Policy Studies Journal articles from May 2003

Policy Studies Journal archives from May 2003

An editor looks at the digital world and the future of scholarly journals.
May 1, 2003... The recent self-evident changes to Policy Studies Organization publications, and our new alliance with Blackwell, beg the question of where scholarly publishing is going. It would be foolish to think that the pace of change will slow or that...

Shopping for schools: how do marginal consumers gather information about schools?
May 1, 2003... In this article, we use a new method of decision analysis, centered on the Internet, to test several hypotheses drawn from decision theory. We find evidence that not all parents search for information (and by extension, make decisions) the same...

The impact of police officer diversity on police-caused homicides.
May 1, 2003... The intense controversy that often follows the killing of a citizen by police stems from underlying views of the police and social control. Proponents of the conflict theory of law suggest that police actions are a response to threats from...

Welfare caseload change: an alternative approach.
May 1, 2003... Introduction In this article, I suggest an alternative approach to explaining recent changes in welfare caseloads. Most existing research uses pooled or time series methods. These studies can account for change over time, but in some cases...

The effect of intensive bail supervision on repeat domestic violence offenders.
May 1, 2003... Most bailbond agents refer to domestic violence suspects as "the bread and butter" of their livelihood. There are two prominent reasons for this claim. First, a large cash bail ($30,000 to $50,000 on average) is typically required for the...

Economic policy and decision making at the intersection of domestic and international politics: the advocacy coalition framework and the National Economic Council.
May 1, 2003... Research demonstrates that the roles of the U.S. president's National Economic Council (NEC) and the policymaking process through which both international and domestic economic factors must pass continues to be underplayed by policy scholars....

Hispanic pregnancy outcomes: differentials over time and current risk factor effects.
May 1, 2003... Introduction Since the mid-11980s, an impressive amount of research investigating variation in Hispanic pregnancy outcomes has emerged. (1) The focus of most studies has either been on the Hispanic population as a whole or on the largest...

Explaining Supreme Court policymaking in civil rights: the influence of the solicitor general, 1953-2002.
May 1, 2003... Introduction Seth Waxman, the former solicitor general under the Clinton administration, pondered why the solicitor general was at the "losing end of every federalism decision in the past nine years" during a speech given at Stanford...

Measures and models of budgetary policy.
May 1, 2003... This manuscript considers the theoretical and empirical differences between appropriations and outlays and the implications of these differences for analyses of public budgeting in the United States. The research focuses on two questions: (1)...

Immigration policy.
May 1, 2003... In the wake of September 11, American immigration and visa policy has been given enormous attention. But it is not unprecedented attention, as immigration policy has always been a controversial topic. The nineteenth century illustrators,...