Public Policy Dissertations by Author

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ABDUKADIROV, Sherzod A.	Goldstone	Emergence of Political Parties during Democratic Transitions: An Agent-based Approach (May 2011)
ABEL, Troy D.	Stough	Paths to New Public Policy: Civic Factors and Local Voluntary Environmental Efforts (Aug. 1998)
ADAMS, Richard C.	Kash	Culture, Policy, and Technology Innovation: U.S. and Japanese Performance in Electro/Mechanical Technologies (Aug. 1995)
ADASE, James	Hill	Cultural Divide Between Science and Diplomacy at the Department of State (Aug. 2002)
AFAQI, Jamil	Wedel	The Effect of Culture on the Workings of Bureaucracy: A Comparison of the U.S. and Pakistani Audit Bureaucracies (May 2015)
AGARWAL, Vertica	Reinert	The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Income Inequality: A Study of India (May 2007)
AGWARA, Hezekiah O.	Goldstone	Legacies of the Past: Coinciding Inequalities, Trust, and Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Nations (May 2012)
AL-FAHAD, Mohammad Y.	McNeely	Bridging the Global Digital Divide: Internet Diffusion in Muslim Countries (Jan. 2004)
ALLEN, Benjamin L.	Fukuyama	Consumption Taxation of Electronic Commerce: A Comparison of United States (US) and European Union (EU) Policies, 1997 to 2000 (May 2002)
AL-NSOUR, Maen F.	Stough	Economic Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma: The Case of Israel and the Arab States (Aug. 1998)
ALPERT, Sheri	Lipset	Machine Tractable Human Tissue: Policy Implications for Medical Privacy (Jan. 2001)
AL-SALLOUM, Tariq M.	Haynes	Policy Choices In Developing Countries: The Case Of Privatization in Saudi Arabia (May 1999)
AMES, Fred Lewis	Addleson	The Drive to Improve Performance in the Federal Government: A Longitudinal Case Study of Managing for Results (May 2015)
ANDERSON, Douglas	Koizumi	An Examination of Potential Medical Group Practice Participation in Accountable Care Organizations (August 2014)
APPLE, Kristen	Stough	Should Business Methods be Patentable? Understanding the Impact on Society of Business Methods Patents (December 2013)
ARENA, Peter M.	Stough	High Technology Employment Growth in Metropolitan America: An Empirical Investigation (May 2004)
ARIEIRA, Carlos	Haynes	Human Capital and Social Capital within Brazilian Families (Jan. 2000)
ARNOLD, Aaron M.	Acs	An Organizational Approach to Entrepreneurship in the Federal Sector (May 2014)
ASLAM, Ghazia	High	Dictatorship As a Bargaining Process: The Case Of Pakistan (Jan. 2011)
AU, Caterina	Stough	Diffusion and Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton:Interaction of Agricultural Policies and Farm Households in the United States (Jan. 2010)
AUD, Susan L.	Armor	Competition and Efficiency Effects of Charter Schools (May 2002)
AUGER, Robin N.	Kash	Public-Private Collaboration in Technological Innovation: An Examination of U.S. Experiences Since World War II (May 2006)
AUGUSTINE, Charles D.	Gifford	Evaluating the Emissions Contribution of Unresolved Vehicle Inspection Failures (May 2008)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BAHARMAST, Al	Sommer	A Decision Framework for the Adoption of Business Process Collaboration in Supply Networks (Jan. 2005)
BAILEY, Marshall H., III	Stough	Public Administration Efficiency Through Total Quality Management (May 1993)
BALASURIYA, Kanishka	Root	How Decentralization Matters to Conflict: Devising a Generalizable Framework (December 2014)
BAKER, Paul M.A.	Harrington	Local Government Internet Sites as Public Policy Innovations (Aug. 1997)
BANERJEE, Pritam	Reinert	Trade in Professional Services and Technical Barriers to Trade in India’s Preferential Trade Agreements (May 2013)
BARTON, Richard A.	Pfiffner	Postal Reorganization Legislation: Comparative Case Studies of the Legislative Process (May 2010)
BECK, Richard T.	Mahler	Engagement: Promoting Intergroup Collaboration and Innovation in Effective Research and Development Management (Aug.1993)
BELLAS, Dean Demetrius	Fuller	Fiscal Impact Simulation Modeling: Calculating the Fiscal Impact of Development (May 2005)
BENEDICT, Jeri	High	An Industry Study of Commercial High-Spatial-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing (Aug. 2008)
BENSON, Brien	Lipset	Transit Privatization: A Study in the Policy Process (Aug. 1998)
BERNARDY, Peter M.	Armor	Head Start: Assessing Common Explanations for the Apparent Disappearance of Initial Positive Effects (Dec. 2012)
BEVERINOTTI, Javier H.	Hughes Hallett	Domestic Costs of Default: Financial Interactions and Policy Implications (December 2012)
BIERNACKA-LIEVESTRO, Joanna	Fuller	Analyzing the Association between Walkability and Regional Economic Vitality
BOARDMAN, Mary C.	Acs	Development Assistance and Counterinsurgency: Understanding Philanthropy and Charity Within a Clear-Hold-Build Strategy (May 2014)
BODILLY, Susan J.	Mahler	Organizational Factors That Affect School Reform: Analysis of High School Attempts to Integrate Academic and Vocational Education (Jan. 1993)
BOLAÑOS FLETES, Lisardo Armando	Hughes Hallett	Choosing Trade Partners to Avoid Falling Behind (August 2019)
BOOPPANON, Sarasin	Reinert	The Effects of Bilateral and Regional Investment Agreements on the FDI Inflows into ASEAN Countries (Jan. 2008)
BORDEAUX, John M.	Fukuyama	Self-Organized Air Tasking: Examining a Non-Hierarchical Model for Joint Air Operations (Jan. 2003)
BORTHWICK, R. Bruce	Stough	Intermodal Intercity Passenger Travel for the Washington Baltimore Region (Aug. 2001)
BRAGG, Michelle L.	Fuller	Social Fathering Among African American Men and the Impact on Child and Family Outcomes (Jan. 2004)
