Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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Volume 15, issue 4, 1996

Editor's introduction pp. 513-514

Janet Rothenberg Pack

State strategies for welfare reform: The Wisconsin story pp. 515-546

Michael Wiseman

A research context for welfare reform pp. 547-561

Judith M. Gueron

Learning from the “Milwaukee challenge” pp. 562-571

Mark Alan Hughes

A lesson from the JOBS program: Reforming welfare must be both dazzling and dull pp. 572-586

Irene Lurie

Welfare policy: The administrative frontier pp. 587-600

Lawrence M. Mead

The role of compensation in siting hazardous facilities pp. 601-622

Howard Kunreuther and Doug Easterling

Detracking America's schools: Equity at zero cost? pp. 623-645

Laura M. Argys, Daniel Rees and Dominic J. Brewer

Teaching the prisoners' dilemma pp. 646-653

M. V. Rajeev Gowda

The war against the poor: The underclass and antipoverty policy, by Herbert J. Gans. New York: Basic Books, 1995, 195 pp., $22.00 cloth pp. 654-658

Leland Gerson Neuberg

Balancing juvenile justice, by Susan Guarino-Ghezzi and Edward Loughran. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1996, 213 pp., $29.95 cloth pp. 658-670

Steven M. Teles

Public lands and private rights: The failure of scientific management, by Robert H. Nelson. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995, 312 pp., $61.50 cloth, $24.95 paper pp. 670-672

James M. Ridenour and Steven M. Aukers

Land rights: The 1990's property rights rebellion, edited by Bruce Yandle. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995, 320 pp., $57.50 cloth pp. 672-677

Kathleen Segerson

The politics of gun control, by Robert J. Spitzer. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1995, 210 pp., $25.00 cloth pp. 677-679

Lisa D. Brush

Ethics in congress: From individual to institutional corruption, by Dennis F. Thompson. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 256 pp. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 679-683

David C. Wilhelm

Valuing food safety and nutrition, edited by Julie A. Caswell. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1995, 457 pp., $69.00 cloth pp. 683-685

Ann Fisher

Risk vs. risk: Trade-offs in protecting health and the environment, edited by John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Weiner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, 337 pp., $39.95 cloth pp. 685-687

Howard Margolis

The myth of democratic failure: Why political institutions are efficient, by Donald Wittman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 240 pp., $29.95 cloth pp. 687-691

James A. Desveaux

Defense conversion: Transforming the arsenal of democracy, by Jacques S. Gansler. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995, 277 pp., $25.00 cloth pp. 691-693

Fred Thompson

JPAM 's fifteenth year pp. 700-702

Janet Rothenberg Pack

Volume 15, issue 3, 1996

Editor's note pp. 329-329

Janet Rothenberg Pack

Assessing alternative drug control regimes pp. 330-352

Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter and Thomas Schelling

Fair siting procedures: An empirical analysis of their importance and characteristics pp. 353-376

Bruno Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Interagency information sharing: Expected benefits, manageable risks pp. 377-394

Sharon S. Dawes

The politics of requesting: Strategic behavior and public utility regulation pp. 395-423

Heather E. Campbell

Abandonment of residential housing and the abatement of lead-based paint hazards pp. 424-429

Arthur Fraas and Randall Lutter

If public ideas are so important now, why are policy analysts so depressed? pp. 430-437

David R. Beam

If policy analysts are depressed, what should they do about it? pp. 438-443

Roy T. Meyers

Staying alive to learning: Integrating enactments with case teaching to develop leaders pp. 444-456

Thomas N. Gilmore and Ellen Schall

One hundred centuries of solitude: Redirecting anerica's high-level nuclear waste policy, by James Flynn, James Chalmers, Doug Easterling, Roger Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther, C. K. Mertz, Alvin Mushkatel, K. David Pijawka, and Paul Slovic with Lydia Dotto. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1995, 129 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper pp. 457-461

Gerald Jacob

Social theories of risk, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Dominic Golding. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992, 432 pp., $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper pp. 461-466

M. V. Rajeev Gowda

Avoiding losses, taking risks: Prospect theory and international conflict, edited by Barbara Farnham. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1994, 165 pp., $18.95 paper pp. 466-469

Sharon Morris

The price of federalism by Paul E. Peterson. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 231 pp., $36.95 cloth, $15.95 paper pp. 469-472

Helen Ladd

Analyzing superfund: Economics, science, and law, edited by Richard L. Revesz and Richard B. Stewart. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1995, 263 pp., $39.95 cloth pp. 472-476

David Spence

The fiscal crisis of the states: Lessons for the future, edited by Steven D. Gold. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995, 406 pp., $42.50 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 476-479

Andrew Reschovsky

Privatizing public lands by Scott Lehmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 248 pp., $45.00 cloth pp. 479-482

Maurie J. Cohen

Public service and market mechanisms: Competition, contracting and the new public management, by Kieron Walsh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 284 pp., $49.95 cloth pp. 482-485

Judith D. Smyth

The careless society: Community and its counterfeits, by Johon McKnight. New York: Basic Books, 1998, 208 pp., $21.00 cloth pp. 485-490

