Public Policy Dissertations by Graduation Date

2023

2022

2021

2020

December 2020
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
GILL, Angela D.	Goldstone	Leadership Legitimation and Political Instability in U.S. Interventions
JUSTUS, Adam R.	Mayer	Is Your Public Housing RAD? Public Housing Authority Capacity Building and Decision Making
KRISHNASWAMY, Suresh	Auerswald	Clouds in the Distance? Assessing the Role of Service Provisioning Decisions in Shaping Cyber Infrastructure Resilience
KWON, Chang	McNeely	Fiscal Policy, Transparency, and Subjective Well-Being
PEDLIKIN, Philip D.	Mayer	The Closure of Institutions for the Intellectually Disabled: How Depopulation Impacts Programs and Spending

August 2020
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
FREITAS, Elizabeth Neglia	Koizumi	The Impact of the End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program on the Elderly (August 2020)
IQBAL, Mufeeza	Reinert	Poverty, Basic Needs, and Political Violence: Insights into the Social Context of Terrorism from Pakistan's Northwestern Tribal Areas (August 2020)
WILSON, Brian Z.	Goldstone	Foreign Aid and Governance in a Complex Adaptive System (August 2020)

May 2020
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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)
CHEN, Daowen Wendy	Abramson	Crowdfunding for Commercial and Social Ventures (May 2020)
DANI, Lokesh	Auerswald	Reconciling Design and Evolution in Economic Development: Methods to Map Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (May 2020)
ENGSTROM, Jeffrey	Wan	Patterns of Military Coercion: China and Taiwan, 1949-1958 (May 2020)
FERNANDES, Benjamin J.	Goldstone	Impact of Foreign Military Education and Training on Coups (May 2020)
HASHEMI, Layla	Shelley	Dynamics of Contention: Protest and Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts (May 2020)
KIM, Mee Jung	Earle	Finance, Business Growth and Entrepreneurship (May 2020)
LEE, Joshua A.	Schintler	Artificial Neural Networks in Public Policy: Towards an Analytical Framework (May 2020)
SHPAK, Solomiya	Earle	Essays on FDI, Oligarchs, and Firm Performance (May 2020)
SONG, Abraham Keunwon	Acs	State Business Incentives, Job Creation, and Entrepreneurship (May 2020)

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

December 2015
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
DAITO, Nobuhiko	Gifford	Essays on Infrastructure Public Private Partnerships
LASSELLE, Alexis R.	Pfiffner	Legislating “Military Entitlements": A Challenge to the Congressional Abdication Thesis
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
PORTER, Tameka	Armor	Affirmative Action and Mismatch at Selective Postsecondary Institutions
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 2015
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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?
COHEN, Martin F.	Hart	Testing Theories of Innovation Diffusion: Analysis of Physicians’ Adoption of Electronic Health Records
DUCHAK, George D.	Hill	Some Determinants of Information Technology Adoption Factors by Rural Electric Cooperatives
MILLER, David J.	Acs	Campus as Frontier: High Growth Student Startups at US Colleges and Universities
SKLAREW, Jennifer	Hart	Shock to the System: How Catastrophic Events and Institutional Relationships Impact Japanese Energy Policymaking, Resilience, and Innovation
VOLPE, Michael	Goldstone	Frame Resonance and Failure in the Thai Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts Movements

May 2015
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AFAQI, Jamil	Wedel	The Effect of Culture on the Workings of Bureaucracy: A Comparison of the U.S. and Pakistani Audit Bureaucracies (May 2015)
AMES, Fred Lewis	Addleson	The Drive to Improve Performance in the Federal Government: A Longitudinal Case Study of Managing for Results (May 2015)
CHAMPAGNE, Maurice B.	Fuller	Interest Groups and Ideas: The Battle over Housing Finance in the Run-up to the Financial Crisis (May 2015)
GERMAN, Keith H.	Goldstone	Interagency Interaction: Exploring the Facilitators & Inhibitors of Interagency Interaction in the US National Security System (May 2015)
MALIK, Ammar Anees	Root	Exploring the Dynamics of Urban Development with Agent-Based Modeling: The Case of Pakistani Cities (May 2015)
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)

2014

December 2014
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BALASURIYA, Kanishka	Root	How Decentralization Matters to Conflict: Devising a Generalizable Framework
BIERNACKA-LIEVESTRO, Joanna	Fuller	Analyzing the Association between Walkability and Regional Economic Vitality
HOPEWEL, Lindsey	McNeely	Manifestations of Diversity: An Ecological Analysis of the Institutionalization of Ethnic Studies Programs
STANFORD, Virgil Ian	LaPorte	Rooftop Revolution? The Comparative Effectiveness of State Incentives for Solar Photovoltaic Adoption in the Residential Sector
SZYMALAK, Jim	Pfiffner	Expanding the Obligation to Accommodate Public Employee Religious Free Expression and its Effects on Bureaucratic Accountability

August 2014
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ANDERSON, Douglas	Koizumi	An Examination of Potential Medical Group Practice Participation in Accountable Care Organizations
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
GOPALAN, Sasidaran	Rajan	Monetary and Financial Implications of Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging and Developing Economies
KALLAS-ZELEK, Kadri	Hart	Innovation in the Services Sector: Towards a New Typological Theory
RANVILLE, Michelle	Rudder	The Effectiveness of Due Process Requirements in Public and Private Standard-Setting