BROOK, Douglas A.	Pfiffner	Business Style Financial Statements Under the CFO Act: An Examination of Audit Opinions (May 2001)
BRYANT, Victoria	Slavov	The Outbreak of a Tax Break: Essays on the Participation and Impact of the Saver's Credit Across Time and Distance (May 2020)
BUCHANAN, Scott C.	Goldstone	Alliance Structure and Transformation (May 2013)
BUCKLEY, Karen J.	Pfiffner	Deadly Contagion: The Tactical Use and Migration of Suicide Bombings (May 2018)
BYBEE, Ashley-Louise N.	Goldstone	Narco State or Failed State? Politics and Narcotics in Guinea-Bissau

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CAHILL, James D.	Rhodes	War Plans and Effective Military Organizations
CALHOUN, Todd R.	High	An Investigation into the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Freedom in Host Countries (May 2006)
CAMPBELL, Kristy	Gest	A Study on Presidential Approval and the Use of Force (August 2023)
CENGIZ, Mahmut	Shelley	The Globalization of Turkish Organized Crime and the Policy Response (Jan. 2011)
CERENZIA, Julia A.	Listokin	Professionalism and Self-Regulatory Standards: Responsiveness of Medical Licensure and Certification (May 2014)
CHAMPAGNE, Maurice B.	Fuller	Interest Groups and Ideas: The Battle over Housing Finance in the Run-up to the Financial Crisis (May 2015)
CHAPMAN, Lynn	Haynes	The Effects of Monetary Policy on U.S. Regional Employment 1999-2004 (May 2009)
CHECHERITA, Cristina	Hughes Hallett	A Macroeconomic Analysis of Investment Under Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Its Policy Implications – the Case of Developing Countries (Jan. 2010)
CHEN, Daowen Wendy	Abramson	Crowdfunding for Commercial and Social Ventures (May 2020)
CHEN, Zhenhua	Haynes	Regional Impact of Public Transportation Infrastructure in the U.S. Northeast Megaregion: A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Assessment (May 2014)
CHENEY, David	Kash	Information Technology, Science, and Public Policy (Jan. 2008)
CHENG, Shaoming	Stough	Heterogenous Preferences in the Location Choice of Japanese Investors in China: A Mixed Logit Approach (Jan. 2006)
CHOI, Yon Jung	McNeely	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a World Cultural Norm?: A Comprehensive Analysis of Global CSR Governance (May 2017)
CHOKPRAJAKCHAT, Srisombat	Tolchin	Thailand’s Agenda Setting Process: The Foundation of the Special Investigation Department Using the FBI (Jan. 2004)
CHONG, Dae In	Root	Undervaluation, Political Economy, and Development (December 2018)
CHUDY, John P.	White	Political Management and Economic Policy Reform: An Exploration of Structural Adjustment Experience (May 1992)
COBIN, John	Ellig	Building Regulation, Market Alternatives and Allodial Policy (Aug. 1996)
COHEN, Jordan	Hunzecker	Deal or No Deal: Explaining Congressional Restrictions on Arms Transfers (May 2023)
COHEN, Martin F.	Hart	Testing Theories of Innovation Diffusion: Analysis of Physicians’ Adoption of Electronic Health Records (August 2015)
COLE, Benjamin R.	Goldstone	Re-conceptualizing Democracy: Harnessing Social Complexity at the State-Society Interface (May 2011)
COLEMAN, David W.	Perry	The U.S. Public Sector and its Adoption of Service Oriented Technology (December 2012)
COLEMAN, John J.	Tolchin	Controlling Prescription Drug Abuse by Design (May 2007)
COTTER, Joseph D.	Clark	Keeping the Faith: An Analysis of Ideological Continuity in the FSLN’s Revolutionary Leadership in Transition to Revolutionary Rulership in Nicaragua (May 1993)
COGHLAN, Thomas K.	Pfiffner	Intelligence Community (IC) Performance Management: Did the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI) 2007 IC Policy Directive 651 on Performance Management Achieve its Policy Objectives? (August 2015)
COX, Kenneth E.	Button	Economies of Speed: Policy Implications of High Speed Technologies on the U.S. Maritime Transportation System (May 2001)
CUARTAS, Beatriz	Reinert	Essays on Well-being and Quality of Life in Latin America
CROMER, Gia C.	Goldstone	Transitioning Education in Emergencies in Africa
CUDA, Daniel L.	High	Competition, Depot Maintenance, and Businesslike Reform of the Department of Defense (Jan. 2011)
CURTIS, Michael R.	Kash	Technological Innovation and Public Private Sector Collaborations: The Case of the Advanced Turbine System Program (Jan. 2002)
CZARDA, Lawrence D.	Stough	The Productive Efficiency of Metropolitan County Government: Analysis of the Impact of Government Structure (Aug. 1997)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
DAITO, Nobuhiko	Gifford	Essays on Infrastructure Public Private Partnerships (December 2015)
DALESANDRY, Malia	Schintler	Persistent Criminalization as a Protracted Crisis: Stigma and Rational Choice Within the Sex Workers’ Rights Community (May 2023)
DANI, Lokesh	Auerswald	Reconciling Design and Evolution in Economic Development: Methods to Map Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (May 2020)
DAS GUPTA, Debasree	Stough	Addressing High Fertility and Low Women's Work Participation: An Empirical Reflection on India (December 2013)
DAVIS, Carol Barnett	Koizumi	An Examination of Family Health Spending and Medical-Financial Experience Circa Enactment of the PPACA of 2010 (May 2019)
DAVIS, Theodore J.	Hart	High-Skill Migration as a Positive-Sum Relationship for Tradable Services: The Case of India and the United States (December 2013)
DECHANT, Jason A.	Pfiffner	Catalyzing Change in Complex Organizations: The Department of Defense Office of Force Transformation (May 2013)
DEFRANK, Anthony J.	Scimecca	The Path to Firearms Control: Understanding Government Regulation at the End of the 20th Century (May 2002)
DESAI, Sameeksha	Acs	Essays on Entrepreneurship and Postconflict Reconstruction (Aug.2008)
