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The aim of this dissertation is to fill in the vacant spots in the innovation and diffusion study, which are meaningful but have not had much work done previously. First, most policy diffusion studies have focused on the adoption of a...
How do local governments manage inter-governmental relationships in the context of urban sustainability? In an age of emerging impacts from global climate change and over-exploitation of natural resource, it is important to understand...
Recent studies on emotional labor address how worker emotional behavior is influenced by and influences organizational routines. To build upon existing theories, this dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of...
Procurement is a vital activity of all levels of government. Technological innovations in public procurement such as purchasing cards (P-cards) and e-technology have made public procurement more efficient and have been oft-studied....
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...
This dissertation contributes to the public policy literature by examining energy policy in the U.S. In a three paper format, this dissertation investigates different dimensions of energy policy. First, it covers both policy process and...
Despite a long-running debate about the existence and nature of the nonprofit sector, scholars rarely make clear how organizations constitute the sector, nor do they describe how this sector evolves. Scholars have typically focused on...
Civil Service reform has swept through all levels of government during the last decade. These reforms call for greater managerial flexibility at the expense of civil servant employment security and tenure. This work examines the effects...
This dissertation examines the needs, preferences, policies, programs, and institutions surrounding localfood systems to better understand how they align with sustainability principles and goals. Both food system governance at the local...
The technology-enabled citizen participation system has gained considerable attention for its advantages in cost-saving, encouraging citizen involvement, and improving trust in government. In the era of smart technology and smart...
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...
The purpose of internal audit, according to the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), is to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of an organization's risk management, control, and governance processes. Weaknesses in any of these areas...
This study explores the relationship between social capital and police performance. Since substantial academic interest in social capital emerged, many studies demonstrate that social capital has a significant influence on social and...
This dissertation investigates the formation and change of city boundaries in the United States since World War II (WWII). By drawing on previous literatures, it extend a political economy perspective that emphasizes trade-offs in the...
This research builds on the studies of politics-administration relationships at local government level. According to the public administration literature, the politics-administration relationship has dynamically evolved from orthodox...
The Diffusion and Effectiveness of Self-Managed Work Teams (SMWTS) in Municipal Management: A Combined Model of Institutional and Behavioral Approaches
This research draws from new institutionalism and organizational behavior to address questions regarding how self-managed work teams (SMWTs) are diffused among jurisdictions and how effective they are when adopted. This work first...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how horizontal and vertical governance structure affects energy and sustainability policymaking at the local level. Although sustainability is an important issue at all levels of government...
This dissertation proposes a new theoretical approach to the study of coproduction; it does so by providing a refined definition of the phenomenon, and responds to two of the largest criticisms of the literature, and incorporating the...
What is green governance? Governance is generally defined as steering rather than rowing the changing processes of policy decisions and actions across the boundaries of the private, public and civic sectors (O'Leary, Gerard, and Bingham...
The choice of economic development incentives involves a complex system of political and economic considerations. Policy tools theory has largely focused on the individual characteristics of each particular tool and has not considered...
Community-based care networks have become more prevalent in health and human services over the past twenty years (Rice 2001; Romzek and Johnston 2002; Smith and Smyth 1996; Provan and Milward 1995, 2001; Lynn 1996), spurred on by the...
This dissertation is composed of three essays dealing with renewable energy generation and the demand-side management (DSM) of electric utilities. The first two essays tackle small-scale and large-scale supply of electricity from...
A number of scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the effects of emotional labor on organizational performance (Hochschild, 1983). The literature's focus on private industry reports a negative influence on its consequences...
The dissertation investigates what forms the relationship between collaboration risks and collaborative action takes and what patterns of collaborative action emerge, to what extent of political homophily affects the pattern of networked...
This dissertation seeks to understand the prolong question, why local communities adopt or change land use policies. The previous literature has provided partial and incomplete explanations about this issue. Property rights model does...
Studies of local emergency management and homeland security collaboration have rapidly grown in the public administration research. Local governments are viewed as key actors in the U.S. to coordinate national counterterrorism efforts...
The interaction of policy and management presents a close relationship in administrative practices. This dissertation estimates the impacts on use of local performance measures related to local service contracting. The previous research...
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...
While there is a robust business management research field on rater motivation related to personnel appraisals, almost no research in the public sector exists on this topic. This paper makes the case for a theory based, on the public...
Public sector organizations currently operate in an environment of change and choice (Berry, 2007). In particular, the complex governance and unpredictable nature of the contemporary public sector environment have challenged governments'...
With the approach of the 2008 presidential election, there is both hopeful anticipation and trepidation over how electoral processes will fare on Election Day. Yet the conversation, to this point, has been limited. Most discussion...
Disaster Shelter Planning: Using a Social Domain Heuristic to Examine Organizational Behaviors of Policy Implementation during the 2004 Hurricane Season in Florida
Following Hilhorst (2004), this study posits that, as communities become more populous they also become more complex. As they become more complex, communities develop institutions and social structures to help coordinate social...
Just as collective action problems are an unavoidable feature of individual decision-making in social settings, regional problems, such as common pool resources and scale and externality problems in service provision, are unavoidable for...
Fragmented jurisdictions in a metropolitan area have pursued individual economic benefits through competition with others. Intense development competition has produced negative economic externalities. Therefore, local governments have...
This thesis elaborates and tests a model of nonprofit leadership development. Nonprofit leaders create meaning for other nonprofit participants through their activities and words and thus need to possess skills for interpreting the...
Since the welfare reform in 1996, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) research has been centered on the debate with respect to whether states given more independence to make their own choices after 1996, have engaged in a...
The purpose of this research was to identify factors related to citizens' levels of risk acceptability and examine how these factors influenced each other during the policy making process of selecting a site for a nuclear facility in the...
Throughout the course of this decade, the Sunshine State has emerged as one of America’s fastest growing states. As cities compete for opportunities to expand their tax base and achieve other municipally-centered goals, cities are faced...
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