May 2014
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ARNOLD, Aaron M.	Acs	An Organizational Approach to Entrepreneurship in the Federal Sector (May 2014)
BOARDMAN, Mary C.	Acs	Development Assistance and Counterinsurgency: Understanding Philanthropy and Charity Within a Clear-Hold-Build Strategy (May 2014)
CERENZIA, Julia A.	Listokin	Professionalism and Self-Regulatory Standards: Responsiveness of Medical Licensure and Certification (May 2014)
CHEN, Zhenhua	Haynes	Regional Impact of Public Transportation Infrastructure in the U.S. Northeast Megaregion: A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Assessment (May 2014)
HU, Xiaochu	Fuller	Immigration and Economic Growth in Metropolitan Areas (May 2014)
MAO, Rebecca J.	Ketkar	The Effects of Core Divestments on Innovations in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Public Policy Analysis (May 2014)
NEIVA, Rui Quesado	Button	Economic Efficiency of Air Navigation Service Providers: An Assessment in Europe (May 2014)
SRINIVASAN, Divya	Koizumi	The Influence of Health Reform on "Direct Pay" Medicine (May 2014)
YANANMANDRA, Venkataramana	Rajan	Essays on Monetary and Exchange Rate Effects in India (May 2014)
YUAN, Junyang	Button	Impacts of Traffic Congestion on Regional Production Efficiency: Cases of U.S. Urban Areas (May 2014)

2013

December 2013
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
APPLE, Kristen	Stough	Should Business Methods be Patentable? Understanding the Impact on Society of Business Methods Patents (December 2013)
DAS GUPTA, Debasree	Stough	Addressing High Fertility and Low Women's Work Participation: An Empirical Reflection on India (December 2013)
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)
DONAHUE, Patricia F.	McNeely	We, The Community: A Study of Participation, Community and Public Policy (December 2013)
GUTIERREZ, Juan Julio	Hart	Plant-Level Innovation Patterns in a Globalized World: A Latin American Perspective (December 2013)
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)
LE RENARD, Callie	Dinan	External Actors and National Preference Formation: European Energy Security Policy and Relations with Russia (December 2013)
SCAPPINI, Karla L.	Addleson	Organizing for Aid Effectiveness: A Multi-Case Study of U.S. Foreign Aid Delivery Models (December 2013)
TURNER, Sidney C.	Haynes	The Political Economy of Urban Primacy: A Reconsideration (December 2013)
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)

August 2013
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
MASCI, Pietro	High	Insurance Market Development and Entrepreneurship, with a Focus on Latin America and Brazil
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

May 2013
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BANERJEE, Pritam	Reinert	Trade in Professional Services and Technical Barriers to Trade in India's Preferential Trade Agreements (May 2013)
BUCHANAN, Scott C.	Goldstone	Alliance Structure and Transformation (May 2013)
DECHANT, Jason A.	Pfiffner	Catalyzing Change in Complex Organizations: The Department of Defense Office of Force Transformation (May 2013)
MCCLUSKEY, Neal P.	Armor	Education and Social Capital Maximization: Does Decentralization Hold the Key? (May 2013)
PARAJULI, Jitendra	Haynes	Broadband Internet in the U.S. (May 2013)
PARK, Eun Jung	Armor	Explaining Achievement Disparities between the United States and South Korea (May 2013)
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)
ZELNIO, Ryan	Hart	A Complexity Approach to Evaluating National Scientific Systems through International Scientific Collaborations (May 2013)

2012

December 2012
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BERNARDY, Peter M.	Armor	Head Start: Assessing Common Explanations for the Apparent Disappearance of Initial Positive Effects (December 2012)
BEVERINOTTI, Javier H.	Hughes Hallett	Domestic Costs of Default: Financial Interactions and Policy Implications (December 2012)
COLEMAN, David W.	Perry	The U.S. Public Sector and its Adoption of Service Oriented Technology (December 2012)
KARADEMIR, Kutluer	Goldstone	Democratic Policing and Organizational Learning in UN Police Missions: A Mixed-Methods Study (December 2012)
KING, Marva E.	McNeely	Collaboration Program Effectiveness: Comparing Two Community Partnership Programs (December 2012)
PARFOMAK, Elizabeth C.	Stough	Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: Socioeconomic Characteristics and Landowner Acceptance of Carbon Sequestration Sites (December 2012)
PATEL, Amit V.	Stough	Slumulation: An Integrated Simulation Framework to Explore Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Slum Formation in Ahmedabad, India (December 2012)
WALKER, Laura M.	Rozell	Religious-Based Decisions in Federal Appellate Courts: The Influence of Jurisdictional Characteristics and Judicial Attributes on Voting (December 2012)
WANG, Jiamin	Stough	Innovation through Alliance and M&A, Location Advantage, and Firm Growth: Evidence from U.S. Publicly Traded Pharmaceutical Companies (December 2012)
Zapata, Ellen A.	Fuller	A Mixed Method Analysis of Foreclosure and Local Government Policy in the Washington, D.C. Area (December 2012)

August 2012
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
LINEHAN, Patrick D.	Armor	Factors Influencing Improved Student Achievement in Virginia (August 2012)
RAMNATH, Gayatri	Ketkar	Innovation in Emerging Market Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Barriers and Access to Resources (August 2012)

May 2012
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AGWARA, Hezekiah O.	Goldstone	Legacies of the Past: Coinciding Inequalities, Trust, and Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Nations
ISTRATE, Emilia C.	Stough	Small Businesses, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
JUNG, Yu Jin	Fuller	Linking Workforce Development and Economic Development in Regions: A Mixed Method Evaluation

