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Descripción:: In the past decade, corporations have become increasingly involved in the culture war--taking liberal stands on controversial moral policy issues that tap key ethical and often religious values. Most political science literature sees corporations as crudely conservative entities, motivated by...
Creador:: Maks-Solomon, Cory
Palabra clave:: Moral policy, Business and politics, Corporate political activity, Public policy, and American politics
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Binder, Sarah A.
Committee Member(s):: Lawrence, Eric D., Rigby, Elizabeth, and Binder, Sarah A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: The three papers presented here set out to explore network structures and collaboration in metropolitan regions in the Rust Belt, to attempt to both understand what the network structures look like relative to the extant literature and currently popular economic development policies and to...
Creador:: Ficenec, Sarah
Palabra clave:: regional, economic development, network, and collaboration
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Wolman, Hal
Committee Member(s):: Balla, Steve and Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: The governance of national programs in a federal system complicates the directing of program performance towards national goals. Even without a substantial degree of formal devolution, a federal system may generate sufficient variation in program features across states to affect access to program...
Creador:: Hess, Douglas R.
Palabra clave:: food and nutrition service, social indicator, household food security, food stamp program, federalism, and performance indicator
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Cordes, Joseph J. and Wiseman, Michael
Committee Member(s):: Nord, Mark, Conger, Dylan, Young, Garry, and Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: Forty-four states have considered legislation in the last six years that would test some portion of their welfare populations for drug use. This number compares to just ten states that proposed testing-related legislation immediately following passage of the 1996 law that gave states the...
Creador:: Owens, Elizabeth
Palabra clave:: TANF, Test, Substance abuse, Drug, and Welfare
GW Unit:: Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Harrison, Cynthia
Committee Member(s):: Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: In recent decades, American policymakers have often used tax breaks (or tax expenditures) to pursue goals that could be achieved through more direct and transparent government action. Why has the tax code become such a popular policy tool for lawmakers? And what are the implications of this...
Creador:: Haselswerdt, Jacob
Palabra clave:: political economy, tax politics, policy feedback, public opinion, congress, and policy tools
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Binder, Sarah A
Committee Member(s):: Morgan, Kimberly J, Balla, Steven, Bartels, Brandon L, and Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: Between 1980 and 2000, the majority of U.S. states adopted pre-k programs, such that by the end of the millennium, 39 states had programs in place. In the subsequent decade, while only a handful of new programs were enacted, National Institute for Early Education Research data show that average...
Creador:: Weiss, Elaine Rebecca
Palabra clave:: Diffusion of innovation, Pre-k, Policy network, and Case study
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Balla, Steven
Committee Member(s):: Gormley, William, Wolman, Hal, Conger, Dylan, and Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: This dissertation uses primary data collected through surveys, interviews, and document analyses to better understand the performance measurement environment of the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) federal block grant as fostered by the federal administrative agency, and implemented by the...
Creador:: Derrick-Mills, Teresa Marie
Palabra clave:: networks, cross-sector, performance measurement, accountability, social policy, and governance
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Newcomer, Kathryn
Committee Member(s):: Stoker, Robert, Infeld, Donna, Bernstein, David, and Rigby, Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Descripción:: In this dissertation, I expose an absence of Public Administration scholarship that considers children within the context of the administrative activities and functions of government. While most social science fields have contemplated the unique nature of children as different from adults within...
Creador:: Collins, Mariglynn
Palabra clave:: public administration, history, children, and social policy
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Brainard, Lori
Committee Member(s):: Infeld, Donna, Connors, Catherine, Harmon, Mike, Rigby, Elizabeth, and Love, Jeannine
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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