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Crystal Franco - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Federal Agency biodefense funding fy2012 fy2013
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism-biodefense Strategy Practice and Science, 2012Co-Authors: Crystal Franco, Tara Kirk SellAbstract:Since 2001, the United States government has spent substantial resources on preparing the nation against a bioterrorist attack. Earlier articles in this series have analyzed civilian biodefense funding by the Federal government for fiscal years (FY) 2001 through proposed funding for FY2012. This article updates those figures with budgeted amounts for FY2013, specifically analyzing the budgets and allocations for civilian biodefense at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Commerce, and State; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the National Science Foundation. As in previous years, our analysis indicates that the majority (>90%) of the “biodefense” programs included in the FY2013 budget have both biodefense and non-biodefense goals and applications—that is, programs to improve infectious disease research, public health and hospital preparedness, and disaster response more broadly. Programs that focus solely on biodefense represent a small proportion (<...
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Federal Agency biodefense funding fy2011 fy2012
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism-biodefense Strategy Practice and Science, 2011Co-Authors: Crystal Franco, Tara Kirk SellAbstract:In this annual update and analysis of Federal biodefense spending, formerly called “Billions for Biodefense,” the authors report the budgeted levels of spending for FY2012. The article also includes an updated assessment of the proportion of biodefense funding provided for programs that address multiple public health, healthcare, national security, and international security issues in addition to biodefense.
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billions for biodefense Federal Agency biodefense funding fy2009 fy2010
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism-biodefense Strategy Practice and Science, 2009Co-Authors: Crystal FrancoAbstract:Since 2001, the United States government has spent substantial resources on preparing the nation against a bioterrorist attack. Earlier articles in this series analyzed civilian biodefense funding by the Federal government for fiscal years (FY) 2001 through 2009. This article updates those figures with budgeted amounts for FY2010, specifically analyzing the budgets and allocations for biodefense at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and State; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the National Science Foundation. This year's article also provides an assessment of the proportion of the biodefense budget that serves multiple programmatic goals and benefits, including research into infectious disease pathogenesis and immunology, public health planning and preparedness, and disaster response efforts. The FY2010 Federal budget for civilian biodefense totals $6.05 billion. Of that total, $4.96 billion is budgeted for programs that serve multiple goals and p...
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billions for biodefense Federal Agency biodefense funding fy2009 fy2010
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism-biodefense Strategy Practice and Science, 2009Co-Authors: Crystal FrancoAbstract:Since 2001, the United States government has spent substantial resources on preparing the nation against a bioterrorist attack. Earlier articles in this series analyzed civilian biodefense funding by the Federal government for fiscal years (FY) 2001 through 2009. This article updates those figures with budgeted amounts for FY2010, specifically analyzing the budgets and allocations for biodefense at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and State; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the National Science Foundation. This year's article also provides an assessment of the proportion of the biodefense budget that serves multiple programmatic goals and benefits, including research into infectious disease pathogenesis and immunology, public health planning and preparedness, and disaster response efforts. The FY2010 Federal budget for civilian biodefense totals $6.05 billion. Of that total, $4.96 billion is budgeted for programs that serve multiple goals and provide manifold benefits.
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billions for biodefense Federal Agency biodefense funding fy2008 fy2009
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism-biodefense Strategy Practice and Science, 2008Co-Authors: Crystal FrancoAbstract:Since 2001, the United States government has spent substantial resources on preparing the nation against a bioterrorist attack. Earlier articles in this series analyzed civilian biodefense funding by the Federal government from fiscal years 2001 through 2008. This article updates those figures with budgeted amounts for fiscal year 2009, specifically analyzing the budgets and allocations for biodefense at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Defense, Agriculture, and State and the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation.
Susan Webb Yackee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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lobbying coalitions and government policy change an analysis of Federal Agency rulemaking
The Journal of Politics, 2012Co-Authors: David R Nelson, Susan Webb YackeeAbstract:Coalition lobbying is one of the most frequently employed influence tactics used by interest groups today. Yet, surprisingly, the existing literature measuring its policy effects finds either no relationship or a negative association between coalition lobbying and policy change. We theorize the conditions under which coalition lobbying will influence policy and then test for its policy effects. We expect greater influence when there is consensus across the messages sent from coalitions and when coalitions are larger and mobilize new participants. Using a multilevel model, we assess the argument with survey data from lobbying entities and a content analysis of regulations promulgated by seven U.S. Federal agencies. In contrast to the existing literature measuring policy effects, we find evidence that coalition participants hold important influence during regulatory policymaking. We also demonstrate that both consensus and coalition makeup are critical factors for policy change. These findings suggest that ...
