Policy Studies Journal articles from February 2006

Policy Studies Journal archives from February 2006

Editors' notes.
February 1, 2006... It has been a year now since the APSA's Public Policy Section voted to provide the Policy Studies Journal to all members. Section members should by now have received a full volume of the PSJ, and have had the opportunity to see that the Journal...

The dynamics of incrementalism: subsystems, politics, and public lands.
February 1, 2006... A great deal of progress appears to have been made in recent years in understanding the agenda-setting stage of the policy process. After decades of largely descriptive, qualitative work that produced many interesting but rarely generalizable...

Funding faction or buying silence? Grants, contracts, and interest group lobbying behavior.
February 1, 2006... By law, federal funds may not be used for lobbying, but many corporations and nonprofit organizations that receive government grants and contracts also engage in lobbying activities using private funds. The legal tightrope that this creates has...

Cooperation without trust: overcoming collective action barriers to endangered species protection.
February 1, 2006... The problem of collective action has captivated political scientists for decades. Ever since Mancur Olson (1971) argued that self-interested individuals were unlikely to cooperate voluntarily to capture joint benefits, scholars have studied and...

Fish stories: science, advocacy, and policy change in New England Fishery Management.
February 1, 2006... Overfishing is a worldwide epidemic. The United Nations reports that 52 percent of the world's main fish stocks are fully exploited, another 16 percent are overexploited, and 8 percent are significantly depleted (UN FAO 2004). As fish...

"Colorblind" policy in black and white: racial consequences of disenfranchisement policy.
February 1, 2006... The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 prohibited states from denying any person equal protection. Yet, Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment confounds the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment in that the franchise limitation resulting...

The process of policy innovation: prison sitings in rural North Carolina.
February 1, 2006... This study examines prison sitings in North Carolina using economic, demographic, and siting data from 79 rural counties from 1970 to 2000. (1) There are at least two major reasons for studying the factors associated with prison sitings in...

E-mail communication and the policy process in the state legislature.
February 1, 2006... State legislators face a variety of demands for their time, energy, and staff resources, including committee hearings, floor debate, bill management, caucus meetings, policy leadership, campaign fundraising, and constituency service. The...

Public spending on the arts as morality policy: the structure of public attitudes.
February 1, 2006... Successfully reframing a political issue as morality policy should strengthen the hand of those charging immorality. Changing issue frames can shift public opinion by changing what aspects of a problem take priority in public thinking (e.g.,...