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  • Influence of Political Liberalism on Contracting Prison Health Care

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    Yarnall, Robert G.
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    Studies on prison contracting have typically focused on the privatization of entire facilities and carceral services offered to inmates. There has been limited research, however, as to how political ideology influences the extent to which state prisons contract out health care services. There also appears to be a need for...
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    increased during the last three decades (Chari, Simon, & Defrances, 2016). In 2006, almost 77,000

  • Public Participation in Urban Policy – Solution Papers Founded on Objectivity and Mutual Respectfulness

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    Zarins, Eriks
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    In recent times, public policy debates in the United States have been very contentious and dysfunctional. To help improve this situation, a multi-discipline research effort was conducted to look at "solution papers" as a form of public participation. Specifically, the roles of objectivity and mutual respectfulness were under consideration. Foundational...
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    3. Senator John Kerry (left) and President George W. Bush…… 6 4. A healthy brain (top), and

  • Title VII and Employment Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ Communities of Texas and Oregon

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    Melancon, Trystan D.
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    The primary goal of this study is to illuminate the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Oregon and Texas who were victims of workplace discrimination due to their LGBTQ+ status in order to highlight the necessity of LGBTQ+ inclusive employment discrimination legislation. This study used qualitative research methods to gather data...
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    to pass the bill without it (Currah, 2008). Pushback from former President George W. Bush and the

  • The Emerging Church Movement: An Exploratory Case Study of Its Environmental and Political Attitudes

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    McKelvie, Loni M.
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    To date, no investigation of the Emerging Church Movement has made an effort to examine the environmental and political views of its members. Despite the vast research on the politics and environmental opinions of American evangelicals, little is known about where the majority of members of the Emerging Church Movement...
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    ……………………………………………………………………………………...50 For my grandpa, Charles R. Hazel, PhD, who instilled in me a

  • Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

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    Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
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    Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
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    (Kalahari Bushmen) of Africa reportedly go into the bush, remain quiet, and give birth unassisted and