Policy Studies Review articles from June 2001

Policy Studies Review archives from June 2001

Policy for the `deserving,' but politically weak: the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and battered women.
June 22, 2001... I. Introduction On August 22, 1996, President Clinton delivered on his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it" (White House, 1997) when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public...

Toward a criterion for evaluating migrant farm labor policy arguments.
June 22, 2001... This article presents a criterion to evaluate policy arguments to address two long-standing policy concerns in American agriculture--the relative low wages of migrant farm labor and the availability of an adequate labor supply. It evaluates the...

The roaring silence: feminist revisions in the educational policy literature.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Feminist research is a recent phenomena in the academy having "its source in the general ferment of the 1960s and early 1970s" (DuBois, et. al., 1987, p. 1). Since the founding of the first women's study program in 1970 at San Diego State...

Assessing the value of a statewide immunization registry: the doctors' perspective.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Renewed interest in childhood immunizations can be traced to an alarming rise in preventable diseases that began to develop within the last decade. In 1990, for example, there were 500 measles cases per week, which was many times the record low...

Paradigms, policies, and people: exploring the linkages between normative beliefs, public policies and utility consumer payment problems.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION This article examines the interaction of societal metatheories, public policy models, and empirical data on consumers. It begins with the idea that "all policy arguments are normative in purpose and that a good policy argument...

Measuring the war on drugs: a cybernetic model for analyzing the relationships between drug severity, drug salience and drug funding.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION During the 1988 Presidential election, a major campaign issue was drugs. Republican candidate George Bush, running on a strong anti-crime platform, spoke often about the nation's drug problem. On more than one occasion he...

Response to "Preventing sexual harassment and preserving academic freedom".(Thomas Dye, Policy Studies Review, Winter 1998)
June 22, 2001... We reacted with general distress to the recent Policy Studies Review symposium on "Democracy and the Academy" (Winter 1998). While many of the articles are scholarly and provide important findings, and the topic of the symposium is vital,...

The rule of law reasserted.(response to article by Laura A. Reese and Karen E. Lindenberg in this issue, p.)(sexual harassment and academic freedom)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... I regret any "distress" caused by my proposals for avoiding the potential conflicts between the values of preventing sexual harassment and maintaining academic freedom (PSR, Winter, 1998). The purpose of my brief essay was to inspire precisely...