Completed Dissertations
| Student Name | Completion Date (Committee Chair) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| FENNIMORE, ANNE F. | Summer 2018 (Sementelli) | Rethinking Public Service Motivation: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
| JAMESON, JORENE | Fall 2017 (Nyhan) | Charter School Closures in Florida, 2006-2016: A Population Ecology Perspective |
| ANGERVIL, GILVERT | Spring 2017 (Thai) | Administrative Discretion in Public Policy Implementation: The Case of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) |
| BEALS, STACEY L. | Fall 2016 (Sapat) | Moving Towards Fairness and Diversity? An Analysis of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Employees Perceptions |
| PIERRE, JEAN M. | Fall 2016 (Sapat) | Determinants of Aid Effectiveness in Agriculture: Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Haiti |
| STEINFIELD, JOSHUA | Fall 2016 (McCue) | Task Specialization in the Public Administration Profession: A Job Analysis of Public Procurement Practitioners |
| HEILMAN, JOESPH C. | Fall 2016 (Sementelli) | Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis of an Inchoate Concept |
| FORD, LORI ALLEN | Fall 2016 (McCue) | Florida University Faculty Compensation – Market Competitive or Not? |
| D'ANGELO III, SALVATORE A. | Summer 2016 (Thai) | An Inquiry into Fire Service Consolidation and the Economies of Scale Debate: The Centralization versus Decentralization Argument |
| MAI, TAM | Summer 2016 (Sementelli) | Human Trafficking as a Brand within the Framework of Human Rights: Case Studies in the U.S. |
| EVANS, MICHELLE | Fall 2015 (Patterson) | Does Public Service Ethics Education Include Gender Equity? An Exploration of Gender Inclusion in MPA Ethics Syllabi |
| TINSLEY, STEVEN | Fall 2015 (Patterson) | Jobs Created? Economic Development as Language Games |
| SLAGLE, DEREK | Fall 2015 (Miller) | The Significance for, and Impact upon, Public Administration of the Corresponding Theory of Truth or Veridicality |
| WILSON, DARRIN | Summer 2015 (McCue) | Local Government Decisions in a Time of Economic Decline: A Study of County Government Budget Policy During the Great Recession |
| DIGGS, SCHNEQUA N. | Summer 2015 (Thai) | An Empirical Analysis of Factors Influencing Organizational Cultural Competence within Emergency Medical Services Systems |
| O'BRIEN, MARIANA G. | Summer 2015 (Miller) | Epistemology and Networked Governance: An Actor-Network Account |
| BLACK, DAVID B. | Summer 2015 (Sapat) | School Choice and Florida's McKay Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities: An Analysis of Parental Satisfaction |
| VIENNE, DENISE | Summer 2014 (Nyhan) | Reframing Our Understanding of Nonprofit Regulation Through the Use of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework |
| WILLIAMS, ADAM | Summer 2014 (Miller) | Public-Private Partnerships and Questions in Public Procurement |
| BYARUHANGA, VINCENT | Spring 2014 (Thai) | The Impact and Effectiveness of Capital Investments in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: An Assessment Using Keynes Economic Theory |
| GILLESPIE, AMANDA | Spring 2014 (Miller) | Testing the Theory of Dominant Institutionalized Policy Narratives Using Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Discourse |
| BRIGHT, MARCUS | Spring 2014 (Miller) | An Inquiry into Scott's Institutional Theory: The Relationship Between Sports and Academics in Urban Public High Schools |
| ROMAN, ALEXANDRU | Summer 2013 (McCue) | An Empirical Analysis of the Roles Assumed by Public Administrators: The Case of Public Procurement Specialists |
| ALZAHRANI, MOHAMMED | Spring 2013 (Miller) | A Comparative Study of the Relationships Between Conflict Management Styles and Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Propensity to Leave the Job Among Saudi and American Universities' Faculty Members |
