Review of Policy Research

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Volume 5, issue 4, 1986

PSO AND POLICY STUDIES DEVELOPMENTS pp. i-vii

Stuart Nagel

THE JUSTICE MOTIVE IN THE SOCIAL POLICY PROCESS: SEARCHING FOR NORMATIVE RULES OF DISTRIBUTION pp. 697-704

Michael C. Musheno

COLLECTIVE DELUSION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PUBLISHING INCENTIVES FOR EMPIRICAL ABUSE pp. 705-708

David Weimer

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF RESEARCH SYNTHESIS IN PROGRAM EVALUATION pp. 709-721

Fred B. Bryant

THE FIRST TWO OIL SHOCKS: POLICY RESPONSE AND EFFECTIVENESS pp. 722-741

Barry B. Hughes

AGENDA SETTING AND “NONDECISIONMAKING”: DECOMMISSIONING NUCLEAR GENERATING STATIONS pp. 742-755

Paula D. McClain and K. David Pijawka

ATTITUDE MEASURES IN EVALUATION RESEARCH: A RESEARCH NOTE pp. 756-786

Chava Nachmias and Cecilia Ridgewoy

IMPLEMENTING COMPARABLE WORTH IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THEORY AND PRACTICE AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL pp. 769-775

Rita Mae Kelly and Jane Bayes

WOMEN, LABOR MARKETS. AND COMPARABLE WORTH pp. 776-799

Jane Bayes

COMPARABLE WORTH IN STATE GOVERNMENT; TRENDS AND ISSUES pp. 800-814

Keon S. Chi

EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION; THE CASE OF COMPARABLE WORTH IN SAN JOSE pp. 815-837

Janet A. Flammang

THE CASE OF COMPARABLE WORTH IN WASHINGTON STATE pp. 838-848

Helen Remick

INITIATING A COMPARABLE WORTH WAGE POLICY IN MINNESOTA: NOTES FROM THE FIELD pp. 849-862

Sara M. Evans and Barbara J. Nelson

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPARABLE WORTH IN IOWA pp. 863-870

Hugh Winebrenner

A. COMMENTS pp. 871-871

Ronald Francisco and Robert L. Lineberry

EVALUATING TVA: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC. HISTORICAL. AND ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS pp. 872-877

David J. Webber

Volume 5, issue 3, 1986

PSO AND POLICY STUDIES DEVELOPMENTS pp. 505-509

Stuart Nagel

POLICY EVALUATION. DEMOCRATIC THEORY. AND THE DIVISION OF SCHOLARLY LABOR pp. 511-519

Richard I. Hofferbert

TRENDS IN THE LOGIC OF POLICY INQUIRY: A COMPARISON OF APPROACHES AND A COMMENTARY pp. 520-528

Rita Mae Kelly

INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMPACTS ON POLICY VARIATIONS WITHIN STATES: EFFECTS OF LOCAL DISCRETION ON GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS pp. 529-535

Robert S. Albritton and Robert D. Brown

THE USE OF TAX INCENTIVES FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT AS A SUBSIDY ALTERNATIVE pp. 536-545

Ardeshir Anjomani and Louis T. Amico

RESEARCH, EVALUATION, AND POLICY ANALYSIS: HEURISTICS FOR DISCIPLINED INQUIRY pp. 546-565

Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon E. Guba

AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE pp. 566-581

Colbert Rhodes

INTRODUCTION: MARKET BASED PUBLIC POLICY pp. 583-587

Richard C. Hula

OVERSIGHT AND COMPETITION IN PROFIT VS NONPROFIT CONTRACTS FOR HOME CARE pp. 588-597

Bette S. Hill, C. Jean Blaser and Pamela W. Balmer

PRIVATIZATION AND CORRECTIONS POLICY pp. 598-605

Dennis J. Palumbo

THE PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE OF PRIVATIZATION: THE KNOXVILLE EXPERIENCE pp. 606-613

Michael R. Fitzgerald

POLLUTION LIABILITY INSURANCE AND THE INTERNALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS pp. 614-623

Martin T. Katzman

THE MARKET FOR INDUSTRY: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD? pp. 624-633

Paul Peretz

USING PRODUCER INCENTIVES TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL OBJECTIVES: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MARKETPLACE AND PUBLIC POLICIES pp. 634-642

David Fasenfest

THE MYTH OF PRIVATE SECTOR SUPERIORITY IN PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION pp. 643-653

Ralph Clark Chandler

THE HEALTH CARE MARKETPLACE; PERSPECTIVES ON A SYSTEM IN TRANSITION pp. 654-662

Elaine A. Anderson and Mark R. Cinsberg

IMPLEMENTING PRIVATE SECTOR STRATEGIES IN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS pp. 663-672

