AGENDA SETTING

Thu 8:45 am

Chair:  Stephen C. Brooks, University of Akron

Papers: "Direct Democracy, Agenda Setting and the Policy Process"
	  Caroline Tolbert, University of Colorado

     	  "Policy Communities, Policy Information, and Agenda Setting: The 
    Effects and Causalities"
	  Cheol H. Oh, Arkansas State University
	  Robert F. Rich, University of Illinois

	  "Who Governs?  It Depends on the Issue"
	  Dean Lacy, Duke University

     	  "A Contingency Perspective on Issue Salience and Policy          
    Development"
	  Elaine B. Sharp, University of Kansas

     	  "Policy Dynamics: The Marketing of Political Issues in the Agenda 
   Setting Process"
	  E. Rivers Garbarah-Aidoo, University of Houston


PRESCRIPTIONS FOR POLICY EXCELLENCE

Thu 10:45 am

Chair:  James M. Rogers, Temple University

Papers: "Factors Affecting Implementation of Mandatory Arrest Statutes   
          for Domestic Violence Offenses"
        Carol Kennedy Chaney, University of California,  Riverside

     	  "Judges as Public Policy Implementors: Implementation of the U.S. 
   Sentencing Guidelines"
        Elizabeth F. Moulds, California State University,  Sacramento

     	  "The Effect on University Quality of Differential Institutional  
    Structures between States and Research Universities"
	  Paul W. Eykamp, University of California, San Diego

	  "Rx to OTC: Public Policy Without Deliberation"
        Pauline M. Vaillancourt-Rosenau, University of Texas,  Houston

	  "Justice and Super-Optimizing Analysis"
        Stuart Nagel, University of Illinois at Urbana-  Champaign


COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Thu 1:30 pm

Chair:  Benny Hjern, Umea University

Papers: "Is Cooperation the Answer?  A Comparison of Canadian and U.S.   
          Enforcement of Environmental Regulations"
	  Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia

     	  "The Political Economy of Recycling: Public-Private Partnership  
    in the United States and Europe"
	  Renu Khator, University of South Florida

     	  "Lessons for the European Community from the United States: The  
    Case of Air Pollution"
	  Sarah C. Stiles, Northeastern University

     	  "Paved With Political Intentions: Impact of Structure on the Park 
   Services of the United States and Canada"
	  William R. Lowry, Washington University


POLICY TARGETS

Thu 3:30 pm

Chair:  Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern  California

Papers: "'Means Testing v. 'Targeting' Programs for the Elderly"
	  Bruce Jacobs, University of Rochester

     	  "Agency Choices in Program Delivery and the Impact on Client     
    Treatment: The Case of the JOBS Program"
	  Dale Krane, University of Nebraska, Omaha
	  Edward T. Jennings, University of Kentucky

     	  "Policy Targets of Opportunity Using Structure to Predict        
    Strategy"
	  Jack H. Knott, Michigan State University
	  Carol Weissert, Michigan State University

     	  "Role of Public Involvement in Managing Conflict: A Comparative  
    Case Study in Siting Low-Level Radioactive Disposal 
Facilities in    the United States"
	  Kelly A. Tzoumis, American University

     	  "Implementing Federal Policy Toward American Indians:            
    Self-Determination, Self-Governance and the Politics of 
Identity"
	  James R. Maupin, Southwest Missouri State University
        Lisa J. Bond-Maupin, Southwest Missouri State University


IMPACT OF POLICY ON DEMOCRATIC POLITICS: A ROUNDTABLE

Fri 8:45 am

Chair:  Steven Rathgeb Smith, Duke University

Discussants:
	  Lawrence D. Brown, Columbia University

	  Hugh Heclo, George Mason University

	  Helen Ingram, University of Arizona

	  Paul Pierson, Harvard University

	  Richard Vallely, Swarthmore College

	  Carwin C. Williams, Brigham Young University


THEORIES OF THE POLICY PROCESS

Fri 8:45 am

Chair:  Paul Sabatier, University of California, Davis

Papers: "Multiple Perspectives on Automotive Emissions Control"
	  Paul Sabatier, University of California, Davis
	  Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of New Mexico

