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Ph.D. Program in Urban Studies and Public Affairs

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Student Dissertation Topics

Students in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Studies and Public Affairs write dissertations in a wide range of topic areas:
Public Administration
Public Administration and Nonprofit Management
Neighborhood Development
Environmental Affairs

Public Adminstration
Almajali, Mutasem A.W. 2003. How are we doing? Assessing public security of Jordan using data envelopment analysis and cross-sectional regression analysis (two-year case study).
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Benavides, Abraham D. 2002. New public management's administrative technologies and procedural due process: Searching for justice.
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Burrows, Melissa K. 2004. Service delivery in the administrative state: Faith-based organizations as a client satisfaction alternative.
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Daily, Susanne S. 1996. The convergence of social security and public assistance: An analysis of social security benefits models and the political and economic implications.
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DeHart, Armetia. 2003. Institutional leadership in higher education: An inquiry into perspectives and roles of college and university presidents in public institutions.
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Dunn, Ronnie A. 2004. Spatial profiling: To what extent do the Cleveland Police Department's traffic ticketing patterns target blacks? Proquest Link
Eubanks, Gail K. 2002. Overcoming adversity: Narrative construction in autobiographies of border crossings.
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Farrell, Paula G. 2004. A framework for understanding the use of IT in public organizations.
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Ghaffari, Masoud. 2000. Intelligence: E pluribus unum. An ontological and epistemological inquiry.
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Haque, Akhlaque Ul. 1994. Edmund Burke: Limits of reason in public administration theory.
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Hoffman, Mark C. 1998. City republic, civil religion, and the single tax: The progressive-era founding of public administration in Cleveland, 1901-1915.
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Kalich, Veronica Z. 1998. A public choice perspective on the public subsidization of private industry.
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Kim, Juhan. 1997. Changes in municipal governmental forms and their impact on local government policy outputs: Theory, evidence, and implications. Proquest Link

Molina, Anthony D. 2004. Practical knowledge, citizenship, and virtue: An Aristotelian approach to public administration.
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Momen, Mehnaaz. 2002. On becoming marginal: The state and the citizen.
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Sementelli, Arthur J. 1997. Public administration and business administration: Do they differ in their perceptions of academic values?
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Slone, Wendy J. 2006. Discretion and the administrator: The case of child care reform in Ohio.
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Stoiber, Marlene C. 1995. Organizational hybridness: A model, index, and application to transit agencies' Americans with Disabilities Act planning decisions.
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Sunmonu, Kolawole K. 1996. The performance of African-American businesses.
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Waggoner, Carol H. 1995. Psychological, social, and cultural disassociation in homeless men.
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White, Hope E. 2004. Active citizenship and welfare reform at the local level.
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Public Administration and Nonprofit Management
Nank, Renee D. 2004. The practice of partnership: A study of a government-nonprofit contract.
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Rasey, Keith P. 1993. Role theory and nonprofit housing providers: A historical analysis of the United States and three cities.
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Urban Studies and Economic Development

El Jaouhari, Abdellaziz. 2004. Urban primacy and the role of trade openness.
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Fornaro, Michael A. 2004. The return to city movement by the multiple-choice generation: A case study of the Saint Hyacinth neighborhood.
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Grothe, Barbara P. 1991. Estimation of urban residential housing prices in the context of a monopolistic competitive market structure.
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Kang, Hoje. 2004. Detecting dynamic processes of agglomeration in the product life cycle and sudden changes using space-time clustering analyses.
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Kumar, Mukesh. 2004. Employment centers as self-organizing complex systems: An empirical evaluation.
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Robey, James E. 1997. Deregulation in the trucking industry: Lessons from the "over the road sector."
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Zhang, Zhongcai. 1998. Have regions in the United States become more similar or dissimilar? An examination of income and earnings convergence of metropolitan areas (1969-1995).
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Neighborhood Development
Smith, Linda S. 1995. The effects of FHA's home mortgage guarantee programs on neighborhood decline.
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Smith, Janet L. 1998. Interpreting neighborhood change.
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Environmental Affairs
Winson-Geideman, Kimberly K. 2003. The effects of contamination on post-remediation residential property values.
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Yoon, Euiyoung. 1996. The impacts of waste facilities on property values: An interrupted time series analysis of waste incineration plant siting in Seoul, Korea.
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