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Vroblová, Petra. "Politické ideologie v programech politických stran Ruska." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-73932.
Full textAlagha, Joseph Elie. "The shifts in Hizbullah's ideology : religious ideology, political ideology, and political program /." Leiden : Amsterdam : ISIM ; Amsterdam University Press, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2007358448-b.html.
Full textStevens, Summer Haskins. "Political Program and Autobiography in Cicero's Pro Milone." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393199149.
Full textDe, La O. Torres Ana Lorena. "Effects of anti-poverty programs on electoral behavior : evidence from the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition Program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42390.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 190-202).
Ever since Latin American economies collapsed in the 1980s and early 1990s, traditional redistributive programs began to coexist with new anti-poverty programs that usually took the form of conditional cash transfers (CCT). I examine the effects of the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition program (Progresa), the first and largest CCT implemented in the region, on electoral behavior. I argue that Progresa not only was substantially different from traditional clientelism, but that it challenged local monopolies on political power by increasing voter's income and giving recipients implicit and explicit information about its non-political nature. This weakening of monopolies, in turn, gave political parties incentives to compete for the votes of Progresa recipients. As a consequence, recipients increased their electoral participation, at least in the short term, and clientelism was irrevocably eroded. Despite the increased competition, however, recipients rewarded parties that proposed and retained Progresa. My understanding of Progresa's electoral effects is based on theory, field research on four villages, interviews with Progresa's designers and personnel, and analysis of media sources from 1996 until 2003. To test this argument, I use the Mexico 2000 Panel Study; aggregate data at the municipality level from 1997-2003; and to explicitly deal with the historic correlation between poverty, rural residence, and support for the seventy-year incumbent party, Institutional Revolutionary Party, I take advantage of the fact that early assignment of program benefits included a randomized component originally designed to evaluate the program effects on schooling and health.
by Ana Lorena De La O Torres.
Ph.D.
Golon, Jeffrey Edward. "Evaluating private sector participation and program performance : the case of the Private Sector Initiative Program /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487324944215284.
Full textHeo, Kyoungsun. "Assessing the effectiveness of the voluntary environmental programs three essays on the Climate Challenge Program /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386682.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4847. Advisers: Kerry Krutilla; David H. Good.
Faber, Jacob William. "Technology-enabled political empowerment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34410.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 96-101).
Political participation and community involvement in the United States have declined steadily and significantly over the past four decades, and some attribute the fall to new media, such as television and the Internet. This thesis is a study of new technologies and their impact on political and community involvement. I-Neighbors.org is a technology allowing individuals register a free website and email list for their neighborhood. Through a particular feature of I-Neighbors called GovLink users can contact their elected officials for free. This thesis is based on a study of the behavior of I-Neighbors and GovLink users, looking for evidence that these technologies affect community involvement and political participation. Data gathered through surveys, the United States Census, and a short case study shows that new media can have a profound impact on community dialogue and political involvement.
by Jacob William Faber.
S.M.
Dorsey, Dale Edward. "Thresholds and the good a program of political evaluation /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3258395.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed May 30, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-179).]
Hirsch, Edward A. 1970. "Contestational design : innovation for political activism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46594.
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This thesis presents contestational design, a unique form of design activity whose aim is promote particular agendas in contested political arenas. I propose a framework for analyzing contestational design processes, which I then apply to two initiatives that developed communications infrastructure for activist groups. The first case study is TXTmob, an SMS-broadcast system that I developed with an ad-hoc coalition of activists to support mass mobilizations during the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It has been used by thousands of people and has inspired new projects in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors. The second case study is Dialup Radio, a telephone-based independent media system that I developed with a civil society organization in Zimbabwe. It was intended to disseminate activist information, particularly to Zimbabwe's rural poor. Despite limited infrastructure and government restrictions, several prototypes were produced and tested in Zimbabwe. After describing each case study individually, I turn to a comparison of their respective processes and the artifacts that each produced. Examining the cases side by side, I identify a set of common issues with which contestational designers contend at various points in the design process. Finally, I describe a set of organizing principles that distinguish contestational design from other kinds of design activity.
Tad Hirsch.
