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Title: Why Waste? Local Factors And Recycling Outcomes: A Case Study Of North Carolina Counties
Author: Fernandes, Titiksha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Environmental management, Public administration
Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that in 2015 only 67.8million tons or about 26% of the total waste generated was recycled, while the waste generated continued to rise. It is clear from the numbers above that the success of ...

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: 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...

Title: Transit Riders and Access to Bus Service: A Neighborhood Analysis
Author: Wells, Kirstin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration, Transportation--Planning
Description: Intra-jurisdictional delivery of publicly provided services often results in observable differences in service levels that vary by spatial subunit (neighborhood). These variations are related to the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoo...

Title: Three essays on economic growth and environmental quality in China
Author: Yang, Hualiu
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public administration
Description: This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the relationship between economic development and environmental quality in China. The first essay investigates how the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) between the g...

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: The Influence of Local Professional Sports Teams on Bureaucratic Productivity
Author: Readhead, William
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Public administration
Description: The correlation between state government output and the performance of local sports teams is used to assess the degree and direction of the relationship. The goal is to identify a nationally preferred sport using granular data (state level vs nati...

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: On Corruption-related Crimes in Transitional China--A Panel Data Analysis from Criminological and Other Multi-disciplinary Perspective
Author: Meng, Qingli
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Criminology, Public administration
Description: Compared with other countries, any discussion of corruption has been a recent phenomenon in China, especially if the research used a quantitative method. One of the unexplored aspects of current China studies is a measure and explanation of the im...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA CHARTER SCHOOLS: SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS' PERCEPTIONSOF COMPETITION IN K-12 EDUCATION
Author: Parker, Ami
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Public administration
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore traditional public school administrators' perceptions of competition in North Carolina public education after the implementation of charter school legislation. Surveys of traditional public school administr...

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: FLOODED WITH COMPLEXITY: DO ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND BUDGETARY FLEXIBILITY INFLUENCE NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS?
Author: Pope, JoEllen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public administration
Description: ABSTRACTJOELLEN VICTORIA POPE. Flooded with complexity: Do organizational structures and budgetary flexibility influence natural disaster preparedness? (Under the direction of DR. SUZANNE M. LELAND)The number of natural disaster declarations in th...

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: 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: 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: ARTS ACCESS IN CHARLOTTE: INEQUITIES AND SOLUTIONS
Author: Mueller, Jillian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public administration
Description: The city of Charlotte, North Carolina has issues with economic mobility that stem from a long-standing history of segregation of income and race. Arts and cultural programming is a possible solution to build social capital amongst low-income and m...