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- Title
- Racial and Gender Concordance: Effects on Utilization of Health Services Among Individuals Enrolled in a Primary Care Case Management Delivery System
- Author
- Smith, III, Galen
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- Very few studies to date have directly examined the impact of race or gender patient-provider concordance on the utilization of health services. This is particularly noteworthy given the role that the linkage between concordance and health service...
- Title
- Racial Disparities in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
- Author
- Cavallo, Stephany
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national priority. Research demonstrates that direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, research also identif...
- Title
- Policy and Parity: How gender equality and reproductive technologies influence the innovation and diffusion of marriage equality policies.
- Author
- Berlan, Meika
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- My research examines the adoption and diffusion of marriage equality policies in states across the US. I analyze how gender equality and reproductive technology reshape norms around marriage and family to foster the broad support of same sex marri...
- Title
- ROLES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SPENDING AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
- Author
- Jha, Nandan
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- Equity in school district spending, and equity and productive efficiency in educational outcomes are of paramount importance in the literature on K-12 public education in the US. The research on the effects of school choice (operationalized as int...
- Title
- Municipal agricultural service delivery in the Philippines: Three empirical essays.
- Author
- Lapitan, Aileen
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Agriculture--Economic aspects
- Description
- This dissertation examines three aspects of municipal agricultural service delivery in the Philippines. The first essay investigates the effect of rural constituency share, fiscal factors, and provincial government performance on the municipal gov...
- Title
- REGIONAL COUNCILS AND THE INFLUENCE OF STATE LAWS ON REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
- Author
- Whisman, Holly
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- Regional decision-making, in which multiple local governments seek to address concerns that affect communities across jurisdictional boundaries, has been approached by scholars from two opposing viewpoints. Some argue in favor of consolidated regi...
- Title
- REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, POPULATION GROWTH AND LOCAL SPENDING IN U.S. MICROPOLITAN AREAS, 2002-2014
- Author
- McShane, Chuck
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Economics, Demography
- Description
- The following dissertation adds to the literature on income convergence and population growth in the United States. It also expands knowledge on the relatively underexplored geography – the American micropolitan area. The study identifies determin...
- Title
- Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Author
- Sun, Chengxiu
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
- Description
- There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...
- Title
- A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
- Author
- Holder, John
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science
- Description
- This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...
- Title
- DRUG CONTROL POLICIES: THE CASES OF COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES
- Author
- Bottia, Martha
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Criminology
- Description
- The consumption, production and trafficking of illicit drugs is one of the major problems facing nearly all societies today. Unfortunately, illicit drugs have the ability to disintegrate persons, families and, in some extreme cases, entire societi...
- Title
- Cluster Requiem and the Rise of Cumulative Growth Theory
- Author
- Kunkle, Gary
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Public administration
- Description
- Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster approach has been to regional scientists and policy makers it suffers from a number...
- Title
- BCRA: BEFORE CAMPAIGNING RETAIN AN ATTORNEY. AN INSTITUTIONAL STUDY OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE CONTRIBUTION LIMITS ON CANDIDATE EMERGENCE IN THE 50 UNITED STATES
- Author
- Shepherd, Mary Jo
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science
- Description
- This study looks at campaign finance statutes and their effect on candidate decisions in a novel way. Using institutional theory as a backdrop, this study uses the language of the campaign finance statutes as measured with plain language utilities...
- Title
- Adverse Events in Healthcare and the Ability to Improve the Quality and Safety of Patient Care in the Hospital
- Author
- Walsh Koricke, Maureen
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation examines the influence of external and internal constraints on adverse event management in hospitals. Using a multilevel organizing framework, in three separate studies I explore the mechanisms of constraint that impact adverse e...
- Title
- Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
- Author
- Boyd, Jr., Robert
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Political science, Public administration
- Description
- The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...
- Title
- HOT SPOTS IN THE CITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SERVICES
- Author
- Wodicka, Reid
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Urban forestry
- Description
- There is a common understanding among members of local government emergency services professionals that some neighborhoods require a substantially larger amount of services than others. This phenomenon is primarily driven, it is believed, by the c...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF TEACHER DIVERSITY AND STUDENT-TEACHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MATCHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
- Author
- Banerjee, Neena
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
- Description
- This dissertation investigates the implications of student-teacher racial/ethnic matching on two educational outcomes. The fourth chapter investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students' math and reading achievement growth i...
- Title
- EXTERNAL EFFECTS OF INNOVATION ON FIRM SURVIVAL: EVIDENCE FROM COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING AND HEALTHCARE
- Author
- Tsvetkova, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Government policy, Public administration
- Description
- This dissertation investigates the effects of innovation in the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) on survival chances of standalone non-patenting firms. Extensive literature argues that knowledge spillovers are likely to be present in aggl...
- Title
- EVALUATING HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE ENROLLMENT OF THE UNINSURED UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: AN EXAMINATION OF EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL MARKETPLACE MECHANISMS
- Author
- Tripp, Hollie
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- Background: The establishment of health insurance marketplaces (HIMs) offering a market-based response to the need for health care reform was one of the primary provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The HIMs provided a virtual space in whic...
- Title
- DO STATE-LEVEL RPS POLICIES IN THE U.S. DELIVER ANTICIPATED BENEFITS? EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF FEDERALIZED ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT POLICY ON ELECTRICITY PRICE AND QUANTITY, USE OF RENEWABLES, AND CARBON EMISSIONS
- Author
- Cochran, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- In this dissertation, I present the findings of a formative evaluation of the changes in the electricity markets of states that implemented renewable portfolio standards (RPS policies) from 2000 to 2010. The formative evaluation is an assessment o...
- Title
- Environmental Sustainability of Light Rail Transit in Urban Areas
- Author
- Sarmiento, Hazel Marie
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Sustainability, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Light rail transit is considered as an environmentally sustainable transit option based on perceptions of its possible benefits on minimizing air pollution, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This study seeks to determine how light r...