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Dissertations
Includes links (when available) to UKnowledge, the University's digital collection of original research. The full Martin School collection can be found here.
2016
Bedwell, Emily
Applying a Positive Theory of Organizations: A Closer Examination of State Environmental Protection Agencies
Choi, Seugjin
Three Essays on Interaction in Public Management
Guo, Zihe
Conduit Bond Financing of Local Governments-Perspective from the U.S. and China
Rakow, Cole Eugene
Empirical Advances in the Study of Revenue Diversification in the U.S. States
Rico, Anthony Heath
Web of Ties: The Effect of Relationship Ties on Government Funding for Nonprofit Organizations
Steinbach, Shana Lynne
Is There a Tradeoff? Infant Health Outcomes and Managed Care Competition
Woodward, James Briggs
American Obesity: Rooted in Uncertainty, Institutions, and Public Policy
2015
Yun, Changgeun
Three Essays on Public Organizations
2014
Connelly, Dana D.
State Child Welfare Policy: Causes and Consequences
Jacobs, Thomas Alexander
Continuing Resolutions: The Influence of Temporary Spending Restrictions on Monthly Expenditure Patterns of Federal Agencies
Jones, Peter
Charter School Locations Across the U.S. and Their Influence on Public School District Revenues
2013
Deerfield, Amanda
A Study of Corruption, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth
Fraley, Tosha Kurzynske
Homogeneity, Sorting, and Social Capital: Differences in Rural and Urban School Peer Effects
Gibson, James B.
Three Essays on Fiscal Stress and Financial Stability in State Government Finance
Greer, Robert
Three Essays on Local Government Debt
Mamaril, Cezar Brian C.
Funding Defined Benefit State Pension Plans: An Empirical Evaluation
Paris, Bethany L.
Institutional Lending Models, Mission Drift, and Microfinance Institutions
Zhang, Zhiwei
To Produce or Buy? Exploring Determinants of Local Government Privatization Decisions
2012
Arinaitwe, Jacklyn Makaaru
Subsidization Effects: Do Microfinance Institutions Subsidize the More Risky "Poor" Clients?
Foster, John M
Voter Ideology, Tax Exporting, and State and Local Tax Structure
Howell, Matthew
E Pluribus Unum: Interest Group organization's Effect on the Fragmentation and Governance of American Urban Areas
2011
Barrett, Nathan
Three Essays Evaluating Choices of Teachers and Administrators in Kentucky Public Schools
2010
Burke, Jonica Louise
Three Essays on Structural Imbalance in State Budgeting
Fowles, Jacob
Public Higher Education Governance: An Empirical Examination
Sloan, Margaret F
Federal Funding of Nonprofit Organizations: Impacts, Oversight, and Accountability
2009
Genova, Stefka
Policy Innovation, Program Maintenance, and Enrollment: The Case of State Medicaid Buy-in Programs
Kim, Ae-Sook
Policy Innovation, Diffusion, Reinvention, and Evolution in State Medicaid Managed Care Programs
Kimsey, Linda
How Efficient are Military Hospitals? A Comparison of Technical Efficiency using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Liu, Gao
Three Essays on Municipal Bond Insurance
2008
Charles, Cleopatra
The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Budget Stabilizations Funds on Fiscal Innovation and Fiscal Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from State Governments
Fordham, Miriam
The Effect of Medicaid Managed Care on Access, Use and Expenditures: Is There a Geographic Variation?
Kukla-Acevedo, Sharon
The Roles of Teacher Characteristics, Preparation and Turnover
Wakefield, William Walter III
Medicare Physician Reimbursement Policy and Type of Service Volume Sensitivity
2007
Carr, Douglas
Environmental Regulatory Policy: Political Economy, Industrial Geography, and Intergovernmental Fiscal Effects
Gillen, Shawn
A Typology of Punctuated Equilibrium: The Comparative Effects of Mandated and Un-Mandated Budgetary Punctuations
Hur, Yongbeom
Organizational Performance, Turnover, and Human Resource Management: Focusing on Municipal Police Services
Streams, Megan E.
Policy Interaction in the Public Finance of Successive Levels of Education
Yusuf, Juita-Elena
Nascent Entrepreneurs and Their Use of Business and Entrepreneurial Assistance Programs: Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
2006
Moody, Michael
Three Essays on Public University Debt Management
Shane, Julia Patton
The Effectiveness of Regulated and Unregulated Risks in Graduated Licensing Programs: An Effort to Reduce Fatalities Associated with Accidents Involving Teenaged Drivers in the United States
2005
Haist, Margaret Patrick
After the Adoption and Safe Families Act: Outcomes of Children in Licensed and Unlicensed Kinship Foster Care
Hall, Jeremy L.
Disentangling Components of Innovation Capacity and Innovation Outcomes in Economic Growth and Development In the U.S. States
O’Connell, Lenahan Louis
Fighting Urban Sprawl: A Study in the Social and Organizational Roots of “Smart Growth” Policies
2003
Kuezi-Nke, Marjorie Chisale
The relationship Between Issue Framing and Congressional Response: Setting the Policy Agenda for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Issue, 1981-2000
2002
Constant, Louay
School Choice and the Political Process: Interest Groups, Campaign Contributions and Roll Call Voting
Garrett, Brent
The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Policy Diffusion
Taylor, Melissa A.
Regional Variation in New Firm Formation: An Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors
2001
Wolfson, Gabriela S.
State Budget Institutions and “Optional” Entitlement Spending
2000
DiGuglielmo, Tina
Reaching for the Stars: A Comparison of Female and Male Army Officers' Career Progression
Eger, Robert J. III
Public Authorities: Their Role in State Government Financial Management
Min, Kee
Does Foreign Government Policy Matter?: The Case of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
Olberding, Julie C.
The Formation, Structure and Performance of Regional Partnerships for Economic Development in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
1999
Jensen, Jason L.
Institutional Processes in the Birth and Diffusion of State Public Organizations
Jordan, Meagan McChe'
Punctuated Equilibrium as a Comprehensive Theory of Local Government Budgeting: The Proof is in the Tails
Udie, Matthias Akomaye
The Effects of Medicare Penetration into HMOs and Competition in the Medicare HMO Market on State of Breast Cancer Diagnosis
1998
Ewalt, Jo Ann Gomer
An Analysis of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program in Kentucky: Determinants of Component Choice
1997
Dension, Dwight Val
An Empirical Examination of Municipal Bond Insurance: Three Essays
Zimmer, Ronald W.
Identification of Peer Effects: Evidence Across Countries
Gray, Sandra C.
The Basle Accord Agreement on Bank Capital: A Policymaking Model for International Economic Cooperation
1995
Clarke, George Weston Jr.
Institutional Determinants of Executive-Legislative Budgetary Conflict in the American States
Miller, Kenneth R. Jr.
Choosing your Poison: An Empirical Analysis of Jurisdictional Shopping among American Corporations
Wiggins, Purnima Nimmi
The Effects of Government Higher Education Funding on the Behavior of Colleges and Universities in the U.S.
1994
Park, Kimuck
The Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants and Expenditure Effects of Intergovernmental Grants on Grantor Governments
1993
Kuder, Linda Brasfield
Attitudes Toward Age-Based Health Care Rationing
1991
Kearns, Paula Scheliga
The Determinants of State Budget Periodicity, and the Implications for State Spending and Interest Group Activity
Trautman, Rhonda Riherd
Effects of Institutional Control upon State Debt Activity and Costs of Debt Programs: An Empirical Analysis