Alec Lan Gersherg

How do public managers manage? bureaucratic constraints, organizational culture, and the potential for reform, by Carolyn Ban. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1995, 300 pp., $26.95 paper pp. 490-492

Linda Kaboolian

Valuing health care: Costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies, by Frank Sloan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 273 pp., NPA pp. 492-495

David Meltzer

Volume 15, issue 2, 1996

Editor's note pp. 157-157

Janet Rothenberg Pack

“Presidential” address 1: The changing environment of education for public service pp. 158-170

Donald E. Stokes

Coercive versus cooperative policies: Comparing intergovernmental mandate performance pp. 171-201

Peter J. May and Raymond J. Burby

Who benefits from minority business set-asides? The case of New Jersey pp. 202-226

Samuel L. Myers and Tsze Chan

The structured value referendum: Eliciting preferences for environmental policy alternatives pp. 227-251

Timothy L. McDaniels

Combatting program fragmentation: Local systems of vocational education and job training pp. 252-270

W. Norton Grubb and Lorraine M. McDonnell

Another look at the strategic petroleum reserve: Should its oil holdings be privatized? pp. 271-275

Carl Blumstein and Paul Komor

Assessing medicaid managed care in eastern state pp. 276-284

Anthony R. Kovner

The politics of welfare reform, edited by Donald F. Norris and Lyke Thompson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995, 256 pp., $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper pp. 285-287

Michael Wiseman

The work alternative: Welfare reform and the realities of the job market, edited by Demetra Smith Nightingale and Robert H. Haveman. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1995, 218 pp., $24.95 cloth pp. 287-290

Susan Mayer

Controlling environmental policy: The limits of public law in Germany and the United States, by Susan Rose-Ackerman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995, 244 pp., $30.00 cloth pp. 290-292

Colin S. Diver

Environmental values in american culture, by Willett Kempton, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. Harley. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, 320 pp., $39.95 cloth pp. 292-295

Janathan Baron

Publisher enterpreneurs: Agents for change in American government, by Mark Schneider and Paul Teske with Michael Mintrom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, 263 pp., $39.50 cloth pp. 295-301

Eugene Baradach

Managing chaos and complexity in government, by L. Douglas Kiel. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994, 246 pp., $24.95 cloth pp. 301-302

James E. Colvard

Reinventing the pentagon, by Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994, 298 pp., NPA pp. 302-305

Harlan K. Ullman

The fragile contract: University science and the federal government, edited by David H. Guston and Kenneth Keniston. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994, 270 pp., $37.50 cloth, $17.95 paper pp. 306-309

Michael McGeary

Making schools work: Improving performance and controlling costs, by Eric A. Hanushek. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994, 195 pp., $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 309-312

Kenneth K. Wong

Reversals of fortune: Public policy and private interests, by Gary Mucciaroni. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 225 pp., NPA paper pp. 313-316

Maurie J. Cohen

Volume 15, issue 1, 1996

Repairing the safety net: Is the EITC the right patch? pp. 1-31

Edward J. Bird

The effect of employment and training programs on entry and exit from the welfare caseload pp. 32-50

Robert Moffitt

Public capital stock and interstate variations in manufacturing efficiency pp. 51-67

John K. Mullen, Martin Williams and Ronald Moomaw

How well is the United States competing? A comment on Papadakis pp. 68-81

Louis D. Johnston and Menzie Chinn

Confounding productivity and competitiveness: A rejoinder to the comment, “how well is the United States competing?” pp. 82-88

Maria Papadakis

Reducing the child support welfare disincentive problem pp. 89-96

Laurie J. Bassi and Robert Lerman

Quality assurance for teaching in APPAM schools pp. 97-109

Michael O'Hare

Policy change and learning: An advocacy coalition approach, edited by Paul Sabatier and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, 290 pp., $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper pp. 110-121

Edward F. Lawlor

Making government work: How entrepreneurial executives turn bright ideas into real results by Martin A. Levin and Mary Bryna Sanger. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1994, 333 pp., NPA cloth pp. 121-124

Paul Light

Thickening government: Federal hierarchy and the diffusion of accountability, by Paul Light. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Governance Institute, 1995, 217 pp., NPA pp. 124-127

M. Bryno Songer

Facing the bureaucracy: Living and dying in a public agency, by Gerald Garvey. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1993, 252 pp., NPA pp. 127-129

Ellen Scholl

Imperfect alternatives: Choosing institutions in law, economics, and public policy, by Neil K. Komesar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 287 pp., NPA pp. 130-132

Jack H. Knott

Growing up with a single parent: What hurts, what helps, by Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, 196 pp., $19.95 cloth pp. 132-135

P. Lindsay Chose-Lansdole

Common interest communities: Private governments and the public interest, edited by Stephen Barton and Carol Silverman. Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1994, 318 pp., NPA pp. 135-137

Sonia Ospina

Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous waste siting in Canada and the United States, by Barry G. Rabe. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994, 199 pp., NPA pp. 138-143

Don L Coursey

Renewing cities, by Ross Gittell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992, 232 pp., NPA pp. 143-146

Richard P. Taub