The National Parks of the United Kingdom are characterised by their beautiful countryside and spectacular rural landscapes. They are also significant leisure based trip attracting locations, the dominant transport mode being the private car which typically accounts for 90% of al…
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The intersection of religion and politics results in “wicked” policy problems for which evidence-based solutions are hard to find. An example is the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement (CCR). Evidence suggests that women and society benefit from increased ac…
The spirit of one of the most important laws in American history has been lost. Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments Act, the gender equity law which was created to provide equitable opportunities for females in educational programming, has in error become almost solely s…
This purpose of this study was to present a policy analysis of California’s Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act, otherwise known as Proposition 21. While there have been significant changes in California’s juvenile justice system through raising age movements, youth …
The purpose of this thesis was to conduct an analysis of the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010, including relevant historical policies and the act’s effectiveness in housing low-income older adults. This research utilized a qualitative design and involve…
This dissertation analyzes the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and its subsequent amendments with a focus on youth who engage in sexually harmful behavior. The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and…
This multi-site case study uses Policy Implementation Process Examination (PIPE) and a variegated diagram to represent the evolution of interpretations in a human sense-making framework as it relates to Ohio House Bill 410, legislated in 2016. The purpose of the research is to s…
Injuries are becoming recognized as one of the most important public health challenges at the dawn of the new century. Globally, about 16,000 people die every day because of injuries. Measured in DALYs (Disability Adjusted Life Years) almost one fifth of the total Global Burden …
Variations in educational policy outcomes have always been perceived as policy failures, and they are often associated with policymakers insensitivity to what is happening down at the grass roots level, and with implementers' inefficiency and non-compliance. Based on institution…
The presence of drug cartels within Mexico impacts U.S. national security, foreign policy, U.S. crime rates, and public health policy. Due to the direct and indirect effects that the cartels have on the United States, this paper examines the Mérida Initiative, the current U.S. a…
In Egypt, pharmaceutical prices are set by the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP). For decades, the ministry used a cost-plus method to set prices. This method has been criticized as being inflexible as it does not account for inflation or the currency exchange rate's fluc…
Background Industrially manufactured herbal medicines (HMs) are historically popular and their consumption continues to increase. As HMs use increases, identification of adverse effects occur more frequently. In some countries' national drug regulatory authorities (DRAs), clear …
The purpose of the current study is to investigate why parent-school partnerships have failed after ten years of reform implementation. Grounded in Kingdon's multiple streams model for policy formulation (Kingdon, 1995), the hypothesis of this study is that parents and teachers'…
Over the last twenty-five years, fuel poverty in England has successfully transitioned from niche academic interest to mandated concern of the state. More recently still, government have opted to charge energy suppliers with primary delivery responsibility for fuel poverty progr…
Sub-Saharan Africa, following the era of European colonial rule and subsequent independence of the 1950s and the 1960s, flourished with new-found freedom and abundant opportunities for national development. However, after decades of gaining independence and self-rule, many Afric…