DESANTIS, Mark F.	Stough	Leadership, Resource Endowments and Regional Economic Development (May 1993)
DEVIRGILIO, Mark	Sibley	Balancing Information Access and Security (BIAS): Explaining Three Decades of United States Encryption Policymaking (Aug. 2005)
DEWAL, Snigdha	Root	Governance and Political Entrepreneurship in India: Case Studies of Gujarat and Bihar (May 2016)
DIAMOND, David D.	Auerswald	Public Policies for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles: The Impact of Government Incentives on Consumer Adoption (May 2008)
DINC, Mustafa	Haynes	The Dynamics of Efficiency in the State Higher Education Systems in the U.S. 1974-1994 (May 1999)
DING, Lei	Haynes	Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in China (Aug. 2005)
DO, Soo Gwan	Acs	Does Social Capital Matter? The Impacts of Social Capital on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth in the Knowledge Economy (Jan. 2010)
DOLAN, Dana Archer	Posner	Tracing a Slow Emergency through Kingdon’s Politics Stream: How Australia’s Extreme Millennium Drought Influenced Climate Change Adaptation Governance in the 2007 Water Act (May 2017)
DONAHUE, Patricia F.	McNeely	We, The Community: A Study of Participation, Community and Public Policy (December 2013)
DONNELLY, Daniel K.	Mahler	The Effect of Met Expectation on Organizational Commitment (Aug. 1996)
DUCHAK. George D.	Hill	Some Determinants of Information Technology Adoption Factors by Rural Electric Cooperatives (August 2015)
DUNCAN, Robert A.	Conlan	In Case of Emergency… Coordination of Emergency Management at the Local Level (Aug. 1995)
DUNLAP, Katrina Hubbard	Schintler	Linking Public Trust in Government with Federal Disaster Relief Aid: A Case Study of Hurricane-Prone Gulf Coast Residents (August 2022)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
FABSITZ, Richard R.	Kash	Shifting Federally Funded Research Into Pasteur’s Quadrant: A Case Study of the SBIR Program at NIH (May 2003)
FANDL, Kevin J.	Goldstone	Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia (May 2010)
FARLEY, Robin	Baker	Making Program/Budget Decisions about the Future of the Navy: How Senior Flag Officers Work with Political Appointees and Career Civilian Executives inside the Navy Headquarters (August 2014)
FAROOQUE, Mahmud A.	Kash	The Evolution of Technological Forecasting and the Contemporary Policy Systems, 1935-1999 (May 2004)
FARR, DeAnn J.	Armor	Interstate Equity in Health Policy (Aug. 2004)
FASEHUN, Simisola	Goldstone	Impact of Humanitarian Aid on Facilitating Corruption: A Look at Nations in Central America and the Caribbean
FAZZARI, Justin D.	Fuller	A Study of Metropolitan Economies from 1980 – 2000: Examining Changes in Metropolitan Sectoral Employment and Poverty (January 2012)
FERNANDES, Benjamin J.	Goldstone	Impact of Foreign Military Education and Training on Coups (May 2020)
FISHEL, Eugene M.	Rhodes	Third-Party Considerations in U.S. Bilateral Relations: Four Case Studies Examining the Presence of the Moscow Factor in U.S. Policy Toward Sovereign Ukraine
FITZSIMMONS, Carolyn	Sibley	Knowledge Spillovers From Joint Government-Industry Supported Research: A Case Study from the Automotive Industry (May 2001)
FLACH, Helen R.	Mahler	Influence of the Organizational Culture in Implementing Radical Mission Change in an Agency: The U.S. Soil Conservation Service, 1985-1995 (May 1997)
FLETCHER, Charles V.	Armor	Politics and Military Base Closures (Aug. 2006)
FONTANEZ, Paul J.	Fuller	Determinants of Kyrgyz Economic Growth (January 2012)
STURTEVANT (FOWLER), Lisa Ann	Fuller	Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants (May 2006)
FRANK, Peter	Stough	Nonprofit Entrepreneurship in Regional Economies: Organization Creation and Economic Growth (Jan. 2005)
FRASER, Ronald R.	White	Policy Subsystems and the Idea Whose Time Has Come (Jan. 1997)
FREITAS, Elizabeth Neglia	Koizumi	The Impact of the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program on the Elderly (August 2020)
FRYE, Douglas W.	Gulledge	E-Procurement in the Private and Public Sectors (May 2004)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HAMILTON, Robert	Perry	Foreign Science & Engineering Doctoral Attainment in American Universities (Jan. 2010)
HAN, Lianchao	Kash	The New Food Pyramid: Culture, Policy and Technology in the TransAtlantic GMO Controversy (May 2005)
HANCOCK, John A.	Pfiffner	Officer Performance: Do the Service Academies Make a Difference? An Examination of the U.S. Navy (May 1999)
HANNA, Mitri	White	Perspectives on Decision Making: The Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, 1973-1982 (Aug. 1995)
HARDY, Matthew	Gifford	Simplified Integrated Transportation and Land Use Modeling to Support Metropolitan Planning Decisions: An Application and Assessment (May 2011)
HARE, Forrest B.	Sommer	The Interdependent Nature of National Cyber Security: Motivating Private Action for a Public Good (Jan. 2011)
HARPEL, Ellen D.	Fuller	The Role of Professional and Business Services in Metropolitan Economies (Aug. 2006)
HARTKE, Jason	Pfiffner	The Environmental Presidency: Explaining Environmental Policy by Direct Action (May 2009)
HARTMAN, Anna	Dinan	Out of the Shadows: EU Security Strategies and the Emergence of Intelligence Sharing (December 2022)
HEARNE, Sheila M.	Regan	Medical Records: The Role of Advocacy Coalitions in Policy Change (Jan. 2003)
HASHEMI, Layla	Shelley	Dynamics of Contention: Protest and Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts (May 2020)
HEFFELMIRE, Kirk	Koizumi	The Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Mental Health Services (August 2018)
