Policy Studies Journal articles from June 1999

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 1999

From the Editors.(Editorial)
June 22, 1999... This issue commences with three individually-contributed articles addressing quite different aspects of contemporary public policy. All three share a concern with how procedural aspects of the policymaking process determine policy outcomes....

Committee Influence Over Controversial Policy: The Reproductive Policy Case.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Debates about legislative committee power have been fueled with empirical examples depending too much on distributive policies. I argue that answers to questions about the nature of committee influence can be enhanced by focusing on...

The Department of the Interior's Appeals Process and Native American Natural Resource Policy, 1970-94.
June 22, 1999... Department of the Interior (DOI) administrative appeals involving Native American lands and resources were studied to find out whether these cases or their outcomes had changed during the "self-determination" era of U.S. Indian policy. This...

The Supreme Court as a Policy Arena: The Strategies and Tactics of State Attorneys General.
June 22, 1999... Presently, state governments are more active and more successful in the U.S. Supreme Court than at any time since the New Deal. These rates of activity and success are a function of two coincident forces--the emergence of the Republican Court...

Comparative Analyses of Canadian and American Environmental Policy: An Introduction to the Symposium.
June 22, 1999... Canada and the United States offer an intriguing basis for comparative analysis in environmental policy. Canadian and American policymakers often face the same challenges and pursue similar, if not identical, goals. Yet, the pursuit of those...

Participation and Environmental Policy in Canada and the United States: Trends Over Time.
June 22, 1999... This article explores trends in participation and environmental policy in Canada and the United States over three time periods: from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s: from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s; and, finally, over the past few years....

Federalism and Entrepreneurship: Explaining American and Canadian Innovation in Pollution Prevention and Regulatory Integration.
June 22, 1999... Conventional wisdom provides an increasingly strong endorsement of far-reaching decentralization and delegation of authority to bureaucratic agents as the most likely mechanisms to attain such central environmental policy goals as pollution...

Balancing Preservation and Logging: Public Lands Policy in British Columbia and the Western United States.
June 22, 1999... Both the United States and Canada have made fundamental changes in their policies regarding natural resources. The province of British Columbia made major revisions to its forest policy in the early-to-mid-1990s; in the western United States,...

Providing Intergenerational Goods: Implementation of National Park System Plans in Canada and the United States.
June 22, 1999... The provision of intergenerational goods is a challenging task for democratic governments in that benefits arrive in the future but costs are borne in the present. Public agencies usually are assigned responsibility for providing such goods,...

Fortuitous Consequence: The Domestic Politics of the 1991 Canada-United States Agreement on Air Quaity.
June 22, 1999... Following more than a decade of negotiations. the Canada-United States Agreement on Air Quality entered into force on March13, 1991, with the signatures of then-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US. President George Bush. Why was it so...

American and Canadian Environmental Federalism: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.
June 22, 1999... To understand why environmental federalism is different in Canada and the United States, one might begin with the initial strategic realities that faced the Fathers of Canadian Confederation and the Framers of the Constitution of the United...

Transformative Mediation: A New Current in the Mainstream.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger, The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1994. Chris Maser, Resolving Environmental Conflict: Towards Sustainable...

Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 348 pp. $19.95 (paper); $44.95 (cloth). Bardach argues that today's climate, which...

Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment.(Review)
June 22, 1999... David E. Camacho (Ed.), Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 240 pp. $17.95 (paper); $49.95 (cloth). This book is a response to the lack of attention given...

Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 307 pp. $30.00 (cloth). This book explores the transformation of federal family...

Shrinking the State. The Political Underpinnings of Privatization.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Harvey Feigenbaum, Jeffrey Heing, and Chris Hamnett, Shrinking the State. The Political Underpinnings of Privatizagion. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 192 pp. $18.95 (paper); $54.95 (cloth). This book provides a...

Urban Problems and Community Development.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens (Eds.), Urban Problems and Community Development. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. 512 pp. $22.95 (paper); $52.95 (cloth). This book addresses two important questions that have not...

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953.(Review)
June 22, 1999... David M. Hart, Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 267 Pp. $39.95 (cloth). Hart challenges the creation myth of post-World War II...

Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Frederick M. Hess, Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. 210 pp. $16.95 (paper); $39.95 (cloth). Hess argues that Continuous and fragmented reform efforts exacerbate the...

The American Experiment with Government Corporations.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Jerry Mitchell, The American Experiment with Government Corporations. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1999. 224 Pp. $54.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). This book systematically assembles the existing knowledge about government corporations into...

Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson (Eds.), Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 487 pp. $25.00 (paper); $55.00 (cloth). The proportion of Americans living in urban areas...

Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America.(Review)
June 22, 1999... David Rusk, Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. 404 pp. $28.95 (cloth). This book's primary concern is the plight of central cities in the Northeast and...

Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Peter H. Schuck, Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 500 pp. $28.00 (cloth). This integrated series of 14 essays analyzes the complex social forces that have been...

Culture Wars & Local Politics.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Elaine B. Sharp (Ed.), Culture Wars & Local Politics. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 250 pp. $16.95 (paper); $35.00 (cloth). A team of prominent scholars in urban politics examines how local governments handle...

The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod (Eds.), The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1999. 352 pp. $25.95 (paper); $43.95 (cloth). This collection of essays analyzes and assesses...

Street-Level Leadership: Discretion & Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Janet Coble Vinzant and Lane Crothers, Street-Level Leadership: Discretion & Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 240 pp. $18.95 (paper); $55.00 (cloth). Vinzant and Crothers propose a...

Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Ronald K. Vogel (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 464 pp. $99.50 (cloth). This handbook provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the...

End of the Year PSO Membership Report.
June 22, 1999... End of the Year PSO Membership Report Category 1995 1996 1997 1998 Individual Members 1,025 1,039 1,186 1,115 Library Members 1,155 1,177 1,179 1,125 Total Membership 2,180...