Browsing by Subject "Public Administration"
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(2015-06-25)In the United States, it is widely recognized that racial and ethnic minorities now constitute an ever-expanding share of the general population. While this growth has catapulted minorities to the forefront of the public ...
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(2022-07-22)This dissertation presents a framework for understanding how bureaucratic jobs, matches between governments and bureaucrats, are formed that considers the simultaneous preferences of bureaucrats and the governments that ...
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(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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(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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(2016-04-29)Bureaucrats play a major part in implementing government programs and—ultimately—take on a policy making role in many contexts given the broad discretion bureaucrats often have as they go about their work. Representative ...
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(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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(2021-04-22)The literature on collaborative public management has focused on studying how public servants create collaborative structures in their workplaces to achieve organizational goals. The emphasis of these studies has been on ...
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(2018-08-03)This dissertation seeks to understand the influence of non-governmental institutions on local public policy outputs. Within immigration policy, current shifts in the implementation of enforcement have allowed local law ...