Browsing by Author "Meier, Kenneth J."
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Leal, David L.; Martinez-Ebers, Valerie; Meier, Kenneth J. (The Journal of Politics, 2004)
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Melton, Erin Kelly (2012-07-16)The machinations of the political environments of public organizations present interesting questions for scholars and practitioners alike. Moving beyond simply recognition of the inherent role of politics in the administrative ...
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Villalobos, Jose DeJesus (2009-05-15)Presidential policy making in Congress is a lengthy, difficult process that involves developing a policy initiative, proposing it to Congress, and winning the legislature’s support. Recent empirical findings indicate that, ...
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Switzer, David L (2017-05-09)The privatization of drinking water utilities is a topic of increasing importance in the United States and abroad. In the United States, increasing populations, aging infrastructure, and the growing threat of climate change ...
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Cottrill, James B. (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Elections are the engine that drives democracy. The central question of this dissertation relates to the speed of that engine: How long does it take for elections to reflect changing preferences in the electorate? The ...
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Jordan, Sara Rene (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The public interest is the highest standard for bureaucratic action in American government. While the importance of this standard ebbs and flows in the literature, the eminence of it remains unquestioned as the North Star ...
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Flink, Carla Michelle (2014-04-25)The purpose of this dissertation is to add to the understanding of budgetary processes and changes in public organizations. Work in this field has relied upon the theory of incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium theory ...
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Hicklin, Alisa; Meier, Kenneth J. (The Journal of Politics, 2008)
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Meier, Kenneth J.; Wrinkle, Robert D.; Polinard, J. L. (The Journal of Politics, 1999)
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Li, Quan (2009-05-15)This dissertation develops and empirically tests a theory of interaction between the federal appellate courts and the bureaucracy with regard to bureaucratic prosecution. Modeling the bureaucracy as a forward-looking and ...
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¿Vecinos o Enemigos?: Latino National Identity and the Debate over English as the National Language Brown, Donathan Lawrence (2012-07-16)The intersection of race, rhetoric and public policy, particularly pertaining to Latino politics, is a growing area of development. Albeit historically, most immigrants to America faced similar questions of cultural and ...
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Eller, Warren Stevens (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Violence in American schools has declined significantly over the last two decades but still remains an important topic on the public agenda. This unusual dialectic, driven by the recent increase in extreme cases of violence, ...
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Ross, Ashley Dyan (2011-10-21)This dissertation asks the question: How do democracies improve in quality? Building on previous scholarship, the author offers a theoretical framework that traces democratic quality through equality of outcomes. The ...
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Roblyer, Dwight Andrew (2011-02-22)This dissertation offers a new understanding about wartime decision making in the face of likely, but unintended, harm to foreign civilians. It empirically identifies conditions under which leaders in democratic nations ...
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Meier, Kenneth J.; Eller, Warren S.; Wrinkle, Robert D.; Polinard, J. L. (The Journal of Politics, 2001)