| HUMMEL, DANIEL | Spring 2013 (Thai/Leip) | Right-Sizing Cities: Strategies and Fiscal Health |
| STEVENS, JEFF | Fall 2012 (Miller) | The Frames and Ideographs of Water Reuse Policy Discourses: An Application of Narrative Analysis and Text Analytics |
| ALBASSAM, BASSAM | Fall 2012 (McCue) | The Influence of the Global Economic Crisis on the Relationship Between Governance and Economic Growth |
| LARSON, ROBIN | Summer 2012 (Leip) | Gendered Images of Expertise, Leadership and Virtue: Applying Stivers' Theoretical Framework to Police Practices as Represented in Publications from 1979 to 2009 |
| ATKINSON, CHRISTOPHER | Summer 2011 (Sapat) | Local Government Response to Hurricane Disasters: Impacts on Small Business |
| GHUMAN, UMAR | Summer 2011 (Sementelli) | Providing a Theoretical and Empirical Basis for Understanding the Antecedents and Consequences of Group Emotional Intelligence (GEI) in Order to Formulate a Model of GEI and Predict Its Effects on Group and Organizational Behavior in the Public Sector |
| PEREZ, ENRIQUE | Summer 2011 (Thai) | How Do Home and Community-Based Service Waivers Change Public Long-Term Care: A Network Perspective |
| CARAVELLA, KRISTI | Spring 2011 (Miller) | Mimetic, Coercive, and Normative Influences in Institutionalization of Organizational Practices: The Case of Distance Learning in Higher Education |
| CLEARE, THOMAS | Spring 2011 (McCue) | An Analysis of Accountability in Public-Private Health Care Programs Serving Vulnerable Populations |
| LU, YAOTAI | Spring 2011 (Thai) | Public Asset Management: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. States |
| KEELER, REBECCA L. | Spring 2010 (Nyhan) | Democratic Accountability for Outsourced Government Services |
| MARTINEZ, JOCILYN | Spring 2010 (Sapat) | The Social Construction of Breast and Prostate Cancer Policy |
| ZAVATTARO, STACI | Spring 2010 (Sementelli) | A Baudrillardian Examination of Municipalities as Public Relations and Marketing Firms |
| AGBODZAKEY, JAMES K. | Fall 2009 (Thai) | Collaborative Governance and the Implementation of the Ryhan White Care Act: A Case Study of HIV Health Services Planning Councils in Two South Florida Counties |
| HOLLAR, THEODORE L. | Fall 2008 (Sementelli) | The Sisyphusian Predicament: Existentialism and a Grounded Theory Analysis of the Experience and Practice of Public Administration (2009 NASPAA Award) |
| DONOHUE, JOHN | Spring 2008 (Patterson) | Rhetoric of Federal Mission Statements: Power, Values, and Audience |
| PRESSLEY, CINDY | Spring 2008 (Patterson) | Utopian Thought Experiments and the Potential for a New Strategy of Inquiry in Public Administration |
| SCHROUDER, SANDRA | Spring 2008 (Leip) | Bureaucratic Discretion in Policy Implementation: The Case of Adjudicating Juveniles as Adults in Florida |
| CHARY, MEENA | Summer 2007 (Patterson) | Policy of Abuse: A Framework of Public Policy Dimensions Analyzing Systematic Sexual Violence in Bosnia |
| TAYLOR, LESLIE | Summer 2007 (Thai/Sapat) | Stakeholders Advocacy Coalitions and the Policy Process: Policy Change Everglades Restoration |
| CHOI, SANGHAN | Summer 2006 (Patterson) | A Conceptual Model of the Emergence of Shared Leadership: The Effects of Organizational Structure, Culture, and Context Variables on Public Employee Perceptions of Leadership |
| STANISEVSKI, DRAGAN | Summer 2006 (Miller) | Multicultural Discourse: A Comparative Case Study of Government Practices in Facilitation of Multicultural Public Discourse in South Florida |
| ISLAM, MD. RAFIQUL | Spring 2006 (Farazmand) | Privatization as an Administrative Reform: The Case of Bangladesh |
| MCGINN, KATHLEEN A. | Spring 2006 (Miller) | Foucault's Techniques of Power in Street Level Organizations |
| DEMIR, TANSU | Fall 2005 (Miller) | Neutral Competence, Political Guidance, and Administrative Autonomy in Implementation: An Empirical Test of the Politics-Administration Dichotomy |