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divided government and us Federal rulemaking
Regulation & Governance, 2009Co-Authors: Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb YackeeAbstract:Despite paying a great deal of attention to the effects of divided government on legislative outputs, scholars of American politics have surprisingly ignored the potential impact of divided government on bureaucratic regulatory outputs. In this article we argue that divided government should reduce the volume of Federal Agency rulemaking. We test this hypothesis against a data set covering 21,000 rules from 1983 to 2005. Our study is one of the first to analyze the determinants of Federal bureaucratic rulemaking activity across such a long period of time. Our results demonstrate that during periods of divided government, agencies issue fewer rules and fewer substantively significant rules than they do during periods of unified government. These findings suggest that divided government impedes Agency rulemaking.
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interest group competition on Federal Agency rules
American Politics Research, 2007Co-Authors: Amy Mckay, Susan Webb YackeeAbstract:In the lobbying literature, the effects of competition—two or more interests lobbying on opposing sides of a policy debate—have not been assessed with regard to government Agency policymaking. Cons...
Sunil Mithas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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does e government measure up to e business comparing end user perceptions of u s Federal government and e business web sites
Public Administration Review, 2009Co-Authors: Forrest V Morgeson, Sunil MithasAbstract:This paper examines the Federal government's success in implementing and providing high-quality service through e-government, something that has received very little attention. We define quality from the perspective of the end users of Federal Agency Web sites, as measured through customer survey data. Using data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, we compare the performance of Federal Agency Web sites across a range of relevant variables with a private sector equivalent, e-business Web sites. Our findings suggest that Federal e-government Web sites are not yet, in the aggregate, providing the same level of quality as their e-business counterparts. We also find significant variability among Federal agencies. We discuss the implications of these findings for e-government performance measurement, performance benchmarking, and the market-centered theories of administrative reform that are driving e-government and similar transformations of government practice.
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does e government measure up to e business comparing end user perceptions of u s Federal government and e business websites
2009Co-Authors: Forrest V Morgeson, Sunil MithasAbstract:This paper examines the Federal government's success in implementing and providing high-quality service through e-government, something that has received very little attention. We define quality from the perspective of the end-users of the Federal Agency websites, as measured through customer survey data. Using data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), we compare the performance of Federal Agency websites across a range of relevant variables with a private sector equivalent, e-business websites. Our findings suggest that Federal e-government websites are not yet, in the aggregate, providing the same level of quality as their e-business counterparts. We also find significant variability among Federal agencies. We discuss the implications of these findings to e-government performance measurement, performance benchmarking, and the market-centered theories of administrative reform driving e-government and similar transformations to government practice.
Priscilla M Regan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Federal Agency blogs Agency mission audience and blog forms
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2011Co-Authors: Julianne Mahler, Priscilla M ReganAbstract:ABSTRACT This article reports on a systematic investigation of every Federal department and independent Agency for evidence of a current or past blog with a focus on three questions: Which agencies are using blogs, how are they using them, and why are agencies blogging? The question of why becomes particularly important as more agencies establish this online presence. We examine the relationships among the mission of the Agency, the audience of the blog, and the form of the blog to address these questions. We also explore the relationship between blogging and the technological sophistication of the Agency generally, and portray patterns of duration and density of traffic on the blogs. A number of hypotheses related to Agency constituency-building and communication are examined.
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learning to govern online Federal Agency internet use
The American Review of Public Administration, 2002Co-Authors: Julianne Mahler, Priscilla M ReganAbstract:This research offers a limited empirical study of online service in Federal government agencies. The authors are interested in the evolution of online governance and what factors influence the adoption and elaboration of online services. Information about online Agency services was gathered primarily from online U.S. General Accounting Office reports and testimony offered between 1993 and 2000. The authors examine online activities that carry out three governmental functions: providing services, collecting information, and soliciting stakeholder comment. Four principal cases were selected: the Social Security Administration’s Online PEBES, the Department of Education’s National Student Loan Data System, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The analysis of these cases identifies a partial sequence of steps or stages in development of online services. It appears that this sequence is a result of both learning and the imposition of certain standards of performance ba...
Dave Yates - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the use of cookies in Federal Agency web sites privacy and recordkeeping issues
Government Information Quarterly, 2010Co-Authors: Laura Mccarthy, Dave YatesAbstract:Abstract On July 27, 2009 the United States Government Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publicized its intent to review the nine-year-old prohibition of web tracking technologies such as cookies on Federal Agency web sites. OMB cited its need to continue to protect the public's privacy while visiting Federal Government web sites, while at the same time “making these web sites more user friendly, providing better customer service, and allowing for enhanced web analytics” ( Federal Register, 2009, p. 37062 ). In this paper, we review the history of the Federal government's position on cookies, and describe exactly how the technology works and why this shift in policy toward the use of cookies is logical and necessary for the evolution of electronic-government and government 2.0 services in terms of accessibility and capability. We review two major issues with which Federal agencies must contend related to the use of cookies – privacy, and records management. It is interesting to note that, despite earlier research on the implications of privacy and records management concerning other adopted technologies such as e-mail, these issues continue to be complex and misunderstood. We discuss the implications of cookies as records for future e-Government services and for long-term records management.
