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Policy Entrepreneurs, Narratives, And Policy Change, Victoria Cartwright
Policy Entrepreneurs, Narratives, And Policy Change, Victoria Cartwright
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The goal of this dissertation is to uncover how policy entrepreneurs use narratives to influence policy change. Prior studies have attributed scientific evidence to policy change and neglected narratives as an attributing factor. Primarily, narratives have been considered value-laden and unsystematic. However, this study hopes to enrich the policy change literature by using the Narrative Policy Framework to examine systematically how powerful actors use beneficial and failure narratives to influence policy change. This study will demonstrate that policy change does not solely occur due to exogenous events and can be ascribed to the story lines created by powerful actors to …
Policy Entrepreneurs, Narratives, And Policy Change, Victoria Cartwright
Policy Entrepreneurs, Narratives, And Policy Change, Victoria Cartwright
Public Affairs Dissertations
The goal of this dissertation is to uncover how policy entrepreneurs use narratives to influence policy change. Prior studies have attributed scientific evidence to policy change and neglected narratives as an attributing factor. Primarily, narratives have been considered value-laden and unsystematic. However, this study hopes to enrich the policy change literature by using the Narrative Policy Framework to examine systematically how powerful actors use beneficial and failure narratives to influence policy change. This study will demonstrate that policy change does not solely occur due to exogenous events and can be ascribed to the story lines created by powerful actors to …
Socioeconomic And Spatial Impacts Of Rail Transit Stations On The Surrounding Areas In Dallas-Fort Worth Region: Changes In Housing Values, Racial Make-Up, And Population Density, Saad Mohammed-A Alquhtani
Socioeconomic And Spatial Impacts Of Rail Transit Stations On The Surrounding Areas In Dallas-Fort Worth Region: Changes In Housing Values, Racial Make-Up, And Population Density, Saad Mohammed-A Alquhtani
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Dependency on the automobile in the United States has been associated with many urban problems, such as urban sprawl, traffic congestion, air pollution, etc. As the use of automobiles increases, negative externalities also increase. As a result, many American cities have seen a rebound of public transportation systems—many of which have built modern rail transit systems to mitigate the negative impacts of higher dependency on automobiles, to improve mobility and accessibility for commuters, to offer alternative to drivers, to shape development patterns, and to increase economic growth. This rebound of rail transit systems has caused apparent shifts in economic, social, …
Urban Form And Social Sustainability In Neighborhood-Level, Ayeh Sajjadieh Khajouei
Urban Form And Social Sustainability In Neighborhood-Level, Ayeh Sajjadieh Khajouei
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New urban form movements in the United State such as, new urbanism, transit-oriented development, smart growth, and compact-city have been described as the most influential movement in the urban design and urban planning literatures since the modernist movement (Bramley & Morgan, 2003; McKenzie, 2004; Grant, 2006; Colantonio, & Dixon, 2011; Burton, Jenks, & Williams, 2003). In recent years, these theories’ principles have been adopted for many neighborhood design efforts. They advocate the use of urban design as a way to advance environmental, economic, and social sustainability interests as a model of sustainable urban development (Colantonio, & Dixon, 2011; Burton, Jenks, …
African Americans, Stem, And Entrepreneurship: A Study Of Factors That Influence African Americans To Pursue Entrepreneurship In Stem Fields, Zoranna Jones
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Minority business entrepreneurship, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), provides multiple opportunities for innovation, job creation, high earning potential for underrepresented minorities, and for increasing the diversity of the U.S. workforce to reflect current population demographics. This study examines the educational backgrounds of high technology African American entrepreneurs and the factors of STEM programs that influence STEM-educated graduates to pursue high tech entrepreneurship. The research questions include, do STEM programs provide a link to high technology entrepreneurship? And, what STEM program factors are related to high technology entrepreneurship? The theoretical framework that informs the study …
Improving Public Transit Services: Does Collaborative Transit Services Among Public Transit Providers Make Them More Efficient?, Victor U. Ibewuike
Improving Public Transit Services: Does Collaborative Transit Services Among Public Transit Providers Make Them More Efficient?, Victor U. Ibewuike
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The network effect is the postulation that the utility of a product to a consumer increases as its consumption increases (Clement, 2004). If a parallel is drawn in transit service usage, the utility for transit services will increase to users as transit ridership increases. Different public transit providers within a metropolitan region can expand their area of transit services which would improve the utilization of their services through collaboration of transit services with other public transit providers within their service regions. Does such added utilization result in the increase of productive or technical efficiency levels for participating public transit providers? …
African Americans, Stem, And Entrepreneurship: A Study Of Factors That Influence African Americans To Pursue Entrepreneurship In Stem Fields, Zoranna Jones
Public Affairs Dissertations
Minority business entrepreneurship, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), provides multiple opportunities for innovation, job creation, high earning potential for underrepresented minorities, and for increasing the diversity of the U.S. workforce to reflect current population demographics. This study examines the educational backgrounds of high technology African American entrepreneurs and the factors of STEM programs that influence STEM-educated graduates to pursue high tech entrepreneurship. The research questions include, do STEM programs provide a link to high technology entrepreneurship? And, what STEM program factors are related to high technology entrepreneurship? The theoretical framework that informs the study …
The Cultural Advantage Of Cities: Exploring The Cultural Industry Agglomerations As A Source For Economic Growth, Mohamed A. Bireima
The Cultural Advantage Of Cities: Exploring The Cultural Industry Agglomerations As A Source For Economic Growth, Mohamed A. Bireima
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Interest in the cultural industries as a source for economic growth has risen to prominence in recent decades. The purpose of this research is to explore the role and contribution of the cultural industries for economic growth. The analytical framework is based on the agglomeration model, which links economic growth to the spatial organization of economic activity. The cultural industries exhibit a tendency to cluster in geographical space due to competitive pressures, which causes some degree of agglomeration economies to arise (Scott, 2004). The literature exploring the economic impacts of the cultural industries has focused on their agglomeration tendencies at …