Dissertations completed since 2012
Review topics by year, title, student, and degree:
2022
- Ruth Winecoff: Information Intermediaries in the Primary Market for Municipal Securities
- Danyao Li: Three Essays on Representation, Decision Making and Bureaucratic Performance in Law Enforcement
- Breck Wightman: Suited for Succession: The Role of Managerial Fit in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
- Renzo de la Riva Agüero: Too Complex to Deliver? Administrative Capacity, Governance, and Waste Management in Peruvian Municipalities
- Megan Darnley: Drivers of interagency cooperation and partnership outcomes: The case of School Resource Officers
- Godfreyb Ssekajja: Essays on Migration and Diversity in Community: Analyzing Determinants of Institutions for Collective Action for Common-Pool Resources and Public Goods Management in Rural Communities
2021
- Patrick F. Hibbard: Alternative Approaches to Criminal Justice: Problem-Solving Courts and Incarcerated Peer Education
- Michelle Graff: Unpacking the Determinants and Burdens of Energy Assistance in the United States
- Arthur Lin Ku: Three Essays on Clean Energy Policies and Their Implications for Equity and Efficiency
- Michelle Hung Wai Lee: Lessons from the Fossil Fuel Industry: How to Ensure a Just Transition towards a Zero-Carbon Future
2020
- Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez: Unpacking Administrative Decentralization: Testing the Interaction of National and Subnational Government Capacity in Explaining Subnational Performance
- Jose Alfonso Iracheta Carroll: Air Quality, Mobility and Metropolitan Policy: Empirical Evidence from Mexico City, Los Angeles and San Francisco
- Zhengyan Li: Truth Matters: Information Disclosure, Regulation, and Environmental Attitudes and Actions
- Felipe A. Lozano Rojas: Three essays on the unintended consequences of social policies
- Johabed G. Olvera: The Impact of a Home Visiting Program and Its Implementation on Mothers and Children Health
- Stefan Carpenter: Unpacking the Efficacy of Community-Based Wildlife Governance: The Influence of Economic Benefit Types, Risk, and Heterogeneity on Collective Action
- Anthony J. DeMattee: Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs
- Christopher Miller: Climate Policy and Political Viability: Polarization, Inequality, and the Prospects for Geoengineering
- Luke M. Shimek: Escape from Patronage: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Bureaucratic Insulation
2018
- Pamela Rickly: Measurements of Hydroxyl Radical Reactivity and Potential Interferences using the Laser-Induced Fluorescence-Fluorescence Assay by Gas Expansion Technique
- Yi Koong: Impact of Water Stress on Plants’ Gas Exchange at Multiple Scales
- Richard “Nate” Nathan Keith: The influence of chemical pollution on the rate, spectra, and distribution of genome-wide DNA mutation with considerations for health and ecosystem outcomes
- David M. Bredenkamp: Serving alongside the Shadow: Civil Servants and Contracted Public Work
- Lindsey Rose Bullinger: The Impact of Social Policy on Child and Family Health and Well-Being in the United States
- Lauren Dula: Gender and the Governance and Performance of Nonprofit Organizations: Women and the United Way
- Maithreyi Gopalan: Examining Disparities in Non-cognitive Educational Outcomes in the United States
- Noah Hammarlund: Health Informatics and Clinical Decision Making for Priority Publications
- Yousueng Han: A Multidimensional Scale for Public Employee Accountability: Theory and Empirical Evidence
- Hongseok Lee: Examining Meanings and Consequences of Bureaucratic Representation and Workforce Diversity: The United States and South Africa Cases
- Shinwoo Lee: Determinants and Consequences of Employee Separation in U.S. Federal Bureaucracy
- Venkata "Venkat" Krishna Nadella: A Passage to India: Essays on the Political Economy of Entrepreneurship
- Gabriel Piña: Federal Policies and the Poor: Allocation Decisions and Impacts of Housing Financial Assistance Programs
- Yu Zhang: Public Opinion of Shale Gas Development in China: Financial Incentives, Trust in Government and a Comparative Study with the United States