January 2012
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BYBEE, Ashley-Louise N.	Goldstone	Narco State or Failed State? Politics and Narcotics in Guinea-Bissau
FAZZARI, Justin D.	Fuller	A Study of Metropolitan Economies from 1980 - 2000: Examining Changes in Metropolitan Sectoral Employment and Poverty
FONTANEZ, Paul J.	Fuller	Determinants of Kyrgyz Economic Growth
LI, Huaqun	Haynes	Regional Economic Inequality and Foreign Direct Investment in China
MUTONE-SMITH, Danielle Marie	Tolchin	Food Aid Reform: The Basis for an NGO Led Reform Process
SOUSA, Sonia A.	Fuller	Entrepreneurship and Initiatives in European Union Regional Competitiveness (January 2012)
TIAN, Fangmeng	Hart	Emigration of Chinese Scientists and its Impacts on National Research Performance from a Sending Country Perspective
ZHOU, Xin	Gifford	Transit Oriented Development: Does It Provide a More Affordable Way of Life? Examining Transit Oriented Development's Impacts on Household Travel Decisions

2011

2010

August 2010
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
KRUEGER, Richard D.	Pfiffner	Technology Transfer and U.S. National Security Policy: The Joint Strike Fighter
QIAN, Haifeng	Acs	Regional Systems of Entrepreneurship: The Nexus of Human Capital, Knowledge, and Entrepreneurial Activity

May 2010
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BARTON, Richard A.	Pfiffner	Postal Reorganization Legislation: Comparative Case Studies of the Legislative Process
FANDL, Kevin J.	Goldstone	Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia
KAY, Ward R.	Mayer	Where's the "Public" in Public Policy: Skewed Democratic Pluralism vs. Nuanced Public Opinion in Attitudes toward Unauthorized Immigrants
KELLER, Bradford M.	Fuller	Higher Education and Employment: An Examination of How Support for Higher Education Can Improve Long-Term Economic Performance
KLOC, Michelle L.	Koizumi	Policy Options for Use of Media Directed to Increase the Supply of Bachelors Educated Nurses in the U.S.A.
SUTTER, Ryan C.	Stough	The Psychology of Entrepreneurship and the Technological Frontier - A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Entrepreneurship in the United States
VEGA, Henry, L.	Button	Developing Countries and Their Airborne Export Flows of Perishable and High-Tech Goods

January 2010
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AU, Caterina	Stough	Diffusion and Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton: Interaction of Agricultural Policies and Farm Households in the United States
CHECHERITA, Cristina	Hughes Hallett	A Macroeconomic Analysis of Investment Under Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Its Policy Implications - the Case of Developing Countries
DO, Soo Gwan	Acs	Does Social Capital Matter? The Impacts of Social Capital on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth in the Knowledge Economy
HAMILTON, Robert	Perry	Foreign Science & Engineering Doctoral Attainment in American Universities
LAVENDER, Wayne	Rozell	Worldview and Public Policy: From American Exceptionalism to American Empire
MAGNESS, Phillip	High	From Tariffs to the Income Tax: Trade Protection and Revenue in the United States
TIRTOSUHARTO, Darius	Stough	Regional Competitiveness in Indonesia: The Incentives of Fiscal Decentralization on Efficiency and Economic Growth

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

August 2005
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
DEVIRGILIO, Mark	Sibley	Balancing Information Access and Security (BIAS): Explaining Three Decades of United States Encryption Policymaking
DING, Lei	Haynes	Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in China
LINDSEY, Bruce	Armor	The Effect of Computers on the Mathematics Achievement of American 8th Grade Students
SHOCKLEY, Gordon	Stough	The Function of Policy Entrepreneurship in American Politics: The Return of Stability to Federal Arts Policy
STEVENS-THOMPSON, Yolanda	Perry	Analysis of the Eligibility Determination Methods for Medicaid's Aged and Disabled Waiver
SULLIVAN, Ellen	McNeely	The Webmaster's Tale: Joining the EU Information Society
WALTERS, Julie	McNeely	Assisted Living Regulation in the United States: Institutional Responses to a New Industry

May 2005
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BELLAS, Dean Demetrius	Fuller	Fiscal Impact Simulation Modeling: Calculating the Fiscal Impact of Development
ELROD, Catherine Schrader	Perry	Individuals with Chronic and/or Disabling Conditions: Determinants of Utilization of Physical Rehabilitation Services
GORDON IV, John	Pfiffner	The Quadrennial Defense Review: Analyzing the Major Defense Review Process
HAN, Lianchao	Kash	The New Food Pyramid: Culture, Policy and Technology in the TransAtlantic GMO Controversy
RUSTICI, Thomas C.	High	The Economic Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and the Beginning of the Great Depression

January 2005
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BAHARMAST, Al	Sommer	A Decision Framework for the Adoption of Business Process Collaboration in Supply Networks
FRANK, Peter	Stough	Nonprofit Entrepreneurship in Regional Economies: Organization Creation and Economic Growth
LOYOLA-TRUJILLO, Jose	Fuller	The Spatial Relocation of Mexico's Largest Exporting Industries: A Comparative Study of Five Metropolitan Areas
MARWAH, Sanjay	Haynes	Opportunity Structures and Crime in Suburban Los Angeles
MCNAMARA, Castilla Florence	Stough	Science Policy for Biomedical Crises: Examination and Analysis of the Synoptic Strategy
VACHAL, Kimberly J.	Button	Economic Growth of Nonmetropolitan and Agricultural Region Cities (Jan. 2005)
YANG, Guang	Stough	Spatial Proximity, Functional Closeness and Regional Competitiveness
ZANGARDI, John A.	LaPorte	Regulation of Internet Top Level Domain Names

