Recently added articles from Policy Studies Journal:
Editors' notes.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007; ... As editors of the Policy Studies Journal we cannot help but marvel at the changes taking place in how we--as policy scholars--go about our research. The use of the Internet has developed well beyond a mechanism for retrieving articles to a source of data, debate, and insight. Most of us ...
Race, gender, and communications in natural disasters.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The 2005 Katrina hurricane that devastated New Orleans, parts of Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast has led to calls for better emergency planning throughout the United States (Comfort, 2006). As was made painfully clear there by the 13 hundred lost lives (700 in New Orleans alone), destroyed ...
Media framing and racial attitudes in the aftermath of Katrina.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Over 40 years of research clearly indicates that African Americans tend to have lower levels of political trust and confidence in governmental institutions than their White counterparts (Dawson, 1994; Engel, 2005; Howell & Fagan, 1988; Hurwitz & Peffley, 2005; Kinder & Sanders, 1996; ...
The public policy process among southeastern states: elaborating theories of regional adoption and hold-out behavior.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Introduction Research supports that public policies diffuse across the American states (Berry & Baybeck, 2005; Berry & Berry, 1990; Mooney & Lee, 1995). That is to say, policies seem to spread between states in a region and between states that share borders. Such diffusion has ...
When does cooperation improve public policy implementation?(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Relationships between authorities impinge on policy implementation (O'Toole, 2003) and it is often emphasized that public policy can be carried out better if cooperation increases among agencies. Some scholars claim that interorganizational cooperation is inherently good (e.g., Hudson, ...
Same policy area, different politics: how characteristics of policy tools alter the determinants of early childhood education policy.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Introduction Over the last four decades, political scientists have capitalized on political, institutional, and policy variation among the American states to test and refine the theories of policymaking (Brace & Jewett, 1995; Mooney, 2001). This research has illuminated a number ...
Navigating the social safety net: a state-level analysis of the relationship between Medicaid and consumer bankruptcy.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Introduction The social safety net in the United States is a system of programs and policies that provide mechanisms to assist individuals when they are unable to cover basic and vital living expenses for themselves. A panoply of programs falls within the scope of the social ...
Voluntary environmental programs: a symposium.(Conference notes)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Policy scholars, for at least a generation now, have addressed the usefulness of public-mandated "command and control" environmental regulations as an efficacious means to promote a cleaner environment. In the United States, these policies go back at least as far as the Clean Air Act of ...
The effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs--a policy at a crossroads?(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Introduction In the United States, voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) have become standard in the environmental policy tool kit since the 1990s. This development is at the confluence of several events, including more complex regulations, technical innovation and scientific ...
Environmental public voluntary programs reconsidered.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... 1. Introduction For years, environmental regulators have relied upon various forms of taxes, subsidies, and command and control regulations to remedy environmental problems. Recently, however, new tools--including environmental public voluntary programs, or PVPs--have been added ...
Motivations for voluntary environmental management.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Firms are increasingly undertaking initiatives to proactively improve their environmental performance and go beyond simply complying with regulatory standards. Some firms are adopting an internally structured mix of environmental management practices (EMPs) that reflect a commitment to ...
Collective action through voluntary environmental programs: a club theory perspective.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Introduction It is now well recognized that voluntary environmental programs are important policy instruments for environmental governance, with programs sprouting up across continents and policy domains. Program by program, scholars have studied conditions under which firms ...
Editors' notes.(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Whether your interest is in the processes by which policies change, the institutions that guide or condition policy change, or the theories that underlie typologies of politics, you will find this issue of Policy Studies Journal has content of value. Three articles focus on the ...
Noah and Joseph effects in government budgets: analyzing long-term memory.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Noah and Joseph in Government Budgets: Path Dependence or Long-Term Memory? In the broadest sense, path dependence implies that "history matters." At one level, this seems obvious, but at another, it is anything but obvious. Many analysts, quantitative and qualitative, ...
Public and private policy change: pension reform in four countries.(United States, Canada, Britain, and Japan)(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Introduction Since the 1980s, much has been written about the impact of fiscal austerity and free market ideas on social policy reform in advanced industrial societies. One of the most central issues debated in that comparative policy literature is the scope of policy change ...
Stability and change in public policy: a longitudinal study of comparative subsystem dynamics.(Essay)
Aug 01, 2007; ... In 1993, Baumgartner and Jones introduced the punctuated equilibrium model of public policymaking. By integrating insights from the agenda-setting literature with elements from incrementalism and institutional theory, the punctuated equilibrium model offers an analytical framework capable ...
European Union external trade policy: multilevel principal-agent relationships.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Trade policy throughout the developed countries is increasingly characterized as an area of contentious politics. One need only think of the numerous antiglobalization protests and vociferous calls for more transparent policy to see that there is a transnational movement to make trade and ...
How political support influences red tape through developmental culture.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; ... When citizens accuse government of having too much red tape, they often mean excessive rules and regulations, waste of scarce resources, and inefficiency (Bozeman, 2000). The exact meaning of red tape is often unclear. Nevertheless, much of the recent reinventing-government movement in the ...
Constitutional blemishes: American alcohol prohibition and repeal as policy punctuation.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; ... The American experience with alcohol prohibition in the early twentieth century has always been considered something of an enigma, embodying a series of apparent historical anomalies: a successful antiprogressive initiative in the middle of the Progressive Era, the only constitutional ...
Policy characteristics, patterns of politics, and the minimum wage: toward a typology of redistributive policies.(Report)
Aug 01, 2007; ... While the incredibly diverse patterns of political activity we find across different issues cannot be captured by any single model of the policy process, it does not follow that each issue is idiosyncratic. To the contrary, the central hypothesis of all policy typologies is that ...