Ph.D.
Bell, Elizabeth, Ani Ter-Mkrtchyan, Kylie Smith, and Wesley Wehde. "Street-Level Bureaucrats Interpretation of Administrative Burden: A Mixed-Method Study of Oklahoma’s Promise Program." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7862.
Full textWehde, Wesley, and Elizabeth Bell. "Street-Level Bureaucrats Interpretation of Administrative Burden: A Mixed-Method Study of Oklahoma’s Promise Program." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7863.
Full textNyendu, Morgan. "Popular participation in Ghana's political decentralization program, real or symbolic?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56721.pdf.
Full textBean, Thomas G. "The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74525.
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Rodriguez, Laurie L. 1976. "Managing software requirements : organizational and political challenges." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17784.
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Requirements management is an extremely critical and challenging part of the software development process. Correctly capturing these requirements is necessary for the user to be satisfied with the final product. Many instances of inadequate requirements management result in subsequent problems with the final product and have organizational sources. The goal of this research is to better understand the organizational processes and problems associated with software requirements management within NASA's human-rated space programs through interviews with experienced professionals within this organization. Some of the major themes that resulted from the expert interviews include: * Software engineering practices, such as the CMM, are starting to be implemented for the larger programs at NASA, however these practices have not been equally pervasive in all parts of the organization. * The main reason for lack of requirements management at NASA is not enough time or people available for the activity. * The reason that was most cited for requirements management tools not being used effectively is that these tools are too manpower intensive for NASA's current organizational situation, and require documentation that is not available. * To achieve improvements in requirements management NASA should hire more people with computer science backgrounds who also have an understanding of aerospace systems. * The lack of complete documentation on NASA projects, means that complete system testing cannot happen. * Requirements creep can happen at NASA because higher level customers do not always have a complete technical understanding of a subsystem or component that is
(cont.) being developed, and the designers may interpret or change a requirement without consulting the customer. * NASA often deals with managing relationships between different subcontractors who have responsibility for different parts of the software lifecycle, and each subcontractor has its' own interests and stake in the final outcome of the system. It is important that NASA adequately manages the requirements between these parties to ensure that the customer's system requirements do not become distorted by the political interests of the subcontractors. Finally some recommendations for further research in this area are made. Thesis Supervisor: Charles P. Coleman
by Laurie L. Rodriguez.
S.M.
Blase, Brian Christopher. "Three Papers Toward a Better Understanding of State Medicaid Programs and Program Efficiency." Thesis, George Mason University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3562261.
Full textThe federal government provides an uncapped reimbursement of state Medicaid spending. In theory, states can use the federal Medicaid funds as a replacement for state funds or the federal funds, which take the form of a matching grant that reduces the relative price of Medicaid, can increase (or stimulate) spending on Medicaid with state-raised tax revenue. In the first dissertation paper, Subsidizing Medicaid Growth: The Impact of the Federal Reimbursement on State Medicaid Programs, I use a state panel data set from 1992 to 2006 to assess the impact of the federal reimbursement on the size of state Medicaid programs. I find that a one point increase in a state's Medicaid reimbursement percentage increases state per capita Medicaid spending between $5 and $16 and increases the percentage of the state's population receiving Medicaid benefits by 0.04 percent to 0.29 percent.
The first paper also utilizes a case study that shows significant growth in Alaska's Medicaid program after its effective federal Medicaid reimbursement increased 50 percent between 1998 and 1999. The large growth in Alaska's Medicaid program after this increase provides evidence that states respond to large increases in the federal Medicaid subsidy in a stimulative manner by increasing spending with state-raised revenue. Overall, the results in the first paper are consistent with the hypothesis that decentralization in the form of intergovernmental matching grants increases the size of government. I also find that states with wealthier and more liberal populations tend to have larger Medicaid programs and that states with Democratic legislatures tend to have more Medicaid beneficiaries than states with Republican legislatures all else equal.
