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Racial And Ethnic Profiling In Massachusetts: An Examination Of Police Policy And Practice, Anne-Marie Gabrielle Hakstian

Law and Public Policy Dissertations

The use of extra-legal factors such as race and ethnicity in police decision-making impacts the public's overall trust and confidence in the law and in the police as enforcers of the law. Because the police play a key role in ensuring the primacy of the rule of law, the practice of racial profiling can undermine the legitimacy of the law in American communities. Widespread recognition of the problem during the 1990s led several states to pass legislation banning the practice of racial profiling.

In Massachusetts, the legislature enacted a statute with the purpose of identifying the cities and towns ...

On The Effects Of E-Government On Political Institutions, Jane E. Fountain

Jane E. Fountain

Research on e-government typically focuses on disruptive technologies and their presumed transformational effects on government. Yet the Internet and associated technologies are more than two decades old, and even cursory observation demonstrates that institutional change in government is often painstakingly slow. To theorize longer term developments in e-government, an institutional perspective on e-government is sketched and illustrated in this chapter. An institutional approach invites one to examine interactions among people, technologies and structures over time and in political environments characterized in part by conflict over ideas, rights and resources to uncover mechanisms that contribute to stability and change.

To extend ...

Social Movement Heterogeneity In Public Policy Framing: A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis Of The Keystone Xl Pipeline, David Thor Alexander Wesley

Law and Public Policy Dissertations

In 2011, stakeholders with differing objectives formed an alliance to oppose the Keystone XL heavy oil pipeline. The alliance, which came to be known as "Tar Sands Action," implemented various strategies, some of which were more successful than others. Tar Sands Action was a largely heterogeneous alliance that included indigenous tribes, environmentalists, ranchers, landowners, and trade unions, making it one of the more diverse social movement organizations in history. Each of these stakeholder categories had distinct demographic structures, representing an array of racial, ethnic, educational, occupational, and political backgrounds. Participants also had differing policy objectives that included combating climate change ...

The Effects Of Child Custody And Support Policy Outcomes On Male Employment And Labor Supply In The United States, Jerome Jamal Dean

Law and Public Policy Dissertations

Even as researchers have examined the impact of child support law and policy on male labor supply and even as economist have consistently shown that marriage and child custody are associated with increases in male labor supply, no study has ever quantitatively examined the effects of the loss of custody on male employment or labor supply. This study utilizes a social framework that treats marriage, child custody and support as built on a set of transactions that are entered into voluntarily and that motivate men to produce more than they otherwise would. Similarly, when men become fathers out of wedlock ...

Youth Sport Coaching Efficacy: Coach Education Level As A Predictor Of Coaching Efficacy, Geoffrey V. Weller

Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research

The purpose of this research was to evaluate coaches’ level of education as a predictor of their coaching efficacy level. The study tested ten hypotheses. Two for each of the five types of coaching efficacy identified: (1) Coaches with a higher level of education will not exhibit a higher level of coaching efficacy and (2) male coaches will not exhibit a higher level of coaching efficacy than similarly educated female coaches. Individuals (N=1669) coaching teams within the YMCA of Lincoln, NE Youth Sports Branch were emailed a link to an online survey developed using Qualtrics software. An analysis of ...

Community-Based Interventions – International Development, Government And Community, Nikita Arora

The Meducator

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often criticized for their work in the healthcare sectors of developing countries. Recently, they have been moving from a projectized to sectoral support approach in an attempt to respond to this critique. Community-based intervention is a sectoral technique that can be used to exploit the community as a resource to provide the community itself with support in ways that the limited human resources in the healthcare sectors of developing countries currently cannot. The peer group intervention and community health worker are both tested strategies that have resulted in positive outcomes in the healthcare sectors of disadvantaged ...

From Heart Beats To Health Recipes: The Role Of Fractal Physiology In The Ancestral Health Movement, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Brent Pottenger, John S. Torday

Journal of Evolution and Health

The human body—an amazing biological system that scales up fractally from its cellular building blocks—exhibits an incredible ability to self heal. Why then, are chronic diseases and degeneration on the rise in the population? Why are we sicker, more obese, and more depressed and stressed than ever before in human history? Why can’t we heal? The answers to these questions may lie in our ancestry, and modern departure from the human ecological niche. The ability to heal requires proper spatio-temporal inputs—nutrition, sleep, stress, activity, and socialization—in order for cellular signaling to occur properly across semi-permeable ...

Editorial Advisory Board 2013, Issue 1

Journal of Professional Communication

Membership of the Editorial Advisory Board for volume 3, issue 1, 2013 of the Journal of Professional Communication.

What Factors Are Important In Formulating A Community Hospital’S Reputation?, Anne Marie Males

Journal of Professional Communication

There is a growing body of literature on the importance of corporate reputation and reputation management, but scant research that looks at reputation in the context of a community hospital. Most hospital administrators agree that reputation is important and suggest that it has an impact on operations, but the nature of hospital reputation and how it is formed is not well understood. This study explores hospital reputation through a comprehensive literature review, in-depth interviews with six Ontario hospital CEOs, two patient/community member focus groups and an on-line survey with patients and community members. The results of this study strongly ...

