Laura Ann Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4405053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Ann Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Baltimore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Student perceptions of teamwork within assessment tasks in undergraduate science degrees
Teamwork assessment creates a more comprehensive educational experience by broadening the diversity of skills that students develop. Developing teamwork skills is particularly important due to a recognised skills gap among science graduates. This study investigated student perceptions of developing teamwork skills during their undergraduate science degrees. A mixed methods approach was used, which included the analysis of both quantitative and qu…
Exploring Illicit Drug Use and Drug Driving as Edgework
Legislation is enacted in all Australian states and territories allowing the random roadside drug testing of motorists. Research has found drug users continue to drug drive despite the increased risk of detection. Epidemiological and experimental research has been conducted into drug driving. However, there remains a dearth in qualitative drug driving literature. This article draws on interviews with illicit drug users from Melbourne, exploring t…
Perceptions of Legitimacy and Strategies of Resistance
In 2004 Victoria, Australia became the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce Random Roadside Drug Testing (RRDT). This article engages with the concepts of legitimacy (Joh 2007) and resistance (Marx 1995, 2003) to explore a sample group of Melbourne illicit drug users' perceptions of RRDT and their self-reported strategies to circumvent it. Forty participants took part in semi-structured interviews and self-report surveys. 1 Participants w…
Sport and the Law
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
Evaluating TQM
Speaking to General Accounting Office (GAO) evaluators in 1991, Total Quality Management (TQM) guru Joseph Juran lamented how woefully inadequate our understanding was of his progeny's impact. Wrote Juran (1991, p. 51): As far as measuring the [TQM] results that have been achieved, there's a big information vacuum out there. Hardly anything useful is going on as far as evaluating Unfortunately, little has changed in the interim to negate Juran's …
Changing Revenue Conditions And State Budgetary Decisions
Most conventional theories of budgetary decision making tend to assume a given state of revenue conditions. An exception may be found in the developmental theory of budgeting which suggests that fluctuations in revenue conditions can affect decision processes. In this paper, we test the impact of both windfall profits and revenue shortfall on budgetary decision making in the state of Oklahoma between 1979 and 1985. We found that fluctuating reven…
Public Management, TQM, and Quality Improvement
The spectrum of opinions on TQM applications in government agencies presently stretches from exaggerated claims regarding its universal applicability and potency to more "agnostic" reservations related to its unspecified or undeveloped theoretical linkages to outright dismissals spawned by its alleged naivete in the face of organizational realpolitik. Marshalling evidence culled from TQM, organizational-behavior, bureaucratic-politics, and public…
Societal Complexity and Interest-Group Lobbying in the American States
An analysis of more than 39 thousand lobbying efforts reveals four dimensions of activity. In broad outline, the proportion of lobbyists is the same at the state and national levels. The factors are used to test the hypothesis that societal complexity is the fundamental cause of this interest-group activity. Surprisingly, no measure of complexity except state population is associated with any type of lobbying, and even population is not significa…
Diversity in the American States
The index of socioeconomic and cultural diversity among the American states formulated by John L. Sullivan for 1960 is recreated for 1980. Comparisons are made between the index for the two time periods, and changes among the states are examined over time. Significant differences continue to exist between northern and southern states, mainly because of cultural rather than socioeconomic factors. The diversity index remains a relatively powerful p…
Societal Complexity and Interest-Group Lobbying in the American States
An analysis of more than 39 thousand lobbying efforts reveals four dimensions of activity. In broad outline, the proportion of lobbyists is the same at the state and national levels. The factors are used to test the hypothesis that societal complexity is the fundamental cause of this interest-group activity. Surprisingly, no measure of complexity except state population is associated with any type of lobbying, and even population is not significa…
Diversity in the American States
The index of socioeconomic and cultural diversity among the American states formulated by John L. Sullivan for 1960 is recreated for 1980. Comparisons are made between the index for the two time periods, and changes among the states are examined over time. Significant differences continue to exist between northern and southern states, mainly because of cultural rather than socioeconomic factors. The diversity index remains a relatively powerful p…