HELFRICH, Monique V.	McNeely	Crafting Policy in the Face of Uncertainty: Managing the Risk of High-Consequence Operations (May 2018)
HENNESSEY, J. Thomas, Jr.	Pfiffner	Organizational Culture and the “Reinvention of Government” (Jan. 1997)
HENRY, Sandra M.	Fuller	An Econometric Analysis of Internet Adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1996-2000 (May 2004)
HICKS, Joel	Hart	Behavioral Interventions in Energy Consumption (December 2019)
HIGGINBOTHAM, Brian D.	Auerswald	The Standardization of Standardization: The Search for Order in Complex Systems (August 2017)
HIGGINS, Lindley R.	Fuller	Assessing the Economic Impact of Community Based Home ownership Programs on Inner-City Neighborhoods (May 2001)
HIMATHONGKAM, Tinapa	Koizumi	Grocery Shopping Destination Choice and Obesity: an Empirical Study of Urban Population in Bangkok, Thailand (December 2016)
HIRA, Ronil	Gulledge	Electronic Commerce and Manufacturing Supply Chain Integration and Management: Approaches to Improve Government Policies (Aug. 2002)
HODGE, Ronald	Listokin	Patterns of Adoption for Mobile Broadband: Its Role in the U.S. Digital Divide (May 2017)
HOFFMAN, Linda E.	Armor	Collaborating Virginia Welfare and Workforce Services (May 2007)
HOLLEY JR, William T.	Fuller	Assessing the Impact of Prison Siting on Rural Economic Development (Jan. 2009)
HOPEWEL, Lindsey	McNeely	Manifestations of Diversity: An Ecological Analysis of the Institutionalization of Ethnic Studies Programs (December 2014)
HOLZHEIMER, Terry F.	Stough	Smart Growth Policies and the Public Sector Costs of Growth (May 2006)
HOUGH, Paul G.	Gulledge	Reforming the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System in the Department of Defense: A Study of Budget Process and Rules (May 1994)
HSING, Yulan	HSING, Yulan	Regional Hub Port Performance and Institutional Evaluation: Data Envelopment Analysis for the Port of Kaohshiung (Jan. 2000)
HU, Xiaochu	Fuller	Immigration and Economic Growth in Metropolitan Areas (May 2014)
HU, Yinyue	Schintler	The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records by US Hospitals: An Exploration of Network Methods and Models (May 2016)
HUSSAIN, Nazia	Shelley	Tracing Order in Seeming Chaos: Understanding the Informal and Violent Political Order of Karachi (May 2016)
HUTCHINSON, George	Rhodes	Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb: A Framework for Explaining North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies (December 2022)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
KALLAS-ZELEK, Kadri	Hart	Innovation in the Services Sector: Towards a New Typological Theory (August 2014)
KARADEMIR, Kutluer	Goldstone	Democratic Policing and Organizational Learning in UN Police Missions: A Mixed-Methods Study (December 2012)
KATCHANOVSKI, Ivan	Lipset/Kash	Regional Political and Policy Divisions in Ukraine and Moldova (Jan. 2002)
KAY, Ward R.	Mayer	Where's the "Public" in Public Policy: Skewed Democratic Pluralism vs. Nuanced Public Opinion in Attitudes toward Unauthorized Immigrants (May 2010)
KAZMI, Hina	Schintler	Government Contracts and the Organization of Firms (August 2016)
KECKLER, Charles	Rozell	The Functional and Constitutional Consequences of Independent Commission Structure (December 2021)
KELEKAR, Uma	Stough	Fiscal Interactions among Local Government Units – A Spatial Analysis of the Health and Education Expenditures in the Philippines (August 2011)
KELLER, Bradford M.	Fuller	Higher Education and Employment: An Examination of How Support for Higher Education Can Improve Long-Term Economic Performance (May 2010)
KHAN, Muhammad Salar	Hart and Olds	Absorptive Capacity and Economic Growth: How Does Absorptive Capacity Affect Economic Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? (August 2022)
KHWAJA, Elsa	Reinert	The Network Architecture of Rural Development Interventions: Exploring the Relational Dynamics of Aid-impact in the Fragile and Conflict-Affected Cases of Pakistan and Afghanistan (August 2021)
KILPATRICK, Henry E.	Stough	Dynamic Increase Return to Scale, Technology Growth, Lock-in and Hysteresis: A Study of Evolutionary Growth of the Semiconductor Industry in the U.S. (Aug. 1998)
KIM, Hyun Ju (Monica)	Koizumi	Essays on Household Decision-Making and Mobile Access in Ethiopia
KIM, Mee Jung	Earle	Finance, Business Growth and Entrepreneurship (May 2020)
KIM, Sung Jae	Reinert	The Impact of Standards and Institutional Capacity on International Trade: An Examination of Food and Agricultural Products (May 2006)
KING, Marva E.	McNeely	Collaboration Program Effectiveness: Comparing Two Community Partnership Programs (December 2012)
KLOC, Michelle L.	Koizumi	Policy Options for Use of Media Directed to Increase the Supply of Bachelors Educated Nurses in the U.S.A. (May 2010)
KOCORNIK-MINA, Adriana	Stough	The Effects of Space of Inter-State Growth Dynamics and Income Disparities in India - Modeling the Simultaneous Growth of a System of Spatial Units (Aug. 2007)
KRISHNASWAMY, Suresh	Auerswald	Clouds in the Distance? Assessing the Role of Service Provisioning Decisions in Shaping Cyber Infrastructure Resilience (December 2020)
KRUEGER, Richard D.	Pfiffner	Technology Transfer and U.S. National Security Policy: The Joint Strike Fighter (Aug. 2010)
KUILER, Eric W.	McNeely	The Search for Eudaimonia: An Analysis of International Development, Migration, and Gender Equality (May 2007)
KULCHITSKY, Dmytro Roman	Lavoie	Computerization, Knowledge and Information Technology Initiatives: The Cases of Jordan and Israel (Aug. 2001)
KULIG, Nancy Lynn	Mahler	The Archetype Model of Leadership (May 1997)
KWEUN, Jeong Yun	Stough	Essays on Travel Demand for Toll Roads (May 2017)
