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  • Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities

    Creator:
    Torgerson, Melissa
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    Many communities emphasize participatory involvement in local development or reinvention efforts. Recognizing barriers among specific groups could help community leaders identify what may be constraining underrepresented groups from joining in. Utilizing data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, this research examined identified “barriers” to community involvement among individuals in rural...
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    community involvement among individuals in rural and urban areas. Results indicated that while rurality

  • We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

    Creator:
    Knobloch, Jenna
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    Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
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    Capstone Project
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    governance but for implementing policy in general (Wilson 1989). In fact, setting specific goals are so

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

    Creator:
    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
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    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    Dissertation
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    Yohanna M. L. Gultom for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy presented on June 6, 2018

  • Assessing the Adaptive Governance Capacity of Western Water Communities

    Creator:
    Pakenham Stevenson, Anna
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    One of the greatest challenges in the West is the sustainable management of limited water resources. In recognition of localized responses to natural resource challenges, there has been considerable work in the area of adaptive capacity and collaborative governance to help understand a community’s capacity to manage change. This study...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Anna Pakenham Stevenson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • International Mekong River Basin : Events, Conflicts or Cooperation, and Policy Implications

    Creator:
    Yorth, Bunny
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    “International river basin is defined as an area extending over two or more states determined by the watershed limits of the system of waters, including surface and underground waters, flowing into a common terminus” (Shapiro-Libai, 1969, p. 22). There are 276 international river basins providing almost 60% of global freshwater...
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     factors  found  in  either  conflicts  or   cooperation  of  the  events,  and

  • The poetics of water governance : differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador

    Creator:
    Ogden, Stephanie
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    The language of water policy both suggests and enforces the relationship that the public should have with water. Differences in language use between policy institutions and the public suggest that the understanding of water promoted through policy may be incongruent with the understanding of water held by the public. Semi-structured...
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  • The Politics of Correctional Privatization in the United States

    Creator:
    Burkhardt, Brett C.
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    Research Summary: Private correctional firms are political actors. They work to create favorable conditions to market their services. At the same time, they are constrained by external political forces, including political parties, social movements, and public opinion. This article reviews what we know about the reciprocal relationship between the private...
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    a set of services that is so central to governance. In an era of mass imprisonment (and mass

  • Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

    Creator:
    Eilers, Michael
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    Few river systems in the world are under equal or more stress than Southeast (SE) Asia’s Mekong River. Several factors threaten the Mekong as the riparian states of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam jockey for position within its geopolitical sphere. Climate change, globalization, industrialization, urbanization, economic growth,...
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    region engulfed in war and turmoil, water governance through cooperation developed slowly. Institutions

  • Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

    Creator:
    Eilers, Michael
    Abstract:
    Few river systems in the world are under equal or more stress than Southeast(SE) Asia’s Mekong River. Several factors threaten the Mekong as the riparian states of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam jockey for position within its geopolitical sphere. Climate change, globalization,industrialization, urbanization, economic growth, and hydro-hegemony...
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    in creating the correct mindset for tackling “wicked problems.” To my committee, Professors Steel

  • Combined Collaborative Governance Approaches: A Case Study of the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area in Western Montana

    Creator:
    Sigmon, Abigail M.
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    The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA) was created in response to a degrading natural environment coupled with a weakening community. The BCCA is a community owned 5,609-acre forest located in the heart of the Blackfoot watershed in Western Montana. Fearful of development and the creation of subdivisions, landowners banded together,...
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    become a recent impetus for establishing collaborative policymaking in rural landscapes (Belsky, 2008