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- 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
- A Public Policy Approach to Status Interventions and Unintended Consequences.
- Author
- Jamil, Cayce
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research, Social structure, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation examines whether there are unintended consequences that emerge from status interventions in task groups in relation to cohesion and solidarity. Past theorists have argued that inconsistent status structures produce weaker levels ...
- Title
- A Woman in a Man's World: The Political Attitudes of Women and the Role of Representation
- Author
- Wemlinger, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Political science, Sex role
- Description
- Gender plays an important role in shaping attitudes, constraining roles, and perpetuating values. Historically women have been removed from the public and political environment, not allowed to vote, to freely work, and to attend educational instit...
- 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
- 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
- An Examination of Do Not Resuscitate Compliance: Hospital Ownership and Cost Considerations
- Author
- Porter, Petra
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Medical ethics
- Description
- My dissertation sheds light on unwanted treatment in the larger context of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA). I focus specifically on the impact of Catholic hospitals on compliance with do not resuscitate (DNR) orders. Drawing from institu...
- Title
- Assessing Convergence of Community Benefit Programs and Community Health Needs Among North Carolina's Tax-Exempt Hospitals
- Author
- Fos, Elmer
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Health services administration
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires tax-exempt hospitals to conduct Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years, formulate implementation strategies, and report yearly to the IRS and the public the progress of their work. Th...
- Title
- Association Between the Affordable Care Act and Emergency Department Admission by Psychiatric Patients
- Author
- Asgharian, Afsaneh
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Mental health
- Description
- AbstractThis was a cross-sectional study to evaluate the association between the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the emergency department (ED) admission by psychiatric patients, characteristics of psychiatric patients admitted to ED, and the ED visi...
- 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
- Choosing a Regional Resilience Partner: A comparative study of urban, suburban, and rural natural hazard preparedness conditions
- Author
- Danis, Christina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Area studies
- Description
- Whether urban, suburban, or rural or from different United States (US) geographic regions, communities expect public officials to guide them to better prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and recurring natural hazard threats. Natural hazar...
- Title
- DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
- Author
- Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Geography, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...
- 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
- 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
- Decision Analysis and Policy Formulation for Technology-Specific Renewable Energy Targets
- Author
- Okioga, Irene
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources, Government policy, Environmental engineering
- Description
- This study establishes a decision making procedure using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for a U.S. national renewable portfolio standard, and proposes technology-specific targets for renewable electricity generation for the country. The study pr...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Economic Implications of Decriminalization
- Author
- Viars, Shanyn
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Economics, Law
- Description
- Contrary to federal government policy in the United States toward illegal drug use, ten states enacted legislation to decriminalize marijuana during the 1970’s. The War on Drugs campaign of the 1980’s-1990’s halted state marijuana reform policy un...
- 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...