Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Grafton, Carl"

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An Analysis of Municipal Financial Behavior Using the National League of Cities’ Typology

Blankenship, Jeffrey (2007-08-15)

Municipal finance research is an endeavor that requires the classification of cities for comparison purposes. Traditional methods of grouping cities have relied primarily on the form of government (mayor versus manager) ...

Applying Game Theory to Presidential Mistakes

Wishnietsky, Anida (2007-12-15)

Game theory, based on the rational actor model (RAM), is a decision making theory that is useful for predicting economic decisions but is not reliable for predicting political decisions. Game theory might work better if ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Institutionalization of Military Base Closing

Schwalbe, Stephen (2006-05-15)

The reason the theory of institutionalization is so important is that it provides the basis for optimum efficiency and effectiveness, two pillars of public administration, within government organizations. Administrative ...

Interdependence Theory, China and American Security Interests

Clarke, Paul (2006-05-15)

This research examines how the economic relationship between the United States and China impacts the potential for dyadic conflict. We employed Interdependence Theory to explain this relationship. Our purpose is to examine ...

The Role of an Agency in Setting the Policy Agenda

Gemmill, John (2012-05-09)

This paper examines the impact a government agency can have on setting the political agenda for the agency’s policy area. While most literature on the role of agencies in the policy process acknowledges that agencies play ...

A Study of the Adoption of Digital Government Technology as Public Policy Innovation in the American States

Akers, Eugene (2006-08-15)

The diffusion of information technology in the public sector presents the opportunity to evaluate the appropriateness of diffusion theory in a combined context of information technology and public policy innovation by ...