| O'FLANNERY, JENNIFER | Spring 2005 (Farazmand) | Examining the Governance and Administration of Public Higher Education in Florida: An Exploratory Study of Organizational Elite |
| DELANEY, KIMBERLY | Fall 2004 (Miller) | Pursuit of Agency Profits: An Evaluation of Community Redevelopment Agencies in Florida |
| LYES-MACLACHLAN, SHARI | Fall 2004 (Leip/Nyhan) | Does Evaluation Make a Difference? The Effect of Evaluation on Remedial Education in Florida's Community Colleges |
| YACINTHE, NATACHA | Fall 2004 (Kolo/Washington) | An Assessment of the Organizational Effectiveness of Faith-Based and Secular Community Development Corporations in the Provision of Economic Development and Other Services |
| DICICCO, JOEL M. | Summer 2003 (Thai) | A New Macro Methodology for Determining the Magnitude of the Corporate Tax Shelter Problem |
| GIANCOLI, DONALD | Summer 2003 (Thai) | Performance Measurement Using Trained Observer Ratings: The Effect of Environmental Variables on Comparative Measures in Local Government |
| EASTEP, MARY ANN | Summer 2003 (Leip) | A Comparison of Formal and Informal Systems of Victim Participation in the Justice Systems of Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad/Tobago |
| CARROL, JOHN | Spring 2003 (Ben-Zadok) | A Comparison of Regulatory and Distributive Police Programs for Crime Reduction: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Efficiency |
| BERESFORD, ANNETTE | Fall 2002 (Miller) | Technologies of Language and Money: A Study of Stock Manipulation and Internet Communication |
| ALEIDAN, MOHAMED | Spring 2002 (Thai/Nyhan) | Women in the Workforce in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Study |
| HALL, DOUGLAS | Fall 2001 (Washington) | An Investigation of the Availability, Distribution, and Usability of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports of United States Cities |
| JAJA, CHEEDY | Fall 2001 (Miller) | Outlining a Theory about the Practical Use of Theory: A Discourse-Practice Theoretic Analysis of Academic Public Administration Symposia Genre |
| DO ESPIRITO SANTO, SOFIA | Summer 2001 (Washington) | Examining Performance Variables of Non-Governmental Organizations |
| CHANG, YANRU | Spring 2001 (Washington) | Analysis of Government Strategies to Achieve Industrial Competitiveness: A Comparative Case Study of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China |
| HANBURY, GEORGE | Spring 2001 (Washington) | The Function of Leadership Styles and Personality Types Among City Managers: An Analysis of "Fit" and Tenure |
| MOELLER, BRUCE J. | Spring 2001 (Nyhan/Clare) | Measuring Performance in the Public Sector: An Examination of Benchmarking Paramedic Response Time |
| PINKOWSKI, JACK | Spring 2001 (Farazmand) | The Impact of Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) on Sales Tax Revenue |
| O?BRIEN, SANDRA | Summer 2000 (Washington) | Practice to Policy to Management: A Restorative Framework |
| ALMUTAIRI, YOUSEF M. | Summer 2000 (Thai) | Enforcing Budgetary and Legal Compliance in the Government Sector: An Assessment of Preauditing in the State of Kuwait |
| ALKADRY, MOHAMAD | Spring 2000 (Miller) | If Citizens Talk Back, Do Administrators Listen? A Structural Equation Model of Administrative Responsiveness to Citizens |
| ANGELETTI, MICHELLE | Summer 1999 (Thai) | Physician's Perceptions of Managed Care |
| FERRANDO, MARY BETH | Spring 1999 (Clare) | Hospital Closures in Florida Between 1965 and 1995: A Population Ecology Approach |
| PENSKA, KENNETH | Spring 1999 (Thai) | Defense Acquisition and Self-Governed Compliance Programs: An Evaluation of the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct |
| KIM, YONG-MI | Fall 1998 (Thai) | Information Systems Management and Outsourcing: A Study of American City Governments |