KWON, Chang	McNeely	Fiscal Policy, Transparency, and Subjective Well-Being (December 2020)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
LALL, Somik	Haynes	The Role of Infrastructure in Regional Growth (Jan. 2001)
LASSELLE, Alexis R.	Pfiffner	Legislating “Military Entitlements": A Challenge to the Congressional Abdication Thesis (December 2015)
LAWRENCE, James A.	Armor	Growing Earnings Inequality in U.S. Metro Regions (1990 to 2004): The Role of the Financial Services and Information Technology Industries (December 2013)
LAVENDER, Wayne	Rozell	Worldview and Public Policy: From American Exceptionalism to American Empire (Jan. 2010)
LEARY, Mary A.	Schintler	Policy Intersections or Policy Chasms - State Elder Mobility Policy, Practice and Long-term Care Reform (May 2008)
LEE, Joshua A.	Schintler	Artificial Neural Networks in Public Policy: Towards an Analytical Framework (May 2020)
LEE, Margo M.	Mahler	Coping Strategies of Scientific Organizations (May 2003)
LEE, Kyung Min	Earle	Essays on Labor, Health, and Entrepreneurship (May 2019)
LE FAVOUR, John W.	Tolchin	Examination of the Influence of TRICARE Implementation on Ambulatory Health Care Utilization (Jan. 2003)
LE RENARD, Callie	Dinan	External Actors and National Preference Formation: European Energy Security Policy and Relations with Russia (December 2013)
LI, Huaqun	Haynes	Regional Economic Inequality and Foreign Direct Investment in China (January 2012)
LI, Meng-Hao	Schintler	Multi-State Markov Models for the Analysis of EMR Diffusion in Health Care (May 2022)
LI, Ning	Kash	Innovation Systems and Technology Spillovers: Economic, Geographic, and Institutional Perspectives (May 2004)
LI, Qiangsheng	Haynes	Regional Dynamics and Growth Advantages of the Washington Metropolitan Economy: An Extended and Integrated Shift-Share Approach (Jan. 1997)
LIN, Xintong	Sibley	E-Government Implementation and Practices for Policy Goals - A Methodology and Case Studies (Aug. 2007)
LINDSEY, Bruce	Armor	The Effect of Computers on the Mathematics Achievement of American 8th Grade Students (Aug. 2005)
LINEHAN, Patrick D.	Armor	Factors Influencing Improved Student Achievement in Virginia (August 2012)
LITTON, Eric	Marvel	How Do Framed Messages Affect Budget Recommendations? An Experiment in Federal Government Budgeting (May 2017)
LITZELMAN, Michael	Perry	Cost Effectiveness and Cost/Benefits of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Demining Programs (May 2001)
LIU, Yanchun	Haynes	Impacts of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Its Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China (Jan. 2009)
LOYOLA-TRUJILLO, Jose	Fuller	The Spatial Relocation of Mexico's Largest Exporting Industries: A Comparative Study of Five Metropolitan Areas (Jan. 2005)
LUNN, Maxine P.	Lipset	Community at a Crossroads - Latino Community Participation in Agenda Setting in Washington, D.C. (Aug. 1996)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
MAAS, Gerard C., Jr.	Stough	Federal Workforce Restructuring: Agency Responses to External Pressures (Jan. 2004)
MADISON, John J.	Kash	The Scientific Elite: Enterprising Participants in Science Policy Development (Aug. 1994)
MAGGIO, Mark E.	Stough	Decision-making on Controversial Transport and Enforcement Technology Applications (May 2004)
MAGNESS, Phillip	High	From Tariffs to the Income Tax: Trade Protection and Revenue in the United States (Jan. 2010)
MALIK, Ammar Anees	Root	Exploring the Dynamics of Urban Development with Agent-Based Modeling: The Case of Pakistani Cities (May 2015)
MAO, Rebecca J.	Ketkar	The Effects of Core Divestments on Innovations in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Public Policy Analysis (May 2014)
MARSTON, Kayyonne	Shelley	In Pursuit of Illicit Goals: Structure, Dynamics, and Collapse of Crime Facilitating Networks in Jamaica (August 2016)
MARWAH, Sanjay	Haynes	Opportunity Structures and Crime in Suburban Los Angeles (Jan. 2005)
MASCI, Pietro	High	Insurance Market Development and Entrepreneurship, with a Focus on Latin America and Brazil (August 2013)
MASTAL, Margaret F.	Mahler	Governance in American Health Care Organizations: 1984-1993 Elements and Patterns (Jan. 1997)
MAXWELL, Sarah P.	Armor	The Changing Nature of the Feminist Movement (May 2004)
MAY, Kyle P.	Hart	Internet Disseminated Medical Information: An Investigation of Three Regulatory Policy Tools (Jan. 2009)
MCCLUSKEY, Neal P.	Armor	Education and Soial Capital Maximization: Does Decentralization Hold the Key? (May 2013)
MCCORMICK, Michael	Gifford	The Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Passenger Hub Airport Abandonment by Legacy US Air Carriers (May 2023)
MCCREESH, Patrick J.	Listokin	The Factors Contributing to Agency-Level Budgetary Patterns in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (May 2016)
MCGOVERN, Tara A.	Shelley	New Armed Groups in Colombia: The Emergence of the Bacrim in the 21st Century
MCNAMARA, Castilla Florence	Stough	Science Policy for Biomedical Crises: Examination and Analysis of the Synoptic Strategy (Jan. 2005)
MCQUADE, Samuel C., III	Sibley	Cops Versus Crooks: Technological Competition and Complexity in the Co-Evolution of Information Technologies and Money Laundering (Aug. 2001)
MEDLOCK, Kathleen V.	Pfiffner	A Critical Analysis of the Impact of the Department of Defense Reorganization Act on American Officership (Aug. 1993)
METSCHER, Karen Noelle	Goldstone	Population Health Measures as Indicators of Fertility Change (Jan. 2009)
MICHAEL, George J.	Fukuyama	The U.S. Response to Domestic Right Wing Terrorism and Extremism: A Government and NGO Partnership (Jan. 2002)
