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Policy Studies Journal archives from December 1998
Game theory and institutional entrepreneurship: transfer pricing and the search for coordination in international tax policy.
December 22, 1998... Deep economic integration has internationalized tax policy problems (Tanzi, 1995), yet there is a fundamental difficulty in building cooperation in international tax policy. There are various reasons for this, including the fact that both...
The price of peace: a predictive model of UN peacekeeping fiscal costs.
December 22, 1998... "If the American people are to say yes to UN peacekeeping, the United Nations must know when to say no." - President Clinton (quoted in Friedman, 1993).
Since 1989, the United Nations (UN) has deployed more new peacekeeping missions than...
Systems theory and skeptical humanism in French ecological thought.
December 22, 1998... "The age of a finite earth has begun," declares one of France's leading green theorists, Alain Lipietz (1989, p. 61). For the physicist-historian Jean-Paul Deleage (1992, p. 2), this means that mankind must learn to "expand the frontiers of...
Strange bedfellows: how Spanish labor union leaders and employers find common ground on immigration.
December 22, 1998... In this article, I argue that Spanish labor union and employers have formed an unusual, tacit alliance around the politics of immigration policy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which holds that labor unions prefer restrictive immigration...
Disposing of the world's excess plutonium.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... At a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing in August 1995, Assistant Secretary of Defense Graham Allison poignantly demonstrated the danger that small amounts of plutonium pose for the international community. Pulling a baseball from...
The army and chemical weapons destruction: implementation in a changing context.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... The Cold War left behind a number of environmental legacies. One of the most serious and complicated is that of chemical weapons. During the Cold War, the United States accumulated a stockpile of approximately 30,000 tons of lethal chemical...
Controversial cleanup: Superfund and the implementation of U.S. hazardous waste policy.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... In the late 1970s, the struggle of Niagara Falls residents living near Love Canal to escape their chemically poisoned homes alerted the U.S. public to the ticking time bomb called hazardous waste. Love Canal's images of lime-green chemical...
Getting the job done: resolving state-federal conflicts in Superfund.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... The American system of federalism creates frequent opportunities for clashes between state and federal environmental regulators. State and federal environmental laws overlap but are not easily reconciled. Most federal environmental law provides...
All hazardous waste politics is local: grass-roots advocacy and public participation in siting and cleanup decisions.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... The American system of federalism and interest group pluralism often creates difficulties when it comes to local implementation of national environmental policies. Regulators must operate within the context of multiple political jurisdictions...
Coming through a city near you: the transport of hazardous wastes.(Symposium: The Politics of Toxic Waste)
December 22, 1998... "Iron triangles," "issue networks," "policy networks," "subsystems," and "communities" are terms that have been used to describe the complex interplay of power and influence in the public sector arena (Heclo, 1978; Kingdon, 1984; Milward &...
Stumbling towards Union: policymaking in the EU.
December 22, 1998... With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the emerging European Union (EU). These volumes tend to adopt one of two approaches. The first, the institutional approach...
Encyclopedia of the European Union.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Desmond Dinan (Ed.). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 565 pp.
With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the emerging European Union (EU). These volumes tend to...
The State of the European Union, vol. 4.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Pierre-Henri Laurent and Marc Maresceau (Eds.). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 374 pp.
With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the emerging European Union...
The European Union: Politics and Policies.(Review)
December 22, 1998... John McCormick. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996. 346 pp.
With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the emerging European Union (EU). These volumes tend to adopt one...
New Challenges to the European Union: Policies and Policy-Making.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Stelios Stavridis, Elias Mossialos, Roger Morgan, and Howard Machin (Eds.). Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth, 1997. 604 pp.
With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the...
Policy-Making in the European Union.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Helen Wallace and William Wallace (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 509 pp.
With the growth of European institutions and legislation, there has come an accompanying number of scholarly analyses of the emerging European Union...