Since 2008, states have experienced significant budgetary pressure; in large part, because of rising Medicaid enrollment due to the recession and weak recovery. Between 2009 and 2011, many states enacted health care provider taxes as a way to bring in additional revenue through the federal Medicaid reimbursement. Provider taxes are generally supported by health care providers since states often give providers an implicit or explicit guarantee of a return of at least as much funding through higher payment rates or supplemental payments. In the second dissertation paper, Impact of Hospital and Nursing Home Taxes on State Medicaid Spending, I assess the impact of the two largest provider taxes, the hospital tax and the nursing home tax, on state Medicaid expenditures using a panel dataset of 42 states from between 2007 and 2011. I find significantly larger Medicaid spending growth for hospitals in states that added hospital taxes and significantly larger Medicaid spending growth for nursing homes in states that added nursing home taxes within the first two years of the enactment of the tax. I also find some evidence that states with hospital taxes were able to increase their total Medicaid spending more than states without hospital taxes during the economic downturn and initial recovery period. This paper also contains evidence that nursing home taxes diverted Medicaid spending from home and community based services to nursing homes.
In the third dissertation paper, Statewide Health Impact of Tennessee's Medicaid Expansion, I utilize a quasi-experimental approach to assess the impact of a large statewide public health insurance expansion on access to health care services, health care utilization, and health outcomes. In 1994, Tennessee expanded its state Medicaid program, called TennCare, by about ten percent of the state's population. Along with a major Medicaid expansion, Tennessee increased government subsidies for individuals to purchase health insurance coverage and emphasized managed care. Using a difference-in-difference methodology with Tennessee's neighboring states as controls, I found that TennCare's impact on utilization was mixed as blood pressure and cholesterol checks increased but regular physician check-ups decreased relative to the surrounding region. Surprisingly, both self-reported health and mortality rates were less favorable in Tennessee relative to the control states after TennCare. Ultimately, the evidence in this paper suggests that health reform built around a significant public insurance expansion is likely to result in minimal, if any, overall health gains measured in the entire population, at least in the short run.
The final dissertation section summarizes the findings from the three dissertation papers, discusses the economic efficiency of the uncapped federal Medicaid reimbursement and state provider taxes, and makes several predictions related to the Medicaid expansion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Bricker, Darrell Jay Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "Political partisanship and public policy-making in Canada: the Canada Works Program." Ottawa, 1989.
Find full textSparkes, Susan Powers. "The Political Economy of Health Reform: Turkey's Health Transformation Program, 2003-2012." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16121146.
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Bacic, William Christopher. "The American Disability Insurance Program." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/561.
Full textThis paper's main focus is on the American Disability Insurance law. It begins with an outline of the debate that led up to the passing of the original legislation. The paper then examines the law more closely and depicts the changes the law has undergone in the last 50+ years. Next, the current disability benefits process is depicted and questions are posed about inherent difficulties in the disability insurance program. The paper then examines the challenges mental disability causes for the disability insurance program, using a case study of bipolar disorder. Disability insurance programs abroad are next explored with a focus on how other countries have dealt with the problems the United States is facing in its own program. The paper concludes with an examination of the future prospects of the American Disability Insurance program; suggestions are made regarding useful changes to the law
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
Discipline: College Honors Program
Chou, Sophie Beiying. "Reading between the (party) lines : how political news is seen and shared." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107500.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110).
This thesis uses mixed methods and datasets to explore how political news is perceived and shared within and across party lines in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections. We begin by examining the impact of political context versus article content on the reader through a crowdsourced study, and follow up with a large scale analysis of story sharing on the social platform Twitter to find cases where popularity transcends political affiliation. In Part One, we look at reader reactions. We investigate the question of trust in political news by performing a study online. We look at the impact of content features (reading level of the article) versus context clues (media brands) to find that political affiliation and brand outweigh all other aspects. In the second part of this thesis, we focus on reader actions. In particular, we look at how political news stories from the same time period are shared on the social media platform Twitter. As we found party loyalty and media brand perceptions to be significant influences on the reader's opinion of news, we are especially interested in examining emotional features that cause stories to become popular beyond political boundaries. Together, these two parts hope to form a more complete view of factors affecting and driving readers in an election cycle that is heavily influenced by media coverage, both traditional and new.
by Sophie Beiying Chou.
S.M.
Hart, Phillip A. "The "Save the Bush" programme : government action or political delay? /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envh326.pdf.
