Why do very different states adopt remarkably similar intellectual property laws? From Australia to Zambia, France to Fiji, and the United States to Uzbekistan, countries around the world have to a large extent harmonized laws protecting intangible goods. Such harmonization is p…
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Since the advent of the millennium, a growing interest has arisen in information and communication technologies (ICT) given the potential to bridge the digital divide. ICT have had a central role to play in terms of economic, regulatory and political development. Telecommunicati…
During last quarter of the 20th century, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a significant tool for infrastructure growth in developed countries under the aegis of the reforms agenda associated with policy framework of the new public management (NPM) aiming at imp…
In a global interacting world, there is a natural tendency to look abroad, to see how other countries have responded to similar problems, and to share ideas and experience. This dissertation examines policy diffusion using a case study of a Welfare-to-Work reform from the United…
Even though there has been a rapid increase in state cybercapacity over the last two decades, researchers have paid little attention to this phenomenon. In my dissertation Public Cyberinstitutions: Signaling State Cybercapacity, I employ a combination of formal theory, event his…
Over the past 40 years, performance-based funding has become a common tool of state legislatures to hold institutions accountable for student outcomes. Performance funding allocates state money to institutions based on a specific set of measures. However, states vary in the meas…
Numerous studies show that religion predicts an individual’s likelihood of owning a gun, but the role of religious tradition in shaping attitudes and outcomes about guns and gun policy in the United States is undertheorized. This dissertation explores the entanglement between re…
This research uses the ‘policy diffusion framework’ to analyze the mechanisms and motivations behind policymaking in the American food system and draw conclusions about the relationship between the policy process and civil rights. It also utilizes analytical concepts lent by his…
This policy process dissertation improves traditional diffusion theory by adding representation in the statehouse and measures of interest group narrative attention. The case is the reform of mandatory sentencing policy within the United States in the 2000s. I draw upon the Narr…