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
Evaluating TQM
Speaking to General Accounting Office (GAO) evaluators in 1991, Total Quality Management (TQM) guru Joseph Juran lamented how woefully inadequate our understanding was of his progeny's impact. Wrote Juran (1991, p. 51): As far as measuring the [TQM] results that have been achieved, there's a big information vacuum out there. Hardly anything useful is going on as far as evaluating Unfortunately, little has changed in the interim to negate Juran's …
Public Management, TQM, and Quality Improvement
The spectrum of opinions on TQM applications in government agencies presently stretches from exaggerated claims regarding its universal applicability and potency to more "agnostic" reservations related to its unspecified or undeveloped theoretical linkages to outright dismissals spawned by its alleged naivete in the face of organizational realpolitik. Marshalling evidence culled from TQM, organizational-behavior, bureaucratic-politics, and public…
Diversity in the American States
The index of socioeconomic and cultural diversity among the American states formulated by John L. Sullivan for 1960 is recreated for 1980. Comparisons are made between the index for the two time periods, and changes among the states are examined over time. Significant differences continue to exist between northern and southern states, mainly because of cultural rather than socioeconomic factors. The diversity index remains a relatively powerful p…
Societal Complexity and Interest-Group Lobbying in the American States
An analysis of more than 39 thousand lobbying efforts reveals four dimensions of activity. In broad outline, the proportion of lobbyists is the same at the state and national levels. The factors are used to test the hypothesis that societal complexity is the fundamental cause of this interest-group activity. Surprisingly, no measure of complexity except state population is associated with any type of lobbying, and even population is not significa…
Changing Revenue Conditions And State Budgetary Decisions
Most conventional theories of budgetary decision making tend to assume a given state of revenue conditions. An exception may be found in the developmental theory of budgeting which suggests that fluctuations in revenue conditions can affect decision processes. In this paper, we test the impact of both windfall profits and revenue shortfall on budgetary decision making in the state of Oklahoma between 1979 and 1985. We found that fluctuating reven…
Public Management, TQM, and Quality Improvement
The spectrum of opinions on TQM applications in government agencies presently stretches from exaggerated claims regarding its universal applicability and potency to more "agnostic" reservations related to its unspecified or undeveloped theoretical linkages to outright dismissals spawned by its alleged naivete in the face of organizational realpolitik. Marshalling evidence culled from TQM, organizational-behavior, bureaucratic-politics, and public…
Evaluating TQM
Speaking to General Accounting Office (GAO) evaluators in 1991, Total Quality Management (TQM) guru Joseph Juran lamented how woefully inadequate our understanding was of his progeny's impact. Wrote Juran (1991, p. 51): As far as measuring the [TQM] results that have been achieved, there's a big information vacuum out there. Hardly anything useful is going on as far as evaluating Unfortunately, little has changed in the interim to negate Juran's …
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
Perceptions of Legitimacy and Strategies of Resistance
In 2004 Victoria, Australia became the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce Random Roadside Drug Testing (RRDT). This article engages with the concepts of legitimacy (Joh 2007) and resistance (Marx 1995, 2003) to explore a sample group of Melbourne illicit drug users' perceptions of RRDT and their self-reported strategies to circumvent it. Forty participants took part in semi-structured interviews and self-report surveys. 1 Participants w…
Sport and the Law
Exploring Illicit Drug Use and Drug Driving as Edgework
Legislation is enacted in all Australian states and territories allowing the random roadside drug testing of motorists. Research has found drug users continue to drug drive despite the increased risk of detection. Epidemiological and experimental research has been conducted into drug driving. However, there remains a dearth in qualitative drug driving literature. This article draws on interviews with illicit drug users from Melbourne, exploring t…
Student perceptions of teamwork within assessment tasks in undergraduate science degrees
Teamwork assessment creates a more comprehensive educational experience by broadening the diversity of skills that students develop. Developing teamwork skills is particularly important due to a recognised skills gap among science graduates. This study investigated student perceptions of developing teamwork skills during their undergraduate science degrees. A mixed methods approach was used, which included the analysis of both quantitative and qu…
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