Browsing by Department "Political Science"
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Killing the Common Core: An Analysis of State Policymaking
(2017-07-22)
Policymaking research explains and predicts what will happen when an issue enters the policy stream and why changes occur. Numerous theories, frameworks, and models have been created to attempt to explain policy shifts. ...
Leading Through Culture Crisis: The Full Range - Adaptive Mixed Leadership Model
(2019-07-23)
The primary problem examined in this research project is that two popular leadership models in public administration and business management do not adequately account for the foundational aspect of properly defining problems ...
A Look at Public Service Motivation Using NLSY97 Data: Examining Prosocial Attitudes and Altruistic Behavior in Young Adults with Professional Public Service Experience
(2016-08-16)
This study examines whether young adults with work experience in public service organizations—defined as organizations within sectors which have an other-centeredness orientation, such as public, nonprofit, or military ...
Making a Judgment of Accountability: An Analysis of Budgets & Structural Balance Utilizing State CAFR's
(2013-04-23)
Budgeting is a key financial management tool utilized by governments. It provides a prospective view of revenues and expenditures for a particular time period. An adopted budget allows the governmental entity, the public ...
Marketing War: A Case Study Comparison of Wars Between the United States and Iraq
(2008-05-15)
Being able to convince the American public that they need to send their sons and daughters into harms way is not an easy task but one which every United States President may face during his or her tenure. Rallying public ...
Mitigating Racial Bias through Music: Opera, Race, and American Political Behavior
(2024-04-26)
There is a small, but growing, body of literature exploring the congruence between music, race, and politics. While most of this literature focuses on Black musical forms such as rap and hip hop and their political messaging, ...
More than Moral Leadership: Building Organizational Capacity for Promoting Ethical Behavior - Survey Evidence from Alabama Local Governments
(2012-07-24)
This study addresses a deficiency identified in the public administration literature on how to design and sustain public organizations in which ethical reasoning and decision making is possible. It employs original survey ...
A New Elections Federalism: Dual Election Administration Systems
(2022-11-29)
Dual election administration systems have a substantial history in the United States with differing characteristics over time and place. A dual election administration system creates categories of voters who are only ...
Patterns of Budget Agent Interaction as Indicators of Internal Transparency in the Budget Processes of Three Southeastern States: A Step Toward Normative Budget Theory
(2019-04-23)
The budget process in any state is more than the structural hierarchy, budget calendars and procedures, and the technical preferences of the day, it is also a network of budget agents interacting to complete the budget. ...
Planetary Partnerships and Their Role in Global Environmental Governance
(2010-04-08)
Finding solutions to global environmental problems has practical, scientific, theoretical, and academic importance. As a practical matter protecting the earth’s bio-systems is necessary for human survival. As resources ...
Policy Adoption and Networked Governance: How Power Arrangements Explain Local Approaches to HIV Testing in County Jails
(2017-11-30)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to be a pernicious problem in the United States’ correctional facilities, despite national prevention efforts for decades. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been working ...
The Prevalence of Complexity Leadership (CL) Traits Among Principals in Alabama Torchbearer Schools in Successfully Implementing and Achieving No Child Left Behind Mandates
(2020-08-19)
The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of the leadership behavior known as
Complexity Leadership (CL) style among the principals of Alabama Torchbearer Schools that
were successful in implementing and ...
Protection or Provocation: Does Hosting a U.S. Military Base Increase the Incidence of Terrorist Attack in a Country?
(2010-12-01)
Historically, and particularly since the end of World War II, United States military installations overseas have served to protect the U.S. and the nation hosting the installations against prevailing international threat. ...
Public Administration Revealed: A Trinitarian Approach
(2012-11-16)
This is an attempt to offer a window into the good that government can do through new possibilities beyond the practical and economical. Public administration theory has been moving away from its original narrow, scientistic, ...
Public Libraries and Democracy: The Library's Effect on Civic Engagement
(2013-07-19)
The modern public library is an agency that has grown out of the uniquely American democratic experience. Moreover, many in the profession tout these organizations as bastions of democracy. The key arguments contend that ...
Redefining US Security Missions: The Effectiveness of Security Forces during Military Operations
(2014-12-10)
This study examines how an Arab state’s use of force influences responses based on popular perception of institutional legitimacy. The study argues the duration of armed civil conflict within Arab states signals rejection ...
The Relevance of Foreign Assistance on Self-Development in Post-Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014-12-04)
For this dissertation, the researcher studies the relevance of foreign development assistance (F.D.A.) in relationship with self-development in post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa, dating from 1960 through 2010. This ...
Representative Bureaucracy across Diverse Policy Spaces: An analysis of the relationship between the attitudes and perceptions of street-level bureaucrats and advocacy for client interest of shared identity
(2020-05-19)
This study investigates the relationship between the major components of representative bureaucracy theory (RBT) across diverse policy spaces. After examining the existing literature, it becomes clear that a comprehensive ...
The Rise of the Islamic Movement in Sudan 1945-1989
(2008-05-15)
Using a wider theoretical framework and recognizing the gaps that exist in studying political Islam, this study utilized Social Movement Theory (SMT) in examining the rise of the Islamic Movement in Sudan (1945-1989). ...
Risk Assessment in Software Release Practice in Public Organization Information Management Systems
(2015-12-03)
The purpose of this paper is to document the United States Air Force’s (USAF) approach to risk assessment of software during the release phase of development and to provide material to support improvement recommendations ...