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- Creator:
- Coleman, Rashaad
- Description:
- New police technologies such as the body-worn camera affect how police officers conduct daily police work. The first official use of body-worn cameras began in Europe in 2005 and then in the US in 2011. During those years, there was no published research on the effectiveness of the devices on policing in the United States. Police shootings of unarmed citizens captivated national media. As a result of the shootings, citizens and community members demanded police reform. Since then, there have been numerous studies conducted across the nation with conflicting results regarding use-of-force incidents and allegations of police misconduct. There is one study that conclusively showed a 15% increase in assaults against police officers wearing a body-worn camera and an increase in the likelihood of deadly force application by a police officer. The study also went on to show a 38% decrease in use-of-force incidents by the same officers. This body-worn camera study concludes a more concise evaluation is needed in order to fully understand the effects of the device. A body-worn camera program affects more than just law enforcement officers; it also influences the community they police and policies adopted by law enforcement, district attorneys. Individuals who are subjected to body-worn camera surveillance will also be affected.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Public Administration
- Creator:
- Walker, Kristen L.
- Description:
- Trust and transparency influence consumer information exchanges, yet the understanding of how they shape marketing and public policy relating to privacy and security issues is not current with the digital and informational age. People face increasing complexity in online exchanges of information and lack the time, attention, and wherewithal to understand how to protect themselves. Society's reliance on technology results in individuals engaging in continuous partial attention and behaving as cognitive misers. The author explains the concept of surrendering to technology and presents a sharing-surrendering information matrix to address this phenomenon. The matrix clarifies the difference between surrendering versus sharing information online, leading to the proposition that current efforts to protect privacy and security, such as enhancing trust and transparency, lack legitimacy and will not be effective in the digital age. Surrendering information is a long-term societal and ethical issue for marketers and policy makers, requiring improvement(s) in verification mechanisms and increased educational efforts aimed at enhancing consumers' attention.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0743-9156
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Ware, Erin
- Description:
- Public sector entitlement programs encompass a range of programs from state funded insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, to food and cash assistance for low income residents. The purpose of this study is to examine the selected variables, the amounts of wasteful spending and corruption, and the effects of transparency, to determine why wasteful spending occurs in public sector entitlement programs and the potential for wasteful spending to become corruption. This graduate project seeks to find a solution for how organizations reduce wasteful spending and the potential for corruption within entitlement programs. This graduate project proposes using an exploratory research design with quantitative and qualitative data collected from 375 program participants and employees from a variety of public sector entitlement programs to determine the levels of wasteful spending and corruption and the effect of transparency. The data collected from the surveys and interviews will give a diverse view and provide information that can lead to a better understanding of the relationship strength between variables and the way the issues are perceived. This study will prove useful for reducing misconceptions of rampant government waste in entitlement programs and providing definitions of wasteful spending and corruption which will also have applicability in future research. The information garnered from this research project can be used to examine these variables in more detail in future studies to better understand the relationships and how they can be affected by different situational factors.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Tran, Calvin
- Description:
- This graduate project explores how public administration utilizes social media within their organization and its impact with public sector transparency. The research proposes to collect statistics from public organizations within Los Angeles County on their existing social media usage to see if they are effectively utilizing it. Effectiveness will be measured by analyzing the Los Angeles County organizations with other successful organizations that effectively utilize social media in their daily operations. Due to time constraints, statistics could not be properly collected to provide a detailed comparison.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Public Administration
- Creator:
- Nersesian, Ani
- Description:
- This research proposal explores and researches the pertinence and outcomes of having a transparent organization and the influence it holds on ethical decision making. Its purpose is to note the significance transparency has on moral and ethical decision making in public administration. This is achieved by a thorough Literary review to highlight the way transparency unfolds within a public organization and what influences it has on the organization and its ethical processes. Findings are to create a research proposal to be adopted by the Los Angeles County, Department of Public and Social Services (DPSS).
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Public Administration
- Creator:
- Joseph, Sasha
- Description:
- This study uses institutional theory to explore how external pressure influences nonprofit accountability standards. An extensive literature review in the field of public administration was conducted to study how institutional theory relates to accountability within the nonprofit sector. This project proposes research to determine how institutional isomorphism impacts accountability decisions in board governance. Research questions have been designed to determine how external environments influence the role of governance in establishing accountability frameworks and practices with a nonprofit. This project is a proposal for future research, no actual data has been collected, and therefore this project does not provide research results.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Public Administration
- Creator:
- Zhu, Rui and Marquardt, James J.
- Description:
- In this essay, we approach the matter of international transparency from a cultural perspective: how the concept of transparency differs and overlaps in East and West and how differences and similarities reinforce mutual suspicions in contemporary Sino-American security affairs. We will explore the hidden pitfalls in the politics of military transparency in the Sino-American relations and argue that the Sino-American transparency dialogue has unexpectedly aggravated, rather than helped to reduce, the geopolitical rivalry between the two nations.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona