Browsing by Subject "public policy"
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(2022-02-10)Public opinion polling data has unique features that complicate statistical inference. Polling data is often non-representative of the population it aims to estimate. It is also common for individual polls to have a large ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1987)
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(ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2010)
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(2009-05-15)This is a comprehensive study of tobacco control policy and politics in the European Union, 1970-2000. I develop an instrumental theory of public policy which establishes an approach for connecting policy instruments to ...
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(ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2005)
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(2016-04-12)This dissertation addresses three policy-relevant issues using experimental methodology. These studies illustrate the value of using experimental methods to study policy questions. First is the blood donation game, which ...
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(2016-06-13)The government implements various programs and policies with the intention of increasing social welfare. While it is important to evaluate the effects of these initiatives, conducting experiments to determine the implications ...
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(2018-12-05)This dissertation features a mixed-methods research design that tests whether outcomes seen so far show a clear public benefit after enacting highway public-private partnership (P3) enabling legislation into law. For this ...
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(2021-07-23)This dissertation positions American nonprofit organizations as important, but oft overlooked American political institutions and challenges our current understanding of the purpose and function of the U.S. nonprofit sector. ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-02-15)Many OECD countries have significantly increased spending on public pensions over the last half-century. As more retirees begin to draw benefits, policymakers have placed more focus on retrenchment reforms in order to keep ...
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(2010-10-12)Interactions between societal, natural, and infrastructure systems can be beneficial or harmful to society. Society benefits from natural systems by being provided with the basic necessities of life (air, water, and food). ...
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(Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University; Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans; Center for Socioeconomic Research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Environmental Sciences Institute at Florida A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2007)
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(ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2008-11)
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(ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2010-10)