Policy Studies Journal articles from December 1997

Policy Studies Journal archives from December 1997

A resource model of computer-mediated politics life.
December 22, 1997... Civic and political discourse in the United States is migrating to new and powerful computer networks through which participants can share voice, video, and text (Miller, 1996). The heralded town meeting has been amplified to include...

An assessment of health policy reform in Russia.
December 22, 1997... Today's Russia is a paradox. Here is a country that only a few years ago was one of the superpowers. It matched or surpassed other industrialized powers in terms of medical and scientific advancements - developing, for example, the Illizarov...

Response to Theodore J. Lowi's "Comments on Anderson, 'Governmental Suasion: Adding to the Lowi Policy Typology'" (Policy Studies Journal, 25(2), 283-285).
December 22, 1997... My recent article in the Policy Studies Journal that suggested students and interested scholars should refocus the Lowi policy typologies was aided greatly by Professor Lowi's initial review. As a consequence of reading his cogent criticisms my...

The political leadership of women and public policymaking.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... Who makes public policy is important in democratic politics. Throughout most of its history, Western political theorists have ignored women or explicitly excluded them from public life. Aristotle, for example, viewed women as having no place in...

Change and continuity in the relationship between private responsibilities and public officeholding: the more things change, the more they stay the same.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... At least with regard to gender, a growing body of literature suggests that increased descriptive representation(1) within political institutions not only furthers the ideals of equality of opportunity, but also facilitates the substantive...

A view of their own: women's committee leadership styles and state legislatures.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... Leadership style does not spring solely from personality, but rather depends on organizational position and culture. Bums (1979, pp. 434-435), for example, notes that political leadership stems from the interaction between leader and followers...

Feminists in power: women cabinet ministers in the New Democratic Party (NDP) government of Ontario, 1990-1995.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... The difference between quantitative representation and qualitative (or "substantive") representation has become of interest to scholars exploring the impact of the number of women elected to political institutions. Where once the focus was on the...

Legislator gender and legislator policy priorities in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and the United States House of Representatives.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... The Platform for Action of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (held in Beijing in 1995) calls for increasing the representation of women in government (United Nations, 1995). The Platform as well as related documents (e.g.,...

It doesn't matter: some cautionary findings about sex and representation from school committee conversations.(Symposium: Women and Public Policy)
December 22, 1997... School committees are the governing body in American politics with the greatest number of women. Nationally, women hold around 43% of all school committee seats, roughly double what they hold at the state legislative level (American School Board...

Governmental reform: what are the alternatives?
December 22, 1997... These three books examine governmental reform. Each presents diagnoses of problems and recommendations for correcting them. Peters' book is broader in scope and contains a thoughtful synthesis and analysis of a wide-ranging array of views of...

The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models.
December 22, 1997... These three books examine governmental reform. Each presents diagnoses of problems and recommendations for correcting them. Peters' book is broader in scope and contains a thoughtful synthesis and analysis of a wide-ranging array of views of...

Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works.
December 22, 1997... These three books examine governmental reform. Each presents diagnoses of problems and recommendations for correcting them. Peters' book is broader in scope and contains a thoughtful synthesis and analysis of a wide-ranging array of views of...

Managerial Reform and Professional Empowerment in the Public Service.
December 22, 1997... These three books examine governmental reform. Each presents diagnoses of problems and recommendations for correcting them. Peters' book is broader in scope and contains a thoughtful synthesis and analysis of a wide-ranging array of views of...

Health care policy.
December 22, 1997... Governing Health, Man-Made Medicine, and The System are about coming to terms with this political consensus: We have no public philosophy by which to judge government. The political themes and research parameters of these books include community,...

Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy.
December 22, 1997... Governing Health, Man-Made Medicine, and The System are about coming to terms with this political consensus: We have no public philosophy by which to judge government. The political themes and research parameters of these books include community,...

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point.
December 22, 1997... Governing Health, Man-Made Medicine, and The System are about coming to terms with this political consensus: We have no public philosophy by which to judge government. The political themes and research parameters of these books include community,...

Man-Made Medicine: Women's Health, Public Policy, and Reform.
December 22, 1997... Governing Health, Man-Made Medicine, and The System are about coming to terms with this political consensus: We have no public philosophy by which to judge government. The political themes and research parameters of these books include community,...