Nonprofit organizations widely adopt revenue diversification with the belief that it improves their fiscal stability and increases the provision of charitable services. H[...]

This dissertation examines factors that help explain the variation in economic well-being among rural Georgia counties. A mixed methods approach is utilized, with a regre[...]

The effective implementation of public management policies and reforms is influenced not only by their design but also by the organizational and individual characteristic[...]

The theory of representative bureaucracy has evolved immensely, but little focus has been placed on determining how identity characteristics (e.g., race, gender, disabili[...]

Teenage pregnancy is a significant public health concern in the United States due to the documented negative social and economic impacts associated with teenage childbear[...]

This dissertation is primarily concerned with examining the effects of perceived organizational and personnel red tape on the organizational pride and work motivation of [...]

This dissertation is concerned with assessing citizen attitudes with respect to market reforms of state-owned enterprises. Researchers know relatively little empirically[...]

Goal-setting theory (GST) is among the most validated and replicated theories of motivation. A central assertion of GST is that encouraging employees to pursue clear goal[...]

This dissertation examines how the use of local option sales taxes affects county governments fiscal behavior. Local option sales taxes are becoming a popular form of rev[...]

This dissertation examines the U.S. SNAP program, first by investigating the determinants of state level expenditure decisions on fraud and outreach and second by an empi[...]

The theory of representative bureaucracy suggests that a demographically diverse public sector workforce (passive representation) will lead to policy outcomes that refle[...]

This dissertation assesses how public contract managers can design contracts to influence contractor performance. Public officials control whether contracts are competiti[...]

For my dissertation, I have chosen to create and explore a theory of bureaucratic error. My theory of bureaucratic error seeks to determine the factors, at multiple level[...]

This dissertation is an empirical study of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Founded in 1965, the ARC is the federal governments most significant attempt to addr[...]

The development of leadership skills and competencies in the federal government haslacked the minimal and consistent support necessary to produce consistent positive outc[...]

Employee perceptions of performance appraisal processes have received considerable attention in the public management literature, but the views of supervisors who actuall[...]

In recent years, a growing number of states have adopted sales tax holidays. While a number of normative arguments about this policy have been advanced in the literature,[...]

Keeping the public safe in airports has become a prominent issue over the last few decades as airports across the globe have morphed into infrastructure eco-systems that [...]

In the past twenty years, growing percentages of ethnic minorities in the United States have led scholars to pay increased attention to the issue of diversity. While a nu[...]

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002 in the aftermath of well-publicized scandals in the for-profit world. The Act was intended to improve acco[...]

An examination of buying practices in the United States Department of Defense, the largest buying organization in the world, provides an opportunity to study competition [...]

This dissertation analyzes regulatory agencies as political organizations and addresses the nexus between bureaucratic design and effectiveness and accountability of publ[...]

For the past fifty years, many budget reforms have ebbed and flowed around what is probably the most important theme in contemporary public budgeting: to integrate inform[...]

The political environment of public organizations has been a central theme in the study of public bureaucracy. Very few studies, however, relate aspects of the political [...]