Policy Studies Journal articles from March 1998

Policy Studies Journal archives from March 1998

The advocacy coalition framework and implementation of the Endangered Species Act: a case study in Western water politics.
March 22, 1998... For the past 50 years scholarship on policy formulation has made much of the role that policy subsystems play in the economy of decisionmaking in American government. While ideas about the structure and permeability of subsystems have changed,...

Power and gender in the "new view"public schools.
March 22, 1998... Three developments are evident at the intersection of the study of urban politics and women's political studies. First, regime theory has emerged as a leading framework for studying urban politics, and its main premise is that policymaking...

The state as naive entrepreneur: the political economy of export promotion in Brazil and Tunisia.
March 22, 1998... Beginning in the late 1970s, developing countries confronted an increasingly hostile international political economy. The oil shocks and debt burdens of many countries led to economic stagnation, especially in Latin America and Africa. As a...

University-industry collaboration on technology transfer: views from the ivory tower.
March 22, 1998... Since the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act (PL 96-517) and the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act (PL 96-480) in 1980--legislation that established a policy framework for university technology transfer--the last decade in the United States...

Comparative environmental policy: market-type instruments in industrialized capitalist countries.
March 22, 1998... When environmental pollution became a pressing concern in the industrialized countries in the late 1960s, the economics profession responded with analyses pointing to flawed incentives based on an incomplete specification of property rights and...

Policy analysis and evidence: a craft perspective.(The Evidentiary Basis of Policy Analysis: Empiricist vs. Postpositivist Positions)
March 22, 1998... As an inherently normative activity largely derivative of the social sciences, policy analysis inevitably becomes entangled in debates over ideology and epistemology. Critics of liberal democracy and its policy outcomes wish to limit the role of...

Beyond empiricism: policy inquiry in postpositivist perspective.(The Evidentiary Basis of Policy Analysis: Empiricist vs. Postpositivist Positions)
March 22, 1998... The social sciences, as empirical sciences of society, largely have failed (Giddens, 1995; Gulbenkian, 1996; Lemert, 1995). Neither have they developed anything vaguely resembling a predictive "science" of society, nor have they been able to...

Models of policy discourse: insights versus prediction.(The Evidentiary Basis of Policy Analysis: Empiricist vs. Postpositivist Positions)
March 22, 1998... "All right, have it your own way - you heard a seal bark!" James Thurber (1945, p. 326) The disciplinary woof and warp that has so long been part and parcel of political science - most pointedly between behavioralism and case research (see...

Bridging positivist and interpretivist approaches to qualitative methods.(The Evidentiary Basis of Policy Analysis: Empiricist vs. Postpositivist Positions)
March 22, 1998... From case studies to econometric analysis, policy research has a long tradition of employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, but the usual juxtaposition of qualitative research against quantitative research makes it easy to miss the...

Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability.
March 22, 1998... Peter J. May, Raymond J. Burby, Neil J. Ericksen, John W. Handmer, Jennifer E. Dixon, Sarah Michaels, and D. Ingle Smith. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. 246 pp. A debate has raged in the public policy literature over which level of...

The Politics of Garbage: A Community Perspective on Solid Waste Policy Making.
March 22, 1998... Larry S. Luton. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 297 pp. A debate has raged in the public policy literature over which level of government should have the principal authority to define and implement policy solutions....

Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resource Agencies, 2d ed.
March 22, 1998... Jeanne W. Clarke and Daniel McCool. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. 259 pp. A debate has raged in the public policy literature over which level of government should have the principal authority to define and implement...

A wish list for 21st century environmental policy: decentralization, integration, cooperation, flexibility, and enhanced participation by citizens and local governments.
March 22, 1998... A debate has raged in the public policy literature over which level of government should have the principal authority to define and implement policy solutions. Should it be the national government, or states and localities? For much of the United...