| SENJO, SCOTT | Summer 1998 (Leip) | Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Drug Court Process and Their Interaction on Program Outcomes |
| FELDHEIM, MARY ANNE | Summer 1998 (Thai) | Managed Competition in Florida: An Exploratory of Implementation Study |
| MEYER-EMERICK, NANCY | Summer 1998 (Ben-Zadok) | Policymaking on Violence Against Women in the United States: A Multi-Theoretical Perspective on the Terrorization of Women |
| QIAO, YUHUA | Spring 1998 (Thai) | Interstate Fiscal Disparities Among American States: An Empirical Study |
| AL-ALI, FAHAD | Fall 1997 (Clare) | Nationalizing the Work Force of Saudi Arabia: The Role of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry Training Programs in the Private Sector |
| LIBERTI, RAYMOND | Fall 1997 (Mendell) | Florida Local Government Compliance with Transportation Concurrency |
| MURPHY, CELESTE | Summer 1997 (Leip) | An Epirical Study of Farm Workers in South Florida: Environmental Injustice in the Fields? |
| ANDERSON, TERRY | Spring 1997 (Ben-Zadok) | The Effects of Socioeconomic, Political, and Organizational Factors on the Implementation of Community Policing: A Conceptual Framework for an Innovative Policy |
| AL-KHEDAIR, SALEH | Summer 1996 (Thai) | The Impact of the Budget Deficit on Key Macroeconomic Variables in the Industrial Countries |
| DAY, SUSAN | Spring 1996 (Washington) | Representative Bureaucracy: Active Representation in a Juvenile Justice Context |
| CRUISE, PETER | Spring 1995 (Clare) | Medicaid Incentive Reimbursement Programs in Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of the Florida Medicaid AIDS Nursing Home Admission Program |
| FULLER, EDWARD | Fall 1994 (Cooper/Smith) | Measured Impact of Federal Government Policies as Determined by Stock Market Capital Values for Selected Industries |
| MCFARLAND, MIKE | Fall 1994 (Mendell) | A Structural Equations Model of Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction as Its Covariate, and Their Antecedent Variables |
| NYHAN, RONALD | Fall 1994 (Martin) | The Interrelationships of Organizational Commitment, Trust and Participatory Decision Making Practices in Public Organizations |
| CAMPBELL, KENNETH | Summer 1994 (Lynch) | Is Operating Budget Execution Really a Coherent Process? |
| LONG, DONALD | Summer 1994 (Lynch) | The Government Finance Officers Association's (GFOA) Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program: Differences Between Successful and Denied Applicants |
| POPEJOY, MICHAEL | Summer 1994 (Mendell) | The Matthew Effect in Public Administration Research: An Analysis of the Relationship of Institutional Prestige to Research Funding Levels and Departmental Research Productivity at US Schools in Public Administration |
| SEKWAT, ALEX | Spring 1994 (Thai) | An Investigation of Capital Budgeting Practices in County Governments in the United States |
| YOON, YOUNG-CHAI | Spring 1994 (Clare) | Integrated Solid Waste Management: Toward A Recycling Model |
| GNAGE, DAVID | 1993 (Thai) | Employment Rates and Average Wage of Target Jobs Tax Credit Participants in Florida Compared to Selected Job Training Partnership Act Participants by Target Groups |
| BRANNON, PAMELA | Fall 1992 (Clare/Schoenfer) | A Policy Implementation Analysis: Nurse Aide Certification in Florida |
| ROBERTSON, NAOMI | Summer 1992 (Prosperi) | Bridging the Gap Between Development and the Needs of the Economically Disadvantaged: A Case Study of Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| PARSONS, SHARON | Fall 1991 (Kooperman) | Abortion Policy in the Fifty States: A Comparative Analysis |
| WATSON, ROBERT | Fall 1991 (DeGrove) | Growth Policy Priorities in Florida Communities |
| PYNES, JOAN | Spring 1988 (Bernadin) | The Predictive Validity of an Assessment Center for the Selection of Entry-Level Law Enforcement Officers |