Recently added articles from The Review of Policy Research:
Depleted uranium, public science, and the politics of closure.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction When does scientific evidence successfully halt political controversy? It is commonly assumed that reducing scientific uncertainty closes political debate and leads to stable policy. That is, scientific closure conditions political closure. Building on the case of ...
Earth Day and its precursors: continuity and change in the evolution of midtwentieth-century U.S. environmental policy.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Earth Day 1970 is widely credited with increasing Americans' concerns with environmental problems (Guber, 2003, p. 1; Nordhaus & Shellenberger, 2007, p. 21; Rosenbaum, 1973, p. 70; Shabecoff, 1993, p. 113). A lasting facet of its legacy, however, is the effect that the environmental ...
Public perceptions of benefits from and worries over plant-made industrial products and plant-made pharmaceuticals: the influence of institutional trust.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Biotechnology, specifically agricultural biotechnology, has been a seminal reference point in risk perception studies (Fischhoff & Fischhoff, 2001; Harrison &Han, 2005; Midden et al., 2002; Poortinga & Pidgeon, 2006; Savadori et al., 2004; Siegrist, 2000; Siegrist & Cvetkovich, 2000; ...
Cluster-based policy making: assessing performance and sustaining competitiveness.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction The creation of clusters as a mechanism for economic growth is becoming a popular option among policy makers around the world. The evolution of this field can be traced back to the work of geographers on "localisation of economic activities." The contribution by ...
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. New York: Public Affairs. xvi + 457 pages. ISBN: 9781586484255, $26.95 hardcover; 9781586485733 paper $15.95. Drew Westen. 2007. Many books are cast as modern reincarnations of The Prince, by Niccolo ...
Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, ix+215 pages. ISBN: 9780815735649, $49.95 cloth; 9780815735632, $19.95 paper. Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Michael J. Hanmer, Benjamin B. Bederson, and Frederick C. Conrad ....
Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, xvii+515 pages. ISBN: 9780300073584. $39.00 paper. Richard NL Andrews. 2006. In one of the best one-volume histories of United States ...
The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. xvii + 298 pages. ISBN: 1589011538 $29.95 cloth. Robert E Durant. 2007. Why has the end of the Cold War not ushered in a new era ...
Managing the hazard of marine oil pollution in Alaska.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Introduction This study examines the development of safeguards against marine oil pollution in Alaska since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in which oil spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez caused a large-scale environmental disaster in coastal Alaska. In the time since the ...
Winnowing in environmental policy: jurisdictional challenges and opportunities.
May 01, 2008; ... Introduction Not all positions on the institutional agenda are created equal. The plethora of literature concerned with issue movement from the systemic to the institutional agenda has come at the cost of uncovering internal institutional agenda change. Winnowing theory (Krutz, ...
Innovation and implementation in the public sector: an examination of public entrepreneurship.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Introduction Innovation, or the adoption of an existing idea for the first time by a specific organization (Rogers, 1995), has long been lauded as a vital step for keeping organizations on the cutting edge of work processes and technology. It is most commonly thought of as the ...
Urban government innovation: identifying current innovations and factors that contribute to their adoption.
May 01, 2008; ... Introduction The topic of urban government innovation is the focus of many studies in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, in which researchers identified the current government innovations of the time and attempted to highlight qualitatively and quantitatively governmental, ...
Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. xx + 288 pages. ISBN 9780300120189, $45.00 cloth. Dan Breznitz. 2007. Over the past 20 years, we have seen renewed interest in discerning ...
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. vi + 264 pages. ISBN 9780226316130, $55.00 cloth. ISBN 9780226316147, $25.00 paper. Bernard E. Harcourt. 2007. A challenge in addressing issues inherent in the ...
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. xxi + 283 pages. ISBN 9780822340485, $84.95 cloth. ISBN 9780822340317, $23.95 paper. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck. 2007. Two of the central questions in ...
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ix + 281 pages. ISBN 9780295985978, $35.00 cloth. Karl Brooks. 2006. In the red-versus-blue maps of recent electoral politics, one of the reddest, most Republican ...