     	  "The Politics of Administrative Design: Legislative Coalitions   
    and the Bureaucracy"		
	  B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University
	  William West, Texas A&M University

     	  "Professionalization, Political Control, and Regulatory Policy   
    Change"
	  Marc Allen Eisner, Wesleyan University
	  Evan J. Ringquist, Texas Tech University
	  Jeff Worsham, West Virginia University

     	  "National Styles of Privatization: A Comparison of Britain,      
    France, and Germany"
	  Nikolaos Zahariadis, University of Georgia
	  Christopher S. Allen, University of Georgia

     	  "Institutional Rational Choice and Advocacy Coalitions: Improving 
   Theories of the Policy Process"
	  Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
        William Bloomquist, University of Indiana-Indianapolis  

Discussant:
	  Peter deLeon, University of Colorado


PUBLIC POLICY PARTICIPATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Fri 10:45 am

Chair:  Lawrence Scaff, Pennsylvania State University

Papers: "Impact of Public Policy on the Formation of Employee-Owned      
          Businesses in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy"
        Laurie Bounanno Lanze, State University of New York,  College at 
            Fredonia

     	  "Local Networks in Implementation: A Sign or Threat of Democracy"
	  Pekka Kettunen, University of Turku

     	  "Mediating Structures and Social Policy: Community Organizations 
    and the Formation of Social Capital"
	  Richard A. Couto, University of Richmond

     	  "Budgeting Entitlements: Caps and Costs in the Food Stamp        
    Program"
	  Ronald F. King, Tulane University

	  "A Theory of Democratic Taxation"
	  James Curtis, Pennsylvania State University


ABORTION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND THE POLICY PROCESS

Fri 10:45 am

Chair:  Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina

Papers: "Locating Abortion Clinics: Aggregate Data and Case Study        
          Approaches to the Implementation Process"
	  Glen Halva-Neubauer, Furman University
	  Raymond Tatalovich, Loyola University of Chicago
	  Byron W. Daynes, Brigham Young University

     	  "Abortion Politics in Ohio: Change and Stability in Public       
    Policy"
	  Patricia Bayer Richard, Ohio University

     	  "The Impact of Gubernatorial Leadership on Abortion Legislation: 
    The Cases of Idaho, Louisiana, and Utah"
	  H. E. Scruggs, Brigham Young University

     	  "Public Funding of Abortions in North Carolina: One Liberal Law  
    in the South"
	  Ruth Ann Strickland, Appalachian State University

	  "Pre-Roe Abortion Law in the U.S. States"
        Christopher Z. Mooney, West Virginia University & University of  
            Essex, United Kingdom
	  Mei-Hsien Lee, West Virginia University

Discussants:
	  Susan B. Hanson, University of Pittsburgh

	  Helene Silverberg, Princeton University


ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Fri 1:30 pm

Chair:  Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern University

Papers: "Political Ecology: An Analysis of the Spotted Owl Controversy"
	  George Hoberg, University of Washington

     	  "Comparative Environmental Programs and the Risky Politics of    
    Solid Waste Policy-Making"
        Paul A. Smith, State University of New York at  Binghamton
        Ronald G. Ketter, State University of New York at  Binghamton    
  
        "Hazardous Waste Policy, Regulatory Reform, and the Reagan       
          Revolution: The Ironies of an Activist Approach to Deactivating 
           Government"
	  Robert F. Durant, University of Baltimore

     	  "Regulatory Policy, Executive Administration, and the Clean Air  
    Act: The Legacy of the Council on Competitiveness"
	  Robert J. Duffy, Rider College

     	  "Environmental Equity Policy in the Clinton-Gore Administration"
	  Robert R. Higgins, Rutgers University

