Policy Studies Review articles from June 2000

Policy Studies Review archives from June 2000

Policy Studies Review
June 22, 2000... A Publication of the Policy Studies Organization Report on Past Year's Activities: After a long hiatus, Policy Studies Review resumed publication with the Spring, 1998 issue (Vol. 15, no. 1). The four editors of PSR, appointed by Stuart Nagel...

Public Policies for Distressed Communities
June 22, 2000... Introduction to the Symposium Nearly twenty years ago, as the editors of a similar collection of papers on public policies for distressed communities (Redburn & Buss, 1981), we observed that Federal and state policy toward economically...

Strategic Planning and Enterprise Zones
June 22, 2000... State policy makers are concerned about costs of past policies whose benefits are often difficult to determine. Some have recommended a strategic approach to state economic policy making in order to eliminate ad hoc incentives. Lessons derived...

An Evaluation of State Enterprise Zone Policies
June 22, 2000... Our analysis looks at the impact of state enterprise zones in six states (California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) on housing values, occupancy rates, and economic well-being of zone residents. Zones did not lead to...

A Partnership for Regional Collaboration
June 22, 2000... Urban policy is out of alignment with domestic problems arising from the global economy, sprawling metropolitan regions, and distressed neighborhoods. A new urban policy, grandly conceived and dramatically announced and implemented, is needed....

STATE URBAN POLICY: "New" Federalism in Virginia, New Jersey and Florida
June 22, 2000... The recent rediscovery of federalism has left the nation's governors with expanded responsibility and limited federal support. In return, they were promised greater fiscal flexibility, a real partnership in program design, and protection from...

Faith-Based Economic Development
June 22, 2000... This article identifies factors that appear to contribute to the economic development activities of faith-based institutions. Based on in-depth interviews with churches in Detroit, it concludes that size and revenue of concretion, theology of...

HOPE VI: A Promising Vintage?
June 22, 2000... Public housing policies in distressed communities if they are to succeed, must be based on much more realistic assumptions than they are now. We look at HOPE VI, a public housing policy that not only changes the physical environment, but also...

Urban Development Action Grants Revisited
June 22, 2000... The Urban Development Block Grant (UDAG) program evolved from preceding programs in aid of distressed communities, including permitting local officials and private businesses wide berth in making deals for UDAG utilization and actively...

A TALE OF TWO URBAN POLICIES, with a (Discouraging) Moral
June 22, 2000... This article re-examines the urban policy initiatives of the Nixon and Carter administrations, concluding that it is doubtful that the United States had then, or has now, the capacity to define much less implement a good or responsive urban...

DEVOLUTION and RECENTRALIZATION OF WELFARE ADMINISTRATION: Implications for "New Federalism"
June 22, 2000... DEVOLUTION AND RECENTRALIZATION OF WELFARE ADMINISTRATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR "NEW FEDERALISM" For almost three decades, the term "New Federalism" has been used to describe a steady drive to redefine the economic roles of various levels of...

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GROUPS: Grass-Roots Movement or NGO Network? Some Policy Implications
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Environmental justice groups are a self-proclaimed grassroots, community-based movement with the general goal of inclusion in the policy process via the politics of protest. Some of the reasons attributed to the mobilization of...

THE EVOLUTION OF AN ISSUE: The Rise and Decline of Affirmative Action
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Issues of race and the resulting policy measures that have been proposed to deal with the consequences of racial discrimination have been among the dominant concerns of political elites and the mass public for much of the last...