Browsing by Author "Meier, Kenneth J."
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Rocha, Rene Rolando (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The way race works to shape politics is changing as demographic patterns alter the traditional dynamic of race relations throughout the United States. One pattern is the increased tendency of African-Americans and Latinos ...
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Goerdel, Holly Thompson (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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Petrovsky, Nicolai (2010-01-16)The theoretical argument of this dissertation contains a set of conditions under which professional personnel systems serve as political tools to make government efforts to implement public policies credible and reliable, ...
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Doerfler, Carl Brent (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)There are two main portions to this study. In the first portion (Chapters I-III) we identify policies, procedures, programs, and pedagogical practices in public school districts in Texas that increase levels of college ...
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Johnson, Austin Phillip (2021-08-05)Tax privatization is a rising American trend. Whether it involves receivables, consultants, or a number of other programs, tax privatization is expanding on multiple fronts. But an important question arises about their ...
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Sargent, Stephen A. (2010-10-12)This dissertation explores the impact of internal management on the performance of public organizations. This research descends from the management matters research agenda and uses the Meier/O'Toole model to present the ...
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Hicklin, Alisa Kay (2009-06-02)Few debates spark as much interest as the controversy over how to increase access to higher education, particularly for racial minority groups. Despite the knowledge accumulated on the benefits of diversity, the higher ...
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Hoefelmeyer, Karla Sue (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Colleges and schools in today??s competitive marketplace must not only be cognizant of student and faculty recruitment, but also of their positioning in rankings. This thesis seeks to determine how the use of strategic ...
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Hay, Zowie Natasha (2012-02-14)This dissertation examines the sources and consequences of non-state actor influence in international environmental policymaking. I argue that non-state variables inside of a country, such as the strength of environmental ...
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Bonneau, Emily Morgan (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Central to the distributive theory is the idea that members of Congress can use strategic committee assignments to fund pork projects for their districts. Committees that are primarily constituency service based are ...
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Pennington, Michael Sean (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Harold Lasswell (1936) defined politics as the exploration of "who gets what, when, and how." As such, one of the central concerns of democratic governance is the role that affected interests play not only in politics, ...
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Zhu, Ling (2011-10-21)This dissertation includes three studies, devoted to trying to understand inequality in health between people from different social groups in a democratic society. In the U.S., social inequality in health takes various ...
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Song, Miyeon (2019-05-31)How do governmental, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations contribute to successful public service provision and delivery? This dissertation provides a comprehensive theoretical framework of how public, nonprofit, and ...
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Juenke, Eric (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The research presented here has three major purposes. The first is to explain how political institutions and policy outputs can change in the presence of a growing minority population when the preferences of these minorities ...
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Theobald, Nick Andrew (2009-05-15)A central question in racial and ethnic politics is whether bureaucratic representation benefits minorities. The theory of bureaucratic representation suggests that passive representation—representatives sharing characteristics ...
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Avellaneda, Claudia Nancy (2009-05-15)This research addresses the question of what explains municipal performance in terms of delivering social services and fiscal performance. While the existing literature explains governmental performance with political, ...
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Hill, Gregory Cash (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This dissertation is an exploration, development and application of a theory on the effects of managerial succession on organizational performance in the public sector. Public management is a field of study within public ...
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An, Seung-Ho (2018-06-21)Until recent years, most public and nonprofit management studies have focused on the determinants of turnover rather than the consequences. In this line of literature, a better theory of turnover for public and nonprofit ...
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Compton, Mallory Elise (2016-07-29)In this dissertation, I examine questions of strategic political control through institutional design, government responsiveness to economic insecurity in social context, and opportunistic political control of bureaucratic ...
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Hawes, Daniel Prophet (2009-05-15)This project examines the determinants of political responsiveness to bureaucratic performance. A large literature exists that has examined how bureaucratic agencies are responsive to political institutions. While policy ...