Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-76).

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-225). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 113).

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral--Freiburg im Breisgau, 2003). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1992. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 628-638).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-128).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Advisor(s): William Brescia, Frances A. Huehls, Dwight Burlingame. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-113).

This thesis looks at the economics of mass media from a variety of perspectives. The main aim is to analyse the key factors that influence media reporting behaviour, and in turn the impact of reportage on individual decision-making processes. The first chapter provides a brief summary of the contextual background of this thesis, by presenting the main points tackled in the subsequent chapters as well as a concise overview of the main contributions across various fields of study. The second chapter explores the relationship between advertisers and the media using a simple model of horizontal and vertical product differentiation in a duopolistic setting. In this framework, when a news story is published one firm will benefit in terms of higher consumer demand and profits, while the other will suffer. Firms can influence the media's decision to publish the news story or withhold it via advertising expenditure. The main result shows that in equilibrium when news signals conform to people's prior beliefs, extreme or strong stories will be withheld from publication by the media. This is because strong stories will result in a drastic decline in profits for one firm, thus providing it with an incentive to switch over and change its production process to mimic the other (beneficiary) firm, thereby eliminating vertical product differentiation. Therefore, the beneficiary firm would have an incentive to ensure that the news story is withheld to prevent this increase in competition and the subsequent erosion of its profit margins. The results provide an alternative rationale to explain recent evidence on under-reporting by the U.S. media in relation to various issues like climate change and the nutritional content of food. The third chapter looks at the responsiveness of individual private behaviour to media coverage of a particular news story. Survey data on charitable gift-giving in the U.S. are used in order to analyse the impact of newspaper coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on both the likelihood and magnitude of monetary disbursements towards the relief effort. The identification strategy employed in this paper exploits differences in county-level growth rates of violent crime in order to account for the variation in newspaper coverage of the tsunami, thus circumventing potential endogeneity problems. The results show that media coverage only had a modest effect on people's decision to donate or not, but conversely had a significant and non-trivial impact on the amount of money donated. Furthermore, this impact was larger for young adults within the 25-34 age bracket and individuals who had undertaken some form of voluntary work in the previous year. These results hold even after the implementation of various robustness tests, and serve to highlight the growing influence of the media on people's behaviour. The final chapter analyses the impact of media reports on electoral outcomes, and in particular the extent to which soft or sensationalist news reportage influences voting. Survey data on individual voting behaviour during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election is used, together with a novel dataset on the amount of coverage afforded to the Monica Lewinsky scandal over the period January 17, 1998 to August 31, 2000. We first show that Lewinsky coverage was not driven by the newspapers' political bias, but rather by other factors including tabloid journalism. This independence enables us to focus solely on the impact of media reports on voting, in contrast to the rest of the literature which deals with the electoral influence of politically-biased media outlets. We then look at how newspaper coverage of the Lewinsky scandal influenced voting patterns in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. To account for potential endogeneity issues we use county-level variation in the number of deaths caused by extreme weather events as an instrument for Lewinsky articles. We find that media coverage of the scandal had a positive and statistically significant impact on the likelihood of voting for George W. Bush, and conversely a negative influence on the probability of voting for Al Gore: this pattern is visible among both Democrats and Republicans. The results are robust to various tests, and raise several questions regarding the media's role within the democratic process.

