Policy Studies Journal articles from September 2001

Policy Studies Journal archives from September 2001

From the editors.
September 22, 2001... We are very pleased to let you know that there will be some changes coming in the near future to the Policy Studies Journal's staffing and production arrangements. We will provide details in a future issue. In This Issue The impact of...

State support for higher education: a political economy approach.
September 22, 2001... ********** This research examines state support for higher education by first ascertaining the amount supplied and demanded of this service. The approach assumes that supply and demand occur simultaneously, and that each is affected by...

The localism principle in communications policymaking and policy analysis: Ambiguity, inconsistency, and empirical neglect.
September 22, 2001... ********** Localism long has been a central guiding principle in communications policymaking, yet its specific meaning and objectives have not been well articulated by policymakers. This article attempts to bring greater clarity to the...

Coping with competition: the impact of charter schooling on public school outreach in Arizona.
September 22, 2001... ********** Advocates of market-based education reform hypothesize that competition will cause traditional public schools to increase outreach efforts as they seek to market themselves. Advocates hope such efforts will result in more...

Institutions, interests, energy, and the environment: policymaking in corporatism, pluralism, and beyond.
September 22, 2001... ********** How do institutional arrangements affect environmental and energy policies when the two often are seen as being competing, and inherently incompatible? In October 1998, United Nations Development Program Director James Gustav...

Mitigating global climate change: why are some countries more committed than others?
September 22, 2001... ********** This article analyzes factors affecting countries' commitment to mitigating global climate change within the scope of existing international institutions. The commitment level is operationalized as an ordinal variable ranging...

Energy and environmental politics in post-corporatist Mexico.
September 22, 2001... ********** No government that is serious about environmental protection will imitate the Mexican model. The undrinkable waters and defiled deserts of Mexico's northern border towns and the poisoned air of its capital city are infamous. But...

A web of interests: stalemate on the disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
September 22, 2001... ********** The United States has adopted a policy of geological disposal to resolve the problem of permanent disposition of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel (SNF), but has been unable to implement this policy. This study draws upon...

Cleaning up their acts: shifts of environment and energy policies in pluralist and corporatist states.
September 22, 2001... ********** This study examines the abilities of different types of governments to take proactive steps towards reducing pollution. Specifically, the hypothesis that the system of interest group representation on a scale of pluralism to...

Negotiated environmental governance in the Netherlands: logic and illustration.
September 22, 2001... ********** The Dutch consensus oriented model of negotiated environmental governance enjoys increasing popularity within the European Union because of its seemingly effective way of dealing with environmental problems. A closer look at the...

Sustainable development as systemic choices.
September 22, 2001... ********** This article discusses the utility of conceptualizing the transition to sustainable energy resources and technologies in terms of a significantly modified notion of strategic choice. This conceptualization combines recently...