2004

August 2004
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
FARR, DeAnn J.	Armor	Interstate Equity in Health Policy
THIBAULT, Marc A.	Perry	A Multivariate Analysis of US Coast Guard Enlistment Propensity
TRANG, Nga T.	Armor	Building Social Capital through Girl Scouts
ZHAO, Zuoquan	Stough	The Economic Growth of a Nation: A Spatial Perspective

May 2004
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ARENA, Peter M.	Stough	High Technology Employment Growth in Metropolitan America: An Empirical Investigation
FAROOQUE, Mahmud A.	Kash	The Evolution of Technological Forecasting and the Contemporary Policy Systems, 1935-1999
FRYE, Douglas W.	Gulledge	E-Procurement in the Private and Public Sectors
GORMAN, Sean P.	Stough	Networks, Complexity, and Security: The Role of Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection
HENRY, Sandra M.	Fuller	An Econometric Analysis of Internet Adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1996-2000
JONES, Boyd A.	Gulledge	Information Technology Enabled Public Sector Service Satisfaction
LI, Ning	Kash	Innovation Systems and Technology Spillovers: Economic, Geographic, and Institutional Perspectives
MAGGIO, Mark E.	Stough	Decision-making on Controversial Transport and Enforcement Technology Applications
MAXWELL, Sarah P.	Armor	The Changing Nature of the Feminist Movement
SCHALLER, Robert R.	Kash	Technological Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry: A Case Study of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
VENERI, Michael C.	Pfiffner	The Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Joint Duty Promotion Requirement: An Analysis of the U.S. Military's Implementation of a Congressional Mandate

January 2004
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AL-FAHAD, Mohammad Y.	McNeely	Bridging the Global Digital Divide: Internet Diffusion in Muslim Countries
BRAGG, Michelle L.	Fuller	Social Fathering Among African American Men and the Impact on Child and Family Outcomes
CHOKPRAJAKCHAT, Srisombat	Tolchin	Thailand's Agenda Setting Process: The Foundation of the Special Investigation Department Using the FBI
MAAS, Gerard C., Jr.	Stough	Federal Workforce Restructuring: Agency Responses to External Pressures
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)

2003

2002

2001

August 2001
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BORTHWICK, R. Bruce	Stough	Intermodal Intercity Passenger Travel for the Washington Baltimore Region
KULCHITSKY, Dmytro Roman	Lavoie	Computerization, Knowledge and Information Technology Initiatives: The Cases of Jordan and Israel
MCQUADE, Samuel C., III	Sibley	Cops Versus Crooks: Technological Competition and Complexity in the Co-Evolution of Information Technologies and Money Laundering

May 2001
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BROOK, Douglas A.	Pfiffner	Business Style Financial Statements Under the CFO Act: An Examination of Audit Opinions
COX, Kenneth E.	Button	Economies of Speed: Policy Implications of High Speed Technologies on the U.S. Maritime Transportation System
EMMONS, Elinor K.	Gulledge	Public Policy Implications From Private Sector Enterprise Integration
FITZSIMMONS, Carolyn	Sibley	Knowledge Spillovers From Joint Government-Industry Supported Research: A Case Study from the Automotive Industry
GOODLOE, John M.	Lavoie	Money, Democracy, and the Southern Tradition
HIGGINS, Lindley R.	Fuller	Assessing the Economic Impact of Community Based Home ownership Programs on Inner-City Neighborhoods
LITZELMAN, Michael	Perry	Cost Effectiveness and Cost/Benefits of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Demining Programs
MOHD AMIN, Fatima	Hill	Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Malaysian Information Technology (IT) Industry
WILSON, Aleta M.	Stough	Federal Procurement Policy: Effect on Minority Owned Businesses
WILSON, Clay, III	Stough	Protection of Rights in Intellectual Property: How Will Public Policy Control Copyright Piracy in the Age of the Internet?

January 2001
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ALPERT, Sheri	Lipset	Machine Tractable Human Tissue: Policy Implications for Medical Privacy
LALL, Somik	Haynes	The Role of Infrastructure in Regional Growth
OLSON, Warren	Kash	Urban Information Systems Technology: Tools and Policy Implications for the Military and Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
RESTON, Russell	High	The Philippine Economy Under Ramos: A Comparative Scorecard
WARFIELD, Wallace	Lipset	Politics, Parties, and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Urban Politics in the Management and Resolution of Community Conflict
YILMAZ, Serdar	Haynes	Regionalization of Telecommunications Investment: Is Telecommunications a Tool in Interregional Economic Competition?

