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Policy Design for Competitive Retail Electric Institutions: Artificial Intelligence Representations for a Common Property Resource Approach

Pandit, Nitin S. (2001)

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Weather-Related Crashes on Public Land

Moore, Lewis (2007-10-09)

This research examines weather and road conditions relation to traffic crashes on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (FS) land in three states: Idaho, Oregon and California. Crash data for Idaho and ...
Information Technology, Science, and Public Policy

Cheney, David (2007-12-20)

This dissertation addresses how information technology (IT) affects science, and the resulting implications for investments in IT and in research. The dissertation reviews relevant science policy literature and literature ...
The Effects of Bilateral and Regional Investment Agreements on the FDI Inflows into ASEAN Countries

Booppanon, Sarasin (2007-12-20)

The competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) has resulted in many developing countries resorting to international investment agreements (IIAs) as a legal mechanism to encourage FDI based on the basis that these ...
Public Policies for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles: The Impact of Government Incentives on Consumer Adoption

Diamond, David (2008-03-31)

This dissertation examines the outcomes and effectiveness of public policies designed to promote the adoption of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs). As a primary methodology, I employ cross-sectional analysis of hybrid ...
Mulling Over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates And Entrepreneurs

Jackson, Scott (2008-06-02)

The author examines the impact of the Massachusetts’ health reform law of 2006, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care, which uses both individual and ...
Policy Intersections or Policy Chasms – State Elder Mobility Policy, Practice and Long-Term Care Reform

Leary, Mary A. (2008-06-30)

This dissertation research assessed whether a relationship exists between state initiatives to increase elder mobility through transportation policy, planning and collaboration, and state long-term care reform. The policy ...
Population Health Measures as Indicators of Fertility Change

Metscher, Karen N. (2008-12-11)

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility, burden of disease, and socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine (1) whether population mortality or child mortality ...
Internet Disseminated Medical Information: An Investigation of Three Regulatory Policy Tools

May, Kyle P. (2008-12-12)

The advent of the Internet has been an information revolution that continues to have far reaching impacts on twenty-first century medical information consumers. Unlimited access to medical information may generally be ...
Assessing the Impact of Prison Siting On Rural Economic Development

Holley Jr., William T. (2008-12-12)

From 1980 to 2002, the U.S. prison population grew from 330,000 to 1,350,000 inmates. To house these prisoners, hundreds of new prisons were constructed in non-metro counties. Most communities accepted prisons on the ...
Impacts of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Its Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China

Liu, Yanchun (2008-12-22)

This dissertation empirically tests the impacts of telecommunications infrastructure as well as its spillover effects on regional economic growth in China. Based on data for 29 regions of China for the period 1986-2006, ...
Transportation Policies and Quality of Life: An Analysis of the Socioeconomic Effects of Implementing Ramp Metering, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes and High Occupancy (HOT) Lanes within an Urban Transportation Network

Jefferson, Katherine D. (2009-01-14)

Transportation policies affect a diverse group of stakeholders who depend on decision makers to provide a network within which they can achieve their travel objectives. Individuals and households with varying values of ...
A Study in Direct Democracy: The Citizen Initiative & the Determinants of Voter Behavior

Schum, Richard M. (2009-02-03)

This research looked at the use of citizen initiatives in the American states to identify trends in voter behavior. The findings indicate that voters structure their choices on ballot measures with at least one thought in ...
Shifting Alliances in the Accreditation of Higher Education: On the Long Term Consequences of the Delegation of Government Authority to Self-Regulatory Organizations

Weissburg, Paul (2009-02-06)

This dissertation uses the accreditation of U.S. higher education as a case study with which to analyze the applicability of multiple-principals theory to self-regulating professions. The multiple-principals theory, an ...
A House Divided: Evolution of EU Asylum Policy after the Bosnian War

Shoemaker, Melissa K. (2009-05-15)

This dissertation examines the role of the Bosnian refugee crisis in generating support within EU Member States for a centralized, EU-level asylum policy after the 1992-95 Bosnian war. As the Bosnian war occurred on the ...
Export Processing Zones: Tools of Development or Reform Delay?

Virgill, Nicola A. V. (2009-05-18)

After the failure of import substitution programs many developing countries turned to export processing zones (EPZs) to promote growth and development through trade. However, in many instances, the performance of the EPZ ...
From Tariffs to the Income Tax: Trade Protection and Revenue in the United States Tax System

Magness, Phillip W. (2009-11-13)

Utilizing historical and statistical data, it is argued that the federal income tax amendment of 1913 drastically, and somewhat inadvertently, altered the constitutional political economy of congressional trade politics ...
A Macroeconomic Analysis of Investment under Public-Private Partnerships and its Policy Implications - the Case of Developing Countries

Checherita, Cristina D. (2009-12-17)

The objective of the present dissertation is to propose a theoretical model of the decision to invest under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contract and to test empirically both the determinants of such investment and ...
Foreign Science and Engineering Doctoral Attainment at American Universities

Hamilton, Robert V. (2010-01-08)

This dissertation analyzes the nearly 100,000 foreign students who attained science and engineering (S&E) doctorates in the five fields of physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences, ...
Worldview and Public Policy: From American Exceptionalism to American Empire

Lavender, Wayne (2010-02-01)

A worldview provides the framework in which to perceive reality: it is the existential construct through which humans focus and establish a context to the environment in which they live. Linked to the culture in which ...

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