Policy Studies Journal articles from May 2007

Policy Studies Journal archives from May 2007

Editors' notes.
May 1, 2007... This issue of the Policy Studies Journal includes articles of interest and value for a broad spectrum of policy scholars and practitioners. Dorothy Daley (University of Kansas) examines the diffusion of voluntary market mechanisms as...

"We seem to have always spoken in prose ..." policy analysis is a clinical profession: implications for policy analysis practice and instruction.
May 1, 2007... Introduction As the title of this article suggests, akin to the insight of Moliere's character Jourdain who suddenly realized that when he speaks this is called "prose" and that he "has always spoken in prose," (1) we realize that when...

Voluntary approaches to environmental problems: exploring the rise of nontraditional public policy.
May 1, 2007... Government regulators are increasingly turning to "Voluntary Agreements" as a mechanism to alter behavior and achieve policy goals. Since the early 1990s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed and implemented more than 30...

Causal assessment in small-N policy studies.
May 1, 2007... Central to the aims of public policies, and the political constituencies supporting them, is the hope of having a causal impact on some aspect of the world. It is hoped that welfare-to-work programs will lead to a decline in chronic...

The double-edged sword of public-resource dependence: the impact of public resources on autonomy and legitimacy in Korean cultural nonprofit organizations.
May 1, 2007... Introduction As governments and the nonprofit sector interact more closely, scholars are using a variety of frameworks--including the tools approach (Salamon, 2002), the governance perspective (Frederickson & Smith, 2003; Kettl, 2002), and...

Disaster management in the United States: examining key political and policy challenges.
May 1, 2007... Introduction The tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina should not have come as a surprise. It was not a surprise in that the inundation of New Orleans under something similar to the Katrina scenario had been long anticipated by emergency...

NAFTA and the pollution haven hypothesis.(North American Free Trade Agreement)
May 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" (PHH) is the prediction that trade liberalization will lead to the movement of polluting industries from high income/stringent environmental regulation countries to low income/lax...

NAFTA's impact on business environmental decision making.(North American Free Trade Agreement)
May 1, 2007... During the 1990s, Mexico subscribed to several free trade agreements, with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) being the most important. (1) In the United States and Canada, opponents and proponents of the trade agreement debated...

Environmental performance of the assembly plants industry in the north of Mexico.
May 1, 2007... Foreword The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among Mexico, United States, and Canada increased the interest to know the impact of the growing exportation assembly plants industry (EAI) on the development of countries, such as...

The effect of NAFTA on energy and environmental efficiency in Mexico.(North American Free Trade Agreement)
May 1, 2007... Introduction Prior to Mexico's entry to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), predictions of the consequent impact on the environment in that country ranged from the dire to very optimistic. This article investigates NAFTA's...