Policy Studies Journal articles from May 2006

Policy Studies Journal archives from May 2006

Editors' notes.
May 1, 2006... The editorial strategy of the Policy Studies Journal has been to solicit papers that use a variety of methodological approaches and that focus on policy theory as well substantive policy outcomes. Our intent is to assure that any issue of the...

Policy subsystems and regimes: organized interests and climate change policy.
May 1, 2006... Introduction Growing transnational interdependence, coupled with recognition of the need to address problems that transcend national boundaries in a coordinated way, has led to the emergence of a number of new international policymaking...

The "mouse that roared": agenda setting in Canadian pesticides politics.
May 1, 2006... On June 28, 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the right of Hudson, Quebec to restrict the use of lawn and garden pesticides (1) on public and private property. In its decision, the Court confirmed the authority of local governments to...

Is greener whiter yet? The Sustainable Slopes Program after five years.
May 1, 2006... Introduction For some time now, public policy and management scholars have been interested in identifying mechanisms that encourage environmental protection by businesses. Public policies, in terms of environmental regulations, monitoring,...

The conditioning effects of policy salience and complexity on American political institutions.
May 1, 2006... Political scientists and policy scholars have a love-hate relationship with policy typologies. On the one hand, typologies help condense a vast amount of information into discernible and distinct categories. If compiled correctly, these...

Executives, legislatures, and decentralization.
May 1, 2006... Decentralization is something of an ironic policy. It requires the national government to give up power to subnational governments and to unmake the "centralist tradition" (Veliz, 1980). Yet, governments are doing precisely that. Throughout...

Gambling and income inequality in the states.
May 1, 2006... Introduction After years of rising incomes and falling income inequality following the Second World War, income disparities began to increase in the early 1970s. Since that time, well-to-do Americans have grown significantly wealthier...

Inter-court dynamics and the development of legal policy: citation patterns in the decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
May 1, 2006... Introduction In Anglo-American courts, judges are expected to follow the doctrine of stare decisis and to apply rules established by previous cases to the current dispute before their court. Out of deference to this norm, when writing...