Policy Studies Journal articles from March 1993

Policy Studies Journal archives from March 1993

"Indirect regulation" of environmental hazards through the provision of information to the public: the case of SARA, Title III. (Superfunds Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986; The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act)
March 22, 1993... Each year billions of pounds of hazardous chemicals are released into the environment by tens of thousands of firms in the U.S. (Environmental Protection Agency, 1991). Many billions more pounds of these chemicals are manufactured, stored, and...

Peace protest and policy: explaining the rise and decline of antinuclear movements in postwar America.
March 22, 1993... The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the first glimpse of the nuclear age for all but a few scientists and policymakers. Almost immediately journalists flocked to the issue, clergy examined the moral implications of the...

Problem definition, agenda access, and policy choice. (public policymaking)
March 22, 1993... The process of public policymaking has commonly been depicted in terms of a natural logical sequence. Through the accumulation of information, a troubling social condition comes to light and is documented. Next it is the job of public officials...

From traditional management to the new management in British local government. (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... Local government in Britain is facing a new crisis. The failure of the community charge and the cumulative impact of the legislation of the current Parliament, to which we refer below, has led to a review of its structure and operation. In...

The strategic planning component in the policymaking process for municipalities in Canada. (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... Canadian municipalities are not immune to postindustrial pressures and changes in policymaking demands. Their capacities to recognize and respond to emergent trends are, importantly, seriously conditioned by learned habits, legally enshrined...

Reforming local government policymaking and management through organizational learning and experimentation: the case of Norway. (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... During the latter half of the 1980s a new vocabulary of local government reform started emerging in the Nordic countries. Terms like "pathfinders," "free communes," and "pilots" were increasingly used to describe approaches to change and...

Policymaking and management in Israeli local government: evolving trends and strategic challenges. (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... During the last decade, Israel has witnessed the emergence of local government as an increasingly active, entrepreneurial and independent public institution. This unfolding change implies a gradual reversal of its subordinate role vis-a-vis the...

Local decisionmaking and management in Czechoslovakia: 1990-1992. (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... The political and economic environment in Czechoslovakia has been changing dramatically since the 1989 November revolution. We have been facing the restructuring of a whole society that is finding again its own identity, reassessing the history...

Local government policymaking and management in Russia: The case of St. Petersburg (Leningrad). (Local Government Policymaking and Management: A Crossnational Perspective)
March 22, 1993... The Shift of Power from Party to Soviet, from Soviet to Executive The 12th of June 1991 saw the election of "strong mayors" in St. Petersburg (Anatoly Sobchak) and Moscow (Gavril Popov--since resigned), and an executive president (Boris...

Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991.
March 22, 1993... Many scholars who study American urban problems and policy are quick to note that local governments here in the United States differ strikingly from local governments in much of the rest of the world. Such scholars say that American local...

London 2001.
March 22, 1993... Many scholars who study American urban problems and policy are quick to note that local governments here in the United States differ strikingly from local governments in much of the rest of the world. Such scholars say that American local...

The Politics of Urban Development: A Study of Old Delhi.
March 22, 1993... Many scholars who study American urban problems and policy are quick to note that local governments here in the United States differ strikingly from local governments in much of the rest of the world. Such scholars say that American local...

Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City.
March 22, 1993... Many scholars who study American urban problems and policy are quick to note that local governments here in the United States differ strikingly from local governments in much of the rest of the world. Such scholars say that American local...

Mexico City: The Production and Reproduction of an Urban Environment.
March 22, 1993... Many scholars who study American urban problems and policy are quick to note that local governments here in the United States differ strikingly from local governments in much of the rest of the world. Such scholars say that American local...

Challenging the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington.
March 22, 1993... Even as global capitalism is being declared the victor over global communism in the just-concluded Cold War, and even as gloating conservatives write political obituaries for defeated socialist parties and leftist ideologies, significant new...

Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring in Comparative Perspective.
March 22, 1993... Even as global capitalism is being declared the victor over global communism in the just-concluded Cold War, and even as gloating conservatives write political obituaries for defeated socialist parties and leftist ideologies, significant new...

Dilemmas of Activism: Class, Community, and the Politics of Local Mobilization.
March 22, 1993... Even as global capitalism is being declared the victor over global communism in the just-concluded Cold War, and even as gloating conservatives write political obituaries for defeated socialist parties and leftist ideologies, significant new...

Marxism and the City.
March 22, 1993... Even as global capitalism is being declared the victor over global communism in the just-concluded Cold War, and even as gloating conservatives write political obituaries for defeated socialist parties and leftist ideologies, significant new...