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August 2023
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CAMPBELL, Kristy	Gest	A Study on Presidential Approval and the Use of Force (August 2023)
JOHNSON, Maurice	Listokin	The Impact of Addressing Social Determinants on Health Outcomes Among Medicaid Patients (August 2023)

May 2023
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
COHEN, Jordan	Hunzecker	Deal or No Deal: Explaining Congressional Restrictions on Arms Transfers (May 2023)
DALESANDRY, Malia	Schintler	Persistent Criminalization as a Protracted Crisis: Stigma and Rational Choice Within the Sex Workers’ Rights Community (May 2023)
MCCORMICK, Michael	Gifford	The Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Passenger Hub Airport Abandonment by Legacy US Air Carriers (May 2023)
OUTZEN, Richard	Mandaville	The U.S. Practice of Coercive Diplomacy 1990-2020 (May 2023)
SHEARN, Benjamin	Rhodes	Identity Framing: How Indian Policy-Maker Identity Affects Threat Perception (May 2023)

December 2022
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HARTMAN, Anna	Dinan	Out of the Shadows: EU Security Strategies and the Emergence of Intelligence Sharing (December 2022)
HUTCHINSON, George	Rhodes	Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb: A Framework for Explaining North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies (December 2022)
NUCCI, Owen	Koizumi	Three-Paper Dissertation on Female Veteran Healthcare Relating to Mental Health (December 2022)
PARKER, Emma	Pfiffner	The Securitization of United States Foreign Assistance (December 2022)

August 2022
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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)
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)
SIDDIQUE, Abu Bakkar	Koizumi	Three Essays on Tax Behavior, Public Goods Provisions, and Income Poverty (August 2022)

May 2022
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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)
LI, Meng-Hao	Schintler	Multi-State Markov Models for the Analysis of EMR Diffusion in Health Care (May 2022)
NAYEBPOUR, Mehdi	Koizumi	Personalization of Immunosuppressive Medication for Kidney Transplant Recipients (May 2022)

December 2019
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HICKS, Joel	Hart	Behavioral Interventions in Energy Consumption (December 2019)
MITOKO, Jeremiah B.	Auerswald	Toward A Risk Tolerant Paradigm in Microcredit: Modeling the Case of Kenya (December 2019)
PARDO, Camilo H.	Shelley	The Political Economy of Land Property Rights in the Colombian Civil War: A Study on Land-Grabbing (December 2019)
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)

August 2019
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BOLAÑOS FLETES, Lisardo Armando	Hughes Hallett	Choosing Trade Partners to Avoid Falling Behind (August 2019)
GUTH, Andrew	Shelley	The Corruption-Clientelism Relationship: Social Bonds and Debts Obligations (August 2019)

May 2019
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
DAVIS, Carol Barnett	Koizumi	An Examination of Family Health Spending and Medical-Financial Experience Circa Enactment of the PPACA of 2010 (May 2019)
LEE, Kyung Min	Earle	Essays on Labor, Health, and Entrepreneurship (May 2019)
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)

December 2018
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CHONG, Dae In	Root	Undervaluation, Political Economy, and Development (December 2018)
GOEPNER, Erik	Thrall	Hurt People Hurt People: Trauma, the State, and Civil War (December 2018)
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)
PLANT JR., John T.	Goldstone	Population Policies for Developed States in Eastern Europe: A Framework for Comprehensive National Responses to Demographic Change (December 2018)
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)

August 2018
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HEFFELMIRE, Kirk	Koizumi	The Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Mental Health Services (August 2018)
MORAR, David	Listokin	Analyzing the Relationship Between Communities of Practice and Institutional Structure in Multistakeholder Frameworks. A Case Study in Internet Governance (August 2018)

May 2018
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BUCKLEY, Karen J.	Pfiffner	Deadly Contagion: The Tactical Use and Migration of Suicide Bombings (May 2018)
HELFRICH, Monique V.	McNeely	Crafting Policy in the Face of Uncertainty: Managing the Risk of High-Consequence Operations (May 2018)
O’LAUGHLIN, Johanna C.	Goldstone	Aging in America: Exploring the Long-Term Care Puzzle and Barriers to Private Insurance Coverage (May 2018)
SAMUDA, Karelle A.Y.	Goldstone	The Political Economy of the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya and Jamaica (May 2018)
UMAROV, Utkirdjan	Haynes	Modeling Lending Pressure and House Price Bubble Absorption: A Case of the United States (May 2018)

December 2017
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
SARKISSIAN, Alfred	Hart	Essays on the Drug Discovery Innovation System (May 2017)

August 2017
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
GARG, Sachin	Auerswald	Essays on Big Data and Development
HIGGINBOTHAM, Brian/td>	Auerswald	The Standardization of Standardization: The Search for Order in Complex Systems

May 2017
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CHOI, Yon Jung	McNeely	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a World Cultural Norm?: A Comprehensive Analysis of Global CSR Governance
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
HODGE, Ronald	Listokin	Patterns of Adoption for Mobile Broadband: Its Role in the U.S. Digital Divide
KWEUN, Jeong Yun	Stough	Essays on Travel Demand for Toll Roads
LITTON, Eric	Marvel	How Do Framed Messages Affect Budget Recommendations? An Experiment in Federal Government Budgeting

December 2016
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CUARTAS, Beatriz	Reinert	Essays on Well-being and Quality of Life in Latin America
HIMATHONGKAM, Tinapa	Koizumi	Grocery Shopping Destination Choice and Obesity: an Empirical Study of Urban Population in Bangkok, Thailand
MCGOVERN, Tara A.	Shelley	New Armed Groups in Colombia: The Emergence of the Bacrim in the 21st Century
NOVAK, Justin M.	Hart	Use of Knowledge Commons in Open Innovation Systems: The Case of Free and Open Source Software
TINGLE, Anthony L.	Hart	Essays on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs

