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- Title
- A Spatial Evaluation of Housing and Supportive Service Locations for the Formerly Homeless: The Case of Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- Butta, Faith
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- The lack of affordable housing and homelessness continues to be a serious public policy issue. Even though homelessness has been decreasing nationally, major cities have seen increases late in the last decade. The purpose of this study was to lear...
- Title
- AUTOMOTIVE AND LOGISTICS CLUSTERS TO DRIVE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IN JAVA, INDONESIA
- Author
- Anggoro, Yudo
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Economics
- Description
- This study assesses the competitiveness of logistics and automotive industry clusters in Java economic corridor, Indonesia. The need for competitive industry clusters in Indonesia has emerged especially after the government launched its Master Pla...
- 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
- 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
- Decision Analysis in Public Policy: Multi-Objective Optimization for Economic Mobility Policy Portfolio Mix in Local Urban Governments
- Author
- Watlington, Victoria
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary approach to improve the budget allocation process for economic mobility policy by leveraging multi-objective optimization as a decision support tool. Economic mobility is measured as the difference...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF PICTURE PROMPTS DELIVERED BY A VIDEO IPOD® ON PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION
- Author
- Kelley, Kelly
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education
- Description
- National data continue to indicate many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have not had the same access to education, employment, independent living, or extracurricular activities as the general population after hig...
- Title
- Emotions, Self-Efficacy, and Opportunity Beliefs in American Neighborhoods
- Author
- Cai, Tengteng
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- Subjective perceptions of social mobility are critical for defending societal system and maintain political stability (Day and Fiske 2017; Houle 2019). This dissertation enhances our understanding of factors that shape beliefs in opportunity for u...
- Title
- Investigating the Determinants of Autonomous Vehicles and Their Potential Impacts on Travel Behaviors and Land Use Distribution
- Author
- Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning, Land use--Planning
- Description
- Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are imminent and they are not in people’s dreams now. Now the burning questions the research community is interested in include how quickly AVs would be implemented for public use, whether people would accept them, and ho...
- 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
- Municipal Voluntary Environmental Programs: The case of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
- Author
- Duma, Nathan
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Environmental economics, Geography
- Description
- Over the space of three articles, we attempt to answer two broad questions related to public sector voluntary environmental programs (VEP) through a case study on the National Association of Swedish Eco-municipalities (SEKOM). The first question a...
- Title
- Parenting Stress Among Sexual Minority Parents: Gender, Race, Custody Status, Timing of Coming Out, and Level of Outness
- Author
- Martin, Ann
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Queer studies, Families--Study and teaching
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting stress among sexual minority parents and their gender, race, legal custody status, timing of coming out relative to becoming a parent, and level of outness. A total of 833...
- 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
- Social Media and Extremist Groups Online: An Examination of Methods of Radicalization and its Implications
- Author
- Fertakos, Ryan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Public administration
- Description
- This thesis studies the relationship between extremists groups, their presence online, their ability to radicalize individuals, and the implications of this relationship. Data was collected from Twitter related to two significant events claimed by...
- Title
- Standardized Distraction: Why the Emphasis on High-Stakes Testing Can't Resolve Educational Inequality
- Author
- Giersch, Jason
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
- Description
- Standardized testing has exploded into nearly every grade level and subject area in public education over the past two decades. Attaching high stakes to standardized test results was intended to improve education for all students, but especially f...
- Title
- THE IMPACT OF THE 287(G) PROGRAM ON PROCESSES OF HISPANIC INTEGRATION AND ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Mathema, Silva
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- This research explores the impacts of a federal-local partnership called the 287(g) program on the processes of integration of Hispanics in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. Federal 287(g) allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to p...
- Title
- The impact of police agency size on crime clearance rates
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Public administration
- Description
- The impact of police agency size on the ability of those agencies to deliver necessary police services is a question critical to many policy makers as they attempt to determine the best and most efficient manner to provide police services to their...
- Title
- Tradeoffs in the use of value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness by school districts
- Author
- Baxter, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measure the productivity of their teachers in terms of student outcomes. The use o...
- Title
- VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
- Author
- Canales, Kristine Laura
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Government policy, Economics
- Description
- Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...
- Title
- Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
- Author
- Duscha, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science, Public administration
- Description
- This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...