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Does U.S. Soft Power Translate into Foreign Countries' Support for U.S. Foreign Policies? 

Lawniczak, Brent (2021-01-25)  ETD File Embargoed
Power is a central concept in the study of international relations. This dissertation explores soft power as a facet of power which is seen as increasingly important. Joseph Nye’s concept of soft power has caught the ...

The Effect of City-County Consolidation in South Korea 

Min, Byoungik (2013-07-16)
In 1994, the South Korean central government initiated a massive merger of city and county governments, and during the next two years, a total of 40 consolidated cities were established. Following the city-county consolidations, ...

The Effect of Political Knowledge on Political Tolerance 

Hall, John Powell (2014-07-24)
Traditional democratic theory holds that an educated electorate, capable of making informed decisions regarding government policy, is required to maintain a healthy relationship between the government and the governed ...

The Effects of Social Capital on Local Government Performance and Economic Development 

Laughlin, Tammy (2012-05-10)
The purpose of this study is to examine the idea that social interaction, government performance, and development efforts positively affect economic wealth on the local level in cities within the United States. New methods ...

Entry into Nursing Practice: A Four State Comparative Study 

Smith, Timothy (2009-04-28)
There is little doubt that the new administration will be forced to deal with the looming health care crisis in this country. But the political obstacles remain daunting, the least of which is the opposition by health care ...

The Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Natural Resource Institutions 

Adams, David (2016-03-25)
Across the United States there are collaborative partnerships and networks co-laboring to manage environmental and natural resources including our watersheds. There are over 2,000 of these watersheds in which at least ...

Evaluating Juvenile Mental Health Courts as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Mixed Method, Multimodal Program Evaluation Toolkit and Validation Protocol 

Hinton, Amy (2021-04-21)  ETD File Embargoed
Significant interest remains in the development and expansion of specialty court programs for adult and juvenile offenders (Wexler and Winick 1991; Wexler 1995; Goin 2004; Munetz and Griffin 2006). However, the adult mental ...

An Examination of Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Health Care 

Whitman, Marilyn (2006-12-15)
The increasing number of foreign-born persons in the United States is creating significant cultural and linguistic challenges for health care providers. The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority ...

An Examination of Eight Factors Influencing Women's Retention in Federal Law Enforcement 

Yu, Helen (2011-11-30)
Using a sample of 168 sworn female federal law enforcement officers with arrest and firearm authority and in-depth interviews with 20 of these women, this study examines eight factors that may or may not influence women's ...

An Examination of Municipal Finance Reform Regarding Municipal Bankruptcies in the United States 

Deal, Keren (2007-08-15)
Municipal bankruptcy is considered rare. A total of 569 U.S. municipalities filed Chapter 9 from 1938-2005; however, the occurrence of Chapter 9 cases since 1990 seems to be escalating nationwide. At the time of this ...

An Examination of State Level Homeland Security Organizations 

Davis, Joe (2008-12-15)
The requirement for homeland security within the United States became apparent following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Prior to the attacks, neither the federal nor state governments were organized or ...

An Examination of the Factors Influencing the Decisions of United States Army Aviation Officers to Leave the Army 

Ramdass, Vicky (2005-08-15)
This research examined the following questions: (1) What factors cause some aviators to leave the Army? (2) Are private sector employment opportunities perceived differently between aviators who leave and those who stay ...

An Examination of the Influence of Nursing Resources and Policies on Care Quality Outcomes 

Courtney, Haun (2019-10-07)  ETD File Embargoed
The nursing shortage has become a top priority in the evaluation of health care quality outcomes. The issue is confirmed by the combination of public availability of care quality ratings in both hospitals and nursing homes ...

Examining Management's Impact on Institutional Performance in Higher Education 

Good, A.J. (2019-12-09)
Extensively studied in several public policy contexts, O'Toole and Meier's (OTM) (1999) framework modeling public management's impact has shown that managerial, structural, and environmental influences matter for performance. ...

Examining the Causes of Variation between States Safe Drinking Water Act Violations 

Chen, Xi (2023-04-18)  ETD File Embargoed
Water quality is a daily essential concern for residents. The Environmental Protection Agency has established health-related rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect tap water quality and require all public water ...

Explaining State Adoption of Performance Funding in Higher Education, 1990 - 2020: A Comparative State Policy Study 

Sears, Towanna (2022-12-05)
In the past 40 years, performance funding has become a state policy reaction for the demand of transparency for public higher education institutions. State legislatures have adopted performance funding as a mechanism to ...

Exploring Public Value in Cross-Sector Collaborations 

Bailey, Melissa (2017-07-25)
This research study applies Page et al’s (2015) three-dimensional framework to better understand collaboration and public value in the public sector, and to expand our understanding of public value creation in cross-sector ...

External Influences on Weak State Foreign Policy: The United States and Italy during the Cold War 

Spyker, Rick (2010-05-06)
This dissertation examines the extent to which one country may influence the foreign policy choices of a weaker partner. It specifically examines the complex interdependent relationship between Italy and the United States ...

First Innovator States: An Ecological Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion of Policies to Address College Student Financial Insecurity in the American States. 

Cellon, Jonathan (2020-04-08)
The issue of college student financial insecurity has risen to the political agenda of post-secondary institutions and states since the Recession of 2007 – 2009. This need is driven by stark increases in the cost of college ...

Fiscal Policy and the Growth of Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-saharan Africa (Selected Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) 

Bello, Joshua (2005-12-15)
This study evaluates the impacts of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) region, focusing on the selected countries of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The study further ...