- Adam Abelkop: Litigation and Regulation in Chemical Risk Law
- Andrew Cloran: Shaping the Fifth Branch: Interest Representation, Campaign Contributions, and Political Support Across the Federal Advisory Committee System, 1997-2011
- Sean Webeck: Applying a Behavioral Approach to the Use of Performance Information by Public Managers
2017
Melissa Camille Donaldson: Nitrous Acid Cycling and Reaction on Soil Surfaces
- Yulianti Abbas: Municipalities Continuing Disclosure: Current Practices and Value Relevance in the Municipal Market
- Yuan Cheng: Understanding Government-Supporting Nonprofits and their Relationship with Governments
- Mehmet Demircioglu: Three Essays on Public Sector Innovation
- Hyesong Ha: Employee Empowerment and Organizational Outcomes in the Public Sector: A Causal Inference Analysis
- Sun Young Kim: Public Sector Whistle-Blowing: The Roles of Structure, Representation, and Managment
- Luke Spreen: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxes
- Owen F. Witesman: Universality in Public Service Values: A Methodology for the Comparison of Value Structures and Content
- Shun-Wen Wu: The Welcome Mat Effect of the Early Medicaid Expansions - on Enrollment, Healthcare Utilization, and Spending
- Lang "Kate" Yang: Fiscal Federalism and Distressed Localities: An Empirical Analysis of State Intervention and Bankruptcy Authorization Laws
- Gordon Abner: Examining the Effects of Bureaucrat Bashing on the Morale of Public Employees and Citizens' Attitudes Towards Public Employees
- NaLette Broadnax: The impacts of a novel advising intervention on the gender gap in technology education: A randomized controlled experiment
- Sanchayan Nath: Beyond Institutional Diversity: Studying Governance and Leadership in the Social-Ecological System of Urban Lakes of Bangalore, India
2016
- Thuy An: Physiological Interactions of Silica, Iron Oxide, and Coal Particulates on Microbial Growth and Isolation of Coalbed-Derived Micro-organisms
- Nicole Scharko: Nitrous Acid Sources on Atmospherically Relevant Surfaces
- Jessica Alcorn: Understanding Alternative Energy Realignments: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Approach
- Yuan Daniel Cheng: Understanding Government-Supporting Nonprofits and Their Relationships with Governments: Evidence from Local Parks and Recreation Services
- Mehmet Demircioglu: Three Essays on Public Sector Innovation
- Sun Young Kim: Public Sector Whistle-Blowing: The Roles of Structure, Representation, and Management
- David Lee: Understanding Intergovernmental Mechanisms in U.S. Homelessness Policy Implementation
- Zachary Wendling: Three Essays on Decision-Making in Energy Policy
- Shun-Wen Wu: The Welcome Mat Effect of the Early Medicaid Expansions - on Enrollment, Healthcare Utilization, and Spending
- Lang Kate Yang: Fiscal Federalism and Distressed Local Governments: An Empirical Analysis of State Intervention and Municipal Bankruptcy Authorization Laws
- Yulianti: Municipalities Continuing Disclosure: Current Practices and Value Relevance in the Municipal Market
- Gordon Abner: Examining the Effects of Bureaucrat Bashing on the Attitudes of Citizens and the Morale of Public Employees
- NaLette Brodnax: The Impacts of a Novel Advising Intervention on the Gender Gap in Technology Education: A Randomized Controlled Experiment
- Louis Fucilla: Does the Bureaucracy Move the Needle on Trust: An Exploratory Analysis
- Ursula Kreitmair: Observing Others: The Effect of Behavioral Information on Collective Action in Social Dilemmas
- Dae Woo Lee: Three Essays on For-profit Colleges
- Sanchayan Nath: Beyond Institutional Diversity: Studying Governance and Leadership in the Social-Ecological System of Urban Lakes in Bangalore, India
- Kohei Suzuki: The Effects of Government Retrenchment on Citizen Participation in Service Provision
2015
- Mulu Kebede: Nitrous Acid Formation on Environmental Surfaces Containing Titanium and Iron
- Elizabeth Baldwin: State Clean Energy Policies & Stakeholder Involvement: How Stakeholders Affect Policy Implementation
