Policy Studies Journal articles from June 1998

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 1998

Law, policymaking, and the policy process: closing the gaps.
June 22, 1998... Public policy scholars and public law scholars consider the same policy areas. They ask the same questions and they share a common discipline. Yet these two fields have adopted differing approaches to understanding the role of courts as...

Discourse, party, and policy: the case of abortion, 1965-1972.
June 22, 1998... E. E. Schattschneider (1960, p. 66) once observed that "... the definition of the alternatives is the supreme instrument of power." Nowhere is this truer than in the case of abortion policy, where there has been an unremitting struggle among...

Hazardous liaisons: risk, power, and politics in the liberal state.
June 22, 1998... This paper explores the relationship between three concepts: democracy, risk, and community. The meaning of these terms, both individually and in combination, is often at the heart of current political disputes between political leaders, between...

Partisan probing and democratic decisionmaking: rethinking the Nimby syndrome.
June 22, 1998... Nimbys are noisy. Nimbys are powerful. Nimbys are everywhere. Nimbys are people who live near enough to corporate or government projects and are upset enough about them to work to stop, stall or shrink them. Nimbys organize, march, sue and...

Restructuring British public sector industrial relations: state policies and trade union responses.
June 22, 1998... This article examines the role of the public sector and public sector trade unionism within the wider British system of industrial relations. There are a number of surveys of public sector industrial relations (Bailey, 1994; Beaumont, 1992;...

When businesses collide: producer interest groups and the politics of regulation.
June 22, 1998... Both in the study of politics and the popular conception of politics, interest group behavior is considered one of the dominant determinants of outcomes of political processes, including regulation. Though it has been recognized that the simple...

Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor.
June 22, 1998... William M. Epstein, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 267 pp. $19.95 (paper). Politicians, social service providers, and scholars anxiously are assessing the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...

The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy.
June 22, 1998... Herbert J. Gans, New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995. 195 pp. $14.00 (paper). Politicians, social service providers, and scholars anxiously are assessing the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996....

The Poverty of Welfare Reform.
June 22, 1998... Joel F. Handler, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995, 177 pp. $1300 (paper). Politicians, social service providers, and scholars anxiously are assessing the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act...

Computers in Congress: The Politics of Information.
June 22, 1998... Stephen E. Frantzich, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1982. 285 pp. Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail messages, addresses, and other...

Political Parties in the Technological Age.
June 22, 1998... Stephen E. Frantzich, New York, NY: Longman, 1989. 32 pp. $26.00 (cloth). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail messages, addresses, and other...

At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion.
June 22, 1998... David H. Freedman and Charles C. Mann, New York, NY: Touchstone Books; 1998. 315 pp. $13.00 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail...

Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet.
June 22, 1998... Kevin A. Hill and John E. Hughes, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. ix + 207 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it...

The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture.
June 22, 1998... Dinty W. Moore, Chapel Hill NC: Algonquin Books, 1995. xvii + 219 p. $17.95 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail messages, addresses,...

Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It.
June 22, 1998... Tsutomu Shimomura with John Markoff, New York, NY: Hyperion, 1996. 324 pp. $5.95 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail messages,...

Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway.
June 22, 1998... Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome R. Ravetz (Eds.), New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996. vi + 161 pp. $16.95 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it...

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.
June 22, 1998... Bruce Sterling, New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1992. xiv + 328 pp. $6.99 (paper). Realize this. Every document you've written on your word processor and sent to someone electronically may have hidden in it old e-mail messages, addresses, and...