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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"state policy"”.
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Essays in State Policy
… three chapters each examining different areas of state policy. Each chapter revolves around an examination of different approaches taken by states in a particular area of policy. The questions answered arise in the contexts of income taxation, environmental regulation, and social insurance. …
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Large Secondary Schools Respond to State Policy
… accountability law and to provide information to policymakers on how to improve their policy-making. This was one of seven FINE-supported studies to carry out this purpose. The problem of this study was to describe and analyze the implementation procedures used by three large high schools in …
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Tax expenditures: report utilization by state policy makers
… This study investigated report use in ten states by (1) examining tax expenditure reporting processes and report use and (2) applying three path models of technical information use to tax expenditure reports. Data were gathered from report preparers-legislative staff persons and …
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Kansas infrastructure: strategy for formulating a comprehensive "state" policy
LD2668 .R4 PLAN 1989 G38
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State policy effects on sulfur dioxide emission allowance trading
… that this approach will be compromised by state regulatory policies that create incentives for utilities to invest in costly pollution control equipment, inhibiting the formation of a free and competitive allowance market. The pUrpose of this research is to investigate the impact of state …
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State policy, liberalisation and the development of the Indian software industry
… between industrial development and industrial policy in a developing country. The chosen industry - software - is of recent origin and of growing importance in many developing countries, for which it can present one of the best entry points into the information technology production complex. …
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Africans in Cape Town : state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
… the development 'Native' (later 'Bantu') policy, as well as the escalating organised resistance which arose in response. The study relies as far as possible on archival sources to disaggregate these themes. On this basis, it provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of policy with …
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Effect of a federal law on state policy process and on local implementation
This study described the state policy-making process as it was affected by the impact of the 1976 Federal Vocational Amendments. The roles of the state level actors were investigated in order to explain the process by which policy was developed. The impact on the local division was analyzed in …
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DECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY-BASED SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY: INTERSECTIONAL INJUSTICE, STRUCTURAL ABLEISM, AND STATE POLICY CONTEXTS
… related to disability, inequality, and health policy, ultimately providing new insights into how structural ableism shapes disparities in Supplemental Poverty and unemployment between disabled and nondisabled people and at the intersection of disability and other axes of stratification. The …
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An Analysis of State Policy Implementation on School Consolidation: Working From the Bottom Up
… this study was to provide an analysis of Iowa's state policy on whole grade sharing and school consolidation. The study was designed to ascertain if the policies of the state of Iowa were effective in encouraging small rural school districts to whole grade share and follow up with school …
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State policy and food insecurity in Kenya's arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) regions
… how food insecurity is conceptualized within policy documents, the perceived causes and solutions, and potential drawbacks of such perceptions. The study adopts a political ecology framework within which Ellis' (2000) rural livelihood approach and Sen's (1981) entitlement thesis are used to …
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Journey From the Statehouse to the Schoolhouse: A Study of the Implementation of State Policy
… in the creation of meaning at the local level of state school improvement mandates and determine what assisted in implementation at the classroom level. Procedures: Qualitative methodology was chosen because of the naturalistic and contextual perspective it provides. Twenty-eight teachers and …
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A multicase study analysis of the intersection of institutional and state policy and educational innovation
… of the Intersection of Institutional and State Policy and Educational Innovation” investigates the means by which public research institutions are attempting to address these pressures with technology-enhanced innovations, combined with supportive policies and effective business models. …
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Intersections of social networks and state policy : Brazilian migration to Japan and the United States
… flow, from Criciúma, Brazil to the United States. Describing selectivity and social dynamics over time in the two migration flows, the study ultimately shows that though social networks operating in each flow, among other factors, allow for the diversification of migrant composition over …
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Influencing institutional change through state policy: rural community college responses to performance-based funding models
… resonates throughout campus programming, state budgeting, and federal legislative review sessions. Most notably, the design and implementation of state-level performance-based funding (PBF) models can be found in more states than not; indeed, twenty-five states had PBF models in place as …
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Fiscal and regulatory state policy for private schools in South Africa : (a policy options analysis)
This paper explores possible future policy options for a democratically elected South African government as regards private schools. The paper establishes the context of contemporary and historical state policy for private schools in South Africa in combination with a comparative international …
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State policy on school physical education in, Ireland, with special reference to the period 1960-1996
… a valuable insight into the nature and basis of policy initiatives in physical education and sport. Considerable emphasis is also placed on the quantitative analysis of data relating to the provision of physical education. Once again, while these data have been openly in the public domain they …
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Factors Influencing Low-Income Working Mother's Child Care Arrangements Under Different Neighborhood and State Policy Contexts
… mothers. The findings thus have implications for policy makers, community organizations, as well as social work practitioners to help disadvantaged working mothers balance work and family obligations in the United States. Implications for social work practice and policy are discussed.
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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
… situations facing working mothers under the new policy regime. In addition, many studies have only used small samples and have not used nationally representative data sets. Further, most of the studies have concentrated on examining mothers’ individual level factors’ effects on their child care …
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