Full textHitchings, Sean 1975. "Political economy insights into the defense acquisition process : lessons from the Joint Strike Fighter Program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30072.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 101-107).
The military aircraft industry is a cornerstone of national security and of the economic health of the United States. The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program was sold as a solution to a host of needs, from advancing the capabilities of each Service, modernizing an aging fleet, countering sophisticated threats, enhancing inter-service cooperation, and implementing acquisition reform, all in a revolutionarily cost-effective way. Because of this tantalizing promise, the early JSF program was able to navigate through budgetary pressures while other aircraft programs were cancelled. This thesis argues that the JSF program is a manifestation of a collective action problem, wherein stakeholders, who should be providing a check on each other, are cooperating, even as the stakeholder who should be participating, remains uninvolved. Consequently, the acquisition policies brought in with the JSF program are not improving acquisition policy, but are exacerbating the inefficiencies to which the U.S military acquisition system has historically been prone. This analysis provides insight into how to improve the technology policies governing military aircraft acquisition, and the supply of aircraft to other nations. This analysis is geared for senior policy makers in both government and industry, as well as those who guard the public interest.
by Sean Hitchings.
S.M.
Spielman, Laura Jacobsen. "Preservice Teachers' Characterizations of the Relationships Between Teacher Education Program Components: Program Meanings and Relevance and Socio-Political School Geographies." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27797.
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Page, Stephen Bennett. "The politics of rural development administration : Mexico and the World Bank in the PIDER Program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44259.
Full textCuellar, Enrique Roberto. "A comparative analysis of legislative budget oversight : performance-based budgeting in the American states /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textFoner, Leonard Newton. "Political artifacts and personal privacy : the Yenta multi-agent distributed matchmaking system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61104.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 119-128).
Technology does not exist in a social vacuum. The design and patterns of use of any particular technological artifact have implications both for the direct users of the technology, and for society at large. Decisions made by technology designers and implementors thus have political implications that are often ignored. If these implications are not made a part of the design process, the resulting effects on society can be quite undesirable. The research advanced here therefore begins with a political decision: It is almost always a greater social good to protect personal information against unauthorized disclosure than it is to allow such disclosure. This decision is expressly in conflict with those of many businesses and government entities. Starting from this premise, a multi-agent architecture was designed that uses both strong cryptography and decentralization to enable a broad class of Internet-based software applications to handle personal information in a way that is highly resistant to disclosure. Further, the design is robust in ways that can enable users to trust it more easily: They can trust it to keep private information private, and they can trust that no single entity can take the system away from them. Thus, by starting with the explicit political goal of encouraging well-placed user trust, the research described here not only makes its social choices clear, it also demonstrates certain technical advantages over more traditional approaches. We discuss the political and technical background of this research, and explain what sorts of applications are enabled by the multi-agent architecture proposed. We then describe a representative example of this architecture--the Yenta matchmaking system. Yenta uses the coordinated interaction of large numbers of agents to form coalitions of users across the Internet who share common interests, and then enables both one-to-one and group conversations among them. It does so with a high degree of privacy, security, and robustness, without requiring its users to place unwarranted trust in any single point in the system.
by Leonard Newton Foner.
Ph.D.
Fuentes, Tomislav Lendo. "The political implications of the National Solidarity Program of the Mexican Government (1989-1994)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364509.
Full textCutler, Haley. "The Construction of Womanhood in a Campaign Training Program for Women| A Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Prescott College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1605873.
Full textWomen are underrepresented in public office throughout the United States. Candidate recruitment and training are understood to be crucial interventions for increasing women’s representation in elected leadership (Rozzell, 2000; Carroll & Sanbonmatsu, 2009; Carroll & Sanbonmatsu, 2010). In response to this need, campaign programs for women have become increasingly prevalent across the country. However, the implications of what happens within campaign training programs and the impact particular training content has on participants, women’s political participation, and the political arena are still poorly understood. Using discourse analysis, this study seeks to understand the construction of womanhood in a campaign training program for women. The program for the purposes of this study is called Women in Politics (WiP). The WiP program is a multi-faceted, non-partisan, issue-neutral program geared towards encouraging and training women to run for public office and is located in a small city in the Southeast United States. Data was gathered using participant observation during three of six workshops in the series that were free and open to the public. Discourse about the intersections of candidacy, gender, race, age and class; family; and, appearance, perception and public judgement are examined to reveal how womanhood is constructed in ways that both reify and challenge or complicate hegemonic standards. The findings of this study indicate that for women to become elected to public office, a field in which women have been historically underrepresented, they must contend with and in many ways maintain hegemonic womanhood.
