Policy Studies Journal articles from December 2002

Policy Studies Journal archives from December 2002

Public consultation for sustainable development policy initiatives: Manitoba approaches.
December 22, 2002... Introduction Rabe observes that "much of the decade since Brundtland has been devoted to the endorsement of and prolonged dialogue about sustainability rather than about institutional reform or policy innovation" (1997, p. 417). Although...

Stem cell policies in the United States and in Germany: between bioethics and regulation.
December 22, 2002... Introduction In November 1998, two research teams, one headed by John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, the other led by James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin, reported on a number of breakthroughs in the culturing of human...

International environmental treaty engagement in 19 democracies.
December 22, 2002... In the 20th century, nation-states have enacted a host of new treaties directed at protecting natural resources and the environment. In 1920, the estimated total number of environmental treaties was only 8. This grew to about 20 by 1940 and...

A multiple streams model of U.S. foreign aid policy.
December 22, 2002... John Kingdon's (1995) work on multiple streams has emerged as a major theoretical breakthrough in the study of public policy (Sabatier, 1999). Despite high accolades, however, few analysts have attempted to expand the applicability of multiple...

Policy Studies Journal editor's report, 2001-2002.
December 22, 2002... Report on Articles The systematic and rigorous review process for individually submitted article manuscripts continues to produce high-quality manuscripts for Policy Studies Journal. During the year, August 1, 2001 through July 31,...

Policy studies and history.
December 22, 2002... The triumph of rational choice theory has meant that for many policy scholars, history is a luxury rather than a necessity There are few better examples of this than the way in which mercantilism has been dismissed as a spent philosophy....

From the editor in chief.(Editorial)
December 22, 2002... The four articles in this issue address conditions that shape public policymaking here in the United States, as well as in Canada and Germany. A. John Sinclair, in "Public Consultation for Sustainable Development Policy Initiatives:...