August 2016
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
KAZMI, Hina	Schintler	Government Contracts and the Organization of Firms
MARSTON, Kayyonne	Shelley	In Pursuit of Illicit Goals: Structure, Dynamics, and Collapse of Crime Facilitating Networks in Jamaica

May 2016
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
DEWAL, Snigdha	Root	Governance and Political Entrepreneurship in India: Case Studies of Gujarat and Bihar
HU, Yinyue	Schintler	The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records by US Hospitals: An Exploration of Network Methods and Models
HUSSAIN, Nazia	Shelley	Tracing Order in Seeming Chaos: Understanding the Informal and Violent Political Order of Karachi
MCCREESH, Patrick J.	Listokin	The Factors Contributing to Agency-Level Budgetary Patterns in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

August 2011
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
KELEKAR, Uma	Stough	Fiscal Interactions among Local Government Units – A Spatial Analysis of the Health and Education Expenditures in the Philippines
ONWUDIWE, Ruby	Goldstone	Globalization, Extractive FDI and the Effects of Multinational Corporations on Conflict Situations in Developing Countries

May 2011
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ABDUKADIROV, Sherzod A.	Goldstone	Emergence of Political Parties during Democratic Transitions: An Agent-based Approach
COLE, Benjamin R.	Goldstone	Re-conceptualizing Democracy: Harnessing Social Complexity at the State-Society Interface
HARDY, Matthew	Gifford	Simplified Integrated Transportation and Land Use Modeling to Support Metropolitan Planning Decisions: An Application and Assessment
SONG, Chunpu	Stough	The Regional Macroeconomic Effects of Public Infrastructure in China

January 2011
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ASLAM, Ghazia	High	Dictatorship As a Bargaining Process: The Case Of Pakistan
CENGIZ, Mahmut	Shelley	The Globalization of Turkish Organized Crime and the Policy Response
CUDA, Daniel L.	High	Competition, Depot Maintenance, and Businesslike Reform of the Department of Defense
HARE, Forrest B.	Sommer	The Interdependent Nature of National Cyber Security: Motivating Private Action for a Public Good
ROUGH, Jill A.	Mayer	Is the Abrams Doctrine Valid?: Exploring the Impact of Army National Guard Mobilization on Public Support for the War on Terror
VU, Ha	Root	Fiscal Policy in Vietnam: Does It Spur Regional Concentration?

August 2009
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
PRASAD, Nikhilesh	Goldstone	Modernization as a Social Process: The Case of Britain

May 2009
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CHAPMAN, Lynn	Haynes	The Effects of Monetary Policy on U.S. Regional Employment 1999-2004
HARTKE, Jason	Pfiffner	The Environmental Presidency: Explaining Environmental Policy by Direct Action
O'NEIL, Sean	Addleson	The Formation of Collaborative Inter-Organizational Networks
SHOEMAKER, Melissa	Wedel	A House Divided: Evolution of EU Asylum Policy After The Bosnian War
SOKOLOWSKI, Eugene	Fauntroy	The Transitional Component of the African-American Electorate in the 2004 Presidential Election: Issue Orientation and the Voting Decision
VIRGILL, Nicola	Acs	Export Processing Zones: Tools of Development or Reform Delay?

January 2009
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HOLLEY JR, William T.	Fuller	Assessing the Impact of Prison Siting on Rural Economic Development
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
LIU, Yanchun	Haynes	Impacts of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Its Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China
MAY, Kyle P.	Hart	Internet Disseminated Medical Information: An Investigation of Three Regulatory Policy Tools
METSCHER, Karen Noelle	Goldstone	Population Health Measures as Indicators of Fertility Change
SCHUM, Richard M.	Sibley	A Study in Direct Democracy: The Citizen Initiative & the Determinants of Voter Behavior
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

August 2008
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BENEDICT, Jeri	High	An Industry Study of Commercial High-Spatial-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing
DESAI, Sameeksha	Acs	Essays on Entrepreneurship and Postconflict Reconstruction
GORY, Duane	Pfiffner	State Control Over NGOs That Are Not Financially Dependent On The State
SUNDERBRUCH, Jude	Pfiffner	An Assessment of Neofunctionalist Spillover in Security Structures of the Post-Cold War European Union
TRAMPE, Paul	Mayer	The Effects on Work Effort of the Simultaneous Phase-Down of Multiple Assistance Programs

May 2008
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AUGUSTINE, Charles D.	Gifford	Evaluating the Emissions Contribution of Unresolved Vehicle Inspection Failures
DIAMOND, David B.	Auerswald	Public Policies for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles: The Impact of Government Incentives on Consumer Adoption
LEARY, Mary A.	Schintler	Policy Intersections or Policy Chasms - State Elder Mobility Policy, Practice and Long-term Care Reform
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
JACKSON, Scott	Stough	Mulling Over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates and Entrepreneurs

January 2008
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BOOPPANON, Sarasin	Reinert	The Effects of Bilateral and Regional Investment Agreements on the FDI Inflows into ASEAN Countries
CHENEY, David	Kash	Information Technology, Science, and Public Policy
MOORE, Lewis	Stough	Weather-Related Crashes on Public Lands
THOMAS, Kevin	Addleson	Resistance to Wireless Telecommunication Antenna Siting: A Comparative Case Study of Regulatory Policy
ZHANG, Ting	Schintler	It's Never Too Late: Elderly Entrepreneurship in the Aging Economy

August 2007
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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
LIN, Xintong	Sibley	E-Government Implementation and Practices for Policy Goals - A Methodology and Case Studies

