector policy research as a new methodology for generating useful insights about public policy. The cross-sector method is applied …
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Cross-sector policy research: insights from the UK energy and transport sectors
… anthropology and sociology, where cross-border research helps to identify important themes which benefit from comparative study, this dissertation introduces cross-sector policy research as a new methodology for generating useful insights about public policy. The cross-sector method is applied …
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Work-life balance and stress levels: a case study of indaba agricultural policy research institute (IAPRI) employees.
The Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) is a premier agricultural research and outreach think tank in Zambia. The performance of IAPRI as measured through its outputs in the period 2014 to 2017 was exemplary as on average, output performance exceeded 78 percent of the planned …
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Impact Assessment of Natural Resource Management Policy Research: A case study of the contribution of the Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Project to the effectiveness of the Indonesian Forest Moratorium
The complexity of interactions that inform policy-making poses several challenges to evaluating the impact of policy research. Two key obstacles to policy-oriented research impact assessment (PORIA) are determining the degree of influence that can be claimed by a knowledge-generating entity and …
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Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
… Model Minority Politics and Education Policy Research” traces current trends in US education policy research discourse about Asians to argue that prevailing conservative and liberal social justice based paradigms abstract race and, in some critical ways, dematerialize potentially …
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Improving access, understanding, and dignity during miscarriage recovery in British Columbia, Canada
… Canada. Despite the significant rates of loss, research and health care services for pregnancy loss remain scarce in BC. This research took a patient-oriented methodological approach alongside people with lived/living experiences of miscarriage recovery in BC to evaluate access to health care …
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State departments of education and fiscal stress in local education agencies: A policy study
This policy research study sought to determine the answers to two questions: (1) Do states have definitions of fiscal strain or trouble for public school districts that are experiencing fiscal stress? (2) What state policy mechanisms exist for dealing with public school districts that are …
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23 Illinois Administrative Code 50: Redefining the Formal Observation in Teacher Evaluation; A Policy Advocacy Document
… process and the premise of advocating for such a policy was recently the subject of a study at The Center for Educational Policy Research at Harvard (Harvard University Center for Educational Policy Research, 2015a). This policy advocacy document discusses the context and conditions by which to …
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Understanding cannabis reclassification in the United Kingdom 2002-2004
… a significant reform in the approach to drugs policy in the United Kingdom. This thesis concerns an understanding of the process of policy making in relation to cannabis re-classification in the United Kingdom, during theperiod of 2002 to 2004. By using both a post-structuralist approach based …
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A Comparative Analysis of Success by Project Level Characteristics in the Upward Bound Program
Data gathered by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., contractor for the Department of Education were used to analyze successful project level characteristics of the Upward Bound program. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. provided two data files for this study: a student data file and a grantees data …
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Legal and Policy Implications for Early Childhood Professionals in Ontario's Kindergarten Programs
… the early childhood sector. The legal and policy implication of systems integration in Ontario includes the movement of a largely unionized private non-profit sector workforce into the realm of public education in Full Day Kindergarten (FDK). Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada to …
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To what extent do prescriptive decision-making models comprehend policy-making in the Third World with reference to South African environmental policy-making?
Policy research and analysis is a complex and dynamic field of study and practice. This study explores the field i l l terms of assessing the utility of contemporary policy techniques ill the intematiollal context and the implications thereof for environmental policy-making in South Africa. More …
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Law and financial stability
… Legal analysis and empirical financial research rarely ever cross paths. Furthermore, policy analysts largely do not interact with either the legal or financial research and vice versa. Therefore, to overcome these disciplinary and institutional boundaries, this thesis takes a …
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A Cross -National Study of Policy Entrepreneurship on the Part of Technical -Professional Bureaucrats in National Environmental Agencies: The Case of Household Waste Reduction Policy in Germany, France and the United States
Document research, informational interviews with key participants in national household waste policy-making and formal interviews with technical-professional bureaucrats in the technical-professional bureaucrats are distinguishable from their peers not only in their display of policy vision and …
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Diffusion of Environmental Protection Single-Use Plastic Bags Ban Policy in California
<p>Since the introduction of policy diffusion theory to understand how and why policies diffuse and are adopted across different jurisdictions, regions, or countries, the concept of policy adoption behavior, policy diffusion patterns, and the mechanism of policy diffusion have been extensively …
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State-Centered Federalism: Subnational Autonomy and Job Training Policy
It is essential that domestic policy research takes a federal approach and addresses policy contexts to reflect the significant role of subnational actors throughout U.S. history and current domestic policy. Subnational governments influence federal legislation and make decisions that substantially …
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An implementation and outcome evaluation of the Parent Centre's Teen Parenting Programme
… a Qualitative Exploratory-Descriptive (QED) research design, guided by a generic qualitative inquiry (GQI) framework to examine practical outcomes and programme implementation. Limitations in causal inference and potential bias due to purposive sampling were acknowledged. Nonetheless, the …
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Dynamic and robust network resource allocation
… tools in engineering, business, and public policy research. They can represent physical connections, such as manufacturing processes. They can be relationships among people, such as patient treatment in healthcare. They can also represent abstract interactions, such as the biological …
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