Review of Policy Research

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Volume 24, issue 6, 2007

Tradable Permits for Common‐Pool Resources: An Assessment pp. 541-565

Nives Dolšak

Agenda Setting and the Blogosphere: An Analysis of the Relationship between Mainstream Media and Political Blogs pp. 567-587

Kevin Wallsten

Law Enforcement Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina pp. 589-608

Jeff Rojek and Michael R. Smith

Material Objects and Aura: Popular Culture Images against and for War pp. 609-626

David Toohey

Volume 24, issue 5, 2007

EU Regulation of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals in Comparative Perspective pp. 385-405

Christa Altenstetter and Govin Permanand

Risking Regulation, Regulating Risk: Lessons from the Transatlantic Biotech Dispute pp. 407-423

Noah Zerbe

Discerning Immunity for Governmental Entities: Analyzing Legislative Choices pp. 425-441

Terence Centner

Registered Traveler Program: The Financial Value of Registering the Good Guys pp. 443-462

Charles A. Stone and Anne Zissu

Volume 24, issue 4, 2007

Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States pp. 291-308

Adam J. Newmark and Christopher Witko

NGOs and the “Information Society”: Grassroots Advocacy at the UN—A Cautionary Tale pp. 309-330

M.I. Franklin

International Organizations ICTs Policies: E‐Democracy and E‐Government for Political Development pp. 331-344

Francesco Amoretti

Toward Developing a Structured Approach to the Diagnosis and Resolution of Nonperforming Loans: The Case of China and India1 pp. 345-365

Emilia Istrate, Debasree Das Gupta and Paul Weissburg

Volume 24, issue 3, 2007

The Development of Renewable Electricity Policy in the Province of Ontario: The Influence of Ideas and Timing pp. 185-207

Ian H. Rowlands

“Getting the Word Out”: Policy Bloggers Use Their Soap Box to Make Change pp. 209-229

Laura McKenna

Political Decentralization and Technological Innovation: Testing the Innovative Advantages of Decentralized States pp. 231-257

Mark Taylor

The Technology Trap and the Role of Political and Cultural Variables: A Critical Analysis of the E‐Government Policies pp. 259-275

Silvia Bolgherini

Volume 24, issue 2, 2007

Cultural Policy and Border Crossings pp. vii-viii

J.P. Singh

“Editorials at a Glance”: Cultural Policy, Gender, and Modernity in the World War I Bureau of Cartoons pp. 97-117

Michael T. Coventry

Defining Indecency as an Artifact of Cultural Policy pp. 119-132

Kathleen Wallman

Culture without the State? Reinvigorating Ukrainian Culture with Diasporic Efforts pp. 133-154

Marcus Holmes

Sex Workers and Cultural Policy: Mapping the Issues and Actors in Thailand pp. 155-173

J.P. Singh and Shilpa A. Hart

Volume 24, issue 1, 2007

Political Science and Prediction: What's Next for U.S. Climate Change Policy? pp. 1-27

Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Explaining Japan's Tortured Course to Surveillance Satellites pp. 29-48

Andrew L. Oros

State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates pp. 49-65

Peter J. May and Chris Koski

Mixing God's Work and the Public Business: A Framework for the Analysis of Faith‐Based Service Delivery pp. 67-89

Richard Hula, Cynthia Jackson‐Elmoore and Laura Reese

Volume 23, issue 6, 2006

Public and Private Institutions, Political Action, and the Practice of Local Government pp. 1119-1121

Charles Barrilleaux, Ron Cheung and Thomas M. Carsey

New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods pp. 1123-1141

Robert Nelson

Private Governments and Private Services: Homeowners Associations in the City and Behind the Gate pp. 1143-1157

Barbara Coyle McCabe and Jill Tao

Regional Place and City Space: How Metropolitan Configurations Influence Central City Policy Responsiveness pp. 1159-1180

Christine A. Kelleher

Tiebout Sorting in Metropolitan Areas pp. 1181-1198

Kenneth Bickers and Richard N. Engstrom

All Together Now? An Empirical Study of the Voting Behaviors of Homeowner Association Members in St. Louis County pp. 1199-1218

Jeremy Groves

Does Spatial Variation in Heterogeneity Matter? Assessing the Adoption Patterns of Business Improvement Districts pp. 1219-1234

Leah Brooks

Building Civic Capacity Through an Elastic Local State: The Case of St. Louis pp. 1235-1255