May 2007
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AGARWAL, Vertica	Reinert	The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Income Inequality: A Study of India
COLEMAN, John J.	Tolchin	Controlling Prescription Drug Abuse By Design
HOFFMAN, Linda E.	Armor	Collaborating Virginia Welfare and Workforce Services
KUILER, Erik W.	McNeely	The Search for Eudaimonia: An Analysis of International Development, Migration, and Gender Equality
NAREL, James L.	Avruch/ Pfiffner	Humanitarian and Military Organizational Cultures and the Challenges of Contemporary Complex Emergencies
SALAZAR, Maria E.	Stough	Local Economic Development in Mexico: A Comparative Study of the Methods and Goals of Local, State and Federal Economic Development Agencies

January 2007
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
WATKINS, Shanea	Armor	The Effect of Charter Schools on Academic Achievement and Achievement Gaps

May 2006
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AUGER, Robin N.	Kash	Public-Private Collaboration in Technological Innovation: An Examination of U.S. Experiences Since World War II
CALHOUN, Todd R.	High	An Investigation into the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Freedom in Host Countries
STURTEVANT (FOWLER), Lisa Ann	Fuller	Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants
HOLZHEIMER, Terry F.	Stough	Smart Growth Policies and the Public Sector Costs of Growth
KIM, Sung Jae	Reinert	The Impact of Standards and Institutional Capacity on International Trade: An Examination of Food and Agricultural Products
STABILE, Bonnie B.	Tolchin	Balancing Morality and Economy: The Case of State Human Cloning Policies
WANG, Emily Xiaoxia	Stough	China As Public Venture Capitalist: Attainment and Policies

January 2006
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CHENG, Shaoming	Stough	Heterogenous Preferences in the Location Choice of Japanese Investors in China: A Mixed Logit Approach

August 2003
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
VLAICU, Sorina O.	McNeely	Patient Rights versus Managed Care: A Policy Formulation Model

May 2003
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
LEE, Margo M.	Mahler	Coping Strategies of Scientific Organizations
PELLETIERE, Danilo	Reinert	Why Do Countries Protect Used Goods Markets: An Inquiry Into the Used Automobile Trade
TUCKER, Jonathan C.	Hill	An Analysis of Industry Support for the NSF's Engineering Research Centers
VANCE, Walter K.	Pfiffner	Financial Management Information Produced as a Result of the CFO Act and Its Use by Federal Government Agencies, the OMB and Congress
XIE, Qingshu	Fuller	The Dynamics of Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. 1970-2000

January 2003
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BORDEAUX, John M.	Fukuyama	Self-Organized Air Tasking: Examining a Non-Hierarchical Model for Joint Air Operations
HEARNE, Sheila M.	Regan	Medical Records: The Role of Advocacy Coalitions in Policy Change
LE FAVOUR, John W.	Tolchin	Examination of the Influence of TRICARE Implementation on Ambulatory Health Care Utilization
PALUBINSKAS, Ginta T.	Stough	Economic Transformation: The Full Societal Transformation Thesis
THOMAS, William C.	Tolchin	Cultural Transformation in the U.S. Air Force

August 2002
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ADASE, James	Hill	Cultural Divide Between Science and Diplomacy at the Department of State
HIRA, Ronil	Gulledge	Electronic Commerce and Manufacturing Supply Chain Integration and Management: Approaches to Improve Government Policies
RIGGLE, James	Conlan	The Future of American Federalism: Modeling State Politics and Policy

May 2002
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ALLEN, Benjamin L.	Fukuyama	Consumption Taxation of Electronic Commerce: A Comparison of United States (US) and European Union (EU) Policies, 1997 to 2000
AUD, Susan L.	Armor	Competition and Efficiency Effects of Charter Schools
DEFRANK, Anthony J.	Scimecca	The Path to Firearms Control: Understanding Government Regulation at the End of the 20th Century

January 2002
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
MICHAEL, George J.	Fukuyama	The U.S. Response to Domestic Right Wing Terrorism and Extremism: A Government and NGO Partnership
KATCHANOVSKI, Ivan	Lipset/ Kash	Regional Political and Policy Divisions in Ukraine and Moldova
CURTIS, Michael R.	Kash	Technological Innovation and Public Private Sector Collaborations: The Case of the Advanced Turbine System Program
MUSTAFA, Shahid S.	Sibley	Factors that Explain Internet Growth in Africa: An Empirical Model

August 2000
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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
SALEM, Pofen	Fuller	The Internationalization of Small Business Service Firms in Metropolitan Economies: A Case Study of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
STALEBRINK, Odd J.	Gifford	Governmental Accounting and Financial Reporting in Transition: A Study of "Earnings Management" Under the Accrual and Consolidation Model

May 2000
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
GETTMAN, Jon	Fuller	Portfolio Variance Analysis and Sustainable Rural Economic Development
PERINO, George H., Jr.	Gulledge	Complexity: A Cognitive Barrier to Defense Systems Acquisition Management
PETRIE, Ann	Mahler	Human Services Coalition: A Theory of Governance
RAY, Marcella Ridlen	Lipset	Out of the Shadows: An Empirical Analysis of How Civil Society in the U.S. Changed During the 20th Century

