Policy Studies Journal articles from March 2000

Policy Studies Journal archives from March 2000

From the Editors.
March 22, 2000... Uday Desai Mack Shelley The present issue of the Policy Studies Journal attests to the remarkable success enjoyed by David Feldman and the other members of the PSJ editorial team in working successfully with the editors of policy...

Middle Powers and American Foreign Policy: Lessons from Irano-U.S. Relations, 1962-77.
March 22, 2000... By examining the lessons of Irano-U. S. relations, the article contends that a post-Cold War American foreign policy relying on middle powers can achieve American security interests while avoiding the potential for excessive entanglements...

Policy Dilemmas of Post-Soviet Countries.
March 22, 2000... I wonder what the West would think of us if Russia were to urge it to undertake reforms that would cost it half its gross domestic product, take 10 years off its average life expectancy, and reduce its standard of living by two-thirds while...

State Withdrawal and the Impact of Marketization on Rural Russia.
March 22, 2000... The role of the state is greatly misunderstood in post-Soviet affairs. In particular, neither urban bias nor corporatist models help to understand the impact of reforms in rural Russia. The article argues that the best way to understand the...

International Assistance to the Former Soviet Union: Conditions and Transitions [1].
March 22, 2000... Since the demise of the Soviet Union the newly independent states (NIS) have attempted the wholesale reform of their economic, political, and social institutions. With varying levels of success they have sought to create new institutions or...

Foreign Direct Investment and Democratic Development in the Russian Provinces: A Preliminary Analysis.
March 22, 2000... Foreign investment in Russia has consistently lagged behind East European countries throughout the last decade. Although formidable obstacles to attracting foreign investment remain throughout the country, some of Russia's 89 provinces have...

Economic Resources and Political Power at the Local Level in Post-Soviet Russia.
March 22, 2000... In the 1990s in local government in Russia, the dominant trends might be described as neo-Soviet because of their apparent continuity with patterns that prevailed before the end of communist rule in that country. The promise of independence for...

Privatization and Democratization in Lithuania: A Case Study of Who Benefits in Siauliai.
March 22, 2000... While Lithuania had undertaken substantial political and economic reform prior to independence, the greatly accelerated pace of privatization following the restoration of same resulted in the emergence of a business class at the local level...

The Many Faces of Canadian Environmental Policy: Is Canada Moving Toward a Sustainable Society?
March 22, 2000... This symposium, entitled "The Many Faces of Canadian Environmental Policy: Is Canada Moving Toward a Sustainable Society?," presents an interesting, and perhaps surprising, picture of Canada's prospects for achieving the elusive and enigmatic...

Environmentalism in One Country: Canadian Environmental Policy in an Era of Globalization.
March 22, 2000... In sharp contrast with its international reputation and self-image as a leading national advocate of environmental protection initiatives, Canada has, in the 1990s, reduced its environmental expenditures and initiatives. The most dramatic and...

Testing Alternative Theories of Agenda Setting: Forest Policy Change in British Columbia, Canada.
March 22, 2000... In an effort to add to our understanding of why government chooses to take actions in certain situations and not others, this article applies competing theories of agenda building to a specific environmental issue, forest policymaking in...

Policies of Extinction: The Life and Death of Canada's Endangered Species Legislation.
March 22, 2000... This article examines the attempt by the Canadian Federal Government to pass endangered species legislation (1995). It focuses on the constraints which confront the creation of environmental policy in Canada and identifies jurisdictional...

Policy Design and the Acceptability of Environmental Risks: Nuclear Waste Disposal in Canada and the United States.
March 22, 2000... This article examines the controversial process of developing high-level nuclear waste disposal policy in Canada, with some comparison to experience in the United States. It argues that a policy design perspective can assist in understanding...

Canadian Foreign Policy and Straddling Stocks: Sustainability in an Interdependent World.
March 22, 2000... Canada cannot manage straddling fish stocks, which extend beyond Canadian waters into the high seas, without an effective foreign fisheries policy. This article examines the politics and fate of two such stocks in the Northwest Atlantic: cod...

Advocacy Coalitions Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Globalization and Canadian Climate Change Policy.
March 22, 2000... With its emphasis on shared beliefs and the advocacy use of knowledge within policy subsystems, the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) is ideally suited to the study of environmental policy. Yet the ACF has generally been applied in a domestic...

Policy Travels: Exploring Politics, Policy, and Culture from the Ground-Up.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark Hertsgaard, Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1998. 372 pp. Robert D. Kaplan, An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future. New York, NY: Random House, 1998. 393...