Policy Studies Journal articles from November 2004

Policy Studies Journal archives from November 2004

Editor's notes.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... This issue marks the end of our first year of editing the Policy Studies Journal in cooperation with the Policy Studies Organization, the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, and Blackwell Publishing. As our...

Compound democracy and the control of corruption: a cross-country investigation.
November 1, 2004... Does democracy reduce corruption as well as contribute to international peace, to the observance of human rights, and to commitments to the environment (Davenport, 1999; Neumayer, 2002; Poe & Tate, 1994; Russett & Oneal, 2001)? The use of...

Examining the impact of charter schools on performance in traditional public schools.
November 1, 2004... One of the most important developments in public education over the last decade has been the emergence and growth of charter schools. The central premise underlying this movement is that charter schools foster marketlike environments that offer...

Competitive pressures and the emergence of Mothers' Aid Programs in the United States.
November 1, 2004... Do states compete in providing (or not providing) social welfare services? (1) Interstate competition is viewed by many to be a natural condition of the American federal system, where states function as autonomous fiscal and policy units. Given...

People, places, and policy: a politically relevant framework for efforts to reduce concentrated poverty.
November 1, 2004... The problem of concentrated poverty has been explored well in the scholarly literature. Since the late 1960s, the spatial mismatch hypothesis has focused on long-term ghetto unemployment and the suburbanizing job market (e.g., Holzer, 1991;...

Rethinking bureaucrats in the policy process: criminal justice agents and the national crime agenda.
November 1, 2004... Introduction In his analysis of the policy process, John Kingdon (1984) noted that bureaucrats are central to the establishment of policy alternatives. (1) The bureaucratic role in identifying alternatives can include defining problems,...

The influence of local contextual characteristics on the implementation of a statewide voter initiative: the case of California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (Proposition 36).
November 1, 2004... The initiative process provides an avenue for policy entrepreneurs to push for policy change that is risky or otherwise unacceptable to elected politicians (Gerber, 1999; Mintrom, 2000). However, much of the scholarship on initiatives...