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Browsing Strategic Growth Area: Policy by Issue Date
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An Empirical Analysis of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Annual Surveys
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A Model for a Smallpox-Vaccination Policy
(NEJM Group, 2003-01-30)Background: The new reality of biologic terrorism and warfare has ignited a debate about whether to reintroduce smallpox vaccination. Methods: We developed scenarios of smallpox attacks and built a stochastic model of ... -
Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance Coordination
(ISTR, 2004-07)This paper develops an analytical framework to address an issue of enduring and seemingly intractable concern, how to secure improved coordination among those parties and organizations that seek to provide assistance in ... -
Restoring the Fallen Blue Sky: Management Issues and Environmental Legislation for Lake Sevan, Armenia
(UC Davis School of Law, 2005)Armenia is a small, landlocked country in the Southern Caucasus Mountains. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations,¹ yet a very young country. It was formed as one of the Newly Independent States (NIS) following the ... -
The Nature Conservancy, the Press and the Social Construction of Accountability
(2005-04-01)This paper explores the May 2003 Washington Post investigative articles concerning The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their implications for our understanding of the dynamics of accountability for nonprofit organizations. ... -
Changing the Face of Leadership and Administration in Public Service
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2005-10-01)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Leadership and Accountability
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006-07-01)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Leadership in the Information Age
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006-10-01)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Final Report Abstract: Caregivers of Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Information and Support Needs
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Program Development Issues in Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies: Learning from One University's Experience
(NASPAA, 2007)This article examines one university's efforts to institutionalize a graduate nonprofit curriculum. It does so through the lens of situational analysis and an eye to five key challenges that have dogged the effort - operating ... -
Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-04)This article argues that reconstruction is an emerging discourse of international politics that merges security and development discourses in powerful and troubling ways. We focus on Iraq as a site for articulating and ... -
A Workshop Conceptualizing Leadership
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007-07)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Crisis to Credibility Through Inclusion: Developing an International Port Security Network
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007-11)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Leading, Organizing, and the Stand-Up of DHS
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2008-07-08)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Public Leadership: Understanding and Responding to the Financial Crisis
(Center for Public Administration & Policy, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2008-11-01)The purpose of the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) Roundtable Series for Leadership and Administration is to bring together the leading scholars, practitioners, students, and others for a ... -
Report to the Virginia Department of Veterans Services Virginia Wounded Warrior Program: Assessing the Experiences, Supportive Service Needs and Service Gaps of Veterans in the Commonwealth of Virginia Final Report
(Virginia Tech Institute for Policy & Governance, 2010-08-05)The Commonwealth of Virginia is the home to over 800,000 veterans who have served in conflicts ranging from World War II to the current engagements in the gulf region, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF/Iraq) and Operation ... -
Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience, and Community-based Organization Leadership
(Resilience Alliance, 2011)This article focuses on the question of what role community-based organization leaders play in shaping the possibility for the emergence of new social imaginaries. It argues that deep social conflicts and efforts to secure ... -
Institute for Society, Culture and Environment Annual Report 2011
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Virginia Star Quality Initiative Family Child Care Home Provider Demonstration Pilot Evaluation Report
(Virginia Tech Child Development Center for Learning and Research; Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance, 2011-08-05)The Virginia Star Quality Initiative (VSQI) family child care home demonstration project was a pilot quality rating and improvement program designed to provide intensive professional development services to family child ... -
Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?
(University of Chicago Press, 2011-10)This article investigates the sequential college attendance decision of young women and quantifies the effect of marriage expectations on their decision to attend and graduate from college. A dynamic choice model of college ...
