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  • Citizen Perceptions of Public Safety Levies in Josephine County, Oregon: A Test of Group Engagement Theory

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    Davis, Nathan
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    Group Engagement Theory describes the relationship between citizen perceptions of policy, individual identity and status judgements, and individual group engagement decisions. Utilizing a least likely crucial case methodology, this paper uses the case of Josephine County, Oregon to determine the validity of the Group Engagement Theory prediction that citizen identity...
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    Levies in Josephine County, Oregon: A Test of Group Engagement Theory by Nathan Davis MPP

  • Public Opinion on Food, Water, and Energy: Using Shared Preferences as a Pathway to Policy

    Creator:
    Daniel, Allison
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    Food, water, and energy have strong interdependencies; actions in one sector inadvertently affect actions in another sector. Recent literature supports a “nexus” approach, whereby policies related to food, water, and energy are integrated and used in tandem rather than in isolation. Developing a better understanding of the trade-offs between food,...
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    : Using Shared Preferences as a Pathway to Policy by Allison Daniel

  • Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: Understanding the State of Michigan’s Effort to Adopt Overdose Fatality Review Teams

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    Budd, James G.
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    This research explores the prospects of legislation in Michigan to authorize statewide use of Overdose Fatality Review Teams (OFRTs) to address the escalating opioid crisis. OFRTs consist of multidisciplinary teams that collaborate for overdose prevention. These teams operate on a local to statewide level and are comprised of individuals from...
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    By James Gilson Budd MPP Essay submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

  • Macro Stories: Policy Process Dynamics of Presidential Environmental Ideas

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    Peterson, Holly L.
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    Public policy narratives and stories are often referenced by the media, politicians, advocacy groups, and across many disciplines in academia. Studies of social and political narratives support the notion narrative matters, but often lack systematic design capable of producing generalizable findings. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has responded to this...
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    expert Alison Johnston, and Graduate Council Representative Daniel Lopez-Cevallos. I am very grateful

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

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    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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    information of Oregon transportation projects, Dr. James A. Logan, former technical staff member, Utah

  • Essays on Antenatal Care Utilization in Rural Bihar, India: Implications for Policy Design

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    Anand, Gautam
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    Improving access to and uptake of antenatal care remains a persistent challenge for India. It is a far greater challenge for an underdeveloped, poorer and mostly rural state like Bihar. The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-IV) of India reported that only 3% pregnant women in rural Bihar utilized full...
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    effectiveness in achieving policy targets within the social context (James & Jorgensen, 2009) and to situate

  • Technocracy, Democracy and the Role of Scientists in Natural Resource Policy

    Creator:
    Clark, Will
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    The complexity of modern environmental problems has increased appeals for including scientific research and findings in natural resource policy decision making. Though scientists, resource managers, interest groups, and the general public support more science-based environmental policy, these preferences have been accompanied by growing calls for decentralization and democratization of policy...
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    allocating and directing usage of natural resources within particular geographical jurisdictions (Davis

  • White racial identity development in transitional space : Discourse and praxis among Christian teacher educators

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    Harris, Gennie S.
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    This research examines two questions: 1) What stories do Christian teacher educators tell about their own White racial identity development? and 2) Is there an impact of studying White racial identity development on the praxis of Christian teacher educators? If so, in what ways? The researcher began the project with...
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    -Davis & Ding, 1994). While studies exist within the field of teacher education that demonstrate how

  • Where wildfire risk and social vulnerability coincide: mapping place vulnerability to wildfire over the coterminous US

    Creator:
    Wigtil, Gabriel A.
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    The hazards-of-place model of vulnerability to environmental hazards posits that vulnerability has biophysical and social components. While biophysical characteristics are important in predicting locations of elevated wildfire risk, the social characteristics of human communities may help us predict locations of elevated wildfire impacts. We examine the relationship between biophysical and...
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    in wildfire management (Davis 2001). For example, state and local laws and regulations govern land

  • The Impact of Rural Electrification on Deforestation and Soil Fertility

    Creator:
    Tanner, Andrew M.
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    Deforestation and loss of soil fertility are two forms of environmental degradation with global importance. Theories of environmental degradation commonly cited in public and academic discourse have historically emphasized the role of human populations and national economic development as being the primary drivers of environmental damage. This thesis utilizes quantitative...
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