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The Merit - Diversity Paradox in Doctoral Admissions: Examining Situated Judgment in Faculty Decision Making.
(2013)
The small base of extant research on doctoral admissions suggests a paradox between principles of merit and diversity: Faculty profess diversity, but rely on a conventional notion of merit that undermines diversity’s ...
Investigating the Bias Properties of Alternative Statistical Inference Methods in Mixed-Mode Surveys.
(2013)
Early in the history of survey research, mixed-mode surveys were proposed to decrease non-observational survey errors under certain survey budgets. The statistical inference in the earlier studies implicitly assumed ignorable ...
Accounting for CO2: The Enactment and Effects of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
(2013)
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continue to rise, and the electrical industry is one of the largest sources of emissions. In the United States it has been difficult to enact CO2 policies for the electrical sector. A key ...
ICT Development and Organizational Change in the Thai Public Sector.
(2013)
Information and communication technology (ICT) has long been central to modernization in the public sector. Socio-political factors within which the technology is developed and used play an important role in informing the ...
Institutionalizing Alternative Dispute Resolution: Insights from the Experiences of State Level Environmental and Public Policy Offices.
(2009)
During the 1970s and 1980s, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) emerged as a new decision-making construct for environmental and public policy (EPP) conflicts in the United States. Over the years, there has been a long ...
Perspectives on Law and Legal Institutions as Complex Adaptive Systems.
(2011)
This dissertation employs various theoretical and methodological perspectives to consider the “evolution” of the law and “law as a complex adaptive system.” Chapter 2 addresses the strategic institutional conditions that ...
The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the history of fiscal politics and policy in the American states. It provides a narrative synthesis from the antebellum period through the 1930s, during which state governments created a fiscal ...
Chicago's First Urban Indians - the Potawatomi.
(2011)
For the last several decades, scholars have been intrigued with the ways that some American Indians resisted assimilation into the mainstream of the dominant culture of the United States. “Chicago’s First Urban Indians – ...
Exploring Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance.
(2010)
Why, despite all of the inspiring rhetoric in support of human rights, do flagrant violations endure? Enforcement, treaty ratification, geopolitics, and economic concerns are all very important pieces of this puzzle that ...