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View article: Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration
Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration Open
Social equity scholarship has had a prominent place in public administration and in the pages of Public Administration Review (PAR) since 1974 when George Frederickson edited a PAR symposium on social equity. More recently, PAR has publish…
View article: Influence of amount and delay of reward on choice and response rate: A free‐operant, multiple‐schedule analogue of a discrete‐trial procedure
Influence of amount and delay of reward on choice and response rate: A free‐operant, multiple‐schedule analogue of a discrete‐trial procedure Open
The current study explored a free‐operant analogue of discrete‐trial procedures to study the effects of amount and delay of reinforcement on choice and response rate. Rats responded on a multiple variable‐interval (VI) 45‐s, 45‐s schedule,…
View article: Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The U.S. federal government often devolves administrative processes and decision making to state and local governments. Prior studies have found that the success of decentralization and implementation depends on several mediating factors a…
View article: Use of Performance Information and External Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight in Mitigating the Motivated Evaluation of Body-Worn Camera Evidence
Use of Performance Information and External Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight in Mitigating the Motivated Evaluation of Body-Worn Camera Evidence Open
Despite being touted as a game-changing technology, studies on the influence of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on policing outcomes have produced mixed results, with the underlying reasons for such findings unclear. Drawing on the sociology of c…
View article: Evaluating the determinants of support for police militarization among officers
Evaluating the determinants of support for police militarization among officers Open
We evaluate the determinants of officer support for their agency participating in the 1033 Program: a program that facilitates the flow of military hardware to local law enforcement agencies. In doing so, we provide insight into why office…
View article: Implementation has failed, implementation studies have failed even more: Racism and the future of systemic change
Implementation has failed, implementation studies have failed even more: Racism and the future of systemic change Open
Objective This article identifies the role of structural racism in policy implementation and argues that a starting point to evaluate the potential outcomes of calls for systemic change is to better situate racism in the study of policy im…
View article: Can Technology Work for Policing? Citizen Perceptions of Police-Body Worn Cameras
Can Technology Work for Policing? Citizen Perceptions of Police-Body Worn Cameras Open
Recent incidents between police and people of color have further strained police–community relationships. Scholars, practitioners, activists, policy makers, and several police departments have advocated for the implementation of body-worn …
View article: Social Equity and <scp>COVID</scp>‐19: The Case of African Americans
Social Equity and <span>COVID</span>‐19: The Case of African Americans Open
Emerging statistics demonstrate that COVID‐19 disproportionately affects African Americans. The effects of COVID‐19 for this population are inextricably linked to areas of systemic oppression and disenfranchisement, which are exacerbated b…
View article: Contemporary Management of Bulbar Urethral Strictures.
Contemporary Management of Bulbar Urethral Strictures. Open
Urethral stricture disease (USD) is a progressive scar-forming disease commonly encountered by urologists and is challenging to manage. USD most frequently occurs in the bulbar urethra. Patients typically present with chronic obstructive v…
View article: MOESM1 of Pooling as a strategy for the timely diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in stool: value and reproducibility
MOESM1 of Pooling as a strategy for the timely diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in stool: value and reproducibility Open
Additional file 1: Table S1. Raw numbers of true positives/negatives for both â seedingĘź experiment (Smith College) using N. americanus egg counts and field-sample testing (Smith College and Natural History Museum) for both individual sam…
View article: Identifying optimal threshold statistics for elimination of hookworm using a stochastic simulation model
Identifying optimal threshold statistics for elimination of hookworm using a stochastic simulation model Open
The probability of elimination and PPV are very sensitive to baseline prevalence for individual communities. However, most studies and programmes are constructed on the basis of clusters. Since elimination occurs within smaller population …
View article: “The Trayvon Martin Effect”: Estimating the effect of the Trayvon Martin shooting on reading performance scores using the synthetic control method
“The Trayvon Martin Effect”: Estimating the effect of the Trayvon Martin shooting on reading performance scores using the synthetic control method Open
This study analyzes how the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin affects schools and specifically students in Florida. The research examines students’ reading scores, employing a Synthetic Control Method (SCM) to construct a synthetic comprise…