Marshall R. Goodman

A. COMMENTS pp. 673-673

Ronald A. Francisco

THE BRITISH ECONOMY SINCE WORLD WAR II pp. 674-674

Donley T. Studior

C. BOOK NOTES pp. 678-678

Howard A. Faye

Volume 5, issue 2, 1985

FROM THE EDITOR‐IN‐CHIEF pp. 197-198

Dennis J. Palumbo

NEW ISSUES IN THE LOGIC OF POLICY ANALYSIS pp. 207-213

Grover Starling

NEW ISSUES IN POLICY ANALYSIS—OR AN OLD AGENDA? pp. 214-219

Douglas L. Murray

A NEW DEFENSE POLICY FOR COSTA RICA: CONSTRUCTING REALITY AND THE POLICY AGENDA pp. 220-229

Jennie K. Lincoln and Pat Lauderdale

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S WELFARE RETRENCHMENT POLICY: TERMINATING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE DISABLED pp. 230-240

Donald E. Chambers

TRIVIOCRACY: SAYRE'S LAW REVISITED pp. 241-252

Frederic D. Homer and Charles H. Levine

A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL REGULATION pp. 253-270

Fredric N. Bolotin and Jack P. DeSario

PUBLIC ENTERPRISE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN SEAPORTS ON THE PACIFIC RIM pp. 271-286

Herman L. Boschken

POLICY RESEARCH AS SOCIAL SCIENCE: OUTFLANKING THE VALUE DILEMMA pp. 287-308

Laurence Chalip

DEADLY FORCE AS A POLICY PROBLEM IN LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: DO ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES MAKE A DIFFERENCE? pp. 309-318

G. Larry Mays and William A. Taggart

Policy Studies And Political Science pp. 319-336

Lawrence M. Mead

LONG TERM CARE REGULATION IN THE STATES: A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE pp. 337-348

Robert C. Myrtle, William W. Lammers and David Klingman

INTRODUCTION: WATER RESOURCES AND PUBLIC POLICY pp. 349-352

R. Kenneth Godwin, Helen M. Ingram and Dean E. Mann

Institutional Impediments To Efficient Water Allocation pp. 353-363

B. Delworth Gardner

Community Values In Southwest Water Management pp. 365-382

Stephen P. Mumme and Helen M. Ingram

Institutional Capacity And The Resolution Of A Commons Dilemma pp. 383-394

William Blomquist and Elinor Ostrom

RECENT TRENDS IN FEDERAL WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: ARE THE ‘IRON TRIANGLES’ IN RETREAT? pp. 395-412

Tim R. Miller

The Backwaters Of Federalism: Receding Reserved Water Rights And The Management Of National Forests pp. 413-430

Jeff Romm and Sally K. Fairfax

Water Pollution Control In Democratic Societies: A Cross‐National Analysis Of Sources Of Public Beliefs In In Japan And The United States pp. 431-450

Nicholas P. Lovrich, John C. Pierce, Taketsugu Tsurutani and Takematsu Abe

A. COMMENTS pp. 451-452

Robert L. Lineberry Dubnick

C. Health Services Management And Policy Bibliography pp. 459-474

Lois Friss

Volume 5, issue 1, 1985

FROM THE EDITOR‐IN‐CHIEF pp. 5-5

Dennis J. Polumbo

What Can Happen As A Result Of A Policy? pp. 11-16

Egon G. Guba

Perspectives on Agricultural Policy, 1985 pp. 17-20

Don F. Hadwiger

Effectiveness of The Women‐Owned Business Set‐Aside Contracting Goals: A Regression Analysis pp. 21-32

Dennis E. Black

WORKFARE IN NEW JERSEY: A FIVE YEAR ASSESSMENT pp. 33-41

Valerie Englander and Fred Englander

Research Issues In The Evaluation of The Quality of Professional Services: The Case of Legal Services pp. 42-50

Sandra E. Gleason and Ronald Stiff

Perceptions of Success or Failure in Program Implementation: The “Feedback Loop” In Public Policy Decisions pp. 51-68

R. Allen Hays

The Perplexing Political Economy of Energy: An Introduction, Overview and Opinion pp. 69-74

Gregory A. Daneke

Business, Government and Energy Policy: Controlling The ideological Pendulum For The Future pp. 75-80

Johnston Van Robert and Maxine Kurtz

Urban Legislative Response To Regulatory Energy Policy pp. 81-88

Barbara J. Burt and Max Neiman

Institutional Innovation For Cogeneration1 pp. 89-95

Michael A. Chartock, Michael D. Devine and Elizabeth M. Gunn

Nuclear Reactions: Public Attitudes and Policies Toward Nuclear Power pp. 96-110

William R. Freudenburg and Rodney K. Baxter

The Politics of Regulatory Reform and The Future Direction of Nuclear Energy Policy pp. 111-121

Marshall R. Goodman and Fredric P. Andes

Some Lessons From Energy Concerning The Commercialization of New Technologies pp. 122-132

Stephen R. Lefevre

Improving Technological Innovation Through Laboratory/Industry Cooperative R&D pp. 133-144

Jon Soderstrom, Emily Copenhaver, Marilyn A. Brown and John Sorensen

Political Versus Technical Risk Deduction and The Failure of U.S. Synthetic Fuel Development Efforts pp. 145-152

Michael M. Crow and Gregory L. Hager

A. Comments pp. 153-153

Mel Dubnick

Nato: Perpetual Motion, No Change pp. 154-163

Patrick M. Morgan

THE WELFARE STATE IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE pp. 164-173

David A. Rochefort

C. Book Notes pp. 174-178

Mel Dubnick

D. Bibliographies pp. 179-182

John Robey