Policy Studies Journal articles from September 1995

Policy Studies Journal archives from September 1995

Built space as story: the policy stories that buildings tell.
September 22, 1995... Much analysis of public policy, growing as it does out of a positivist philosophical tradition, takes as its point of departure the formal, written language of legislation. This is in keeping with analytic philosophy's attention to linguistic...

Policy frames and ethical traditions: the case of homeownership for the poor.
September 22, 1995... As public programs for the poor seem to provoke highly partisan and ideological policy debates, one might wonder if there are ways to reframe the central issues to help design programs that draw broad support across the American ideological...

Policy analysis postmodernized: some political and pedagogical ramifications.
September 22, 1995... As each field of academic inquiry is duly transformed by the postmodern impulse, the professional applications of intellectual disciplines have been re-evaluated and revamped. The most obvious example is the Critical Legal Studies movement that...

Longitudinal evidence of the changing socio-economic profile of a state lottery market.
September 22, 1995... Introduction Lotteries, with total sales of $24.4 billion in the United States in 1992 (Christiansen, 1993), have become a standard, widely-consumed state government service. Currently, 36 states and the District of Columbia offer games...

Reinventing regulatory development at the Environmental Protection Agency.
September 22, 1995... Introduction Upon assuming office in January 1993, President Clinton's belief in the ideals discussed in Osborne and Gaebler's book, Reinventing Government (1993), led him to initiate a full review of the executive branch to look for...

Perceptions of discrimination: moving beyond the numbers of representative bureaucracy.
September 22, 1995... For over fifty years, a variety of executive orders, legislative actions, and judicial decisions have prohibited discrimination on the basis of race in federal employment. The Civil Service Reform Act, passed in 1978, went a step further, calling...

Why protest?: public behavioral and attitudinal response to siting a waste disposal facility.
September 22, 1995... Introduction A public policy problem of great difficulty is the location of necessary but potentially noxious facilities such as airports, highways, prisons, and homeless shelters. This effort often produces strong opposition from residents of...

Evaluating the environmental effects of agricultural policy: the Soil Bank, the CRP, and airborne particulate concentrations.
September 22, 1995... Barry Commoner's first law of ecology, "everything is connected to everything else" (Commoner 1972), may also be one of the fundamental laws of public policy. Nearly 25 years of experience with traditional environmental regulations has taught us...

Public Policy for Democracy.
September 22, 1995... Aaron Wildavsky, in the fourth edition of The Politics of the Budgetary Process (1984), distinguished between policy politics (which policy will be adopted?), partisan politics (which political party will win office?), and system politics (how...

Reversals of Fortune: Public Policy and Private Interests.
September 22, 1995... Aaron Wildavsky, in the fourth edition of The Politics of the Budgetary Process (1984), distinguished between policy politics (which policy will be adopted?), partisan politics (which political party will win office?), and system politics (how...

Global Environmental Change: Interactions of Science, Policy, and Politics in the United States.
September 22, 1995... The Problem of Global Climate Change Global climate change is the general terminology used to refer to human-induced changes in global weather patterns, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. The extent to which these human-induced...

The Role of Regional Organizations in the Context of Climate Change.
September 22, 1995... The Problem of Global Climate Change Global climate change is the general terminology used to refer to human-induced changes in global weather patterns, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. The extent to which these human-induced...

Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention.
September 22, 1995... The Problem of Global Climate Change Global climate change is the general terminology used to refer to human-induced changes in global weather patterns, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. The extent to which these human-induced...

Climate Change: Environment and Development.
September 22, 1995... The Problem of Global Climate Change Global climate change is the general terminology used to refer to human-induced changes in global weather patterns, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. The extent to which these human-induced...

Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History.
September 22, 1995... The United States has just finished a Great Debate about national health care reform, but substantive discussion based on critical analysis was sorely lacking in that debate. In the end, what began as a certainty - national health reform - left...

Health Care Reform Through Internal Markets: Experience and Proposals.
September 22, 1995... The United States has just finished a Great Debate about national health care reform, but substantive discussion based on critical analysis was sorely lacking in that debate. In the end, what began as a certainty - national health reform - left...

National Health Care: Lessons for the United States and Canada.
September 22, 1995... The United States has just finished a Great Debate about national health care reform, but substantive discussion based on critical analysis was sorely lacking in that debate. In the end, what began as a certainty - national health reform - left...

The Private Regulation of American Health Care.
September 22, 1995... The United States has just finished a Great Debate about national health care reform, but substantive discussion based on critical analysis was sorely lacking in that debate. In the end, what began as a certainty - national health reform - left...

The Coming Health Crisis: Who Will Pay for Care for the Aged in the 21st Century?
September 22, 1995... The United States has just finished a Great Debate about national health care reform, but substantive discussion based on critical analysis was sorely lacking in that debate. In the end, what began as a certainty - national health reform - left...

Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice, and Education.
September 22, 1995... The formal study of Planning Ethics is, as Sue Hendler points out in the introduction to her volume, a relatively young field, beginning in 1976 with Peter Marcuse's journal article, "Planning Ethics and Beyond: Professional Values in Planning."...

Acting on Ethics in City Planning.
September 22, 1995... The formal study of Planning Ethics is, as Sue Hendler points out in the introduction to her volume, a relatively young field, beginning in 1976 with Peter Marcuse's journal article, "Planning Ethics and Beyond: Professional Values in Planning."...

Rights and the Common Good.
September 22, 1995... The formal study of Planning Ethics is, as Sue Hendler points out in the introduction to her volume, a relatively young field, beginning in 1976 with Peter Marcuse's journal article, "Planning Ethics and Beyond: Professional Values in Planning."...

More Than Kissing Babies?: Current Child and Family Policy in the United States.
September 22, 1995... Family values and welfare reform are current political buzzwords, but the underlying debate is more about "whose is the responsibility of the family?" (of course, the definition of family is equally a political controversy). As the Democratic and...

Putting the Family First: Identities, Decisions, Citizenship.
September 22, 1995... Family values and welfare reform are current political buzzwords, but the underlying debate is more about "whose is the responsibility of the family?" (of course, the definition of family is equally a political controversy). As the Democratic and...

The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy.
September 22, 1995... Family values and welfare reform are current political buzzwords, but the underlying debate is more about "whose is the responsibility of the family?" (of course, the definition of family is equally a political controversy). As the Democratic and...

Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps.
September 22, 1995... Family values and welfare reform are current political buzzwords, but the underlying debate is more about "whose is the responsibility of the family?" (of course, the definition of family is equally a political controversy). As the Democratic and...

The Politics of Gun Control.
September 22, 1995... Robert Spitzer's treatment of the gun control quagmire in the United States is quite excellent in accurately exposing the problems, actors, and myths involved with this issue. There is much good research on the Second Amendment, the very recent...