Policy Studies Journal articles from June 1996

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 1996

Consistency of change in women's politicization in South Korea.
June 22, 1996... Introduction South Korea (hereafter Korea) has been and still is undergoing an extremely rapid economic transformation and social mobilization. For a nation with an uneducated labor force, no natural resources, and an infrastructure and...

The unsheltering sky: China, India, and the Montreal Protocol.
June 22, 1996... As nations in the industrialized world halt production of chemicals that ravage the stratospheric ozone layer, China and India have claimed center stage in humankind's longstanding struggle with its capricious technology. Both had opposed the...

The spending-service connection: the case of health care.
June 22, 1996... Following the Great Society programs of the 1960s, some critics claimed that "throwing money" at social problem would do little good. In fact, political conservatives supported by some academics even argued that increased spending for public...

Revisiting the urban classics: political order, economic development, and social justice.
June 22, 1996... After languishing in the doldrums for two decades, "the lost world of municipal government" finally was rediscovered in the 1950s. Indeed, a dazzling array of studies created a "golden age" of urban studies. The seminal work of Norton Long...

Dueling decisions: contrasting constitutional visions of the United States president's foreign policy role.
June 22, 1996... A recurring problem in the conduct of foreign affairs in the United States has been to determine the proper roles of the president and Congress. The ultimate source of authority in this melter, the Constitution, is notoriously ambiguous. Hence,...

Congress and back seat driving: an information theory of the War Powers Resolution.
June 22, 1996... Since Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 over the veto of President Nixon, heated debate has surrounded both the legislation itself and the principles on which it is based.(1) Intelligent opinions differ about many aspects of war...

Conceptualizing and researching policy convergence.
June 22, 1996... Introduction The convergence hypothesis permeates increasing amounts of the comparative public policy literature. The notion that industrialization and modernization unleash a dynamic that prompts societies to become more and more...

Parties, Policies, and Democracy.
June 22, 1996... Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Richard Hofferbert, and Ian Budge, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. What is public policy? Does it resemble Justice Potter Stewart's famous dicta on obscenity--I can't define it, but I know it when I see it? Both...

Inheritance in Public Policy: Change Without Choice in Britain.
June 22, 1996... Richard Rose and Phillip Davies, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. What is public policy? Does it resemble Justice Potter Stewart's famous dicta on obscenity--I can't define it, but I know it when I see it? Both Rose and Davies,...

Contemporary British Conservatism.
June 22, 1996... Steve Ludlam and Martin J. Smith (Eds.), New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1996. What is public policy? Does it resemble Justice Potter Stewart's famous dicta on obscenity--I can't define it, but I know it when I see it? Both Rose and Davies, and...

The New Politics of Public Policy.
June 22, 1996... Marc K. Landy and Martin A. Levin (Eds.), Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $49.95 hardcover, $16.95 paper. "New" is a favorite adjective of edited collections about American politics and public policy. Readers probably...

The New American Politics: Reflections on Political Change and the Clinton Administration.
June 22, 1996... Bryan D. Jones (Ed.), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. $77.50 hardcover, $24.94 paper. "New" is a favorite adjective of edited collections about American politics and public policy. Readers probably greet such claims with the same...

The Fiscal Crisis of the States: Lessons for the Future.
June 22, 1996... Steven D. Gold (Ed.), Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995. $19.95 paper; $42.50 hardcover. 396 pages. In recent years, state policy research has returned to issues surrounding state policy innovation. For example, recent...

Policy Innovation in State Government.
June 22, 1996... David C. Nice, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994. $32.95 hardcover. 169 pages. In recent years, state policy research has returned to issues surrounding state policy innovation. For example, recent research utilizing event history...

Abortion Rates in the United States.
June 22, 1996... Matthew E. Wetstein, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. $16.95 paper; $49.50 hardcover. 153 pages. In recent years, state policy research has returned to issues surrounding state policy innovation. For example, recent research...

The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy.
June 22, 1996... Paul Kantor, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. 280 pp. $21.50 (paper). These three volumes are sobering, for they point up the relatively intractable character of many of the policy and social questions that urban political issues now raise...

City Building in America.
June 22, 1996... Anthony Orum, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. 261 pp. $19.95 (paper). These three volumes are sobering, for they point up the relatively intractable character of many of the policy and social questions that urban political issues now...

The Politics of Redistributing Urban Aid.
June 22, 1996... Douglas J. Watson, John G. Heilman, and Robert S. Montjoy, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. 140 pp. $49.95 (cloth). These three volumes are sobering, for they point up the relatively intractable character of many of the policy and...