- Chaeyoung Chang: Empirical Evidence on Factors Contributing to the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in the United States
- Hyunkang Hur: Three Essays on Public Job Security Theory
- Shannon Lea Watkins: Trees, Communities, and Equity: Nonprofit Tree Planting and the Coproduction of Urban Forests
- Carletta Taylor Sims: Financial and Social Savvy Amongst Earned Income Tax Eligible Households: The Influence and Importance of Social Knowledge, Program Participation and Financial Capability in Household Wealth-Building Behaviors
2014
- Doris Navarro Barnard: The role of social capital in household economy and landuse/ land-cover change in areas of land reform in Santarem, Brazilian Amazon
- Francisco K. Souza: Examining the tradeoffs of conservation-development strategies in Amazonia: A land-use/land-cover, economic, and institutional comparative analysis of institutional arrangement regimes (abstract only)
- Jessica Vogt: Urban tree planting, tree maintenance, and the success of planted urban trees
- Jacob Bower-Bir: What we deserve: The moral origins of economic inequality and our policy responses to it
- Kwan Nok Chan: A comparative study of the institutional foundations of punctuated equilibrium
- Sarah Larson: A case of rational irrationality: Evidence of expressive interest bias in state e-commerce sales and use tax legislation
2013
Stephen Griffith: Hydroxyl and hydroperoxy radical chemistry in forested and urban areas: measurements, modeling, and implications for atmospheric chemistry
Jennifer Liljegren: Experimental and theoretical studies of the kinetics of the hydroxyl radical (OH)-initiated oxidation of volatile organic compounds
Yuning Ma: Spatial and temporal trends of flame retardants in the atmosphere near the great lakes
Diana Oviedo-Vargas: Dissolved organic matter and coupled biogeochemical cycles in streams and rivers
Richard Thurau: Spatial distributions of forest resources and change in the central hardwoods region, United States
2012
Daniel Abrams: Generating nitrate response functions for large regional watersheds
Anirban Chakraborty: Microbiology and biogeochemistry of nitratedependent, iron(II) oxidation: Bacterial growth and physiology
Monica Paulson-Priebe: Forest governance institutions, anthropogenic disturbance and forest cover change in Central American forests
Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh: Land-cover change and carbon sequestration under diverse land use systems in Guatemala
Neal Buckwalter: Mandated democracy: Information, participation, and the prospects for public empowerment
Girte L. Davis: An examination of the effectiveness of public management networks (PMNs): Evidence from the case of the Hurricane Katrina disaster
Natalia Ermasova: Capital budgeting at the state level: An empirical analysis from the economic downturn through the present
Aleksei Kolpakov: Structural development of public management networks over time: Where process meets structure
Temirlan Moldogaziev: Information economics in insurance markets for municipal debt securities: Monoline insurance in primary and secondary trades
Gwen Arnold: Assessing wetland assessment: Understanding state bureaucratic use and adoption of rapid wetland assessment tools
Galia Benitez: Policy networks in trade protectionism: Government-business relationships in Brazil within Mercosul
Forrest Fleischman: Public servant behavior and forest policy implementation in Central India
Gustavo García López: Scaling up from the top down and the bottom up: The impacts and governance of inter-community forest associations in Durango, Mexico
LeAnh Nguyen Long: Immigrant entrepreneurship and citizenship in Rome: Entrepreneurship as a predictor of political resources and integration
Scott Smitson: An assessment of the Whole of Government approach to complex operations: Historical precedent, process, and outcome
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas: Understanding robustness to distubance through the theory of the commons: Irrigation water governance and socio-ecological robustness in the Gallego and Cinca River Watersheds, Spain
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