Policy Studies Journal articles from February 2003

Policy Studies Journal archives from February 2003

A new journal and a new agenda: the need for more inspired work in Policy Studies.
February 1, 2003... This first issue of a newly redesigned, reconsidered Policy Studies Journal marks a recommitment by the Policy Studies Organization to serve the international community. An international search is being launched for a new permanent editor, and...

Outsourcing regulation: analyzing nongovernmental systems of labor standards and monitoring.
February 1, 2003... Introduction Recent accounts of the proliferation of "sweatshops" and deplorable conditions of work in both developing and industrialized countries call into question the effectiveness of existing systems of governance over labor practices...

Local policy responses to globalization: place-based ownership models of economic enterprise.
February 1, 2003... Even during the recent long-running economic expansion in the United States, a sober mood shrouded many American communities. Buffeted by the destabilizing forces wrought by economic globalization, localities struggled mightily to cope with the...

Problem definitions and policy contradictions: John F. Kennedy and the "space race".
February 1, 2003... Over the past 10 years, a number of authors have successfully applied the concept of problem definition to a wide assortment of public issues, including homelessness (Rochefort & Cobb, 1992), air transport regulation (Baumgartner & Jones,...

How should we wage the war on drugs? Determinants of public preferences for drug control alternatives.
February 1, 2003... When citizens are presented with alternative policy solutions to a given social problem, why do they choose to support one over the other(s)? Much scholarship has investigated the strength and determinants of public support for government...

Welfare reform: making work really work.
February 1, 2003... The primary goal of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is to move able-bodied adults from welfare into self-sustaining employment. States are required to meet yearly employment goals for...

Commodity policy in an era of globalization: the Mexican sugar industry and its problems under NAFTA.
February 1, 2003... The present condition of the Mexican sugar industry is a good illustration of the confused policy situation in the light of globalization (1) and of what agriculture faces in the light of agricultural internationalization (Sanderson, 1986, p....

Commentary on commodity policy in an era of globalization: the Mexican sugar industry and its problems under NAFTA.
February 1, 2003... Perhaps the entire debate over the results of free trade policies is an illustration of how policy studies have to be tied to results. But in the Mexican situation, the presidential elections in 2000 were fair ones and the voters did have an...

Another face to policy.
February 1, 2003... The photographs in the following portfolio were taken at some risk by university students visiting the guerillas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas during the past few years and have never before been published. They present another face...