Public Affairs and Administration, School of: Recent submissions
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Rent Burden in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2000-05)The Housing Choice Voucher Program is designed to help low-income households consume housing at an acceptable burden on their income. The incidence of high housing cost in the program has been reduced over the past few ... -
The Prospects for Guiding Housing Choice Voucher Households to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2010)The Housing Choice Voucher Program seeks to do more than help poor households lease good-quality rental housing. One of the program’s goals is to help poor households break out of the cycle of poverty by locating in ... -
Reducing Worst Case Housing Needs with Assisted Housing
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2012)This research note seeks to answer this question: When units of assisted housing are added to a metropolitan market, is there a commensurate reduction in the number of households with worst case housing needs (WCN)? WCN ... -
Which Metropolitan Areas Work Best for Poverty Deconcentration with Housing Choice Vouchers?
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2013)The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) offers choice to poor renter households, but only a fraction of the households in the program use that choice to locate in lowpoverty neighborhoods. Analysis of metropolitan areas ... -
Vouchers and Neighborhood Distress: The Unrealized Potential for Families with Housing Choice Vouchers to Reside in Neighborhoods with Low Levels of Distress
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2016)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program seeks to help poor households locate in high-opportunity neighborhoods, but experts have reached little agreement on how to define high opportunity. Using low poverty as the sole ... -
Length of Stay in Assisted Housing
(Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2018)This research addresses the length of time that households remain in the various assisted housing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The research finds that the typical household ... -
Understanding leadership in a world of shared problems: advancing network governance in large landscape conservation
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-04-04)Conservation of large landscapes requires three interconnected types of leadership: collaborative leadership, in which network members share leadership functions at different points in time; distributive leadership, in ... -
What Happens at the Intersection of Policy and Practice? Examining Role Conflict and Professional Alienation of Occupational Therapy Professionals in Complex Environments
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)ABSTRACT To examine what happens at the intersection of policy and practice, this dissertation utilizes a three-article format to advance public administration scholarship and contribute to health system research about ... -
OMBUDS AND TITLE IX COORDINATORS: PROCEDURAL CONVERGENCE OF UNIVERSITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS FOR HANDLING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation examines university non-law organizational dispute mechanisms (Ombuds and Title IX Coordinators) and their handling of sexual misconduct disputes. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil ... -
Financial Health of Nonprofit Organizations
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Nonprofit financial health is the least developed among the three sectors – public, private nonprofit --and often focuses on vulnerability, capacity, and stability (E. I. Altman, Haldeman, & Narayanan, 1977; Ashley & Faulk, ... -
The Effect of Collaboration on Performance in Public Management: Evidence from Community Policing
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Practitioners and academics expect collaboration to matter in public management. Both treat it as an imperative to goal accomplishment and view collaboration as fundamental in community policing. However, existing research ... -
Farmers and Rural Kansas Communities: Planning for the Future
(Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, 2014)Rural communities everywhere face ongoing questions about their resilience and plans for their futures. This study analyzes the perceptions Kansas farmers have of their communities as a basis for considering how rural ... -
Assessing the Relationship Between Hazard Mitigation Plan Quality and Rural Status in a Cohort of 57 Counties from 3 States in the Southeastern U.S.
(MDPI, 2012-09)Rural counties face unique challenges with regard to disaster vulnerability and resilience. We compared the quality of hazard mitigation plans (HMPs) completed in accordance with provisions of the Disaster Mitigation Act ... -
Accountability Remade: The Diffusion and Reinvention of Offices of Inspectors General
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs), like other government accountability mechanisms, promise increased control, improved performance, and appropriate behavior from governmental actors. OIGs pursue these goals by monitoring ... -
Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Performance Budgeting Theory and Practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-02)Since the passing of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, the past 20 years represent one of the most remarkable eras for performance budgeting initiatives in the United States. As a result, many ... -
On the Importance of Strengthening Moderate Beliefs in Climate Science to Foster Support for Immediate Action
(MDPI, 2013-12-03)Whereas many studies focus on climate skeptics to explain the lack of support for immediate action on climate change, this research examines the effect of moderate believers in climate science. Using data from a representative ... -
Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication
(Michigan Publishing, 2000-03-01)As the decade of the 1990s drew to a close, the basic issues related to the economics of scholarly publishing became familiar to most academic librarians, particularly those involved in collection development. A constantly ... -
School Finance Reform: Do Equalized Expenditures Imply Equalized Teacher Salaries?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011-10-01)Kentucky is a poor, relatively rural state that contrasts greatly with the relatively urban and wealthy states typically the subject of education studies employing large-scale administrative data. For this reason, Kentucky's ... -
Public Personnel Update
(Cornell University, The Johnson School, 1986-03-01)