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Title: Acculturation, Hispanic ethnicity, and trust : verifying and explaining racial/ethnic differences in trust in health providers in North Carolina Medicaid
Author: Smith, Galen H., Hampton, Cicily, Tripp, Hollie L., Brandon, William P.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Medicaid, Cultural competence
Description: Three North Carolina Medicaid surveys conducted from 2000 to 2012 reported increasing numbers of Hispanic children enrolled in Medicaid and much lower trust in providers expressed by their adult caregiver respondents compared with responses for no...

Title: Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums
Author: Piatak, Jaclyn, Olivares, Alexandra, Mohr, Zachary
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Art museums, Social integration
Description: While art should be for everyone, public institutions like museums are not always inclusive to all members of society. Arts participation varies by sociodemographic characteristics despite the numerous benefits of the arts. To date, much of the re...

Title: Charles Goodsell : a weaver of the tapestry of public administration
Author: Barth, Thomas J.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public administration, Biographies
Description: Our society has the habit of writing about exemplars after they are no longer with us; this is certainly important and beneficial but misses the opportunity to engage them in a personal reflection on their lives and the contributions/lessons they ...

Title: Creating the executive budget process : what was Congress thinking?
Author: Douglas, James W., Kravchuck, Robert S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: United States. Congress, United States. Office of Management and Budget
Description: The recent centennial of the 1921 Budget and Accounting Act presents an opportunity to reconsider the importance of the federal executive budget to American political development. Of particular interest is the apparent shift in political authority...

Title: Drones and support for the use of force
Author: Walsh, James Igoe, Schulzke, Marcus
Subjects--Topical: Political science, International relations
Description: Combat drones are transforming attitudes about the use of military force. Military casualties and the costs of conflict sap public support for war and for political and military leaders. Combat drones offer an unprecedented ability to reduce these...

Title: Using campaign communications to analyze civility in ranked choice voting elections
Author: Kropf, Martha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Preferential ballot, Sentiment analysis
Description: Theory suggests that ranked choice voting (RCV) may create a more civil campaign environment. As voters must rank candidates, the candidates have an incentive to work with each other more collaboratively. This study uses text analysis software (LI...

Title: Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?
Author: Douglas, James W., Mohr, Zachary, Raudla, Ringa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public administration, European Economic Community countries
Description: A key question of public sector innovation (PSI) scholarship is: which factors influence innovation? This paper focuses on managerial practices as drivers of PSI and addresses two research questions. First, how have the main types of managerial re...

Title: Who shapes the law? Gender and racial bias in judicial citations
Author: Szmer, John, Moyer, Laura P., Haire, Susan B., Christensen, Robert K.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Procedure (Law)
Description: In this letter, we assess whether the contributions of judges from underrepresented groups are undervalued or overlooked, thereby reducing these judges’ influence on legal policy. Drawing on an original dataset of discretionary citations to over 2...