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ResearchThe Intergovernmental Grant SystemState and local government fiscal systems have increasingly become vulnerable to economic changes. Over the past three decades, state and local deficits during economic recession have been larger and deeper each time.
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ResearchCreating Constituencies: Presidential Campaigns, the Scope of Conflict, and Selective Mobilization
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ResearchNurses’ Presenteeism and Its Effects on Self-Reported Quality of Care and CostsAlthough research has been conducted on how nurse staffing levels affect outcomes, there has been little investigation into how the health-related productivity of nurses is related to quality of care. Two major causes of worker presenteeism (reduced on-the-job productivity as a result of health problems) are musculoskeletal pain and mental health issues, particularly depression.
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ResearchStatus conferral in intergroup social dilemmas: Behavioral antecedents and consequences of prestige and dominance
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ResearchVerdant Power: A Case of Ethical LeadershipWe describe the ethical leadership dilemmas confronting Verdant Power. Formed in 2000, this New York City marine renewable energy company develops projects and technology that delivers electricity directly into the local power grid.
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ResearchInstrumentality boosts appreciation: Helpers are more appreciated while they are usefulWe propose that in social interactions, appreciation depends on the helper’s instrumentality: The more motivated one is to accomplish a goal and the more one perceives a potential helper as able to facilitate that goal, the more appreciation one will feel for that helper. Three experiments support this instrumentality-boost hypothesis by showing that beneficiaries feel more appreciation for their helpers while they are receiving help toward an ongoing task than after that task has been completed or after the helper has been deemed no longer instrumental.
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ResearchInterventions Used by Virginia’s Colleges to Respond to Student Mental Health CrisesObjective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked.
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ResearchRising educational gradients in mortality: The role of behavioral risk factorsThe long-standing inverse relationship between education and mortality strengthened substantially at the end of the 20th century. This paper examines the reasons for this increase.
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Research‘A Wasteful and Dangerous Thing’: Lyndon Johnson and Grassroots ActivismThe War on Poverty & Struggles for Racial & Economic Justice: Views from the Grassroots Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press,