Policy Studies Journal articles from December 1995

Policy Studies Journal archives from December 1995

The structure and context of the urban growth coalition: the view from the chamber of commerce.
December 22, 1995... Volumes have been written analyzing the scope and nature of power relationships in American cities. Though their methodologies and conclusions may differ, most urban scholars have concluded that business has a virtually unrivaled position in...

Beyond NIMBY: explaining opposition to hazardous waste facilities.
December 22, 1995... Introduction In the past decade or so, a virtual cottage industry has grown up and around the issue of siting noxious facilities. What is clear is that it has become increasingly difficult to site such facilities. Nationwide, the EPA reports...

The Seattle Commons: a case study in the politics and planning of an urban village.
December 22, 1995... Introduction For the past two decades, we have become aware increasingly of the dangers of urban sprawl and the attractions of urban revitalization. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed the blossoming of growth management and comprehensive planning...

Expert policy in juvenile justice: patterns of claimsmaking and issues of power in a program construction.
December 22, 1995... Policy design and policy analysis are performed mainly by professional experts in a variety of policy fields. Their approach often is grounded in scientific analysis born out of positivism. Positivism suggests that phenomena are observable,...

Using public-private partnerships to develop local economies: an analysis of two Missouri enterprise zones.
December 22, 1995... As an outgrowth of President Ronald Reagan's New Federalism era, enterprise zones (EZs) promise economic revitalization of distressed urban areas by stimulating private-sector growth and investment.(1) Basically, an enterprise zone is an area,...

Preferences of water policy in the Ogallala region of New Mexico: distributive vs. regulatory solutions.
December 22, 1995... Hope for the High Plains? Since the mid-1970s, the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer has captured nationwide attention. Responding to predictions that groundwater mining would provoke a regional disaster with national consequences, Congress...

Immigration as a political dilemma in Britain: implications for Western Europe.
December 22, 1995... Introduction: The Dilemma Outlined Two of the most intriguing puzzles of the postwar period (1945-1990), and questions that have aroused the intellectual curiosity of a number of scholars in recent years, are how and why political elites in...

Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.
December 22, 1995... These volumes represent two of the most vibrant research traditions in comparative public policy. Although the Castles book also contains rich contextual information, its basic methodology is the analysis of multicountry comparative quantitative...

Privatizing Education and Educational Choice: Concepts, Plans and Experiences.
December 22, 1995... Education long has been considered an essential foundation for a healthy polity. Aristotle, for example, stressed the critical linkage between education and political stability when he noted, "All who have meditated on the art of governing...

Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy.
December 22, 1995... Each of these books is similar in type and general structure. Each combines a primary emphasis on methodology in policy analysis with chapters devoted to illustrative applications. The works by Fischer and Roe are quite compatible with each...