MILLER, David J.	Acs	Campus as Frontier: High Growth Student Startups at US Colleges and Universities (August 2015)
MITOKO, Jeremiah B.	Auerswald	Toward A Risk Tolerant Paradigm in Microcredit: Modeling the Case of Kenya (December 2019)
MOHD AMIN, Fatima	Hill	Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Malaysian Information Technology (IT) Industry (May 2001)
MOORE, Lewis	Stough	Weather-Related Crashes on Public Lands (Jan. 2008)
MORAR, David	Listokin	Analyzing the Relationship Between Communities of Practice and Institutional Structure in Multistakeholder Frameworks. A Case Study in Internet Governance (August 2018)
MORRIS, Andrea Y.	Fuller	Affordable Housing: A Question of Definition A Case Study on the Housing Markets of Arlington County, VA and Montgomery County, MD (May 2008)
MORSTEIN, Jennifer	Perry	Determining the Structure of the Global Dual Use Nuclear Trade Networks (May 1999)
MUSTAFA, Shahid S.	Sibley	Factors that Explain Internet Growth in Africa: An Empirical Model (Jan. 2002)
MUTONE-SMITH, Danielle Marie	Tolchin	Food Aid Reform: The Basis for an NGO Led Reform Process (January 2012)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
PALUBINSKAS, Ginta T.	Stough	Economic Transformation: The Full Societal Transformation Thesis (Jan. 2003)
PANDIT, Nitin S.	Haynes	Policy Design For Retail Electric Institutions: Artificial Intelligence Representations for a Common Property Resource Approach (Jan. 1999)
PARAJULI, Jitendra	Haynes	Broadband Internet in the U.S. (May 2013)
PARDO, Camilo H.	Shelley	The Political Economy of Land Property Rights in the Colombian Civil War: A Study on Land-Grabbing (December 2019)
PARFOMAK, Elizabeth C.	Stough	Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: Socioeconomic Characteristics and Landowner Acceptance of Carbon Sequestration Sites (December 2012)
PARK, Eun Jung	Armor	Explaining Achievement Disparities between the United States and South Korea (May 2013)
PARKER, Emma	Pfiffner	The Securitization of United States Foreign Assistance (December 2022)
PEDLIKIN, Phillip S.	Mayer	The Closure of Institutions for the Intellectually Disabled: How Depopulation Impacts Programs and Spending (December 2020)
PATACSIL, Peter K.	Rhodes	The Design and Evolution of the United States Cyber Command
PATEL, Amit V.	Stough	Slumulation: An Integrated Simulation Framework to Explore Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Slum Formation in Ahmedabad, India (December 2012)
PELLETIERE, Danilo	Reinert	Why Do Countries Protect Used Goods Markets: An Inquiry Into the Used Automobile Trade (May 2003)
PENNY, Robert G.	Harrington	An Assessment of the Relative Importance of Public Sector Versus Private Sector Export Assistance in the Export Performance of Virginia Manufacturers (Aug. 1997)
PERINO, George H., Jr.	Gulledge	Complexity: A Cognitive Barrier to Defense Systems Acquisition Management (May 2000)
PERRON, Michael A.	Rhodes	State Sovereignty at Risk: A Descriptive Case Study on the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Behavior of Kim Jong Il During the Six-Party Talks (2003-2009) (May 2019)
PETERS, Lutheria N.	Schintler	The Positionality of Race in Graduate and Professional School Admissions: A Theoretical Lens and Empirical Contribution for Race Conscious and Race Neutral Policies (December 2018)
PETRIE, Ann	Mahler	Human Services Coalition: A Theory of Governance (May 2000)
PHARIS, Claudia C.	Stough	A Framework for the Application of the Tools of Complexity Science to the Analysis of Regional Growth and Development: Toward a Computational Regional Science (December 2015)
PHILOGENE, G. Stephane	Haynes	A Comparative Statics Analysis of Efficiency and Productivity Changes of the National Institutes of Health's General Clinical Research Centers: 1990-1997 (Aug. 2000)
PLANT JR., John T.	Goldstone	Population Policies for Developed States in Eastern Europe: A Framework for Comprehensive National Responses to Demographic Change (December 2018)
POMMERENING, Christine	Tolchin	The Development of Governance Structures For the Internet. Principles and Practices in the Case of the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (Jan. 2004)
POOL, Amy C.	Lipset	The Path to Power: The Evolution of Rights Discourse in the Twentieth Century United States (Aug. 1996)
POOLE, Kenneth	Fuller	The Role of the Practitioner Networks in the Successful Diffusion and Implementation of Policy Innovations: Lessons from Enterprise Zone Experiences (Jan. 2000)
PORTER, Tameka	Armor	Affirmative Action and Mismatch at Selective Postsecondary Institutions (December 2015)
PRASAD, Nikhilesh	Goldstone	Modernization as a Social Process: The Case of Britain (Aug. 2009)
PRICE, James E.	White/Cole	An Investigation of the Relationship Between Perceived Leadership and Managerial Effectiveness in Matrix Organizations (Aug. 1993)

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SANY, Joseph Nzima	Goldstone	USAID Funds and Locals Own: Local Ownership of Projects in Situations of Fragility and Instability. The Cases of Idejen in Haiti and Building Peace and Prosperity in Casamance, Senegal (May 2013)
SAGER, Michelle	Conlan	Cooperation Without Borders: Federalism and International Trade (May 1999)
SALAZAR, Maria E.	Stough	Local Economic Development in Mexico: A Comparative Study of the Methods and Goals of Local, State and Federal Development Agencies (May 2007)
SALEEM, Raja Muhammad Ali	Goldstone	Effect of Islam's Role in State Nationalism on the Islamization of Government: Case Studies of Turkey and Pakistan (August 2014)
SALEM, Pofen	Fuller	The Internationalization of Small Business Service Firms in Metropolitan Economies: A Case Study of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area (Aug. 2000)
