Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (3)
- American Politics (2)
- Civic and Community Engagement (2)
- International and Area Studies (2)
- Sociology (2)
-
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Asian Studies (1)
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (1)
- Communication (1)
- Community College Education Administration (1)
- Community College Leadership (1)
- Community-Based Learning (1)
- Community-Based Research (1)
- Comparative Politics (1)
- Counseling (1)
- Counselor Education (1)
- Curriculum and Instruction (1)
- Curriculum and Social Inquiry (1)
- Defense and Security Studies (1)
- Development Studies (1)
- Economic Policy (1)
- Economics (1)
- Education (1)
- Education Economics (1)
- Education Policy (1)
- Educational Administration and Supervision (1)
- Educational Psychology (1)
- Keyword
-
- American Dream Latinx (1)
- College preparation programs & intervention (1)
- Collegiality (1)
- Congress (1)
- Corruption (1)
-
- Defense policy (1)
- Electoral manipulation (1)
- Kenya (1)
- Lack of access to information (1)
- NDAA (1)
- Nairobi (1)
- National Defense Authorization Act (1)
- Partisanship (1)
- Policy formulation (1)
- Post-secondary success (1)
- Representation; Women's Representation; Pakistan feminism; post-colonial feminism; feminist change; women's participation; Pakistan National Assembly; Pakistan women politician; Women's political representation; descriptive representation; substantive representation; gender politics; comparative politics; post-colonial women's representation; Pakistan; Gender Quotas (1)
- Reserved Seats; Political Identity; Gender Studies; Electoral Politics (1)
- Weak institutions (1)
- Workers' perspectives (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Other Political Science
Maladies Of Public Administration: Factors That Exacerbate Corruption In Kenya, Moses Waithaka
Maladies Of Public Administration: Factors That Exacerbate Corruption In Kenya, Moses Waithaka
Dissertations
This study examines factors that exacerbate corruption in Kenya, focusing on institutional weakness as a key factor that fosters corruption in government institutions. Thus, the study examines difficulty in accessing public services, lack of availability of the broadest and most straightforward access to information, and electoral manipulation -voter intimidation, and inability to remove elected leader through the ballot. The study uses Afrobarometer round 8 dataset collected between November and December 2019. This data set was collected under the guidance of the University of Nairobi Institute for Development Studies IDS. Additionally, the study considers a comprehensive literature review to assess and …
Barriers To Post-Secondary Success, Douglas Swanson, Najeana Henderson, Maritza Sloan
Barriers To Post-Secondary Success, Douglas Swanson, Najeana Henderson, Maritza Sloan
Dissertations
This study reviews factors that prior studies have identified or failed to consider as barriers to post-secondary success. The three main areas include academic success for Latinx students after high school, organizational systems and their impact on African-American students’ postsecondary readiness, and what workers think of their high school education with regards to career preparedness.
Five factors are identified as major barriers for Latinx students to continue in a higher education system. A survey of former students from Saint Louis, Missouri, and Dallas, Texas, metroplex area identified 56 Latinx students that participated in an initial survey. This led to a …
Descriptive To Substantive Representation: A Study Of Gender Quotas In The National Assembly Of Pakistan, 2002-2018, Ameena Zia
Dissertations
Women’s political representation is linked to the empowerment of women in society. In efforts to alleviate women’s disenfranchisement from the political discourse, the international development framework included gender quotas as mechanisms to facilitate an increase in the presence of women in parliaments. Existing research has examined the link between Hanna F. Pitkin’s conceptualization of descriptive representation and substantive representation with a focus on performative measures of women parliamentarians. This longitudinal study expands the scope of existing inquiry and captures the transformational change in power relations as an outcome of the increase in women members of parliaments. This research provides an …
The Political Nature Of Defense Policy In Congress, Timothy Welter
The Political Nature Of Defense Policy In Congress, Timothy Welter
Dissertations
Is defense policy more collegial than other policy issues addressed by Congress? More specifically, what are the institutional and political motives which drive a majority of the members of Congress to consistently transcend partisanship in order to pass defense focused legislation into law?
The purpose of this study was to test whether or not the consideration of defense policy in the House of Representatives is unique in its ability to transcend partisanship. And if so, why?
Hypothesis: The formulation of defense policy in the U.S. House of Representatives is approached with more collegiality than other policy issue areas, mainly due …