Managing Strategically: Canadian Federal Government Communication Branches Evaluated Against Five Of The Generic Principles Of Public Relations, Fraser Likely

Journal of Professional Communication

The Government of Canada employs over 4000 public relations/communication specialists at the federal, national political level. These practitioners are public servants, employed by a government department or agency, with the vast majority working in a designated unit called a communication branch. Since 2000, in order to compare management practices between and among these discrete communication branches, four comprehensive government-wide benchmarking studies were conducted. From a review of three of these studies’ findings, this paper examines the practice of strategic management by Government of Canada communication branches and their heads, in particular the concept of managing strategically. Five of the ...

Proof Positive: Thought Leadership In Canadian Professional Service Firms, Wendy Mclean-Cobban

Journal of Professional Communication

This study examines the current practices, including the importance and effectiveness of thought leadership activities and reputation management, at Canadian professional service firms, as well as what role communications and marketing practitioners play or should play in developing, distributing and evaluating these initiatives. Using survey research and in-depth interviews of communications and marketing practitioners, and senior management at professional service firms, this study looks at how Canadian firms are measuring both their thought leadership activities and overall reputations. One of the study’s major findings is that professional services firms consistently measure their thought leadership activities in a tactical rather ...

Is The Communication Revolution Good For Democracy?, Daniel Tisch

Journal of Professional Communication

This commentary examines the effects of social media on democracy, focusing on the democratization of information, the “three powers of the dark side” and the question of whether PR professionals can be agents of ethical influence. The three powers of the dark side flow from the: potential use of digital communication to subvert democracy; citizen’s continuous partial attention driven by the ‘second-screen’ phenomenon; and decline of trust in journalism that can deprive citizens of credible information curation. The commentary concludes with the affirmation that the communication revolution can be good for democracy – but only if professional communicators are ready ...

Educating Communication Professionals: The Case For Ethics In The Curriculum, Patricia Parsons

Journal of Professional Communication

This commentary examines the value of teaching ethics as a part of public relations and communications management education. It centers on the premise that teaching ethics to public relations students cannot provide any degree of assurance to future employers, or society, that these individuals will actually behave in an ethical manner. The question of whether it is ethical to teach ethics to students in the professions is raised – the author muses as to whether public relations faculties would have a different view of what they teach to their students, how they teach it and who teaches it if they were ...

The Argument Against Winning Hearts And Minds, Aaron Henninger

Journal of Professional Communication

This commentary asks a provocative question: what if 9/11 conspirators were to have walked through NY during and after the attacks to attempt community relations? As horrific and absurd as this might sound, that is how we are perceived in some corners of the world, in the aftermath of airstrikes and destruction, attempting to persuade or engender good will. This commentary arrives at the conclusion that it is disingenuous to attempt to win the hearts and minds of an indigenous population when those efforts are set against the backdrop of military materiel and personnel.

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Values Structuring And Strategy Design For Housing And Community Development, Jeff Keisler, David A. Turcotte, Rachel B. Drew, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

Community development corporations (CDCs) are a type of community based organization (CBO) who direct assets and efforts toward housing stock and neighborhood improvement. This multi-case study applies value focused thinking to three community development corporations. CDC activities include acquiring and managing housing to improve urban communities.

The many common elements in objectives hierarchies developed across three sites provide insight on how the generic mission of a CDC can be operationalized, while variation in the structures relates to the specific characteristics of the organizations and the communities in which they operate. Some of these patterns may be attributable to characteristics that ...

Electronic Supplement: Values Structuring And Strategy Design For Housing And Community Development, Jeff Keisler, David A. Turcotte, Rachel B. Drew, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

This is an electronic supplement to the manuscript "Values Structuring and Strategy Design for Housing and Community Development", under review at European Journal of Decision Processes.

The Political Economy Of Federally Sponsored Data, Bart Ragon

Journal of eScience Librarianship

Librarian involvement in the Open Access (OA) movement has traditionally focused on access to scholarly publications. Recent actions by the White House have focused attention on access on the data produced from federally sponsored research. Questions have emerged concerning access to the output of federally sponsored research and whether it is a public or private good. Understanding the political battle over access to federally funded research is closely tied to the ownership of the peer review process in higher education and associated revenue streams, and as a result, interest groups seeking to influence government regulation have politicized the issues. As ...

Symposium - The U.S.-Iranian Relationship And The Future Of International Order

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs

No abstract provided.

A Convergence-Building Model Of Superfund Site Communication: Building On Lessons From The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Anna G. Hoover, Lindell Ormsbee

Anna G. Hoover

Best practices approaches have guided governmental risk communication efforts at Superfund and other chronic risk sites for more than two decades, playing an important role in the ways in which those most affected by contamination make sense of risk. Such approaches can affect the information environment in two separate but related ways: 1) directly, through the explicit sharing of information, and 2) indirectly, through ongoing stakeholder interpretations of the processes by which that information is shared. To date, the indirect, process-related effects have not been addressed in assessments of communicative efficacy at Superfund sites. Thus, it increasingly is necessary to ...

Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang

Faculty Scholarship

The program of regulation through private litigation that Democratic Congresses purposefully created starting in the late 1960s soon met opposition emanating primarily from the Republican party. In the long campaign for retrenchment that began in the Reagan administration, consequential reform proved difficult and ultimately failed in Congress. Litigation reformers turned to the courts and, in marked contrast to their legislative failure, were well-rewarded, achieving growing rates of voting support from an increasingly conservative Supreme Court on issues curtailing private enforcement under individual statutes. We also demonstrate that the judiciary’s control of procedure has been central to the campaign to ...