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Three essays on entrepreneurship and alternative economic development policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The last two decades marked a turning point for entrepreneurship policy, highlighting the crucial role of public policy in generating the conditions that encourage business creation and expansion. As more states design and implement entrepreneurship...
Kansas City public schools policy 4.9-personnel standards : recruiting and hiring the most effective teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to analyze the Kansas City Public Schools' Policy 4.9 - Personnel Standards. Policy 4.9 adopted in November 2011 states that the superintendent shall...
Ideology of the air : communication policy and the public interest in the United States and Great Britain, 1896-1935
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-profit commercial system while Great Britain developed a noncommercial public monopoly. This study explores the causes for these different outcomes with a focus on the different invocations of the "public interest" in policy debates. Through a lens of historical...
A policy analysis of Missouri's performance based teacher evaluation pilot
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This policy analysis is designed to increase the understanding of Missouri's Performance Based Teacher Evaluation Pilot (PBTE). This policy analysis intended to identify the original intent of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary...
Investigations from the ribcage : the (dis)embodied order of safety, children, and the problematics of public school policy practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation endeavors to explore the ways in which policies of safety in the public school order the everyday lives of student-children. Using varying feminist methodologies, I explore the experiences that children have with the safety...
Perceptions of higher education : private good or public good?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examined the perceptions representatives of southeast Missouri have towards higher education; specifically whether or not participants view higher education attainment as a private good or a public good. The researcher employed a...
Grassroots community organizing in the wake of a public school closure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
sense of the closure, and engaged them in the educational policy process to work for change. Findings inform our understanding of how one community experienced and reacted to a public school closure, and have implications for both scholars...
Data privacy in the newsroom : the ethical justifications of using user data in the reporting process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study analyzes website privacy policies used by major news corporations and attempts to understand the newsroom ethics policies as applied to protecting personal information collected about readers. The confluence of the legal and ethical...
The role and implications of citizen environmental boards in state-level policy-making :does agency structure matter?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Environmental regulation is widely considered among the most impactful regulatory fields, as it is both scientifically and technically complex and carries diverse and far-ranging implications for society. Because of this, environmental policy has...
Sense making for community college transfers entering a public, liberal arts university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In the eyes of the beholder : exploring work perceptions of state government employees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
and examining employees' perceptions of government as their workplace. More specifically, the study focuses on how government employees' perceptions of workplace fairness and external prestige change depending on the length of their public service, and how...
A study of policy changes in a small, rural, Missouri high school student handbook with respect to building a culture of high expectations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of the study was to enhance the knowledge base of rural school officials who are leading change by creating policy to raise expectations for achievement in rural...
Teacher autonomy in the United States : establishing a standard definition, validation of a nationally representative construct and an investigation of policy affected teacher groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
levels by creating opportunities for teachers to participate in policy making. Teachers of NCLB assessed subject matters and public school teachers perceived lower levels of autonomy than teachers of non-NCLB assessed disciplines and teachers who worked...
Three essays on the labor market determinants of access to employee benefits /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Because employment is a central social policy goal, policy analysts and policy makers are interested in better understanding whether and how jobs meet people's needs. To contribute to research in this area, this dissertation uses nationally...
Disclosure and dividend policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the relation between firm disclosure and dividend policy. It draws on recent research which contends that firm disclosure policy plays a governance role...
Hawks and doves reconsidered: the case of US foreign policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
economy. Some scholars have integrated measurements of partisanship into their theoretical explanations, but extant scholarship has not effectively introduced the foreign policy position of the executive into the equation. Here I employ elements...
Diversionary diplomacy: domestic political effects on US-directed foreign policy in Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
strategies for the creation of US foreign policy....
Chinese decision-making in reponse to foreign policy crises, 1949-1996 : a poliheuristic analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
China is seen widely as a distinctive power when dealing with international relations in general and foreign policy crises in particular. Given the concerns about whether the rise of China will be peaceful or belligerent, this dissertation aims...
Reversing underachievement among gifted secondary students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The lack of integration between the unique academic needs of gifted students and their public school experiences continues to be a source of concern among students, parents, teachers, and administrators nationwide. This lack of coordination leads...
The rhetoric of the uninsured : claimsmaking in public policy research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Public policy research is often seen as another arena applicable to the objective lens of science, as policy makers "the best evidence," or scientific facts, about a social problem to determine which solutions are most warranted. Hundreds...