Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1980. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 470-488).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1971. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliographical essay: leaves 607-631.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation seeks to answer two questions. First, how do national-level conditions associated with the president's party, the presidential election cycle, and presidential approval influence state legislative and gubernatorial elections? Second, how does variation in state government power mediate how state elections are influenced by those national factors? I approach the first question by testing existing theories that help to explain how party voting is affected by the presidential election cycle. Specifically, I examine the effect of presidential coattails, surge and decline theory, national referendum voting theory and vertical policy balancing theory. Surge and decline and referendum theories have been applied to state elections; however, vertical policy balancing has not. In order to assess the independent effects of each of these theories, I include variables for all theories in comprehensive statistical models. These models cover gubernatorial elections from 1948-2010 and state legislative elections from 1968-2010. Using these models, I deconstruct how each of these three theories contributes to the phenomenon of midterm loss in state elections. I find evidence for surge and decline, referendum voting, and electoral balancing in both gubernatorial and state legislative elections. Having established the effects of theories of midterm loss in state elections, I then turn to the question of whether variation in state government power mediates midterm loss. I find that formal institutional power and the size of state government do not systematically affect midterm loss. However, I show that there are important differences between states with and without the direct initiative. I show that coattail effects and referendum voting are lessened in states with the direct initiative and that presidential punishment is increased. These results, along with the findings associated with theories of midterm decline, add to our understanding of elections in the American states as well as the American electoral process in general. / Political Science

В настоящем исследовании реконструируется система наместничьего управления в Новгороде последней трети XV – XVI века, её структура и компетенция. / In the research work author reconstructed administration of Grand Duke representers in Novgorod in the late XV – XVI century, its structure and competence.

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published_or_final_version / Chinese Historical Studies / Master / Master of Arts

The writer set out to evaluate the extent to which the Boards of Governors of six provincial high schools in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea were conforming with the provisions of the 1970 Education Act and subsequent Departmental directives. Interviews were conducted with senior officers of the Department of Education, members of the Boards of the six schools and Mission Agency personnel. Board meetings were observed by the writer and records of past meetings and Departmental files were examined. The writer has traced the development of community participation and the sharing of decision making in Papua New Guinea education up to 1970 when school Boards were established by the Education Act, as well as subsequent developments in the relationship between the Department of Education and Boards of Governors. Histories of the six schools used as case studies are given, including accounts of the establishment and development of their Boards of Governors. In only one function, student discipline, did the Boards appear to have a largely executive role. This function was regarded by most Board members as being the area in which their Boards did their most important work. In some of the other functions listed in the Act and in subsequent directives, the Boards' role was found to be only a partially executive one or an advisory or critical one. With some of the functions assigned to them, there was little or no involvement by the Boards. Although the Boards have continued to be viable and to contribute to the effective running of their schools, they were not being used to their full potential and there was a need for their relationship with emerging Provincial Governments to be defined. The writer collected suggestions for improvements in the operations of the Boards from the people interviewed and made further suggestions based on his own observations.

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 1965. / Shelved in the Library's Special Collections; access is restricted. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99) and abstract.