Submitted by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-04-13T19:48:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Daltro, Emmanuelle Fonseca Marinho de Anias.pdf: 1217949 bytes, checksum: 66710d1745cfeb520f1af64f897b788b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-05T19:43:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Daltro, Emmanuelle Fonseca Marinho de Anias.pdf: 1217949 bytes, checksum: 66710d1745cfeb520f1af64f897b788b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-05T19:43:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daltro, Emmanuelle Fonseca Marinho de Anias.pdf: 1217949 bytes, checksum: 66710d1745cfeb520f1af64f897b788b (MD5) / Com o objetivo de analisar o desempenho operacional dos hospitais filantrópicos contratualizados com o SUS localizados no interior da Bahia no âmbito do Programa de Reestruturação e Contratualização dos Hospitais Filantrópicos no Sistema Único de Saúde, contribuindo para a ampliação do conhecimento nas áreas de Políticas Públicas e da Gestão Social, realizou-se um estudo exploratório e descritivo de abordagem quantitativa, adotando-se como amostra não aleatória trinta e nove hospitais filantrópicos baianos. Foram utilizadas como fontes de dados a legislação do Sistema Único de Saúde, com ênfase nas normativas do referido programa, o Cadastro Nacional dos Estabelecimentos de Saúde, o Sistema de Informação Ambulatoriais e o Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do Sistema Único de Saúde. Os recursos matemáticos foram utilizados, prioritariamente, para análise evidenciando o desempenho operacional do conjunto dos hospitais a partir do cálculo da distribuição das frequências, médias e desvio-padrão. Dentre outros achados, verificou-se que entre os anos de 2006 e 2011 houve pouca variação na capacidade instalada para a produção de serviços de saúde nas unidades filantrópicas contratualizadas do interior da Bahia e a produtividade tanto ambulatorial quanto hospitalar decaíram levando à suposição de que o Programa de Contratualização dos Filantrópicos não está contribuindo diretamente para o aumento da oferta de serviços no SUS. Além disso, a mobilização da condição de gestão dos hospitais filantrópicos contratualizados do interior da Bahia, entre 2007 e 2011, apontou uma tendência de recentralização da gestão das unidades filantrópicas contratualizadas, sendo que as unidades sob gestão dupla apresentaram melhor desempenho no período analisado. In order to analyze the operational performance of charitable hospitals contracted with SUS located in Bahia under the Restructuring Program and Contracts of the Philanthropic Hospitals Health System, contributing to the expansion of knowledge in the areas of Public Policy and Social Management, held an exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach, using as non-random sample thirty-nine philanthropic hospitals Bahia. Were used as data sources the law of the Unified Health System, with emphasis on the regulations of the program, the National Register of Health Facilities, Outpatient Information System and the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System The mathematical features were used for analysis demonstrating the operational performance of the hospitals from the calculation of the frequency distribution, mean and standard deviation. It was found that between the years 2006 and 2011 there was little variation in the capacity for the production of health services contracted philanthropic units in the interior of Bahia and productivity both as outpatient hospital declined leading to the assumption that the Philanthropic Program Contracts is not directly contributing to increasing the supply of services in the NHS . In addition, the mobilization of the management condition of philanthropic hospitals contracted the interior of Bahia, between 2007 and 2011, showed a trend of re-contracted the management of philanthropic units, and the units under dual management showed better performance in the period.

With the emergence of the concept of crowdfunding, a new alternative has arisen for non-profit organizations to procure funding for their cause. But several of the issues plaguing non-profits still remain. Attracting people to give in the first place is one major challenge, but retaining the relationship and keeping the donors giving is an even bigger one. This thesis delves into the issue of getting donors to sustain their giving, more commonly known as donor retention. More specifically, this thesis aims to identify what factors are important when aiming to improve donor retention in both charity and crowdfunding contexts. Additionally, the thesis explores what is important in the general structure and content of a non-profit crowdfunding platform, and what possible measures can be taken in order to improve donor retention through the platform. This was achieved by conducting a literature study in the field of donor retention in both a charity as well as crowdfunding context to find important factors as well as measures to be considered. In parallel, 15 interviews were conducted to gather insights on the attitudes, donation habits and motivations of people who had previous experience of giving to charity. In sequence with the interviews, 15 user tests on the crowdfunding platform of the non-profit organization Help to Help were performed. The user tests aimed to evaluate and collect donors' opinions and conceptions of the contents and layout of an existing non-profit crowdfunding platform. From the literature study several factors found to improve donor retention were identified. These were: satisfaction, trust, commitment and involvement. The literature study, interviews and user tests resulted in finding a large number of possible actions to take when constructing a non-profit crowdfunding platform. The measures were summarized and condensed into a collection of recommendations and considerations to take when designing such a platform to increase donor retention. The thesis also identified that crowdfunding components can make a charity website appear more transparent and innovative. Additionally, the thesis found that many donors continue to donate based on their initial conviction. Where the ability to provide proof of where the donations end up and ability to appear transparent were the most cited reasons for deciding to support an organization.