Policy Studies Journal articles from August 2004

Policy Studies Journal archives from August 2004

Editor's notes.(Editorial)
August 1, 2004... Part of the intrigue of public policy research grows from the breadth of the relevant subject matter and diverse disciplines that provide theories and means of analysis. Disciplinary boundaries are essential to the enterprise, yet they often...

A note to our readers and authors.(Editorial)
August 1, 2004... You will notice that the lead article in this issue, "Policymaking in the Parallelogram of Forces: Common Agency and Human Service Provision" by Anthony Bertelli and Lawrence Lynn, is a repeat of the same article printed in the last issue...

Policymaking in the parallelogram of forces: common agency and human service provision.
August 1, 2004... The provision of human services--services that protect, maintain, or enhance the welfare or social functioning of individuals, families, and social groups--presents difficult political and management issues. Human service provision is...

Matching rates and mandates: federalism and children's medicaid enrollment.
August 1, 2004... Introduction The extensive array of grant programs connecting federal, state, and local governments represent an important part of U.S. intergovernmental relations. Grant-providing governments can influence the behavior of grant-receiving...

Collaborative watershed management: a view from the grassroots.
August 1, 2004... The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of collaborative watershed management as a new paradigm in environmental policy (Lubell, Schneider, Scholz, & Mete, 2002). Instead of the centralized, command-and-control policies that...

Evaluating the effectiveness of nonprofit fundraising.
August 1, 2004... Nonprofit activity is receiving increasing policy attention. There are two main reasons for this. First, many nonprofits receive high levels of government funding: Governments at all levels provide about a third of all nonprofit revenues, which...

Policy implementation and the Environmental Protection Agency: what factors influence remediation at superfund sites?
August 1, 2004... More than 20 years has passed since Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), more commonly known as Superfund. Superfund is a federal program designed to address the nation's worst...

The race gap in student achievement scores: longitudinal evidence from a racially diverse school district.
August 1, 2004... One of the most pressing concerns in American public education today is the so-called race gap in student achievement test scores. The "race gap," usually studied as the difference between Black and White students' achievement scores, clearly...

Is greener whiter? Voluntary environmental performance of western ski areas.
August 1, 2004... Introduction Since the early 1990s, more than 200 voluntary environmental programs have been created to promote proactive corporate environmental protection in the United States (Carmin, Darnall, & Homens, 2003). Currently, the use of...

Welfare reform and economic and housing capacity for low-income households, 1997-1999.
August 1, 2004... In 1996, many opponents of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) anticipated that PRWORA would generate increased hardship for low-income families. (1) Six years later, in 2002, welfare caseloads and the...

State implementation of federal environmental policy: explaining leveraging in the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
August 1, 2004... Introduction Much of the recent discussion of the redefinition of federalism, and concomitant changes in environmental policy implementation, is predicated on the assumption that states possess the resources to assume responsibility for...