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Description:: Existing scholarship documents the low levels of political power held by the American poor, and concomitant economic elite domination of Congress. Since the poor seldom elect lawmakers that share their descriptive traits, they necessarily rely on non-poor lawmakers virtually representing their interests. A key part of this virtual representation is...
Keyword:: Poverty, Public Policy, Representation, Policymaking, Congress, and American Political Development
Subject:: American history, Public policy, and Political science
Creator:: Diament, Sean Matthew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262

Description:: This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women’s job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
Subject:: Education, Public policy, and Labor economics
Creator:: Healy, Olivia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_844713 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15746

Description:: Although research has shown LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in counts of homeless youth, scholars have yet to investigate whether this trend exists among adults experiencing homelessness. This dissertation uses an organizational analysis of four Chicago homeless centers that cater to young adults to argue that most LGBTQ+ youth are not...
Keyword:: homelessness, governance, poverty, sexuality, young adults, and organizations
Subject:: Sociology, LGBTQ studies, and Public policy
Creator:: Lovell, Erik Stephen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_838186 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15673

Description:: In the absence of any significant federal policy to mitigate climate change, many (though not all) U.S. states have stepped in to fill the void. But the policies these states have adopted vary considerably in their quality. For example, California’s economy-wide greenhouse gas policy was significantly stronger than Massachusetts’, which...
Keyword:: business power, political sociology, business preferences, climate and energy policy, environmental sociology, and state politics
Subject:: Environmental law and Public policy
Creator:: Basseches, Joshua
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15219 and etdadmin_upload_761385

Description:: The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (or “GRH”), which unprecedentedly provided for “sequestration”, a doomsday device to enforce fiscal discipline upon Congress and the President, was passed with bipartisan support on December 12, 1985. How did GRH take place, and why did it assume its final form? Casting GRH’s enactment in functionalist and...
Keyword:: business interests, interest groups, and congressional budget process
Subject:: Public policy and Political science
Creator:: Shan, Wangqing
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14586 and etdadmin_upload_659990

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