David Laslo and Dennis R. Judd

The Street‐Level Bureaucrats of Elections: Selection Methods for Local Election Officials pp. 1257-1268

David C. Kimball and Martha Kropf

Volume 23, issue 5, 2006

Minority Student Achievement pp. 963-967

Gregory R. Weiher and Kent L. Tedin

The Information Gap? pp. 969-981

Paul Teske, Jody Fitzpatrick and Gabriel Kaplan

Sinking Swann: Public School Choice and the Resegregation of Charlotte's Public Schools pp. 983-997

R. Kenneth Godwin, Suzanne M. Leland, Andrew D. Baxter and Stephanie Southworth

Elementary Grade Retention in Texas and Reading Achievement Among Racial Groups: 1994–2002 pp. 999-1033

Jon Lorence and Anthony Gary Dworkin

Hispanic College Attendance and the State of Texas GEAR UP Program pp. 1035-1051

Gregory R. Weiher, Christina Hughes, Noah Kaplan and Joseph Y. Howard

Parent Involvement and Educational Outcomes for Latino Students pp. 1053-1076

Melissa Marschall

Which Bets Paid Off? Early Findings on the Impact of Private Management and K‐8 Conversion Reforms on the Achievement of Philadelphia Students pp. 1077-1093

Martha Abele Mac Iver and Douglas J. Mac Iver

The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of Bum Phillips's “Don Shula Rule”1 pp. 1095-1110

Kenneth J. Meier, Carl Doerfler, Daniel Hawes, Alisa K. Hicklin and Rene R. Rocha

Volume 23, issue 4, 2006

Guest Editors' Introduction pp. 813-814

Timothy Hedeen and Linda Baron

The New Urban Governance: Processes for Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders pp. 815-826

Lisa Blomgren Bingham

The Promise and Pitfalls of Consensus Decision Making in School Management pp. 827-842

Kristen Erbes

Collaboration and Citizen Participation in Community Mediation Centers pp. 843-863

Beth Gazley, Won Kyung Chang and Lisa Blomgren Bingham

Factors Affecting Individuals' Decisions to Use Community Mediation pp. 865-885

Lorig Charkoudian and Carrie Wilson

Survival and Institutionalization of an Idea: The Rapid Rise of Intelligent Vehicle‐Highway Systems pp. 887-902

Eric Lindquist

Quantum Change in the Fragmented Metropolis: Political Environment and Homeless Policy in New York City pp. 903-913

Thomas J. Main

Direct Democracy Paradox: State Fiscal Policies in the United States and the Threat of Direct Initiatives pp. 915-925

Manabu Saeki

A Preliminary Assessment of Water Institutions in India: An Institutional Design Perspective pp. 927-953

Jayanath Ananda, Lin Crase and P.G. Pagan

Volume 23, issue 3, 2006

Evaluating Welfare Reform pp. 653-655

Harrell R. Rodgers

State Poverty Rates: Do the New Welfare Policies Make a Difference? pp. 657-679

Harrell R. Rodgers, Lee Payne and Serguei Chervachidze

Child Care Subsidies and Employment Behavior Among Very‐Low‐Income Populations in Three States pp. 681-698

Carlena K. Cochi Ficano, Lisa A. Gennetian and Pamela A. Morris

The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Single Mothers’ Work Effort pp. 699-711

April Crawford

The Reversal of Favorable Child Living Arrangement Trends of the Late 1990s pp. 713-723

Wendell E. Primus

“It’s Great When People Don’t Even Have Their Welfare Cases Opened”: TANF Diversion as Process and Lesson pp. 725-743

Frank Ridzi and Andrew S. London

State TANF Spending: Predictors of State Tax Effort to Support Welfare Reform pp. 745-759

Harrell R. Rodgers and Kent L. Tedin

Getting the Order Right: Child Support Guidelines and the Cost of Raising Children pp. 761-779

Jo Michelle Beld

Reductions in Poverty Significantly Greater in the 1990s Than Official Estimates Suggest pp. 781-797

Wendell E. Primus

Appendix pp. 799-806

Harrel R. Rodgers and Lee Payne

Volume 23, issue 2, 2006

Mexican Democracy and Its Discontents pp. 287-294

Francisco Flores‐Macias and Chappell Lawson

Latin America's Fledgling, Fumbling Democracies pp. 295-310

William Ratliff

Family Policy Past As Prologue: Jimmy Carter, the White House Conference on Families, and the Mobilization of the New Christian Right1 pp. 311-338

