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Interaction and leadership among female prisoners
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
was concerned with the nature of the relationships that were created and sustained as well as the types of interaction found in prisons. An examination of the literature suggested that leadership in the form of deference patterns had been studied in men’s...
Supervision in the extension service in Helmand Arghandab Valley Authority, Afganistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)
rules and regulations. The chief duty of supervisor is inspection of the execution of plans, policies and procedures that are formulated at the higher level of administrative hierarchy. Extension activities are carried out through the H...
OPEC as a non-state actor : formation and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
This dissertation analyzes the factors which have promoted the formation of OPEC and the dynamics of its confrontation with the multinational oil companies (MNOCs). It analyzes the rise of OPEC from the perspective of the ...
Values concerning disadvantaged pupils in differing organizational climates
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1970)
Educators who have had occasion to visit a variety of different schools and communicate with their respective staffs recognize that each school has its own distinctive characteristics aside from those relating to size, ...
The Democratic Party Midterm Conference, 1974 : an assessment of utility and impact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
""Of all the major in stitutions of American society, the parties seem to be the most resistant to reform and modernization. ...Perhaps all this is true because nobody has much cared about what happened to the parties." ...
The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
. These characteristics of rural poverty are evidenced throughout the U.S.A. by the existence of clusters of persistent low income counties. Although the existence of regions of poor rural counties have been noted since 1974, little county-level research has been done...
North Korea's emulation Chinese politics : an examination of Mao Tse-Tung's ideological influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
North Korean leader, Kim Il-song has been known among western observers as a "faithful disciple of Stalin." Furthermore, Communist North Korea has been known to the western world as faithfully following the Soviet model. ...
Politics and ideology in the Kingdom of Callaway
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1963)
, with particular attention being centered on political perspectives and values as they are expressed in the community of Fulton and the county of Callaway."--Introduction....
The politics of special road districts abolishment in Missouri, 1970-1975
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
This study seeks to describe and explain the politics of dissolution of special road districts in Missouri from 1970 through 1974. It focuses on successful road district dissolutions in twenty Missouri counties during the ...
An investigation of the mid-Missouri regional planning commissioners perception and acceptance of regional planning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
Data were collected concerning the commissioners' background, attitudes toward local governments, predisposition toward change, and attitudes toward the Regional Planning Commission. This information was analyzed with the ...
A methodology for evaluation of research animal diagnostic and investigative laboratories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
of these laboratories. The benefit-cost ratio will then be examined to see if these laboratories represent an effective investment of public funds."--Introduction....
The Missouri Department of Community Affairs : a politico-administrative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1968)
The State of Missouri established, in 1967, a high- level administrative department to deal with urban problems, one of only seven such agencies on the departmental level in state administrative structures in the United States. This study is focused...
Roy Wilkins as a journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"This study is primarily concerned with an observation of Wilkins' journalistic image as reflected in his newspaper, magazine and syndicated columns concerning the racial and economic problems of the Negro American. A ...
Trade barriers to grain cooperatives in exporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
why cooperative exporting ventures succeed or fail. The set of declarative hypothesis covered the financial capability of grain cooperatives to export on a large scale, the level of diversification to cover risk, the presence of domestic...
Investor capital, taxes and the structure of cattle feeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
as causes of concentration in cattle feeding. Level of capacity of the multi-lot firms using the publicly- registered limited partnership to finance cattle on feed appears more basic to the firms operations than any tendency toward a particular feedlot size...
The Thomas Hart Benton faction in Missouri politics, 1850-1860
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1937)
, their condition of economic development, and their social background in order to discover it there were other common influences, besides Benton's personal leadership, that bound them into one political party.--Preface....
The Office of Governor of the State of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1963)
the office. Professor Coleman B. Ransone, Jr., sees the modern American governor as being primarily concerned with three broad areas of operation—policy formation, public relatlons, and management. The governor, he says further, operates as a policy maker...
Some characteristics and environmental sensitivities of taxpayers taking the United States political contribution tax credit during 1979-1982
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1988)
were established through the use of logistic regression analysis. Statistically significant models have been developed for each period tested. The explanatory power of the models is low. Income level was associated with the credit for each period tested...
The methods of missionaries in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples viewed from the standpoint of sociology and pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
This thesis assumes that missionaries are a civilizing force. Their work is frequently initial and fundamental in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples. But what is meant by civilization? The significance usually attached ...
Job turnover among displaced agricultural workers within the Mississippi Delta area of Eastern Arkansas : extent, costs, and criteria of cause
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
. On the other hand, when the labor turnover rate is low or equal to zero, the labor market is defined as in a state of stagnation. In either case (extremely high levels of turnover or extremely low levels of turnover) waste and under utilization of manpower...