School of Public Policy
The School of Public Policy offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Public Policy as well as undergraduate course work in several social science disciplines whose theories and methods contribute to the systematic study of public policy problems. Our faculty have built national and international reputations in the scholarly study of science, technology and environmental policy. As policy scholars committed to research, we investigate decision processes involving the public interest, in government, business, and civil society, and we involve our students in our research. As policy analysts, we learn through practice, and our students become competent to solve problems in a technological world.
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Policy@Tech Seminar Series [18]
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School of Public Policy OSP Research Reports [26]
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School of Public Policy Theses and Dissertations [256]
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School of Public Policy Working Papers [70]
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Recent Submissions
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The Mobilization of Social Networks in Professional Development Decision-Making – A Mixed-Methods Study in a Technical Field
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-02)THE MOBILIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DECISION-MAKING –A MIXED-METHODS STUDY IN A TECHNICAL FIELD Isabel Ruthotto 171 pages Directed by Dr. Julia Melkers Vast technological innovations have been ... -
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF OWNERSHIP-INDUCED QUALITY GAPS IN THE LONG-TERM CARE SECTOR: INFLUENCES OF OWNERSHIP CONVERSIONS, SELF-REPORTING, REGULATORY REFORMS, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)This dissertation presents a quantitative analysis of the association between ownership types and quality of services in the long-term care sector in the United States. The study employs dynamic difference-in-differences ... -
Science Gone Wrong: Understanding scientific work by examining "failures" across productions, consumptions, and careers in science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)This dissertation examines “failures” across three different dimensions of the production of science (production of data, impacts, careers) to further expand our understanding of scientific work, thereby providing effective ... -
Setting the Agenda for AI: Actors, Issues, and Influence in United States Artificial Intelligence Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06-02)As research and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in the early 21st century, determining how to govern AI has become a global priority. Key questions include how AI should be understood ... -
Challenges in the electrification of transportation: electric vehicle charging behavior, micromobility for urban transportation, and cost reductions in battery technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-03)This dissertation work explores three questions related to some of the challenges present in the ongoing electrification of transportation. Specifically, I target issues related to electric vehicle charging at the workplace, ... -
Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis – Travelex Ransomware Attack
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12)Through the application of the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, this paper identifies and intricately examines all core features of the incident, highlighting the hacker’s modus operandi and defining causal relationships ... -
Manifestations of the Positive Death Movement in America: Medical Aid In Dying, Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking, and End-Of-Life Doulas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-06)Western society is in an era of death awareness, its most recent salience: A Positive Death Movement. This dissertation examines manifestations of the movement, framing them as direct, indirect, and induced effects of ... -
The Weight of Administrative Burden: The Distributive Consequences of Federal Disaster Assistance on Recovery after Hurricane Harvey
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-03-30)Disasters have severe implications for life and property, often requiring large-scale collective action to facilitate recovery. One key determinant of recovery is access to resources that mitigate the losses and damages ... -
Explaining US Cybersecurity Policy Integration Through a National Regime Lens
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)This research uses the Policy Regime Framework to analyze which of two policy problems, US-China rivalry or IT/OT convergence, better explain degrees of coherence and integration in the US cybersecurity regime. It explains ... -
What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-30)Given the significance policymakers place on cybersecurity, how effective has a decade of policy interventions been at reducing social costs? This paper uses the limited regulations implemented by State and United States ... -
BEYOND CARBON MITIGATION: UNDERSTANDING THE CO-BENEFITS AND CO-COSTS OF GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION POLICIES IN BROADER CONTEXTS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)The use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is firmly entrenched in U.S. policy-making and other regulatory processes. The validity of CBA relies on the systematic and comprehensive understanding of the co-benefits and co-costs ... -
SYMPTOMS OF MATERNAL DEPRESSION: RESULTS FROM THE ALASKA PRAMS 2012-2014 AND ITS THREE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP SURVEY, CUBS 2015-1027, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY DESIGN
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-13)This dissertation is an in-depth analysis of the prevalence and risk factors of maternal depression in Alaska. I study a cohort of women who gave birth in Alaska between 2012 and 2014, using statewide population-based ... -
Analysis of American Passenger Rail: Expansion into Rural Georgia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)This paper analyzes the historical and social impacts of American passenger rail to highlight a solution to lacking connectivity and transportation options for rural Georgians. Rural Georgians need a lasting and adequate ... -
Communicable diseases are not communicable
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10)Communicable disease is a misnomer. The disease is not communicable; the microbe mainly associated with the disease is communicable. Whether the recipient of the microbe develops the disease depends on the health of the ... -
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Considerations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has produced global health and economic adverse impacts. The main measures being taken to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and of the virus-associated diseases (COVID-19) are conceptually those that ... -
Driving green: Employment effects, policy adoption, and public perceptions of electric vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-03)Energy for usage in the transportation sector is primarily derived from petroleum products and accounts for 14% (EPA 2017a) of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and 28% (EPA 2018b) of total emissions in the US. In the US. ... -
COVID-19: Preventing Future Pandemics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has had global health and economic adverse impacts. The main measures being taken to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus associated with COVID-19) are conceptually those that were taken to ... -
For the birds: Researching theory and practice in environmental conservation policy processes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-16)This dissertation explores how policy processes and decision-making structures influence environmental management in public agencies. It contributes to our understanding of how traditional bureaucratic systems of organization ... -
Path-dependencies faced by select policies toward solid-state lighting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-18)The studies in this dissertation – concerning inter-firm R&D collaboration, patent production and sharing, and electric power infrastructure – will illustrate the influence of path-dependency on outcomes delivered by ... -
Combining Tactical and Strategic Treatments for COVID-19
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03)As of mid-March, 2020, many countries in the world are on partial lockdown, to control the spread of the pandemic (COVID-19) resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The only effective ‘treatments’ at this time are good ...
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