SAMUDA, Karelle A.Y.	Goldstone	The Political Economy of the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya and Jamaica (May 2018)
SARKISSIAN, Alfred	Hart	Essays on the Drug Discovery Innovation System (December 2017)
SCAPPINI, Karla L.	Addleson	Organizing for Aid Effectiveness: A Multi-Case Study of U.S. Foreign Aid Delivery Models (December 2013)
SCHALLER, Robert R.	Kash	Technological Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry: A Case Study of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) (May 2004)
SCHUM, Richard M.	Sibley	A Study in Direct Democracy: The Citizen Initiative & the Determinants of Voter Behavior (Jan. 2009)
SHAKIROVA, Ramziya	Hughes Hallett	The Importance of Institutional Arrangements for Development: A Study of the Relationship between Decentralized Governance and the Provision of Public Education (August 2013)
SHEARN, Benjamin	Rhodes	Identity Framing: How Indian Policy-Maker Identity Affects Threat Perception (May 2023)
SHOCKLEY, Gordon	Stough	The Function of Policy Entrepreneurship in American Politics: The Return of Stability to Federal Arts Policy (Aug. 2005)
SHOEMAKER, Melissa	Wedel	A House Divided: Evolution of EU Asylum Policy After The Bosnian War (May 2009)
SHPAK, Solomiya	Earle	Essays on FDI, Oligarchs, and Firm Performance (May 2020)
SIDDIQUE, Abu Bakkar	Koizumi	Three Essays on Tax Behavior, Public Goods Provisions, and Income Poverty (August 2022)
SKLAREW, Jennifer	Hart	Shock to the System: How Catastrophic Events and Institutional Relationships Impact Japanese Energy Policymaking, Resilience, and Innovation (August 2015)
SONG, Abraham Keunwon	Acs	State Business Incentives, Job Creation, and Entrepreneurship (May 2020)
SONG, Chunpu	Stough	The Regional Macroeconomic Effects of Public Infrastructure in China (May 2011)
SOKOLOWSKI, Eugene	Fauntroy	The Transitional Component of the African-American Electorate in the 2004 Presidential Election: Issue Orientation and the Voting Decision (May 2009)
SOUSA, Sonia A.	Fuller	Entrepreneurship and Initiatives in European Union Regional Competitiveness (January 2012)
SPENGLER, Arthur W.	Stough	Why Local Government Employees Choose to Bargain Collectively: The Role of Collective Voice in the Competition For Budget Resources in An Era of Fiscal Discontent (May 1998)
SRINIVASAN, Divya	Srinivasan, Divya	The Influence of Health Reform on "Direct Pay" Medicine (May 2014)
STABILE, Bonnie B.	Tolchin	Balancing Morality and Economy: The Case of State Human Cloning Policies (May 2006)
STALEBRINK, Odd J.	Gifford	Governmental Accounting and Financial Reporting in Transition: A Study of "Earnings Management" Under the Accrual and Consolidation Model (Aug. 2000)
STANFORD, Virgil Ian	LaPorte	Rooftop Revolution? The Comparative Effectiveness of State Incentives for Solar Photovoltaic Adoption in the Residential Sector (December 2014)
STEVENS-THOMPSON, Yolanda	Perry	Analysis of the Eligibility Determination Methods for Medicaid's Aged and Disabled Waiver (Aug. 2005)
STOLORZ, Sebastian	Hughes Hallett	The Implementation of Inflation Targeting in Emerging and Developing Countries: The Role of Accountability in Designing and Executing Monetary Policy Regime (December 2019)
STURTEVANT (FOWLER), Lisa Ann	Fuller	Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants (May 2006)
SULLIVAN, Ellen	McNeely	The Webmaster's Tale: Joining the EU Information Society (Aug. 2005)
SUNDERBRUCH, Jude	Pfiffner	An Assessment of Neofunctionalist Spillover in Security Structures of the Post-Cold War European Union (Aug. 2008)
SUTTER, Ryan C.	Stough	The Psychology of Entrepreneurship and the Technological Frontier - A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Entrepreneurship in the United States (May 2010)
SZYMALAK, Jim	Pfiffner	Expanding the Obligation to Accommodate Public Employee Religious Free Expression and its Effects on Bureaucratic Accountability (December 2014)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
WAHAB, Bilal A.	Shelley	Oil Federalism in Iraq: Resource Curse, Patronage Networks, and Stability. Case Studies of Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the Advent of ISIS (May 2015)
WALKER, Laura M.	Rozell	Religious-Based Decisions in Federal Appellate Courts: The Influence of Jurisdictional Characteristics and Judicial Attributes on Voting (December 2012)
WANG, Yiying Elle	Goldstone	West African Merchants in Yiwu City, China: Immigrant Identities and Chinese Immigration Policies (December 2018)
WATERS, Keith L.	Fuller	Firm Formation and Regional Labor Allocation (December 2018)
WALTERS, Julie	McNeely	Assisted Living Regulation in the United States: Institutional Responses to a New Industry (Aug. 2005)
WANG, Emily Xiaoxia	Stough	China As Public Venture Capitalist: Attainment and Policies (May 2006)
WANG, Jiamin	Stough	Innovation through Alliance and M&A, Location Advantage, and Firm Growth: Evidence from U.S. Publicly Traded Pharmaceutical Companies (December 2012)
WARFIELD, Wallace	Lipset	Politics, Parties, and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Urban Politics in the Management and Resolution of Community Conflict (Jan. 2001)
WATKINS, Shanea	Armor	The Effect of Charter Schools on Academic Achievement and Achievement Gaps (Jan. 2007)
WEISSBURG, Paul	Rudder	Shifting Alliances in the Accreditation of Higher Education: On the Long-Term Consequences of Delegation of Government Authority to Self-Regulatory Organizations (Jan. 2009)
WILLIAMS, Michael B.	Armor	Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Military Leadership: A Feasibility Analysis of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission’s Service Academy Accession Recommendations (December 2013)
