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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"public support"”.
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Provocation, intent and harm: factors affecting public support for restorative justice processes
This study tested whether observers’ support for restorative justice is contingent on the perception that an offender deserves respectful treatment. In a 2 (Intent: High, Low) x 2 (Harm: High, Low) x 2 (Provocation: High, Low) between-subjects experimental vignette study, we manipulated …
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PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR PRODUCT INNOVATING R&D IN A GAME-THEORETIC SETTING
This dissertation investigates the role of public support for R&D in product innovation. In particular, I consider the role of matching grant programs and develop a theoretical model to analyze optimal private and public choices in a game-theoretic framework. This research develops-theoretical …
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How Do You Mobilize Public Support for Infrastructural Investment in California’s Aging Water System?
… that will expose each of these problems to the public, and work towards garnering support from water customers, voters, state and federal officials, local water agencies, environmental groups, farmers, and labor unions to want to help pay for the a new SWP that will be modernized, reliable, and …
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Nudging the public: Relevance, antecedents and the level of public support for behaviorally informed policies
A viselkedési közgazdaságtan térnyerése a közgazdasági kutatások fősodrában nagymértékben kiterjesztette az emberi ítélőképességről és döntéshozatalról alkotott ismereteinket. Daniel Kahneman és Richard Thaler Nobel-díjas tudósok munkáitól inspirálva kezdtem el tudományos kutatásokat végezni a …
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Public Support For Stricter Gun Control Laws In America Following The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary
… past decade witnessed a considerable increase in public outrage and debates regarding gun control laws, due in large part to several mass shootings across the nation. The purpose of this study is to explore how mass shootings influence attitudes toward gun control. More specifically, this study …
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Factors affecting public support of transportation policies : using an international survey and hybrid discrete choice modeling
What transportation policies do people support? What factors affect people's policy support? Detangling people's support of transportation policies is a way to understand public needs, to understand how the public evaluates and envisions the role of government in shaping the current as well as …
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Sources of political support for decentralization of the educational system and its relationship to public support for education
… fundamental question, where does the political support for decentralization come from? The purposes of this study are to gain conceptual clarity with respect to decentralization and to examine how the preference of the decentralized educational system is associated with demographic factors and …
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Factors Predicting Public’s Willingness to Support National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Artemis Mission
… face of this significant undertaking, gauging public sentiment and understanding the factors driving public support becomes necessary. The current study aimed to address a critical gap in the literature by examining public support for NASA’s Artemis mission, which is essential for sustaining …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… decisions, and the striking disconnect between public demand for climate action and governments’ limited responses, this thesis investigates: Do politicians underestimate public support for climate policies? The social norm literature shows that citizens often underestimate climate policy …
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Green Building: Public Opinion, Semantics, And Heuristic Processing
Research on public support for green building has, to date, been incomplete. Understanding the demographics of individuals that support green building has remained secondary to merely determining real opinions on the topic. The identity of supporters and the motivation behind their support is the …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
… Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact the law has had thus far within the state. Finally, it postulates the future of Arizona’s immigration policy.</p>
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… Child used their writing skills to encourage public support for antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the "little lady" who allegedly caused the big war, took advantage of her enormous popularity in England to urge British support for the Union. A young Philadelphia teenager named Anna Dickinson …
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A systematic review of surveys on public attitudes toward community notification for sex offenders
… increased after Megan's Law of 1994 mandated public notification of registered sex offenders. This interest centered primarily on public attitudes toward sex offenders and community notification. The current study consisted of a systematic analysis of published studies on public attitudes …
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Contesting the European Union in times of crisis: an analysis of Facebook interactions
… at both EU and national levels and shrinking public support for the EU, as evidenced by Eurobarometer surveys, have shown that Euroscepticism has been surging in parallel with tighter cooperation of member states in crisis-ridden policy areas. Consequently, EU institutions have embraced the …
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Words of War: Presidential Rationales for Military Action From World War II to Iraq
… for war present in news coverage influence public support for war? To address the first question, a typology of presidential rationales is developed through synthesis of the extant literature and textual analysis of presidential communications. Six rationales for war are identified: …
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Brownfields to green energy : redeveloping contaminated lands with large-scale renewable energy facilities
… regulators, and local officials. Political and public support enables cooperation between public and private stakeholders. This support is driven by an expectation that brownfield-to-renewable energy projects will improve the city's image and stimulate development of the clean energy industry …
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