January 2000
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ARIEIRA, Carlos	Haynes	Human Capital and Social Capital within Brazilian Families
HSING, Yulan	Haynes	Regional Hub Port Performance and Institutional Evaluation: Data Envelopment Analysis for the Port of Kaohshiung
POOLE, Kenneth	Fuller	The Role of the Practitioner Networks in the Successful Diffusion and Implementation of Policy Innovations: Lessons from Enterprise Zone Experiences

August 1999
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
WILLIAMS, Rhys M.	Kash	The Exchange of Knowledge During Federal Laboratory/Industry Commercial Innovation: Toward New Federal Public Policy Framework

May 1999
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
AL-SALLOUM, Tariq M.	Haynes	Policy Choices In Developing Countries: The Case Of Privatization in Saudi Arabia
DINC, Mustafa	Haynes	The Dynamics of Efficiency in the State Higher Education Systems in the U.S.: 1974-1994
HANCOCK, John A.	Pfiffner	Officer Performance: Do the Service Academies Make a Difference? An Examination of the U.S. Navy
MORSTEIN, Jennifer	Perry	Determining the Structure of the Global Dual Use Nuclear Trade Network
SAGER, Michelle	Conlan	Cooperation Without Borders: Federalism and International Trade

January 1999
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
PANDIT, Nitin S.	Haynes	Policy Design For Retail Electric Institutions: Artificial Intelligence Representations for a Common Property Resource Approach

August 1998
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ABEL, Troy D.	Stough	Paths to New Public Policy: Civic Factors and Local Voluntary Environmental Efforts
AL-NSOUR, Maen F.	Stough	Economic Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma: The Case of Israel and the Arab States
BENSON, Brien	Lipset	Transit Privatization: A Study in the Policy Process
JIN, Dengjian	Kash	Knowledge Regimes and National Competitiveness
JOHNSON, Kirk A.	Stough	What Factors Explain Edge Cities?
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.

May 1998
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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
TALKINGTON, Scott W.	Lipset	The Influence of Political Values and Campaign Spending in 1996 Congressional Elections

August 1997
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BAKER, Paul M.A.	Harrington	Local Government Internet Sites as Public Policy Innovations
CZARDA, Lawrence D.	Stough	The Productive Efficiency of Metropolitan County Government: Analysis of the Impact of Government Structure
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
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

May 1997
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
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
KULIG, Nancy Lynn	Mahler	The Archetype Model of Leadership

January 1997
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
FRASER, Ronald R.	White	Policy Subsystems and the Idea Whose Time Has Come
HENNESSEY, J. Thomas, Jr.	Pfiffner	Organizational Culture and the "Reinvention of Government"
LI, Qiangsheng	Haynes	Regional Dynamics and Growth Advantages of the Washington Metropolitan Economy: An Extended and Integrated Shift-Share Approach
MASTAL, Margaret F.	Mahler	Governance in American Health Care Organizations: 1984-1993 Elements and Patterns
VALENTINE, Patrick F.	Heclo	Equality and Efficiency: Telecommunications Policy and Conflicting American Principles

August 1996
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
COBIN, John	Ellig	Building Regulation, Market Alternatives and Allodial Policy
DONNELLY, Daniel K.	Mahler	The Effect of Met Expectation on Organizational Commitment
LUNN, Maxine P.	Lipset	Community at a Crossroads - Latino Community Participation in Agenda Setting in Washington, D.C.
POOL, Amy C.	Lipset	The Path to Power: The Evolution of Rights Discourse in the Twentieth Century United States

1995
August 1995
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
ADAMS, Richard C.	Kash	Culture, Policy, and Technology Innovation: U.S. and Japanese Performance in Electro/Mechanical Technologies
DUNCAN, Robert A.	Conlan	In Case of Emergency... Coordination of Emergency Management at the Local Level
HANNA, Mitri	White	Perspectives on Decision Making: The Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, 1973-1982

May 1995
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
EHRESMANN, Elaine C.	Connelly	A Marketing Process Model: An Analysis of the National Capital Area's Coordinated Care Program (TRICARE)

August 1994
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
MADISON, John J.	Kash	The Scientific Elite: Enterprising Participants in Science Policy Development
UNDERHILL, Jack A.	N Hart-Nibbrig	Putting the Pieces Together: An Integrated Approach to Moving Poor Mothers from Poverty to Independence

May 1994
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
HOUGH, Paul G.	Gulledge	Reforming the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System in the Department of Defense: A Study of Budget Process and Rules

August 1993
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BECK, Richard T.	Mahler	Engagement: Promoting Intergroup Collaboration and Innovation in Effective Research and Development Management
MEDLOCK, Kathleen V.	Pfiffner	A Critical Analysis of the Impact of the Department of Defense Reorganization Act on American Officership
PRICE, James E.	White/ Cole	An Investigation of the Relationship Between Perceived Leadership and Managerial Effectiveness in Matrix Organizations

May 1993
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BAILEY, Marshall, H. III	Stough	Public Administration Efficiency Through Total Quality Management
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
DESANTIS, Mark F.	Stough	Leadership, Resource Endowments and Regional Economic Development
ROGERS, Modestine	N Hart-Nibbrig	The Effects of Judicial Intervention on the Development of Deinstitutionalization Policy for Persons with Mental Disabilities

January 1993
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
BODILLY, Susan J.	Mahler	Organizational Factors the Affect School Reform Efforts: Analysis of High School Attempts to Integrate Academic and Vocational Education

May 1992
Student	Chair	Dissertation Title
CHUDY, John P.	White	Political Management and Economic Policy Reform: An Exploration of Structural Adjustment Experience