Policy Studies Journal articles from September 2000

Policy Studies Journal archives from September 2000

From the Editors.
September 22, 2000... Uday Desai Mack Shelley This issue continues a very pleasant tradition. In the Notes, Information, and Announcements section we acknowledge the many scholars who have provided peer evaluations for the manuscripts that were submitted...

Member Commitment and Participation in Local Emergency Planning Committees.
September 22, 2000... Research on Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) has suggested that members' perceptions of group processes and participation activities mediate the relationship between organizational context and LEPC effectiveness. Data from 57 LEPCs...

The Politics of Air Bag Safety: A Competition Among Problem Definitions.
September 22, 2000... In light of 121 deaths attributed to air bag deployments, mainly to children and adults of small stature, recent policy debate has focused on modifying current Federal automotive air bag regulations. A problem definition perspective is employed...

Policy Networks as Collective Action.
September 22, 2000... An important contribution to the policy sciences, and to interorganizational research in particular, has been the introduction of the so-called policy network approach. Despite the fact that this approach has produced a multitude of concepts,...

Innovation, Learning, and Environmental Policy: Overcoming "A Plague of Uncertainties".
September 22, 2000... The "Environmental Era" arrived in the United States unanticipated, surprising Congress, the White House, and even the emerging environmental movement as much by its form as by its abruptness. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the...

Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer.
September 22, 2000... This article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for policy-oriented discussions of environmental uncertainty and risk. Human-caused environmental risks are unavoidable in a technologically and economically advanced society....

International Institutions and Social Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks.
September 22, 2000... This article investigates the role played by formal international institutions in the broader process of international efforts to respond to and manage global and transboundary environmental risks. Because few international institutions are...

Scientific Uncertainty and Learning in European Union Environmental Policymaking.
September 22, 2000... Scientific uncertainty characterizes policymaking in many environmental issue areas. Policymakers must rely on scientists to bring environmental problems to their attention, design and prescribe policy solutions, and to define and evaluate...

Institutional and Policy Responses to Uncertainty in Environmental Policy: A Comparison of Dutch and U.S. Styles.
September 22, 2000... Uncertainties regarding problem definition and policy response are an endemic part of environmental decisionmaking. Some standard responses to uncertainty in decisionmaking are analyzed and then used to suggest the importance of...

Strategic Environmental Planning and Uncertainty: A Cross-National Comparison of Green Plans in Industrialized Countries.(Abstract)
September 22, 2000... Uncertainty is a distinct feature of environmental policy and environmental issues. This article explores the potential of strategic and comprehensive environmental planning for dealing with these uncertainties. First, four types of uncertainty...

Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Information: Public Perceptions of Environmental Issues and Willingness to Take Action.
September 22, 2000... Environmental policymaking has remained an important issue in American public policy for many years. While many individuals have proenvironmental attitudes, they remain unwilling to take the actions necessary to achieve environmental goals....

Regulating Contested Local Hazards: Is Constructive Dialogue Possible Among Participants in Community Risk Management?
September 22, 2000... This article uses focus group data to explore the connection between scientific uncertainty about environmental risks and the emergence of distrust among local populations, regulators, and technical experts affected by those risks. With data...

Uncertainty as Environmental Education.
September 22, 2000... Here we focus particularly upon some implications of the symposium articles for future research agendas and priorities in environmental policy. First, however, we return to the central question posed by this symposium: "How can environmental...

David H. Guston, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Productivity and Integrity of Research.(Review)
September 22, 2000... David H. Guston, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Productivity and Integrity of Research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 236 pp. $54.95 (cloth). Guston combines political, economic, sociological, and historical...

Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft (Eds.), Planning Sustainability.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft (Eds.), Planning Sustainability. London: RoutIedge, 1999. 240 PP. $29.95 (paper). This book explores the relationship between environmental sustainability and planning in the industrialized world. The...

Cathie Jo Martin, Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Cathie Jo Martin, Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 280 pp. $19.95 (paper); $49.50 (cloth). Martin challenges the view that big business wields...

Michael Mason, Environmental Democracy.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Mason, Environmental Democracy. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 276 pp. $49.95 (cloth). This book explores the environmental implications of a discourse theory of democracy and explains how two of the most important public...

Michael Moran, Governing the Health Care State: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Moran, Governing the Health Care State: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 210 pp. $24.95 (paper); $69.95 (cloth). The argument of this book is that the...

Stephen D. Sugarman and Frank R. Kemerer (Eds.), School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy, and Law.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Stephen D. Sugarman and Frank R. Kemerer (Eds.), School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy, and Law. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. 392 pp. $19.95 (paper); $49.95 (cloth). This volume of essays does not make...

Joseph P. Viteritti, Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Joseph P. Viteritti, Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. 284 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Viteritti refocuses the issue of school choice by arguing that the...

Jay D. White, Taking Language Seriously: The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jay D. White, Taking Language Seriously: The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 232 PP. $65.00 (cloth). White argues that the logic of research in public...

Policy Studies Journal Editors' Report, 1999-2000.
September 22, 2000... 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, 1999, through July 31,...