Chu, Katharine (Katharine L. ). "Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68515.
Full text"September 2011." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
Recently, governments have leveraged a variety of new technologies, especially new social media, to create an open government, or Government 2.0 that is transparent in its policies and gives its citizens the ability to collaborate and participate. Social media has been known for its ability to instantly connect a decentralized group of users; the ease at which the technology communicates makes the results of such technologies unpredictable and elusive. Despite television's reputation as a "passive" medium, I demonstrate that Taiwanese political call-in shows have been a successful form of credible and "controlled participation" for over a decade. With the inception of multi-party elections, these talk shows have served a purpose beyond getting good ratings and bringing in profits for the networks; they provide politicians and viewers alike an opportunity to participate. To understand the participatory culture, I studied Taiwanese political talk shows as a media system by analyzing the style and content of Taiwanese talk shows, as well as the social, cultural, legal, political, and economic institutions, practices, and protocols that shape the technology. The call-in talk shows transforms the medium into what John Gee calls an "affinity space," a term often used to describe the communities built using social media. Even with the culture of openness on Taiwanese political talk shows, the value system by which television is constructed and limited interactivity of the technology preserve the credibility content, and create an effective blueprint for bidirectional interaction between the government and the public.
by Katharine Chu.
S.M.in Technology and Policy
Broniatowski, David André 1982. "Political sustainability in the vision for space exploration : articulating the policy-technology feedback cycle." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35586.
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It is often difficult to forecast the future budgetary environment for today's space systems. Indeed, multiple NASA missions and programs have been put into jeopardy or canceled outright, due to discrepancies between the expected and actual lifecycle costs. This has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in taxpayer money spent on false starts. It is therefore in the best interests of all stakeholders, including NASA and the U.S. Congress, to arrive at a solution which will allow NASA's space exploration endeavors to be funded at a politically sustainable level. Understanding the mechanisms and processes by which a program may exhibit politically sustainability is of paramount importance to the space exploration enterprise. In particular, budgetary sustainability has proven to be a driver for The President's Vision for Space Exploration, which instructs NASA to "Implement a sustained and affordable" space exploration program. NASA, as a federal agency, is dependent upon the support of many stakeholders within the US political system, especially the President and members of Congress. Thus, a politically sustainable program must address the needs of these stakeholders.
(cont.) Based upon strategies for agency-Congress interaction that are derived from the existing political science literature, this thesis proposes to translate policy directives into technical constraints or requirements for the Vision for Space Exploration. The effects of these changes in the technical system are then traced back to determine how they effect the political environment, articulating a feedback-loop that crosses between the political and technical realms.
by David André Broniatowski.
S.M.
Erskine, Brian Michael. "Postmodernist Pedagogy's Effect on Doctoral Level Political Theory Instruction and Curriculum." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32823.
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Rashid, Faaiza. "The organizational and political challenges of Enterprise Systems Engineering : a survey of senior systems engineers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59682.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92).