Discussant:
	  Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College


ROUNDTABLE: ORSHANSKY'S POVERTY LINE THIRTY YEARS AFTER

Fri 3:30 pm

Co-Chairs: Deborah Stone, Brandeis University

 	     John E. Schwarz, University of Arizona

Discussant:
	     Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York


HEALTH POLICY REFORM

Sat 8:45 am

Chair:  Stephen H. Linder, University of Texas-Houston Health  Science   
            Center

Papers: "Regional Planning, Partnership, and the Changing Role of the    
          State: The Case of Quebec's New Mental Health Policy"
	  David A. Rochefort, Northeastern University

     	  "Preconditions for Changing Public Policy: National Health       
    Insurance in the Eighties"
	  Roger Handberg, University of Central Florida

     	  "Health Care Reform in Britain and Germany: Recasting the        
    Political Bargain with the Medical Profession"
	  Susan Giaimo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

     	  "Friction, Fraction, Faction: Interest Group Disintegration and  
    the Prospect for Health Care Reform in the United States"
	  William D. Hayes, Ohio Department of Health


POLICY DESIGN

Sat 1:30 pm

Chair:  Anne Schneider, Arizona State University

Papers: "Informal Logic in the Design of Policies and Institutions"
	  John S. Dryzek, University of Oregon

	  "Expanding the Discursive Context of Policy Design"
	  Stefanie S. Rixecker, Purdue University

     	  "Policy Implementation and the Communication of Policy Meanings"
	  Dvora Yanow, California State University, Hayward

     	  "The Importance of Importance: Reassessing Public Policy         
    Taxonomy"
	  H. T. Reynolds, University of Delaware


ROUNDTABLE: POLICYMAKING, INSTITUTIONS, AND PUBLIC OPINION

Sat 1:30 pm

Dicussants: TBA


ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY

Sun 8:45 am

Chair:  Matthew A. Cahn, California State University,  Northridge

Papers: "Liberalism and the Limits of Environmental Policy"
	  Cary Coglianese, University of Michigan

	  "Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology"
	  Daniel Press, University of California, Santa Cruz

     	  "Pragmatic Environmentalism: The Politics of Cooperative         
    Pluralism"
	  Edward P. Weber, University of Wisconsin, Madison

	  "The Limits of Liberal Environmental Policy"
        Matthew A. Cahn, California State University,  Northridge

     	  "Gender and Environmental Policy: A Feminist Critique of         
    Environmental Impact Assessment Theories"
	  Priya A. Kurian, Purdue University


DESIGNING POLICY FOR COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

Sun 10:45 am

Chair:  Peter J. May, University of Washington

Papers: "Earthquake Risk-Reduction: An Examination of Gaps in Local      
          Regulatory Efforts"
	  Thomas Birkland, University of Washington
	  Peter J. May, University of Washington

     	  "Texas City, Exxon Valdez and Beyond: Implications of Comparative 
   Analysis of Disasters"
	  Hugh W. Stephens, University of Houston
	  John R. Harrald, George Washington

        "Initiating Change: Designing Policy for Complex Environments"
	  Louise K. Comfort, University of Pittsburgh

     	  "Coins Tossed into the Social Security Wishing Well: An          
    Examination of Economic and Demographic Assumptions"
        Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr., University of Tennessee  - Knoxville

Discussant:
	  Alvin Mushkatel, Arizona State University



IMPROVING EDUCATION POLICY

Sun 10:45 am

Chair:  David C. Paris, Hamilton College

Papers: "The Effectiveness of School Desegregation Plans, 1968-1989"
	  Christine H. Rossell, Boston University
	  David J. Armor, George Mason University

     	  "Productivity and Effectiveness in Higher Education"
        Lars Niklasson, Uppsala University

     	  "Decentralization without Community Control: The New York City   
    Schools"
	  Margaret Groarke, CUNY-Graduate School

	  "The Impact of Comprehensiveness on Quality: The
	  Case of Public Schools"
	  Stephanie A. Slocum, American University

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	  Robert M. Daly, Binghamton University