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From:Naval War College Review (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1954, the noted political scientist Samuel P. Huntington published a seminal article entitled "National Policy and the Transoceanic Navy." In it he sought to articulate the connection between the geopolitical...
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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStudies of failure typically assess public policies through the lenses of effectiveness, efficiency, and performance. Here I wish to propose a further dimension to the evaluation and assessment of policy...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 106, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the early decades of this century, productivity gains in such industries as steel making and automobile manufacturing took place at a breathtaking pace. The outline of an affluent new satiety began to take shape --...
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From:Canadian Journal of Sociology (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii + 310 pp. Current practices make it difficult to envision a time when political decisions on issues of public works and economic policy did not place a heavy reliance...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Canada's government, program evaluation reports include recommendations aimed at improving their procedures and implementation. The development of recommendations can be a tedious step in the evaluation process and...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 99, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective To compare infant feeding practices among low-income, urban, African-American women enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) with current recommendations for...
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From:International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Vol. 7) Peer-ReviewedCritical analysis of change in public policy within and across nations recognizes that the education and welfare of children, families, and all citizens is intertwined with economics, politics, and cultural...
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From:The Review of Policy Research (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedResearch on bureaucratic behavior suggests that agencies are more likely to use the implementation process to extend their power and influence under particular circumstances. I argue that when an agency has been...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe free-rider problem associated with public goods was recognized by David Hume, even before the time of Adam Smith's writings. Each citizen who can enjoy the benefit of a public good has an incentive to try to lay the...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 159, Issue 4)Governments should embrace randomized trials to estimate the efficacy of different laws and regulations. Just as random assignment of treatments is the most powerful method of testing for the causal impact of...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe year 2000 was generally stable for the Vanuatu government, especially when compared to the governance situation in neighboring Melanesian countries. Somewhat surprisingly perhaps, given the previous instability in...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 15, Issue 5)At the University of New Hampshire, John Kerry criticized President Bush for doing too little to support alternative and renewable energy. But when an environmentally state-of-the-art wind farm of 130...
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From:Australian Aboriginal Studies (Vol. 2002, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTim Rowse, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra,
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From:Annual Review of SociologyPeer-ReviewedKey Words fertility, female labor force participation, industrialized nations, work-family issues, public policy * Abstract INTRODUCTION Thirty years ago, Bumpass & Westoff (1970:95) asked, "Do women limit...
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From:Policy Studies Review (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough comprehensive reform programs (CRPs) have been influenced by theories of government failure, they pose some puzzles for these theorists. My purpose is to address puzzles that relate to observed characteristics...
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From:Strategic Review for Southern Africa (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The objectives of the Southern African Development Community are, amongst others, aimed at building a security community in Southern Africa. Specifically, the establishment of the SADC Organ for Politics,...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 106, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDuring last fall's American election campaign, television viewers on both sides of the Canada-us border were treated to increasingly vicious partisan commercial spots. And, following a pattern that has grown more...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 106, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHuman history can be seen as a long series of experiments -- although most often we are unaware that we have been conducting them. The collapse of the Soviet Bloc has been recognized as the end of a very long and often...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 106, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Canada and around the globe, government deficits have been a growing problem for decades. But now that they are finally being brought under control -- at tremendous sacrifice to public services -- a sort of...
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From:American Review of Public Administration (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Erosion of Federal Program Evaluation It is an article of faith among professional public administrators that knowledge is a good thing. The more we know about how our programs are functioning - what effects they...