Systems engineering efforts are becoming increasingly complex, novel and interdependent, making traditional systems engineering approaches only partially applicable to such efforts. Consequently, a new discipline is emerging called Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE), where enterprise is defined as a collection of interdependent systems, including people, processes, and technology that can refer to a supply chain, a corporation, a program, or other large-scale, complex adaptive entities. Enterprises are comprised of multiple powerful stakeholders (suppliers, sponsors, customers, users) with competing interests who have to coordinate and collaborate. Lacking a stable, single control authority, enterprises often have contestable decision-making and governance domains. Therefore, ESE projects frequently evolve in somewhat unpredictable ways due, in part, to their multiple end users and multiple stakeholder organizations. These drivers of unpredictability define the 'social contexts' of ESE, and include organizational and political challenges that are usually very difficult to overcome. Currently, practitioners are concerned because there is neither a theory nor a set of best practices to better manage the social contexts of ESE. Fundamental questions remain about the nature and impact of social context challenges. To address these questions, a survey questionnaire was fielded to senior systems engineers, with depth and breadth of experience leading enterprise scale initiatives. The results show that social context challenges significantly impact ESE success with a large majority of the respondents assessing these challenges to be equally or more important than technical challenges in ESE. The critical social context challenges are building relationships, achieving consensus, communicating and listening, managing uncertainty and change, and dealing with organizational and process factors. Effectively managing these challenges requires individual skills, a certain mindset, and an enabling environment. The results of this study can help focus future research, provide a basis for development programs for ESE, inform systems engineering curricula in academic institutes, and help build organizational mechanisms conducive to effective management of social context challenges in ESE.
by Faaiza Rashid.
S.M.in Technology and Policy
Mansharamani, Vikram 1974. "The Deepwater Program : a case study in organizational transformation inspired by the parallel interaction of internal and external core groups." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16640.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71).
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
This paper attempts to explain why the United States Coast Guard decided to undertake its most recent major capital asset replacement effort-the Deepwater Program-through the use of a systems approach. Several explanations are considered, but a series of interviews and a review of events during the 1996-2003 timeframe yield an explanation that points to bureaucratic politics and status dynamics as the most likely cause. In particular, the paper finds that the Coast Guard's low status (vis-à-vis other organizations within the Department of Transportation) combined with the Deepwater community's high status (vis-à-vis other communities within the Coast Guard) to produce a political environment that made the use of a systems approach almost inevitable. The paper closes by considering the policy ramifications of systems approaches used by relative weak organizations.
by Vikram Mansharamani.
S.M.
Ferguson, Michele Carey. "The formulation and expansion of an alternative education program (Spanish immersion) : an institutional-political analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7620.
Full textHendricks, Susan M. "Contextual and individual factors and the use of influencing tactics in adult eduction program planning." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1172470.
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Singleton, Gregory R. (Gregory Randall). "Geologic Storage of carbon dioxide : risk analyses and implications for public acceptance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40378.
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology has the potential to enable large reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, but one of the unanswered questions about CCS is whether it will be accepted by the public. In the past, construction of large facilities such as nuclear power plants has been prevented or delayed by public opposition, and CCS proponents would like to know whether it will provoke similar public opposition. Since the Geologic Storage (GS) component of the CCS architecture has not been widely deployed, this thesis explores the characteristics of GS and how they might affect public perception and acceptance of the larger CCS architecture. To provide insight regarding public acceptance of CCS, this thesis addresses two questions; first asking how GS is likely to be perceived by the public and what can be done to improve that perception, and second asking whether financial compensation can be used to improve public acceptance of energy facilities. To address the first question about the public perception of GS, this thesis begins with a discussion of risk concepts and how it is used differently by experts, who use a realist perspective, and the general public, who use a social constructivist perspective.
(cont.) After discussing how this difference in perspective leads to risk disputes, this thesis presents an overview of the risk elements of GS. It then reviews existing risk assessments of GS and qualitatively evaluates the risks of GS in terms of their likelihood, impact, and uncertainty. The discussion on risk assessment perspectives and methods is then integrated with the GS risk review to forecast whether GS is likely to be accepted by the public. By using a public perspective to compare GS to existing energy technologies, this thesis concludes that the risks of GS are likely to eventually be considered no worse than existing fossil fuel energy technologies. However, since GS is a new technology with little public awareness, additional demonstrations and field tests will be necessary to make this case to the public. To address the question of whether financial compensation can be used to improve public acceptance of energy facilities, this thesis presents analyses of data from a public opinion poll on compensation and facility siting. Survey respondents were asked whether they would accept the construction of a natural gas pipeline, nuclear power plant, or coal fired power plant near their home if they were given annual payments of $100.