Leo P. Ribuffo

Community‐Based Participatory Research as a Tool for Policy Change: A Case Study of the Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative pp. 339-354

Dana Petersen, Meredith Minkler, Victoria Breckwich Vásquez and Andrea Corage Baden

Efficiency Measurement in Spanish Local Government: The Case of Municipal Water Services pp. 355-372

Isabel M. García‐Sánchez

The Federal Concessioner System: Linking Policy to Opportunities for Local Service Providers pp. 373-386

Rick S. Kurtz

“Freedom of Choice”: Israeli Efforts to Prevent Soviet Jewish Émigrés to Resettle in the United States pp. 387-412

Fred A. Lazin

Hofferbert in Transit: A Dynamic Stages Model of the Urban Policy Process pp. 413-432

Robert J. Eger and Justin Marlowe

How Big Is a Policy Network? An Assessment Utilizing Data From Canadian Royal Commissions 1970–2000 pp. 433-452

Michael Howlett and Anthony Maragna

The Rise and Fall of Power Line EMFs: The Anatomy of a Magnetic Controversy pp. 453-472

Jon Palfreman

Judicious Incentives: International Public Policy Responses to the Globalization of Environmental Management pp. 473-490

Susan Summers Raines

Not Just Another Determinants Piece: Path Dependency and Local Tax Abatements pp. 491-504

Laura A. Reese

Systemic Interventions to Promote Institutional Change in the Russian Forest Sector pp. 505-530

Mats‐Olov Olsson

Social Security Privatization and Market Risk pp. 531-548

Christian Weller

Public Policy Failure or Historical Debacle? A Study of Eritrea's Relations With Ethiopia Since 1991 pp. 549-572

Román López Villicana and M. Venkataraman

The End of Wilderness: Conflict and Defeat of Wilderness in the Grand Canyon pp. 573-588

Peter Jacques and David M. Ostergren

The Policy of High‐Tech Industry Development: The Case of Location Assessment for Biotech Industry Parks in Taiwan pp. 589-606

Ren‐Shuai Chen, Joseph Z. Shyu and Gow‐Hshiung Tzeng

Impacts of China's Rural Land Policy and Administration on Rural Economy and Grain Production pp. 607-624

Hongye Zhang, Xiaofeng Li and Xiaomei Shao

The Process and Practice of Downtown Revitalization pp. 625-645

Dagney Faulk

Volume 23, issue 1, 2006

Chromium‐Based Regulations Applicable to Metal Finishing Industries in the United States: A Policy Assessment pp. 1-21

Anil Baral, Robert Engelken and Patrick Stewart

A Tale of Two Fears: Exploring Media Depictions of Nuclear Power and Global Warming pp. 23-43

Jon Palfreman

Amsterdam as a Global City: Restructuring, Identity Rearticulation, and Resistance in the Service Sector pp. 45-70

Tobias Dörfler, Marianne H. Marchand and Claus Pirschner

The Equity Impacts of Municipal Tax Incentives: Leveling or Tilting the Playing Field? pp. 71-94

Laura A. Reese and Gary Sands

The Politics of Vulnerability: Constructing Local Performance Regimes for Homeland Security pp. 95-114

Susan E. Clarke and Erica Chenoweth

Western Wildfires: A Policy Change Perspective pp. 115-127

Charles Davis

Assessing Instrument Mixes through Program‐ and Agency‐Level Data: Methodological Issues in Contemporary Implementation Research pp. 129-151

Michael Howlett, Jonathan Kim and Paul Weaver

Managing Risk and Regulation in European Food Safety Governance pp. 153-168

Ladina Caduff and Thomas Bernauer

Public Policy and Foreign Policy: Divergences, Intersections, Exchange pp. 169-181

Howard H. Lentner

Value Conflict and Policy Change pp. 183-195

Jenny Stewart

The Academic Discipline of Management and Homeland Security pp. 197-222

Ufot B. Inamete

Area Poverty Effects on Local Health Care Costs: An Analysis of Mississippi pp. 223-233

Brandon Roberts

State‐Funded College Scholarships: General Definitions and Characteristics pp. 235-248

Danielle Duffourc

Is a Computer Worth a Thousand Books? Internet Access and the Changing Role of Public Libraries pp. 249-266

Anindya Chaudhuri and Kenneth S. Flamm

Considering Knowledge Uptake within a Cycle of Transforming Data, Information, and Knowledge pp. 267-279

Sarah Michaels, Nancy P. Goucher and Dan McCarthy