WILLIAMS, Rhys M.	Kash	The Exchange of Knowledge During Federal Laboratory/Industry Commercial Innovation: Toward New Federal Public Policy Framework (Aug. 1999)
WILSON, Aleta M.	Stough	Federal Procurement Policy: Effect on Minority Owned Businesses (May 2001)
WILSON, Brian Z.	Goldstone	Foreign Aid and Governance in a Complex Adaptive System (August 2020)
WILSON, Clay, III	Stough	Protection of Rights in Intellectual Property: How Will Public Policy Control Copyright Piracy in the Age of the Internet? (May 2001)

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Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
EHRESMANN, Elaine C.	Connelly	A Marketing Process Model: An Analysis of the National Capital Area’s Coordinated Care Program (TRICARE) (May 1995)
ELROD, Catherine Schrader	Perry	Individuals with Chronic and/or Disabling Conditions: Determinants of Utilization of Physical Rehabilitation Services (May 2005)
EMMONS, Elinor K.	Gulledge	Public Policy Implications From Private Sector Enterprise Integration (May 2001)
ENGSTROM, Jeffrey	Wan	Patterns of Military Coercion: China and Taiwan, 1949-1958 (May 2020)
ESSIS, Jean-Mathieu	Clements	State Preferences in Multilateral Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Making: An Empirical Analysis of the 1995 N.P.T. Review and Extension Conference (Aug. 1997)

Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
GARG, Sachin	Auerswald	Essays on Big Data and Development (August 2017)
GERMAN, Keith H.	Goldstone	Interagency Interaction: Exploring the Facilitators & Inhibitors of Interagency Interaction in the US National Security System (May 2015)
GETTMAN, Jon	Fuller	Portfolio Variance Analysis and Sustainable Rural Economic Development (May 2000)
GILL, Angela D.	Goldstone	Leadership Legitimation and Political Instability in U.S. Interventions (December 2020)
GOEPNER, Erik	Thrall	Hurt People Hurt People: Trauma, the State, and Civil War (December 2018)
GOODLOE, John M.	Lavoie	Money, Democracy, and the Southern Tradition (May 2001)
GOPALAN, Sasidaran	Rajan	Monetary and Financial Implications of Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging and Developing Economies (August 2014)
GORDON IV, John	Pfiffner	The Quadrennial Defense Review: Analyzing the Major Defense Review Process (May 2005)
GORMAN, Sean P.	Stough	Networks, Complexity, and Security: The Role of Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection (May 2004)
GORY, Duane	Pfiffner	State Control Over NGOs That Are Not Financially Dependent On The State (Aug.2008)
GUDGEL, John E.	Koblentz	Insurance as a Private Sector Regulator and Promoter of Security and Safety: Case Studies in Governing Emerging Technological Risk from Commercial Nuclear Power to Health Care Sector Cybersecurity (May 2022)
GUTIERREZ, Juan Julio	Hart	Plant-Level Innovation Patterns in a Globalized World: A Latin American Perspective (December 2013)
GUTH, Andrew	Shelley	The Corruption-Clientelism Relationship: Social Bonds and Debts Obligations (August 2019)

Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
JACKSON, Scott	Stough	Mulling Over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates and Entrepreneurs (May 2008)
JEFFERSON, Katherine D.	Stough	Transportation Policy and Quality of Life: An Analysis of the Socioeconomic Effects of Implementing Ramp Metering, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes and High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Within an Urban Transportation Network (Jan. 2009)
JIN, Dengjian	Kash	Knowledge Regimes and National Competitiveness (Aug. 1998)
JOHNSON, Kirk A.	Stough	What Factors Explain Edge Cities? (Aug. 1998)
JOHNSON, Maurice	Listokin	The Impact of Addressing Social Determinants on Health Outcomes Among Medicaid Patients (August 2023)
JONES, Boyd A.	Gulledge	Information Technology Enabled Public Sector Service Satisfaction (May 2004)
JUSTUS, Adam R.	Mayer	Is Your Public Housing RAD? Public Housing Authority Capacity Building and Decision Making (December 2020)
JUNG, Yu Jin	Fuller	Linking Workforce Development and Economic Development in Regions: A Mixed Method Evaluation (May 2012)

Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
NAREL, James L.	Avruch/Pfiffner	Humanitarian and Military Organizational Cutures and the Challenges of Contemporary Complex Emergencies (May 2007)
NAYEBPOUR, Mehdi	Koizumi	Personalization of Immunosuppressive Medication for Kidney Transplant Recipients (May 2022)
NEIVA, Rui Quesado	Button	Economic Efficiency of Air Navigation Service Providers: An Assessment in Europe (May 2014)
NOVAK, Justin M.	Hart	Use of Knowledge Commons in Open Innovation Systems: The Case of Free and Open Source Software (December 2016)
NUCCI, Owen	Koizumi	Three-Paper Dissertation on Female Veteran Healthcare Relating to Mental Health (December 2022)

Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
OLSON, Warren	Kash	Urban Information Systems Technology: Tools and Policy Implications for the Military and Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (Jan. 2001)
O’LAUGHLIN, Johanna C.	Goldstone	Aging in America: Exploring the Long-Term Care Puzzle and Barriers to Private Insurance Coverage (May 2018
O'NEIL, Sean	Addleson	The Formation of Collaborative Inter-Organizational Networks (May 2009)
ONWUDIWE, Ruby	Goldstone	Globalization, Extractive FDI and the Effects of Multinational Corporations on Conflict Situations in Developing Countries (August 2011)
OUTZEN, Richard	Mandaville	The U.S. Practice of Coercive Diplomacy 1990-2020 (May 2023)