(cont.) The compensation offers had little net effect on the public's willingness to accept the facilities, and the survey results do not support the use of compensation to improve public acceptance of energy facilities. By investigating public risk perception and GS risk assessments, this thesis concludes that 1) full-scale demonstrations of GS will be needed to convince the public that the technology is safe and 2) that financial compensation is ineffective for improving public opinion.
by Gregory R. Singleton.
S.M.
Salii, Helena. "När blir man svensk? : En studie om svenskhet och integration i partipolitiska program mellan 1998 och 2018." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38974.
Full textEgan, Erica Ann. "Socialism, the state and aid-effectiveness : a case study of the emergency program in Zambezia province, Mozambique 1988-1992." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241256.
Full textHurlock, Victoria J. "Evaluation of an expatriate program at a US-based multinational corporation." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1542258.
Full textThis study examined the expatriate program at one multinational manufacturing and aerospace organization. Eleven expatriates were interviewed. Study findings provided insights about participants' experiences during each phase of their expatriate assignment, including selection, preparation, arrival, adaptation, and repatriation. Participants were mixed in their evaluation of the company's expatriate program, with some believing it worked well and others believing it needed improvement. Participants offered six recommendations to the organization: (a) pick qualified individuals for assignment, (b) help them take care of the details, (c) provide them with adequate training and information, (d) involve knowledgeable others in the process, (e) plan for the expatriates' return in advance, and (f) allow for returning expatriates to debrief. Continued research should examine expatriation in other settings, gather the perspectives of the many stakeholders to the expatriate process, and conduct action research based on the recommendations offered in this study.
Blanco, Alberto E. (Alberto Enrique) 1966. "Geographical and behavioral economics of political risk for foreign direct investment location." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69880.
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This thesis analyzes the perception gap between political risk assessments observed at the national level, and the different realities of sub-national city regions whose risk regime is not reflected by the national indicators, and its implication on foreign direct investment (FDI) location decisions. The purpose of this research is to understand how and why the national political risk assessments of countries with internal armed conflicts override the ability of regional investment promotion agencies to attract FDI into financially sound projects of high developmental value. This thesis complements the standard political risk underlying theories with geographical and behavioral economic theories, in order to propose a sub-national political-risk-assessment approach that could show the safer regions within riskier countries. It is based on the analysis of the Colombian Metallurgical Coke and Power Plant Project COLMECO, designed to be located in the Barranquilla Metropolitan Area, within the Atlantico Department, a region that has traditionally experienced no open internal armed conflict confrontation. The conclusions of this research prove and justify the sub-national risk assessment approach proposed.
by Alberto E. Blanco.
S.M.
Sendjaja, Sasa Djuarsa. "Social reality and television news in Indonesia: An investigation of young Indonesians' perception of the television portrayals of three development program issues /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487597424137434.
Full textShort, Nicholas J. D. University of California Berkeley. "The political economy of the research exemption in American patent law." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104814.
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One of the most important questions in innovation policy today is whether the acts of making and using a patented invention for research purposes should be exempt from infringement liability, also known as the research exemption. Most of the legal scholarship about the research exemption has focused on normative questions like whether the law should have an exemption and what form it should take. Few if any articles have approached the research exemption as a case study in the political economy of American patent law. This article analyzes the legal and political history of the research exemption from 1970 to the present in order to illustrate and expand upon existing theories about the political economy of American patent law. The history was constructed by first using law review commentary to identify all major instances when the research exemption became a prominent issue in a judicial, legislative, or executive forum, and then analyzing primary sources from those debates to identify the individuals and institutions that participated and the arguments they made. One major conclusion is that faulty economic ideology has played a significant role in shaping policy towards the research exemption, and that the Court of Appeals Federal Circuit--the standard bearer for that ideology--has exhibited a strong institutional bias against the research exemption. Together, these forces have created an excessively complex policy environment that is placing a significant strain on the national research system, a strain that executive agencies and the courts have tried to alleviate through ad hoc agreements and modifications of other patent doctrines, like the doctrine of subject matter eligibility.
by Nicholas Short.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Waiwaiole, Evelyn Nelson. "The political formation of a hybrid financial aid program in Texas and its impact on access /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008462.
Full textHightower, Rudolph L. II. "National Security Policy Complexity: An Analysis of U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Program Effects on Political Terror." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512058156407646.
