Policy Studies Journal articles from December 1999

Policy Studies Journal archives from December 1999

From the Editors.
December 22, 1999... The atypical format of this issue of the Policy Studies Journal is a result of success in attracting outstanding research symposia, and the commitment of the editors to timely publication of those manuscripts. The present issue includes two...

The Political Economy of Israeli-Palestinian Interdependence.
December 22, 1999... The Israeli and Palestinian economies are asymmetrically interdependent. Some scholars argue that the Palestinian economy cannot be viable alone. Others believe that economic links with Israel will promote peace. Supporters of separation argue...

The Problems of a Palestine That Would Be Economically Autonomous: A Commentary.
December 22, 1999... The title of this article is more persuasive than its contents. The title speaks to the political and economic reasons for Israeli-Palestinian interdependence. The article is well argued and thoroughly hedged with the appropriate reservations....

Israeli-Palestinian Economic Interdependence Reconsidered.
December 22, 1999... Ira Sharkansky's commentary on my paper is well written. He shares a good deal of my analysis and agrees with the conclusion that a Palestine that is economically autonomous may well be a better Israeli neighbor than a Palestine that is...

The Politics of Morality Policy: Symposium Editor's Introduction.
December 22, 1999... Abortion, capital punishment, legalized gambling, homosexual rights, pornography, physician-assisted suicide--these are among the most controversial and widely discussed issues facing public policymakers today. They also fall into a special...

Drugs, Sex, Rock, and Roll: A Theory of Morality Politics.
December 22, 1999... I assume that(a) the demand for sin is characterized by heterogeneous preferences and (b) private behavior diverges from public statements. From these assumptions, in the first section of this article I derive a series of propositions about...

Variations in the Diffusion of State Lottery Adoptions: How Revenue Dedication Changes Morality Politics [1].
December 22, 1999... Previous studies of morality policy adoption and diffusion often have failed to define the characteristics of a morality policy that result in certain kinds of politics. For example, studies of lottery diffusion include all lottery adoptions,...

Public Opinion and Policymaking in the States: The Case of Post-Roe Abortion Policy.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... Whether public opinion should be expected to play a role in the shaping of abortion legislation in the states is a debatable question. Representation is a difficult task, especially if legislators receive mixed cues from the public, activists,...

Clean Thoughts and Dirty Minds: The Politics of Porn.
December 22, 1999... Various justifications are given for regulating sexually explicit material, including that it causes social harm by eroding behavioral norms or violating basic civil rights. Theories of morality politics and policy, however, suggest that...

Morality Policy and Individual-Level Political Behavior: The Case of Legislative Voting on Lesbian and Gay Issues.
December 22, 1999... Researchers using the morality politics framework have focused on aggregate-level analysis, largely ignoring the behavior of individuals within political institutions. My research fills this gap by examining legislative voting behavior on...

The Rising Agenda of Physician-Assisted Suicide: Explaining the Growth and Content of Morality Policy.
December 22, 1999... Employing theories and methods of agenda-setting analysis, this article explains the rapid rise of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) on the national political agenda based on its status as a morality policy. PAS reached the mass agenda before...

The Temporal Diffusion of Morality Policy: The Case of Death Penalty Legislation in the American States.
December 22, 1999... The social learning theory of policy decisionmaking provides clear expectations for the temporal diffusion of policy through the American states (Gray, 1973; Rogers, 1995; Walker, 1969). But the diffusion of morality policy, with its technical...

The Third Wave: A Symposium on AIDS Politics and Policy in the United States in the 1990s.
December 22, 1999... It has been more than 18 years since a number of unusual infections began to manifest themselves in growing numbers in the United States. These infections were later categorized as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and linked to the...

Washington's Response to the AIDS Epidemic: The Ryan White CARE Act.
December 22, 1999... Passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 followed a form familiar to students of policymaking in the American intergovernmental system: the provision of significant federal financing for policy...

The Ryan White Act in Dallas.
December 22, 1999... Virtually every locality affected by the AIDS epidemic has had to confront changes in the demographics of the disease, shifts in federal priorities, and medical advances in AIDS treatment. Creating a consistent federal policy has proven...

Impact of the Ryan White CARE Act on the Availability of HIV/AIDS Services.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... This article assesses the extent to which the availability of HIV/AIDS services in the Baltimore and Oakland eligible metropolitan areas (EMAs) increased after receipt of funding under Title I of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources...

Redundancy, Third-Party Government, and Consumer Choice: HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Organizations in New York City.
December 22, 1999... This article addresses two questions: (a) Why were so many new nonprofit organizations in New York City created to "fight AIDS?" and (b) What are some consequences of this phenomenon? Drawing on redundancy theory as a partial explanation, it...

Ryan White CARE Act Title I Funding Priorities and Unmet Service Needs in Baltimore, Maryland.
December 22, 1999... The analysis presented in this paper explores the similarities and differences between the services selected as priorities for funding by the Baltimore Ryan White CARE Act Title I Planning Council during the first 2 years of the program in this...

Women With AIDS: Will It Change AIDS Service Organizations?
December 22, 1999... In the early 1980s, gay men formed AIDS service organizations (ASOs) in areas hardest hit by the disease, such as San Francisco and New York City, to provide assistance to infected members of their own communities. The Ryan White CARE Act of...

Information Technology and Public Policy.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. San Francisco, CA: HarperSan Francisco, 1994. 250 pp. Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. New York, NY: Ballantine, 1996. 344 Pp. $12.00 (paper)....