Search
Now showing items 1-20 of 634
Missouri's State and Local Revenues, Debt and Intergovernmental Revenues
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Graphic presentation on Missouri State and Local government revenues, debts, and Intergovernmental revenues....
Representation in State Legislatures: A Focus on Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
In Summer 2003, the Institute of Public Policy conducted a mail survey of state legislators in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and South Dakota. We found that the number of requests for casework a...
Evaluating Tax Systems
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
One function of government is to provide the goods and services (police, courts, education, roads, economic security, etc) that individuals need and want but are unable to obtain from the private sector. In order to provide ...
Multi-Dimensional Ideology in the Multi-Member District: An Analysis of the Arizona Legislature
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
American state legislatures provide considerable institutional variation for testing theories of legislative representation, and one such feature is the multi-member district system (MMD). Whereas the U.S. House and most American state legislatures...
Evaluation of Major State Taxes in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
This brief examines the four most important sources of tax revenue for the state, three of which, the individual income tax, sales and use taxes, and the corporate income tax, comprise over 90% of the moneys credited to ...
The Hancock Amendment: Missouri's Tax Limitation Measure
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
. It is generally known as the Hancock amendment, after the principal advocate Mel Hancock, and can be found in Article X Sections 18-24 of the Missouri Constitution. The amendment is modeled after a constitutional provision adopted by Michigan voters in 1978 known...
How Can Missouri Protect the Best Interests of the Child When a Parent is Incarcerated?
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2003)
This brief builds upon information presented to and gathered by the Missouri Children's
Services Commission to assess the impact of parental incarceration on both their children
and society as a whole. The first section identifies the needs...
Missouri's Budget Reserve Fund
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
The value of what has been called a “rainy day fund” was made obvious by several years
of minimal revenue growth in the early 1980s. Without a reserve of this kind, the State had no sources of funds to help to cover ...
Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
There is abundant research that focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty in
rural areas, and on the factors that ameliorate rural poverty. While a comprehensive review of this literature is not possible in this ...
Spectrum, volume 31, number 02
(University of Missouri, Office of Strategic Communications, 2004)
Missouri's Budget Reserve Fund
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The value of what has been called a “rainy day fund” was made obvious by several years
of minimal revenue growth in the early 1980s. Without a reserve of this kind, the State had no sources of funds to help to cover ...
Constitutional Amendments, Statutory Revision and Referenda Submitted to the Voters by the General Assembly or by Initiative Petition, 1910-2004
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
This report summarizes how proposals to revise the Missouri Constitution and Missouri laws are submitted to the voters for approval and provides information about all measures
submitted to the voters since 1910....
Contributing factors to the decriminalization of infant abandonment and the implementation of safe haven legislation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research study was to explore the contributing factors to the decriminalization of infant abandonment and the rapid implementation of safe haven legislation...
Overview of State Government
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
General overview of the organization of Missouri state government prepared by David C. Valentine for the Missouri Legislative Academy....
Regulation and the Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing?
(Journal of Law and Economics, 2004-04)
It is generally agreed that boards are endogenously determined institutions that serve both oversight and advisory roles in a firm. While the oversight role of boards has been extensively studied, relatively few studies ...
Privatizing Functions of State Government
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
Privatization of traditional governmental functions has been extensively discussed in the United States for more than two decades, and states have chosen a wide range of programs for privatization and selected a variety ...
Comparing theories of the policy process and state tuition policy : critical theory, institutional rational choice, and advocacy coalitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
framework is used to explain tuition policy change across all 50 states from 2000 to 2006, Institutional Rational Choice, Advocacy Coalition, and Critical Theory frameworks are used to analyze tuition policy change in Missouri and Florida. States with more...
Spectrum, volume 30, number 01
(University of Missouri, Office of Strategic Communications, 2003)
Constitutional Amendments, Statutory Revision and Referenda Submitted to the Voters by the General Assembly or by Initiative Petition, 90-2008
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
This report summarizes how proposals to revise the Missouri Constitution and Missouri laws are submitted to the voters for
approval and provides information about all measures submittedto the voters since 1910....
Building the best : a quantitative evaluation of a state-level teacher retention strategy designed to increase self-efficacy, reflective capacity, and job satisfaction through effective professional development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
in reflection with reflective supervision is correlated with desire for improvement and job satisfaction (Priddis and Rogers, 2018), both of which are connected to teacher retention. Missouri Teacher Academy is a state-level initiative designed to support...