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Economic development is always a central concern for local governments, and has become increasingly important as the federal role in this area has been reduced in the last two decades. More recently, county governments have extended...
The historical interpretations of Claude Pepper's Senate career until now depicted a Senator who had lost touch with his constituency and the political ideas of the nation after World War II. In examining his record in the Senate and his...
In 2008, Amendment One changed homeowners' incentives to move within the state of Florida. In particular, people who had been unwilling to move due to previously accrued tax savings suddenly found moving less costly. Amendment One also...
This dissertation contributes to the intersection of public management and policy studies by examining the impacts of executive turnover on interlocal service delivery and urban sustainability. The first paper investigates how the...
As veterans of the Iraq War return to their families, researchers are showing renewed interest in understanding the life course effects of military service. Past research, however, does not provide clear insight into the life course...
This research is an empirical study of the incentives of attorneys general and the determinants of case duration regarding state-level antitrust enforcement. While antitrust enforcement in the United States was founded at the state level...
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that analyze and juxtapose the public safety and political interest components of law enforcement. In general, these sometimes conflicting interests can be extrapolated to other agents in...
How Do Public Policy Processes Influence Public Fiscal Choices, Tax Politics, and Policy Outcomes? In order to answer this primary research question, this dissertation investigated the major tax policy issues including TIEAs at the...
As a life stage, retirement emerged out of the industrial revolution and the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. Since the 1960s, however, several macrostructural changes have resulted in a much more varied landscape of later...
In this dissertation, I examine other regarding preferences and anti-social behavior using economic experiments that I conjecture share key elements to human interactions that would be difficult to study outside the lab. The first essay ...
This dissertation contributes to the public policy literature by examining subnational political competition, policy change and performance in the context of U.S. and China. In a three paper format, this dissertation investigates...
The research question guiding of this dissertation asks, How and to what extent do network relations of a city with organizations within its community and external networks with external governmental and other development actors...
This dissertation examines the question: does government debt affect economic growth? Theory suggests that countries may turn to money growth and inflation to manage debt levels, and that this in turn decreases growth in GDP. The results...
The Impact of Public Sector Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Performance and Government Size Across High Income OECD Countries: An Institutional Approach
This dissertation examines the impact of fiscal decentralization of the public sector on both income levels and government size relative to GDP across a sample of twenty high-income OECD countries. Both pooled and country fixed effects...
This dissertation broadens the perspectives of policy tools and citizen behavior in policy implementation research. Considering the impact of government actions on communities' quality of life, identifying potential barriers and enablers...
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