Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2018, Public Health

The June 2012 Supreme Court decision concluded that all provisions of the Affordable Care Act were constitutional except for the mandatory Medicaid expansion for adults. Therefore, each state had the option to expand Medicaid. By 2015, thirty-one states had adopted Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion is generally supported by Democrats and resisted by Republicans. Given the power governors have in Medicaid policymaking, it would stand to reason that states with Democratic governors would expand while states with Republican governors would not. However, ten states adopted expansion with a Republican governor. In the context of widespread Republican opposition to the ACA, why did some Republican governors support Medicaid expansion? What factors influence Republican governors' decisions regarding Medicaid expansion? The overall goal of this study is to understand the conditions under which Republican governors decided to support Medicaid expansion, given their party's opposition. Using mixed methods, the specific aims of this study are: 1) Identify the factors associated with a Republican governor's decision to support Medicaid expansion. 2) Determine in-depth how these factors and perhaps others, interacted with Republican governors in two states – one expansion state (Arizona) and one non-expansion state (Florida). The results from this study imply that in the case of Medicaid expansion, ideological, economic, political, and racial factors influence the decision-making of Republican governors, with ideological factors being the most dominant. The implications of this study are extensive for stakeholders including policymakers, public health advocates, interest groups, and researchers in states with Republican governors. It offers statistical and qualitative data that can be used to help them identify potential problems and solutions for coverage expansions in the future in seemingly challenging circumstances. Moreover, findings from this s (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Sandra Tanenbaum (Committee Chair); Tasleem Padamsee (Committee Member); Deena Chisolm (Committee Member); Thomas Nelson (Committee Member) Subjects: Political Science; Public Health; Public Policy

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1971, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Political Science

Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 1950, Graduate School

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Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1940, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2017, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The advent of microgrids has shifted the focus from centralized power generation to a more distributed manner, involving a mix of different distributed energy resources (DERs). Reciprocating engine driven synchronous generators (referred as gensets) are a common DER used for distributed generation. One of the key concerns with such power networks is the aspect of frequency regulation under large disturbances, especially in an islanded mode of operation, without the support of the utility grid. This works looks at possible solution methods for mitigating large frequency disturbances in an islanded microgrid. Due to steep load changes, the gensets undergo large frequency swings and can be even vulnerable to stalling. The benefits of smart loads are analyzed in this work to prevent such occurrence by temporarily reducing the transient overload on gensets. Another solution to mitigate large frequency deviation is the integration of energy storage system (ESS), but the effectiveness depends on its operation as a grid-forming or a grid-following unit. Important metrics such as frequency nadir during load changes in the islanded microgrid are computed to show the usefulness of ESS in islanded microgrids. For this purpose, analytical methods using reduced-order models are developed and found to provide accurate estimates of frequency deviations under power system disturbances. Generally, ESS units are interfaced with an inverter and when operated in grid-forming mode can offer desired dynamic frequency behavior in an islanded microgrid. Similarly, other inverter-based DERs can also provide good frequency regulation as they share the larger portion of the transient overload compared to gensets. However, under certain scenarios the inverter-based DERs are found to collapse due to this large transient loading and can bring down the whole microgrid system as a result. A better coordination between the different DERs in a mixed source microgrid is facilitated in this work to gua (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mahesh Illindala (Advisor); Jin Wang (Committee Member); Jiankang Wang (Committee Member); Alexander Lindsey (Committee Member) Subjects: Electrical Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1979, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Mass Communications

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1973, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Education

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1967, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Political Science

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, History

Ohio governor James Allen Rhodes (1909-2001) lived both an authentic American success story and an embellished populist myth. The son of a coal miner, Rhodes survived the insecurity that characterized the lives of early twentieth-century working-class Americans, matured after an extended adolescent aimlessness, and became Ohio's most powerful governor. He also exaggerated key parts of his biography and omitted other events in order to authenticate his credentials as a champion of the common man. From this odd mix of fact and fiction emerges a story of an important but overlooked politician. This dissertation is the first full length investigation into Rhodes' life and political career, placing him in a larger context of regional political change, the rise of the consumer culture, and the working-class origins of populist economic security. Before Rhodes, Midwestern Republicans opposed the New Deal and saw nothing more than slavery in Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise to deliver economic security to American voters. As Ohio's longest serving governor (1963-1971 and 1975-1983), as a child of the insecure working class, and as a young politician maturing in the 1930s, Rhodes made security the central part of his Republican philosophy. That concern led him to challenge Midwestern Republican orthodoxy, pioneer Republican Party efforts to capture the working-class vote, and attempt to radically alter the Rustbelt economy of the Midwest.

Committee: Warren Van Tine (Advisor) Subjects: History, United States

MA, Kent State University, 2009, College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Ambassador Crawford / Department of Economics

The main purpose of the research is to investigate the behavioral of the Governors and Bank Presidents at the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We have a hypothesis that the Bank presidents and Governors behave differently. We suppose that the governors of the FOMC which are completing a term of another governor and are eligible for reappointment change their behavior as there is a short amount of time prior the reappointment. This correlation has a big effect on the decision making at all meetings as very few of the governors serve for their full term; as a full term is 14 years, there is a high turnover among the governors at FOMC. Therefore, the time left to the reappointment of each governor may be causing a bigger impact on the decision making than the monetary policy. This research is contributing to the political economy literature in the area of Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America. We have a unique data set as we do not use a dissent voting data. Even though dissent data sets are available for a much longer periods of time, they lose much of the relevant information. The motivation for our research is the fact that all of the governors of the Federal Open Market committee are appointed by the President of the U. S. and in this way he can reach the policies in which he is interested.

Committee: Michael Ellis PhD (Advisor); Eric Johnson PhD (Committee Member); Dandan Liu PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Economics