170 research outputs found
The Impact of Advocacy Organizations on Low-Income Housing Policy in U.S. Cities
Financial support for affordable housing competes with many other municipal priorities. This work seeks to explain the variation in support for affordable housing among U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Using multivariate statistical analysis, this research investigates political explanations for the level of city expenditures on housing and community with a particular interest in the influence of housing advocacy organizations (AOs). Data for the model were gathered from secondary sources, including the U.S. Census and the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Among other results, the analysis indicates that, on average, the political maturity of AOs has a statistically significant, positive effect on local housing and community development expenditures
Plasma Dynamics
Contains research objectives and summary of research on twenty-one projects split into three sections, with four sub-sections in the second section and reports on twelve research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant ENG75-06242)U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Contract E(11-1)-2766)U.S. Energy Research and Development Agency (Contract E(11-1)-3070)U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Contract E(11-1)-3070)Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T. Industrial Fellowshi
Government, political actors and governance in urban policies in Brazil and São Paulo: concepts for a future research agenda
Seeding Science, Courting Conclusions: Reexamining the Intersection of Science, Corporate Cash, and the Law
Social scientists have expressed strong views on corporate influences over science, but most attention has been devoted to broad, Black/White arguments, rather than to actual mechanisms of influence. This paper summarizes an experience where involvement in a lawsuit led to the discovery of an unexpected mechanism: A large corporation facing a multibillion-dollar court judgment quietly provided generous funding to well-known scientists (including at least one Nobel prize winner) who would submit articles to "open," peer-reviewed journals, so that their "unbiased science" could be cited in an appeal to the Supreme Court. On balance, the corporation's most effective techniques of influence may have been provided not by overt pressure, but by encouraging scientists to continue thinking of themselves as independent and impartial
Duck, Scaup
Duck, Scaup. Single Adult Male on Water near Ice. Photographed by Clarence F. Stone.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bird_slides/1192/thumbnail.jp
Care of the feeble-minded and insane in Texas, by C. S. Yoakum. Ph.D.
Mode of access: Internet
Who Really Rules? New Haven and Community Power Reexamined. By G. William Domhoff. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1978. Pp. xiii + 189. 6.95, paper.)
Dual City: Restructuring New York. Edited by John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991. 477p. 39.50.
Shutdown in Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment. By Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Pp. xvi + 219. 10.95, paper.)
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