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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 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)
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 ...

Ivory Tower Whistleblowers and Hotlines: Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) Voluntary Implementation of NACUBO-recommended Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 Whistleblowing Best Practices Provisions: A Web-Based Survey Instrument and Exploratory Research to Determine HEI Level of Implementation, Expectations, Effects and Barriers 

McMillan, Kenneth (2014-12-04)
The purpose of this exploratory study is to determine Higher Education Institutions’ (HEIs) level of implementation, expectations and effects from voluntarily implementing National Association of College and University ...

Public Libraries and Democracy: The Library's Effect on Civic Engagement 

Walker, Kevin (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 ...