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Sport management researchers have not studied sport markets, despite their importance to the discipline. In this dissertation, I report on two ethnographic case studies where I worked with new sport organizations to design and conduct...
The Spinozan theory of belief fixation is the result of some remarks made by Baruch Spinoza about the nature of the mind in The Ethics. Modern scientific methods applied to human minds have yielded evidence supporting Spinoza's insights....
This dissertation investigates the effects of federal grant-in-aid programs on metropolitan area economic growth and recovery in "green" energy and environmental sectors of the economy, focusing on the role of self-organizing...
Three Essays on Tax Collection: A Historical Review, A Formal Model, and an Empirical Test of the Government's Contractual Choice of Tax Collection Between Tax Farming and Tax Bureaucracy
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore questions about the government's contractual choice of tax collection between tax farming and tax bureaucracy. It is commonly assumed that tax collection is an inherent function of the...
Local governments traditionally produce public services by using their own employees. Some public service reform proposals have emphasized privatization and contracting out in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of public...
This dissertation is about policy decision making in transportation infrastructure. With this dissertation an attempt is made to understand factors which affect policy decisions in state governments or within the public sector. The...
This work is an investigation into the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and its most dynamic ruler: Friedrich II. This middling principality was precariously situated between several power-hungry European states and needed to innovate and...
Critical numismatic discourse in eighteenth-century Spain helped create the nation's first national history inclusive of Spain's historical traditions. Historians often associate the development of the Spanish nation and national...
Budget Growth, Property Tax Relief, or Risk Reduction?: Empirical Analyses of Factors Affecting Changes in Revenue Structures and Fiscal Impacts on Florida Counties
This dissertation examines the factors affecting changes of revenue structures in Florida's 67 counties during 30 years. It investigates the fiscal impacts of changes in revenue structures in Florida counties, with a particular focus on...
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