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Showing 1 to 20 of 583 for “"state level"”.
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Evolving Paradigms in State-Level Integrated Resource Planning
… rapid financial and operational transformation. State-level integrated resource planning (IRP) processes allow oversight of long-term electric utility resource planning. Yet, outdated rules, procedures, and practices may impede utilities in planning for a new energy future. Is the IRP process …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
… in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but not all states used this …
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Bureaucracy at the state level: the quest for responsibility
… behavior of federal bureau chiefs at the state level. Kaufman asserted that bureau chiefs are not as autonomous as we depicted. Their behavior is confined by the legal, institutional, political and operational constraints. This thesis supports Kaufman's findings--except that it's more …
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Lobbying at the state level: Higher education interests in Illinois.
Lobbying at the state level: Higher education interests in Illinois.
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
… examines the use of ballot initiatives at the state level to determine whether the presence of certain types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why an …
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Job Satisfaction and the Internship in State Level Law Enforcement
… increase job satisfaction for the individual in state level investigative law enforcement and the field as a whole. Increased job satisfaction, in turn, produces higher retention rates which may lead to making the state level investigative law enforcement field a more stable environment. …
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A Descriptive Policy Analysis of State-Level Universal Preschool Adoption
<p>Presently, the United States does not have a publicly funded, comprehensive, universal ECE system. The fragmented and piecemeal approach to providing ECE creates social injustice and inequity for many young children (Kagan & Roth, 2017; Kagan, 2009). With the absence of comprehensive and …
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Vaccine policy & vaccine politics: an analysis of United States vaccine uptake by state-level school and childcare vaccination mandate policies and state-level election results
… transformed public health both in the United States (US) and internationally and are credited with saving millions of lives and trillions of dollars in direct and societal costs. Despite overwhelming evidence supporting vaccine safety and effectiveness, skepticism and hostility toward …
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A State-Level Analysis of Deinstitutionalization and the Impact of Chlorpromazine
US state mental hospitals were rapidly depopulated in the decades following 1955. This was a demographic phenomenon of major proportion. The introduction of antipsychotics in 1954 has often been considered instrumental in this population movement. To date, studies of the role of antipsychotics in …
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The Results of State Level Investigations of IDEA Complaints in Virginia
… Act (Opuda, 1997). IDEA requires that states guarantee parents the right to bring complaints to the State Education Agency regarding any of these matters (34 C.F.R. 300.507). The federal government and state legislatures have toiled to develop strategies to work through these challenges …
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A Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Model of State-Level Beer Consumption
… containing random effects is used to examine state-level beer consumption over the period of 1970 to 2007 for the 48 contiguous US states and the District of Columbia. A valuable aspect of dynamic space-time panel data models is that the parameter estimates from these models can be used to …
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Innovations in state-level solar energy policy : motivating community investment in resiliency
Community-level resilience in the face of climate change is critical for New Jersey. Through a review of current literature, evidence is provided that a majority of work being done with respect to climate-change planning is taking place at the local level. On the basis of case-study analyses, three …
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Local School-System Use of State-Level Educational Goals in Selected States
<p>Problem. A major component of state-level educational accountability systems is the specification of goals upon which other components of the systems are established. The use being made of these goals at the local-school-district level in states where they exist has not been formally …
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A Structure for the Examination of State-Level Higher Education Funding Policies
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State-Level Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: Assessing Recovery from the 2007 Recession
<p>This research examines state-level fiscal policy responses to the 2007 recession, with a particular focus on the short- and long-run effectiveness of government spending at achieving economic growth. Using OLS regression models to test the impact of government spending, institutional …
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Constitutional tax limits at the state level: an overview and selected case studies
… amendment and subsequent amendments in other states, reversed the traditional negative attitude concerning constraints upon government implicitly expounded by many scholars and public servants. This dissertation presents an overview of constitutional tax limits at the state level in the United …
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Career Patterns of State Directors: Federal and State Level Leadership for Community College Systems
… skills, and overarching career patterns of state directors of two-year college systems. Second, the study investigates whether those career patterns differ by college system governance model. Third, the study expands current knowledge of the professional developmental trajectory of two-year …
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A model for effective organization and communication of Homeland Security activities at the state level
This thesis is concerned with the optimal state organizational structure to achieve homeland security missions, particular in the state of Wisconsin. It will therefore first review the relevant literature in order to identify a core set of critical homeland security functions germane to states. …
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The Effects of State-level Mandatory Advanced Placement Curriculum Policies on AP Participation and Performance
… may exacerbate inequality. To address this, some states require all high schools to offer at least one AP course. This study analyzes the impacts of AP mandates using difference-in-differences models. My findings indicate that school-level AP mandates are associated with a 36% increase in the …
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