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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"policy subsystems"”.
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Congressional hearings: a neglected management process
… programs and the interactions among members of policy subsystems. Although not conventionally viewed as a management process, the congressional hearing process is a significant management process and an important component of the American political system.
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The Establishment of Blame As A Framework for Sensemaking in the Space Policy Subsystem: A Study of the Apollo 1 and Challenger Accidents
… a framework for sensemaking in a national policy subsystem. Using the only two fatal accidents in NASA's manned space flight history as case studies, this dissertation examines how the space policy subsystem responded to these two accidents and the process by which culpability was …
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Effects of politicization on the regime, policy subsystem, and agency levels: a case study of the Commonwealth of Virginia
… by executive aggrandizement on the regime, policy subsystem, and agency levels. The study finds that most public administration literature on executive supremacy concentrates on the federal government, with little attention paid to state government and the unique constitutional, political …
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Policy Subsystem Portfolio Management: A Neural Network Model of the Gulf of Mexico Program
… insights into the behavior of an environmental policy subsystem. The study uses neural network theory to model the Gulf of Mexico Program's allocation of implementation funds. The Gulf of Mexico Program is a prototype effort to institutionalize a policy subsystem. A project implementation fund …
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The Presidential Library System: A Quiescent Policy Subsystem
… Administration (NARA), as an example of a policy subsystem. A policy subsystem may be defined as an informal political coalition of individuals from different parts of a formal policy structure who cooperate to influence policy-making. Actors in a policy subsystem are multifarious, they …
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An Elaboration and Analysis of Two Policy Implementation Frameworks to Better Understand Project Exile
… of this case study as well as similar policy subsystems. 3. To explain the genesis and development of Project Exile. The most salient result of this research is that it shows the disparate ways in which variables, taken from the work of Kingdon, Sabatier, and the Project Exile case, fit …
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The Chaos of Convergence: A Study of the Process of Decay, Change, and Transformation within the Telephone Policy Subsystem of the United States
… 3. These two chapters examine the nature of both policy analysis and organizational theory in terms of their development within the American versions of Public Administration and Political Science. I conclude that the distinctions that have been created between the two areas of research are false, …
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Opening the Black Box: Government Teacher Workforce Policy in New York City
… by the federal Race to the Top program, teacher policy is a growing focus of education policymakers and reform advocates, with much debate over how to train, motivate, and evaluate teachers, and increasing concern about teacher accountability. Yet while teacher workforce policy is increasingly …