By pursuing private and collective political action in the nonmarket environment, businesses attempt to influence public policy that shapes their operating environment. This dissertation considers how a firm’s market-based ...

Since the early 1980s, regional councils have partnered with nonprofit organizations in order to provide a range of services to member local governments with less capacity and resources. Although the partnership strategy ...

Sweden and Denmark, from the view of most of the world, are largely similar nations. Both are Scandinavian and maintain many similar aspects of culture, political structure, and general geographic location. Given these ...

The writer has attempted to present in this work a history of the Socialist party of America from the presidential campaign of 1932 to that of 1936. In 1932 the prospects of the party appeared to be much brighter than they ...

During the fall 2010 academic term at the University of Oregon, five groups of three students in an architecture studio course worked with the City of Salem to develop five schemes for the redevelopment of the North ...

The City of Hermiston is a growing town located in the northeast part of Oregon. In the early 2000s, Hermiston had a population of about 13,000 people. With more homes and schools under construction, the town expects to ...

Is culturally specific architecture appropriate in a non-native setting? Is this even the question to address in contemporary society? Perhaps the answer lies in not determining this answer, but rather by finding ways ...

This project is framed by a dilemma: representations of teaching practice are critical in teacher education, and yet the representations we rely on dangerously oversimplify teaching. My central questions emerge from this ...

Niccolò Menghini’s marble sculpture of Santa Martina (ca. 1635) in the Church of Santi Luca e Martina in Rome belongs to the seventeenth-century genre of sculpture depicting saints as dead or dying. Until now, scholars ...