Policy Studies Journal articles from September 1999

Policy Studies Journal archives from September 1999

From the Editors.(Editorial)
September 22, 1999... We would like to take this opportunity to make a special effort to encourage policy scholars to submit to the Policy Studies Journal suitable manuscripts on any aspect of policy studies. At the same time that PSJ has a large number of symposia...

Civil Society and Development:.
September 22, 1999... Scientific and Professional Associations in Public Policy in Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil This paper uses Brazil's regional inequality to carry out comparative research on the role of civil society in economic development. Through...

The Comparative Cost of Privatized Public School Transportation in Tennessee.
September 22, 1999... This paper provides evidence from an empirical test of service contracting versus bureaucratic production of school bus transportation. Actual contracted cost of school bus service is compared to the estimate of in-house cost for providing the...

A Political Explanation of Policy Selection: The Case of Urban School Reform.
September 22, 1999... Amid the torrent of reform activity in urban school systems, some proposals fare better than others. The traditional technocratic presumption is that reforms are chosen for their educational merit. I suggest that, to the contrary, institutional...

Familial Purposes: An Argument Against the Promotion of Family Uniformity.
September 22, 1999... William Galston (1996) and Jean Bethke Elshtain (1991) argue that law and policy should be used to promote the intact two-parent married heterosexual family. Galston advocates divorce reform to discourage single-parent families and Elshtain...

Making the Watershed Connection.
September 22, 1999... To say that you are part of a particular watershed system means that you inhabit a distinctive living community and place. A watershed is defined by government resource agencies in many ways (Corn, 1993). Typical is the language of the United...

Ecology and Participation in Landscape-Based Planning Within the Pacific Northwest.
September 22, 1999... Landscape-based planning, and in particular ecosystem management, has been promoted widely as an approach to linking ecological, social, and economic concerns at large spatial and temporal scales, yet there have been few comparative studies of...

Integrating Technical Analysis With Deliberation in Regional Watershed Management Planning: Applying the National Research Council Approach.
September 22, 1999... This paper suggests that applications of watershed management planning would benefit from a theoretical consideration of the policymaking process. A conceptual schema from the field of risk analysis proposes that policymaking be conceived of as...

Linking Public Agencies With Community-Based Watershed Organizations: Lessons From California.
September 22, 1999... Watershed organizations routinely seek to influence public agencies and sometimes also depend on them for financial and technical assistance. For some agencies this relationship is strained and problematic. Watershed organizations tend to...

Configuring Who Does What in Watershed Management: The Massachusetts Watershed Initiative.
September 22, 1999... The goal of the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative (MWI) is to use a watershed approach to restore and maintain the integrity of state waters. The MWI is presented as an effort to bring about the convergence of the agendas of government, the...

The Politics of Watershed Policymaking.
September 22, 1999... In 1996, we began a study of contrasting efforts to restore and enhance watershed health in three different river basins. While we were organizing our study, one of the watershed groups that we were examining "fell apart," thereby providing us...

Democracy and Technology.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Richard P. Hiskes, Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. $45 hardcover; $36 paper. Sheila Jasanoff, Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and...

Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steurele (Eds.), Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1999. 400 pp. $29.50 (paper); $57.50 (cloth). In this collection of essays, a group of...

Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Terry Nichols Clark and Michael Rempel (Eds.), Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 280 pp. $28.00 (paper). This book provides a framework for interpreting citizen politics since the 1960s. The...

Calculated Choices in Policy-Making: The Theory and Practice of Impact Assessment.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Michael S. de Vries, Calculated Choices in Policy-Making: The Theory and Practice of Impact Assessment. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 236 pp. $65.00 (cloth). This book examines the major problems for decisionmakers in evaluating...

Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility.(Review)
September 22, 1999... James A. Dunn, Jr., Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 250 pp. $18.95 (paper), $44.95 (cloth). This book takes a skeptical look at the major policy...

Toward an End to Hunger in America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Peter K. Eisinger, Toward an End to Hunger in America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 177 pp. $16.95 (paper); $39.95 (cloth). Eisinger seeks to unravel the puzzle of America's hunger, asserting that unlike problems such...

The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jacob S. Hacker, The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 239 pp. $16.95 (paper). The literature on agenda setting is used to develop a conceptual...

Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer, Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 343 pp. $59.95 (cloth). This book examines tax policies and tax systems as they arise...

Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Gary LaFree, Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 258 pp. $27.00 (cloth). This book offers an explanation for the dramatic changes in street crime rates that...

Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws: Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Kenneth K. Lee, Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws: Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 182 pp. $35.00. This book analyzes why United States immigration policy fails to reflect public...

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ruth O'Brien, Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-193S. Chapel Hill NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 336 pp. $17.95 (paper); $39.95 (cloth). O'Brien argues that it was not New Deal...

Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor and From Ourselves.(Review)
September 22, 1999... James L. Payne, Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor and From Ourselves. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1998. 288 pp. $26.50 (cloth). In this book, Payne analyzes the roots of the chronically failing United States welfare system....

From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Bruce A. Wallin, From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 208 pp. $19.95 (paper); $53.00 (cloth). This book is about the General Revenue Sharing...

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview (revised and expanded ed.).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edward Weiner, Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview (revised and expanded ed.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 272 pp. $59.95 (cloth). This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban...

Policy Studies Journal Editors' Report 1998-99.
September 22, 1999... Report on Articles The systematic and rigorous review process for individually submitted article manuscripts continues to produce high-quality manuscripts for the Policy Studies Journal. During the year August 1, 1998 through July 31,...