Policy Studies Journal articles from September 1993

Policy Studies Journal archives from September 1993

The growth of enterprise zones: a policy transformation.
September 22, 1993... Immediately following his defeat in the 1992 presidential election, then-President Bush vetoed tax legislation containing support for "enterprise zones"--his only federal initiative for urban aid after the April 1992 riots in Los Angeles,...

Ideas or interests: privacy in electronic communications.
September 22, 1993... A politics of interests provides the dominant model for explaining the American policy process and policy choices. This model views the policy process as being driven primarily by the efforts of groups and individuals to advance theft particular...

Backyard protest: emergence, expansion, and persistence of a local hazardous waste controversy.
September 22, 1993... The basic question of where issues of public policy originate has become a central concern for political scientists only in the last two decades (Cobb & Elder, 1983). Although there is extensive literature that attempts to explain the enactment...

Categories of local economic development techniques: an empirical analysis.
September 22, 1993... Research on local economic development policies grew exponentially during the last 10 years, and promises to expand further as cities face continuing shifts in economic fortunes. This research has described techniques employed by cities...

The dynamics and interactions between the president's and the public's civil rights agendas: a study in presidential leadership and representation. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... Introduction Other than Lyndon B. Johnson, presidents have been characterized as minor and reactive players in civil rights policy (Shull, 1989). Both Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy were slow to take action on civil rights until...

Assessing presidential communications in civil rights policymaking. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... Introduction Although often submerged throughout American history, civil rights issues have never been far from the surface. Perhaps because of its highly emotional content, civil rights has varied in salience over time. Certainly in the...

Racial stratification, intellectual history, and presidential action in the civil rights domain. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... An individual who is elected President of the United States accrues enormous prestige and the constitutional authority to exercise quite extraordinary power (Holden, 1992, p. 5). Thomas Cronin (1977, pp. 73-80) posits that the public often holds...

Presidential leadership of congressional civil rights voting: the cases of Eisenhower and Johnson. (Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson) (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... The American system of government offers the president a choice of avenues for bringing about policy change. While executive and judicial strategies are useful, the legislative approach offers the president greater opportunities to effect change....

Affirmative action and business deregulation: on the Reagan administration's failure to revise Executive Order No. 11246. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... Introduction Occasionally, in the course of reading or conversation, one finds Executive Order No. 11246 referred to as "the affirmative action order." But this reflexive tendency to identify the order with affirmative action stems more from...

A transformed triangle: Court, Congress, and presidency in civil rights. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... Introduction The subject to be examined is the triangle formed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and the president that interest groups must learn to deal with in order to achieve their goals--the old notion of checks and balances from a...

Eisenhower and Kennedy: a comparison of confrontations at Little Rock and Ole Miss. (Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy; Little Rock, Arkansas; University of Mississippi) (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
September 22, 1993... Introduction This study examines how Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy dealt with similar policy crises: the use of federal troops to enforce federal school desegregation court orders that were openly defied by state...

What's the Matter with Liberalism?
September 22, 1993... As we approach what many describe as the post-modern age, criticism of that most modern of political philosophies, classical liberalism, grows apace. Now the philosophy of the status quo, liberalism is frequently attacked from both the left and...

Liberalism and Modern Society.
September 22, 1993... As we approach what many describe as the post-modern age, criticism of that most modern of political philosophies, classical liberalism, grows apace. Now the philosophy of the status quo, liberalism is frequently attacked from both the left and...

The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery.
September 22, 1993... As we approach what many describe as the post-modern age, criticism of that most modern of political philosophies, classical liberalism, grows apace. Now the philosophy of the status quo, liberalism is frequently attacked from both the left and...

A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities.
September 22, 1993... As we approach what many describe as the post-modern age, criticism of that most modern of political philosophies, classical liberalism, grows apace. Now the philosophy of the status quo, liberalism is frequently attacked from both the left and...

The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue.
September 22, 1993... As we approach what many describe as the post-modern age, criticism of that most modern of political philosophies, classical liberalism, grows apace. Now the philosophy of the status quo, liberalism is frequently attacked from both the left and...

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets.
September 22, 1993... In this century's first decade, President Theodore Roosevelt worried about good trusts and bad trusts and nearly every other economic and social problem. These problems included the involuntary servitude of African-Americans in the turpentine...

Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover.
September 22, 1993... In this century's first decade, President Theodore Roosevelt worried about good trusts and bad trusts and nearly every other economic and social problem. These problems included the involuntary servitude of African-Americans in the turpentine...

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover.
September 22, 1993... In this century's first decade, President Theodore Roosevelt worried about good trusts and bad trusts and nearly every other economic and social problem. These problems included the involuntary servitude of African-Americans in the turpentine...

The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition.
September 22, 1993... In this century's first decade, President Theodore Roosevelt worried about good trusts and bad trusts and nearly every other economic and social problem. These problems included the involuntary servitude of African-Americans in the turpentine...