Policy Studies Journal articles from November 2007

Policy Studies Journal archives from November 2007

Editors' notes.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... As editors of the Policy Studies Journal we cannot help but marvel at the changes taking place in how we--as policy scholars--go about our research. The use of the Internet has developed well beyond a mechanism for retrieving articles to a...

Race, gender, and communications in natural disasters.(Report)
November 1, 2007... The 2005 Katrina hurricane that devastated New Orleans, parts of Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast has led to calls for better emergency planning throughout the United States (Comfort, 2006). As was made painfully clear there by the 13 hundred...

Media framing and racial attitudes in the aftermath of Katrina.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Over 40 years of research clearly indicates that African Americans tend to have lower levels of political trust and confidence in governmental institutions than their White counterparts (Dawson, 1994; Engel, 2005; Howell & Fagan, 1988; Hurwitz...

The public policy process among southeastern states: elaborating theories of regional adoption and hold-out behavior.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Introduction Research supports that public policies diffuse across the American states (Berry & Baybeck, 2005; Berry & Berry, 1990; Mooney & Lee, 1995). That is to say, policies seem to spread between states in a region and between states...

When does cooperation improve public policy implementation?(Report)
November 1, 2007... Relationships between authorities impinge on policy implementation (O'Toole, 2003) and it is often emphasized that public policy can be carried out better if cooperation increases among agencies. Some scholars claim that interorganizational...

Same policy area, different politics: how characteristics of policy tools alter the determinants of early childhood education policy.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Introduction Over the last four decades, political scientists have capitalized on political, institutional, and policy variation among the American states to test and refine the theories of policymaking (Brace & Jewett, 1995; Mooney,...

Navigating the social safety net: a state-level analysis of the relationship between Medicaid and consumer bankruptcy.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Introduction The social safety net in the United States is a system of programs and policies that provide mechanisms to assist individuals when they are unable to cover basic and vital living expenses for themselves. A panoply of programs...

Voluntary environmental programs: a symposium.(Conference notes)
November 1, 2007... Policy scholars, for at least a generation now, have addressed the usefulness of public-mandated "command and control" environmental regulations as an efficacious means to promote a cleaner environment. In the United States, these policies go...

The effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs--a policy at a crossroads?(Report)
November 1, 2007... Introduction In the United States, voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) have become standard in the environmental policy tool kit since the 1990s. This development is at the confluence of several events, including more complex...

Environmental public voluntary programs reconsidered.(Report)
November 1, 2007... 1. Introduction For years, environmental regulators have relied upon various forms of taxes, subsidies, and command and control regulations to remedy environmental problems. Recently, however, new tools--including environmental public...

Motivations for voluntary environmental management.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Firms are increasingly undertaking initiatives to proactively improve their environmental performance and go beyond simply complying with regulatory standards. Some firms are adopting an internally structured mix of environmental management...

Collective action through voluntary environmental programs: a club theory perspective.(Report)
November 1, 2007... Introduction It is now well recognized that voluntary environmental programs are important policy instruments for environmental governance, with programs sprouting up across continents and policy domains. Program by program, scholars have...