Policy Studies Journal articles from June 1993

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 1993

The origins of New Deal agricultural policy: interest groups' role in policy formation.
June 22, 1993... In its examination of New Deal agricultural programs, this article takes issue with the pluralist, state-centered, and class-centered approaches which ignore the complexity of these policy programs' development and implementation as well as the...

Recycling: a policy dilemma for American states?
June 22, 1993... In 1990, 38 states passed more than 140 recycling laws. What prompts the states to commit to recycling? In this article, various political, economic, and environmental variables are tested for their independent and group effect on states'...

Indian water settlements: the prerequisites of successful negotiation.
June 22, 1993... Beginning in the late 1970s, the federal government adopted a policy of negotiating, rather than litigating, conflicts over Indian water claims. In the ensuring years numerous settlements have been authorized by Congress. According to the...

Interstate migration: a test of competing interpretations.
June 22, 1993... This study presents a model of net interstate migration in the United States during the 1970s. Of 5 composite dimensions derived from an exploratory factor analysis of 20 candidate predictors of interstate migration, the greatest predictive...

Transportation infrastructure policy: an introductory synthesis.
June 22, 1993... The 1992 president election stimulated a great deal of debate on our nation's physical infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on transportation infrastructure. National policies were advocated to better maintain, restore, rebuild, and invest in...

The politics of motor fuel taxes and infrastructure funds in France and the United States.
June 22, 1993... The U.S. and France have adopted contrasting models of motor fuel tax and highway finance policy. Fuel tax revenues are dedicated to state and federal highway funds in America, keeping taxes quite low, but preventing them from contributing to...

Congestion pricing and demand management: a discussion of the issues.
June 22, 1993... This article reviews the political, technological, and economic issues involved in the formulation of congestion pricing policy. Increased urban congestion combined with increasingly scarce resources is making policymakers consider congestion...

Pricing road congestion: recent evidence from Singapore.
June 22, 1993... The role of road pricing in travel demand management and congestion mitigation has been gaining support in many countries. Although the theory of congestion pricing is persuasive and straightforward, successful application of road pricing...

Federal aid and rural county highway spending: a review of the 1980s.
June 22, 1993... The Reagan/Bush Administrations cut back federal support for state and local governments during the 1980s, causing total real resources available to finance local roads and bridges to increase very slowly between 1977 and 1989. The effect of...

Public assistance and promotion of local rail projects.
June 22, 1993... In the second half of the nineteenth century, and again in the middle of the twentieth century, federal, state, and local governments were involved in large-scale subsidizing and promoting of railroad infrastructure for economic development...

Establishing national priorities for rail transit investments.
June 22, 1993... The analysis assesses impacts on urban rail transit investment priorities resulting from use of different evaluation measures. To illustrate the effect of alternative evaluation methodologies, proposed fixed guideway projects from five U.S....

New dimensions in infrastructure evaluation: the case of non-technical issues in intelligent vehicle-highway systems.
June 22, 1993... Traditional infrastruture evaluation focuses primarily on technical criteria, such as the comppletion of a designated, interconnected system of facilities or a particular project's capacity to reduce costs borne by suppliers or end users. In...

Resources versus results: comparative performance of state highway systems, 1984-1990.
June 22, 1993... This article compares the relative performance of the U.S. and the 50 state highway systems against resources available, over the period 1984-1990. Data are collected on 13 measures of revenues, expenditures, pavement condition, congestion,...

Response to "Resources vs. Results: Comparative Performance of State Highway Systems, 1984-1990." (response to article by David T. Hartgen and Russell T. Krauss, in this issue, p. 357-374) (Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 1993... In their article "Resources vs. Results: Comparative Performance of State Highway Systems, 1984-1990," David T. Hartgen and Russell T. Krauss of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte offer a comparison of state departments of...

Genuine economic returns to infrastructure investment.
June 22, 1993... In the United States, there is increasing interest in policies pointed toward the goal of increasing the pace of productivity growth. This interest is primarily due to two sets of factors. Looking backward in time, the long-term rates of growth...

The spurious effect of public capital formation on private sector productivity.
June 22, 1993... The analysis of public capital formation had been one of the most routine tasks in the economists' catalogue until the late 1980s. While professional controversy continued as economists perfected methods of assessing project benefits and the...

The Debt and the Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities.
June 22, 1993... What is "the deficit problem?" It seems almost unpatriotic to ask what the problem is after the President has already provided his solution. And yet, after reviewing the works of four distinguished authors, it would appear that there are three...

The Capacity To Budget.
June 22, 1993... What is "the deficit problem?" It seems almost unpatriotic to ask what the problem is after the President has already provided his solution. And yet, after reviewing the works of four distinguished authors, it would appear that there are three...

Budget Policy: Prompt Action Necessary To Avert Long-Term Damage To the Economy.
June 22, 1993... What is "the deficit problem?" It seems almost unpatriotic to ask what the problem is after the President has already provided his solution. And yet, after reviewing the works of four distinguished authors, it would appear that there are three...

The New Politics of the Budgetary Process, 2nd ed.
June 22, 1993... What is "the deficit problem?" It seems almost unpatriotic to ask what the problem is after the President has already provided his solution. And yet, after reviewing the works of four distinguished authors, it would appear that there are three...