We reproduce Shoub, Kelsey, Katelyn E. Stauffer, and Miyeon Song (May 2021). "Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops," with alternative specifications and interpretation of the results. While our reproduction confirms that female police officers are less likely to...

Performance based budgeting reform in its latest stage continues to evolve after resurgence in popularity resulting from the Clinton Administration's National Performance Review and the international new public management (NPM) movement. Performance based budgeting is sometimes viewed with...

Past research has clearly demonstrated that a high level of interorganizational coordination among human services agencies is extremely difficult to achieve and maintain and that the dynamics of interorganizational coordination and conflict are poorly understood. In the interest of better...

This study is directly concerned with the articulation of strategic choice in the public sector. Despite the considerable amount of literature dealing with strategic management, there has been little empirical study to support theoretical constructs. The parameters of the model are derived from...

The problem. Public entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as the means to manage governmental organizations, even through, the approach has not been fully investigated and researched. The term entrepreneurship is often overused and the process by which it occurs is not understood. This...

Accountability is the cornerstone of democracy. Fiscal accountability is particularly important to an electorate. The system of fiscal accountability developed by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is too complex and technical for the public, being beyond all but specially trained...

The influence of taxes, expenditures and economic development policies upon the rate of growth in the tax base, as measured by both total state personal income and population, was examined for the 48 contiguous states from 1974 through 1991. This was done to establish whether a mobility model...

The study had three objectives: (a) to determine the causes of turnover among particular career service employees in the Departments of Corrections (DC), Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS), and Agriculture and Consumer Services (DA & CS); (b) to...

This dissertation develops an approach and a model for assessing the effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations (CDCs) in the provision of economic development and other services.