Policy Studies Journal articles from June 2002

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 2002

From the editor in chief.(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... You will note two important changes in the editorial staff beginning with this issue of Policy Studies Journal. Professor Mack Shelley has decided to resign as co-editor of the journal to assume a leadership role in research administration in...

There goes the neighborhood: environmental equity and the location of new hazardous waste management facilities.
June 22, 2002... Over the last decade, concern has grown about the impact of pollution on particular population groups. Some people claim that minority and/or low-income people bear disproportionately adverse health and environmental effects from pollution...

Citizen participation and government choice in local environmental controversies.
June 22, 2002... While even their detractors concede that the centralized policies of the 1970s have improved environmental quality significantly, most contend that such diffuse and complex problems as reducing non-point-source pollution, protecting...

Dimensions of state environmental policies: air pollution regulation in the United States.
June 22, 2002... The locus of environmental policy is increasingly situated at the state level. In clean air policy, states conduct the bulk of the enforcement actions, operate an extensive network of air monitoring stations, and have adopted pollution...

Rethinking European integration in the competition domain: A public policy approach.
June 22, 2002... The study of European integration has long been dominated by two major approaches: functionalism and intergovernmentalism. However, policy events in the 1990s, such as the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the advent of the single...

The European merger regime: accounting for the distinctiveness of the EU model.
June 22, 2002... Introduction The European Union's (EU) merger regime (1) was established in 1990 after decades of uncertainty and failed negotiations. (2) Since that date, it has been praised for the speed with which it makes its decisions, its...

The competition criterion in British merger control policy.
June 22, 2002... Competition has always been the watchword in British merger control, gaining renewed prominence in 1984 when Norman Tebbit, then-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, announced that competition among suppliers would be his principal...

The politics of an emergent global regime for controlling tax competition.
June 22, 2002... This article probes what I call the emergent global regime for controlling tax competition. Since at least the early 1990s, states have perceived that competition for investment, whether through direct subsidies or tax incentives, threatens to...

The political economy of state subsidies in Europe.
June 22, 2002... What motivates national governments to subsidize their industries? The subject has received much public attention because of the economic and political importance of the answer. But scholarly analysis has tended to focus more on macroeconomic...