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Copeland, Kristopher D.; Mamiseishvili, Ketevan – Educational Policy, 2017
State lottery policies have been created to generate additional funds to support public initiatives, such as higher education scholarships. Through 18 participant interviews and document analysis, this study examined how decision makers in Arkansas socially constructed citizens while forming lottery policy. The social construction of target…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Educational Policy, Interviews, Decision Making
Smith, Martha L.; Smith, Milton L. – 1980
This paper reports on two processes used to begin a long-term series of studies on educational power structures in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Purposes of the study were to determine if (1) substrata or pools of power undergird educational power structures, (2) certain paths to power are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employed Women, Occupational Surveys, Policy Formation
Stuart, Alfred W. – 1971
Utilizing available 1966 statistical data and U.S. Census figures, the State of Arkansas was examined for purposes of analyzing: (1) the extent to which recent population gains in states such as Arkansas and Oklahoma is occurring in rural areas rather than as an extension of urbanization; (2) the extent to which U.S. manufacturing is beginning to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, Correlation, Decision Making