Policy Studies Journal articles from December 1994

Policy Studies Journal archives from December 1994

Regulating local tax abatement policies: arguments and alternative policies for urban planners and administrators.
December 22, 1994... The abatement of property taxes remains a popular tool for the public mechanics of local economic development in the United States. At the start of the 1980s, 26 states authorized the use of tax exemptions and abatements to attract new industry...

Policy gridlock in waste management: balancing federal and state concerns.
December 22, 1994... Introduction In the United States, all levels of government manage waste. Protecting the public from waste-related hazards fails within the constitutional powers granted to states and their creations (cities, towns, and counties). However,...

Judicial intervention and local spending: the case of local jails.
December 22, 1994... In 1980, Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York City wrote an article in The Public Interest entitled, "The Mandate Millstone" (Koch, 1980). In his characteristically blunt style, Mayor Koch began his article with the following sentence: "Over the past...

The low-level radioactive waste siting process in Connecticut: anatomy of a failure.
December 22, 1994... The policy concerning the safe disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) from the operations of the nation's commercial nuclear power reactors and various medical and research organizations was conceived by the states and enacted into law by...

Policy paradigms and policy change: lessons from the old and new Canadian policies towards aboriginal peoples.
December 22, 1994... Introduction(1) Canadian policy rewards the country's "First Nations" is a complex web of government and Aboriginal initiatives existing over four centuries of European contact with the original inhabitants of northern North America. It is...

Mental health policy inquiry, its importance, and its rewards.(Symposium on Studies in Mental Health Policy)
December 22, 1994... The relationship between mental health and public affairs has fascinated scholars of government from as far back as Harold Lasswell's publication of Psychopathology and Politics (1930) and Power and Personality (1948). That interest continues to...

Principles of mental health systems change: a governor's perspective.(Symposium on Studies in Mental Health Policy)
December 22, 1994... Ohio - January 1983 When I ran for Governor in 1982, a central campaign theme was "no more business as usual." I took office in January 1983 after a period of 20 years of almost complete neglect of the state's mental health system. The brief...

Is there a national policy for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance?(Symposium on Studies in Mental Health Policy)
December 22, 1994... Of the approximately 7.5 million children who experience some type of emotional, behavioral, or mental disorder (Office of Technology Assessment, 1989), between three and five million are estimated to have serious disorders (Knitzer, 1982). These...

An analysis of capitation for mental health services.(Symposium on Studies in Mental Health Policy)
December 22, 1994... One of the most important national trends in the financing of mental health care has been the use of capitation as a device to contain the costs of treatment for the severely mentally ill. While capitation is expected to result in reduced, or at...

Studies in mental health policy: suggestions for future research.(Symposium on Studies in Mental Health Policy)
December 22, 1994... In his introductory article, David Rochefort has set forth his argument for the importance of mental health policy research. His article references many areas where there exist opportunities to make a substantial contribution to the developing...

The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies.
December 22, 1994... William R. Lowry, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. Over twenty years ago, in one of the first issues of the Policy Studies Journal, Paul Sabatier (1973, p. 218) lamented the fact that most political scientists concerned with...

Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution.
December 22, 1994... Over twenty years ago, in one of the first issues of the Policy Studies Journal, Paul Sabatier (1973, p. 218) lamented the fact that most political scientists concerned with environmental policymaking focused their attention primarily on the...

Agendas and Instability in American Politics.
December 22, 1994... Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Recent contributions to the policy studies literature are helping to reorient the manner in which we perceive agenda setting and issue definition...

The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda.
December 22, 1994... Recent contributions to the policy studies literature are helping to reorient the manner in which we perceive agenda setting and issue definition activities. From its origins in the study of public opinion (McCombs & Shaw, 1972) and American...

National Self-Determination: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy.
December 22, 1994... This timely and well-written volume by the British historian Derek Heater depicts the evolution of the idea of national self-determination, looking carefully at the application of the principle at the end of World War I and its consequences for...

Public Goods, Public Enterprise and Public Choice: Theoretical Foundations of the Contemporary Attack on Government.
December 22, 1994... Although I have spent considerable time exploring, I have not found the great chasm that I have been told separates economics from politics. I cannot find this legendary place where politics ends and economics begins. What I have found is an...