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Showing 1 to 20 of 382 for “"policymaking"”.
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Neighborhood policymaking : the Massachusetts strategy
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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Policymaking in the Egyptian Olympic Committee
This study analyzes policymaking in the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC). Two prominent policies of the EOC are selected: preparing for the Olympic Games and boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games.
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The Politics of the American Policymaking System
… review of agency actions, structures the policymaking incentives of bureaucratic agencies. The way oversight affects agency behavior, in turn, structures incentives for political principals to design and sustain politically biased policymaking agencies in exchange for higher quality policy …
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British immigration policymaking and European integration, 1973-1990.
… understand the impact of membership on domestic policymaking. Drawing on French government archives and private papers, it also seeks to understand whether European integration, and the slew of semi-formal, multilateral meetings that accompanied it, contributed to harsher immigration policies, as …
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Ethics and Accounting Policymaking: The Economic Consequences Issue
… developing the three schools in the accounting policymaking context, the centuries of debate in the ethics literature is brought to bear in the accounting policymaking context. The conclusion is reached that accounting policymakers have a deontological type obligation to pursue representational …
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Organizational behavior, social scientists, and Soviet foreign policymaking
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1991.
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Digital Tools and Design: Improving Participation in Policymaking
… can be used to improve public participation in policymaking. I begin by identifying the problem that government consultations often fail to engage the public in policymaking because of their inaccessibility. I then explore ways to make government consultations more accessible and engaging, …
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The Actorness of the European Union in Arctic Policymaking
No longer a distant frontier, the Arctic has become a space of concerns and opportunities for the people living in the region, as well as for external actors, due to climate change and increasing possibilities to further exploit Arctic resources. The EU is present in the region through its Arctic …
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Weighted Policymaking: Federal, State and Local Politics of Obesity
In less than one generation, more than two-thirds of American adults have become overweight or obese. The financial and societal costs of obesity shift this condition from a private to a public problem necessitating a collective solution and an understanding of it as a public policy issue. This …
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Foresight in Public Policymaking: An Exploration of Process Practices
… of maintaining a forward-looking approach in policymaking, the actual inclusion of information and insight concerning the future into policy development does not appear widely implemented. However, existing literature on ‘public’ Foresight appears predominantly prescriptive, offering limited …
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Modeling the dynamic complexity of the energy policymaking process
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2002.
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A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking
This dissertation contributes to the literature on urban development politics. It takes a normative ideal, democratic urban governance, out of the esoteric realm of academic debate and applies it to a critical case study which concerns the most financially consequential area of urban policy, that …
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Defense policymaking: the post-cold war roles and missions debate.
… with constraints and implications of defense policymaking.
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Sense and credibility : the role of science in environmental policymaking
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1999.
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Regime Theory Revisited: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Urban Policymaking
… <p>While quite a bit has been written about the policymaking roles played by government and business actors, much less attention has been paid to the ways in which the U.S. nonprofit sector contributes to policy outcomes in urban areas. The dominant theory of urban governance, regime theory, has …
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The presidency and environmental policymaking: A critical assessment of George Bush
… become integrated into the American policymaking process. Recognized as an essential aspect of human quality of life, environmental policy receives ever increasing attention from American policymakers. Owing to developments such as the passage of the Clean Air Act and the United …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
… disrupted. Studies examining Big Food’s role in policymaking are increasingly common in other jurisdictions but this study is the first analysis of Big Food and childhood obesity in Ireland. This study finds that Big Food’s discourse strategies seek to influence what can be said, and done, about …
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Backchannel policymaking: members of Congress pursuing policy goals through the bureaucracy
… This behavior, which I call “backchannel policymaking”, is a new way of thinking about policymaking and representational behavior, distinct from previously studied channels of the lawmaking process like roll call votes or bill introductions. I develop and test a theory to explain why …
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