• Artificial Neural Networks in Public Policy: Towards an Analytical Framework 

  Lee, Joshua A

  This dissertation assesses how artificial neural networks (ANNs) and other machine learning systems should be devised, built, and implemented in US governmental organizations (i.e. public agencies). While it primarily ...
• Essays on the Drug Discovery Innovation System 

  Sarkissian, Alfred (2017)

  Despite the increase in scientific, monetary, and human resources devoted to drug discovery R&D, the annual number of FDA-approved drugs has been almost unchanged for decades. This study seeks clues to the R&D productivity ...
• The European State and Minority Religious Groups: Exploring Patterns of Engagement and Access 

  FitzGerald, Gerald Thomas (2017)

  This dissertation examines variations in the consistency with which governments apply certain institutions of church-state relations with respect to minority religious communities over time in Britain, France, and the ...
• American Muslim Organizations' Platforms and Strategies: Understanding Changes in Interest Group Identity 

  Ibrahim, Ayah (2017)

  American Muslim organizations face the challenge of representing their diverse constituency and effectively engaging with the public and policymakers. How do organizations present themselves publicly? This study endeavors ...
• The Standardization of Standardization: The Search for Order in Complex Systems 

  Higginbotham, Brian Douglas (2017)

  This dissertation examines the patterns of institutional change associated with globalization from the perspective of standard-setting institutions: Has globalization resulted in convergence or divergence of the institutional ...
• ESSAYS ON BIG DATA AND DEVELOPMENT 

  GARG, SACHIN (2017)

  The world today is in the midst of a “data deluge”. Thanks to the rise of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the mainstreaming of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques, it is now possible ...
• Out of the Shadows: Subversion and Counterculture in the Digital Age 

  Whyte, Christopher (2017)

  Subversive groups utilize information and communications technologies (ICTs) for many activities, both legitimate and illicit. This dissertation studies the patterns and determinants of ICT usage amongst subversive groups ...
• Essays on Travel Demand for Toll Roads 

  Kweun, Jeong Yun (2017)

  Road pricing, a fee related to using a road, is one of the main instruments used in transport regulation to manage both externalities such as congestion and revenue for infrastructure investment. As road pricing attracts ...
• The Art of Winning Hearts and Minds: Explaining Divergent Outcomes of Confucius Institutes in the U.S. 

  Sweet, Diana L. (2017)

  After the first Confucius Institute opened in 2004, the Chinese government-funded program grew quickly. Today, there are over 500 in the world and over 100 institutes in the United States. Despite this apparent success, ...
• Mobile Broadband Adoption and Its Role In the U.S. Digital Divide 

  Hodge, Ronald Anthony (2017)

  In the U.S., high-speed internet service, or broadband, is considered essential to expanded job training for the unemployed and under-employed, access to educational resources within schools, extension of medical services ...
• Corporate Social Responsibility as a World Cultural Norm?: A Comprehensive Analysis of Global CSR Governance 

  Choi, Yon Jung (2017)

  Since the late twentieth century, vibrant activism of civil society groups and non-governmental organizations has been proliferated against corporate misbehaviors such as environmental destruction, labor and human rights ...
• “GREASE” PAYMENTS IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURS AND REGULATORY AGENCIES: THE CASE OF RUSSIA 

  Krylova, Yulia Valentinovna (2017)

  This doctoral dissertation is aimed at defining attitudes of Russia’s entrepreneurs toward “grease” payments used to facilitate routine governmental actions and analyze external and internal factors that motivate their ...
• How Do Framed Messages Affect Budget Recommendations? An Experiment In Federal Government Budgeting 

  Litton, Eric (2017)

  Government agencies go through a budgeting process every year that guides the success or failure of numerous programs that affect our lives. Most research on this process has analyzed budgets at the organizational-level, ...
• Germs on a Plane: The Transmission and Risks of Airplane-Borne Diseases 

  Sevilla, Nereyda Lucia (2017)

  Purpose: This dissertation explores the role of air travel in the spread of diseases, specifically the threat of pneumonic plague as a natural outbreak or after a bioterrorist attack. Introduction/Background: Air travel ...
• Essays on Travel Demand for Toll Roads 

  Kweun, Jeong Yun

  Road pricing, a fee related to using a road, is one of the main instruments used in transport regulation to manage both externalities such as congestion and revenue for infrastructure investment. As road pricing attracts ...
• Political Crisis and Party Transformation: The Case of AKP in Turkey 

  Ersoy, Meltem

  This dissertation proposes a new theoretical model to explain the causal processes of party transformation. Examining the processes of political transformation from the ideologically oriented Welfare Party (RP) into the ...
• Government Contracts and the Organization of Firms 

  Kazmi, Hina

  Government is a market maker in which it sets own demand and prices by contracting out a wide array of its functions. Government contracts are usually long-term with various levels of asset specificity. Transaction Cost ...
• Conspiracy Theory in Political Thought 

  Shawai, Atheer A

  This thesis analyzes the theoretical bases, argumentations, logical developments of conspiracy theory from epistemological, politically-oriented, cultural and critical approaches. The majority of scholarly literature ...
• Failed States or Failed Solutions? An Empirical Assessment of U.S. Treatment of State Failure in the Developing World 

  St-Amant, Michele Raya

  Since the end of the Cold War, the effects of state failure have plagued the international community. There are many purported solutions to state failure like financial assistance and multi-national interventions, though ...
• Essays on Well-being and Quality of Life in Latin America 

  Cuartas, Beatriz

  Elevated Latin American well-being rankings are controversial. The dissertation explores the relationship between well-being and other performance measures covering 134 countries in 2011. A correlation analysis tests the ...

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