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Browsing Public Affairs by Subject "public affairs"
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Application Behavior as a Consequential Juncture in the Take-Up of Postsecondary Education
The submission of an application, while typically required to access a public program, has generally been taken for granted as an inconsequential step in the process through which an individual pursues a program or policy’s ... -
Childhood income dynamics and adult adiposity
(2014-02-24)Conventional wisdom—reflected in literature reviews as well as newspaper and magazine stories—holds that poor children are at risk for developing obesity and that there is a negative gradient between income and body mass. ... -
Creating a Performance Culture? Informal Institutions and Education Reform
(2014-02-24)Performance management, despite its popularity as a strategy to improve public service quality, has had mixed results. One reason is that successful reform depends not just on changes in formal systems but also on changes ... -
Do all of these meetings matter? Three essays concerning the impacts of collaborative watershed governance.
My dissertation presents three related projects. In each project, I make a novel contribution to the understanding of collaborative environmental governance in theory and practice. I focus on a common application of ... -
The Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Project: A Case Study of Government-to-Government Co-Management
(2013-07-25)The contribution of indigenous groups in natural resource management is generally believed to enhance management practices and produce positive outcomes for its participants, by improving stewardship and encouraging ... -
Essays investigating gender and development in rural Ethiopia
Gender and development is a primary goal in international development policy, and the status of women and girls is so important to the development agenda that the United Nations explicitly stated gender equality as its ... -
Essays on Intertemporal Choice under Uncertainty
Abstract Essays on Intertemporal Choice under Uncertainty Pradeep Singh The dissertation investigates intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty. In particular, I analyze how two traditionally under-explored sources ... -
Essays on State Business Tax Incentives and Policy Diffusion
States' use of tax incentives to lure business investment has drawn a lot of attention from policymakers, the public, and academics. Despite mixed assessments of their efficacy in creating net increases in jobs and ... -
Hidden Agents: Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in the Palestinian Territories
(2013-07-23)Recently, there has been a great deal of scholarly and popular interest in the activities of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the Middle East. In particular, socio-economic services provided by FBOs have generated a ... -
Institutions, Risk Perceptions, and Adaptation: Exploring Behavioral Response to Climate Change in Thailand
Social science investigations about human and social vulnerability, adaptation, risk perception, and migration as a result of climate change is the focus of research in the developing world. Rural residents, especially ... -
Private Regulation on the Environment: Bilateral Voluntary Agreements in U.S. Toxic Chemical Policy
(2013-04-17)In recent decades, in the backdrop of highly constrained government and public sector finances worldwide, private forms of regulation in natural resource and environmental policy have gained political and public salience: ... -
The Public Role of the Private Sector: Measuring Corporate Social Performance in India
(2014-02-24)Corporate social disclosure has emerged as a cornerstone topic of research for examining how firms use various communication media to signal virtue and publicize substantive as opposed to symbolic implementation to their ... -
Think Globally, Act Locally? Local Mitigation Within a Rational Choice Framework
In the United States, localities were the first – and for the most part, remain the only – level of government to seriously attempt the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. These local attempts to address the global ... -
Threatening Messages in Climate Change Communication
Climate change will have disastrous consequences if left unchecked. Climate change communication represents a means to encourage conservation behavior and support for climate mitigation policies. One oft-discussed but ...