Full textWitesman, Eva M. "Goal conflict in the State Children's Health Insurance Program." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378388.
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Thunberg, Maria. "Europeisering och Programmatisk Förändring : "Europafrågan" i Polska Partiers Politiska Program Under 2000-talet." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3558.
Full textThis study deals with the phenomenon of European integration and its impact on national party programs in Poland, a current member state of the European Union. The author will argue that the question of European integration has left a mark on the political party programs of two mainstream domestic parties on opposite sides of the ideological dimension, in the form of a certain degree of convergence regarding the “European issue”. Relating the result of the analysis to the theoretical structure of Europeanization and sociological institutional change, the essay will attempt to show a possible link between them. Although this trend does not seem to indicate any dramatic effects of the membership per se in the programs (the national arena seems, in most cases, be of more value for party activities) there is an indirect effect in the form of the presence of Europarties and a pronounced incentive for social and economic adaptation.
Huskisson, Darren Charles. "The air bridge denial program and the shootdown of civil aircraft under international law /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81471.
Full textThis thesis examines the history of the ABDP and the norms applicable to shootdown operations under the UN Charter, customary international law, the Chicago Convention, and human rights law to determine the specific limitations of the prohibition. International law generally prohibits the shootdown of international civil aircraft, and the nature of the shootdown operations can also have human rights implications.
This thesis then examines the circumstances under which international law would excuse an otherwise unlawful shootdown of a civil aircraft. Self-defense, the law of armed conflict and distress are ruled out as likely candidates for use in the legal justification of the shootdown of drug aircraft.
The best defense for the conduct of ABDP shootdowns is the defense of necessity as it exists under customary international law. The potential harm to the essential interests of States threatened by drug trafficking combined with the unique nature of the drug trade in the Andean Region is the ideal situation for the invocation of necessity and provides the most sound international legal justification for the conduct of shootdown operations in this context.
Eom, Tae Ho Yinger John M. "Evaluation of New York State property tax policy administration and behavioral impacts of School Property Tax Relief (STAR) program /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textElliott, Greg (Gregory Talcott). "Konbit : bridging social, cultural, and political worlds by accelerating job growth and creation for the illiterate, disconnected workers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67764.
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Current employment technology typically relies on the concept of a CV or resume -a highly precise and constructed document. The creation of this document requires intricate knowledge of a process that is often opaque to those living in developed nations, who rely on training and experience to write compelling CV's. For those living in developing countries, this process is more difficult, and for those that have no internet access or are illiterate, creating a first-world resume is nearly impossible. That said, when firstworld organizations in developing countries bring with them their expectations of hiring which may or may not fit with the natives of that country. We propose a system, "Konbit," that creates a cultural and technological bridge between those with skills in developing countries and those with first-world expectations of potential employees. This platform allows literate or illiterate workers to describe their skills and life experiences as story-like messages in their native language, requires no technological upgrades from these workers, and transforms and offers this data as deep, humanized characterizations of potential employees. Non-profit organizations (NGOs) and government organizations (GOs) can search this data in a technologically modern format, viewing an automatically constructed resume for each caller. While other systems attempt to create miniature CV's via SMS-based messaging, these systems are not accessible by the illiterate and impose western CV-based culture onto applicants, resulting in low-fidelity representations given that SMS text messages are by nature short and inappropriate for extensive data input. Given the focus on the most is connected workers, Konbit deployed and received data from over 10,000 people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the literacy rate, at the time of writing, was around 50% and the unemployment rate was more than 80%. This system was also beta-tested with 30 Haitian-Americans in Miami, Florida. The implications of the thesis will be relevant to any area - developed or developing - that is affected by illiteracy, poor training, or cultural gaps between workers and employers, and may serve as a more effective tool for employee characterization and interviewing in all job sectors.
by Greg Elliott.
S.M.
Mulberry, Stella L. "Political Identity of First-Year College Students: An Analysis of Student Characteristics Using Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Data." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28457/.
Full textBellamy, Terry Leon. "Black political power and its impact on federal housing subsidy Program 235 (I) in Charlotte, North Carolina." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1476275.
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