Policy Studies Journal articles from November 2006

Policy Studies Journal archives from November 2006

Editors' notes.
November 1, 2006... This issue completes the 3rd volume since the Policy Studies Journal became the official journal of the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. Over that time, the PSJ has become an increasingly visible outlet for...

Agency evolution, New Institutionalism, and 'hybrid' policy domains: lessons from the 'greening' of the U.S. military.
November 1, 2006... Students of bureaucracy applying the logic of rational choice institutionalism (RCI) have offered important and thought-provoking explanations of how and why public agencies are designed and evolve over time in the United States (e.g., Bender &...

Controlling democracy: the principal-agent problems in election administration.
November 1, 2006... Few citizens gave much consideration to the issue of election administration in the United States before November 7, 2000. However, scholars have recognized that election administration has been a problem for some time. In 1934, the Brookings...

Environmental agencies' funding sources should follow their diverse business models.
November 1, 2006... Introduction Environmental services provided by government agencies are not free, so every society has to decide how to pay for them. Most states and nations use some combination of taxes, fees, and contributions, but the policy debate is...

New responsibilities of faith-related agencies.
November 1, 2006... As governments come to promote the use of "faith-based" agencies in service delivery in the United States (Cnaan, 2002), religious social service agencies are enjoying increased resources and even somewhat enhanced authority. For example, the...

Flexibility meets accountability: state charter school laws and their influence on the formation of charter schools in the United States.
November 1, 2006... Introduction Disagreements over values reside at the core of essentially all public policy controversies. Each day, elected officials reassure constituents of their commitment to promoting legislation that will achieve outcomes efficiently...

A decade of treating networks seriously.(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2006... Networks in Public Policy The development of interest in networked forms of organization in public administration has been remarkable over the past decade. Parallel to the development of interest in networks in other fields--notably...

Introduction to the special edition.(political participation)
November 1, 2006... Scholars, professional practitioners, and political participants in the many realms of policy making have long contemplated the role of experts, interest groups, and unorganized citizens in collaborative policymaking processes. Precisely how...

Jury service as an invitation to citizenship: assessing the civic value of institutionalized deliberation.
November 1, 2006... Introduction How one thinks about public participation says a great deal about how one conceptualizes democracy. If democracy is nothing more than a pluralistic means of aggregating private interests, then interest groups, lobbying,...

Potential solutions to public deliberation problems: structured deliberations and polarization cascades.
November 1, 2006... Introduction It has become common place in modern life for people to worry about the potential risks and perils of new technologies. In numerous ways, popular worries express themselves and provide policy makers, technology developers, and...

Assessing representation at different scales of decision making: rethinking local is better.
November 1, 2006... Introduction Effective public participation is generally an essential feature of successful environmental management, including natural resource management (NRM). This is because many natural resources are either managed by governments, on...

Why citizens do and do not attend public meetings about local cancer cluster investigations.
November 1, 2006... Introduction Each year, research suggests that citizens grow alarmed enough to make over one thousand requests to state health departments to investigate suspect levels of cancer in their communities (Trumbo, 2000). Most of these initial...

Four perspectives on public participation process in environmental assessment and decision making: combined results from 10 case studies.
November 1, 2006... Introduction Efforts to better public participation in environmental assessment and decision making have beaten a well-worn path. Legislation has provided mandates for public participation, including the National Environmental Policy Act...

Comparison of DOE and Army advisory boards: application of a conceptual framework for evaluating public participation in environmental risk decision making.(Department of Energy)
November 1, 2006... Introduction This article is part of a growing body of research evaluating the public participation approaches and implementation efforts of governmental agencies. It compares the characteristics and performance of citizen advisory boards...

Reconceptualizing dialogue in environmental public participation.(Mikhail Bakhtin)
November 1, 2006... Introduction Over the last several decades, environmental public participation programs have developed in an atmosphere of public alienation and distrust of government institutions (Laird, 1989). Researchers and practitioners have turned...