Public Policy Section Panels 1994 APSA Meeting

Panel Title: 17.1 Social Construction and Policy Instruments
Chair: Anne Schneider, Arizona State University

• Paper 1: Persuasion and Regulation as Policy Instruments: The Case of Student Assessment Policy Lorraine M. McDonnell, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Paper 2: The Social Construction of People with AIDS: United States Federal Policy, 1983-1990 Mark C. Donovan, University of Washington
• Paper 3: Agenda Setting and Policy Design of the National Center for Nursing Research Legislative Amendment Elizabeth A. Furlong, Creighton University
• Paper 4: A New Design for Environmental Policy: The Use of Interstate Compacts as a Tool to Site Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites Anthony L. Dodson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Discussant: Helen M. Ingram, University of Arizona

Panel Title: 17.2 Policy Design and Policy Control: Environmental Policy
Chair: Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern University

• Paper 1: The Other Side of Political Control of the Bureaucracy Richard W. Waterman, Robert Wright, and Amelia A. Rouse, University of New Mexico
• Paper 2: Wetlands Protection in the United States: How Poor Policy Design Creates Poor Implementation Dave Colnic, University of Arizona
• Paper 3: Building Models in Environmental Policy: Evaluating California Matthew Cahn, California State University, Northridge
• Discussant 1: Dean N. Birch, John Carroll University
• Discussant 2: David S. Meyer, University of Michigan

Panel Title: 17.3 Roundtable on New Constituency Integration in the Policy Process
Chair: Karen M. McCurdy, University of Missouri
Participants

• Anne Costain, University of Colorado
• Cathy Johnson, Williams College
• Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Beloit College
• Laura Woliver, University of South Carolina
• Angelia Weaver, Missouri Department of Health
• Karen M. McCurdy, University of Missouri

• Paper 1: Public Opinion and Policy Outcomes, 1960-1991 Alan D. Monroe, Illinois State University
• Paper 2: Women in the Michigan House of Representatives and Their Impact on Public Policy Christine M. Smiggen, Michigan State University
• Paper 3: Politics and Programmatic Benefits: A Reexamination of the Electoral Connection Robert M. Stein, Rice University and Kenneth N. Bickers, Indiana University
• Discussant 1: Marcia Lynn Whicker, Rutgers University - Newark
• Discussant 2: Judith Russell, Barnard College

Panel Title: 17.5 The Politics of Family Policies
Panel Chair: Pamela A. Monroe, Louisiana State University

• Paper 1: Who Speaks for the Children? Representation in the Policy Process Cathy M. Johnson, Williams College
• Paper 2: Family and Medical Leave: The First Year of Implementation Joan Hulse Thompson, Beaver College
• Paper 3: Enforcing Child Support Obligations: A Pooled Time Series Analysis Lael R. Keiser, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Paper 4: Explaining Data System Capacity for Child Health Policy Making Malcolm L. Goggin and Deborah A. Orth, University of Houston
• Discussant: Kent Portney, Tufts University

Panel Title: 17.6 The Politics of Rehabilitation Policy
Chair: Paula D. McClain, University of Virginia

• Paper 1: The Role of Federally-Sponsored Research in Drug Abuse Treatment James M. Rogers, Temple University
• Paper 2: Enforcing Morality: The Implementation of Rehabilitative Social Policy Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
• Paper 3: Public Problems, Private Solutions: The Strategy of Addressing Drug Abuse in Harlem through Government Contracting Jocelyn V. Sargent, University of Michigan and New York Voter Assistance Commission
• Discussant 1: Shirley Geiger, University of South Carolina
• Discussant 2: Keith Mueller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Panel Title: 17.7 Democratic Values in Public Policy Research
Chair: Peter deLeon, University of Colorado-Denver

• Paper 1: Democratic Values and Public Policy Peter deLeon, University of Colorado-Denver
• Paper 2: Democratization of Congressional Redistricting Dan Durning, University of Georgia
• Paper 3: Representation, Trust, and Environmental Risk Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of New Mexico
• Paper 4: Power and Insight in Policy Discourse Douglas Torgerson, Trent University
• Discussant: Frank Fischer, Rutgers University

Panel Title: 17.8 New Approaches to Health Policy Research
Chair: Deborah R. McFarlane, University of New Mexico

• Paper 1: Policy Tools, Outcome Measures, and Public Management Research H. Brinton Milward, University of Arizona
• Paper 2: Defining and Explaining State Health Policy Innovations Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University
• Paper 3: State Regulatory Boards, Regulations, and Midlevel Practitioners in Rural America Marlene K. Wilken, Creighton University
• Paper 4: Access and Diversity: The Policy Response to HIV Service Delivery Gregory S. Thielemann, University of Texas at Dallas
• Discussant: Theodore Marmor, Yale University

Panel Title: 17.9 Quasi-experiments and the Study of Public Policy
Chair: Herman L. Boschken, San Jose State University

• Paper 1: Responding to Sexual Harassment: Prevention and Remedy Policies in State Agencies Ruth Ann Stickland and Dennis O. Grady, Appalachian State University
• Paper 2: Truth or Dare: Policy Analysis and Poverty Politics Evelyn Z. Brodkin, University of Chicago Debra Hass, Harris Foundation Alexander Kaufman, University of Chicago
• Paper 3: Education Reform in the 1980s: A Quasi-Experiment Kevin B. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Paper 4: The Influence of Agency Choice on Client Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study of Home-Based Family Services in Los Angeles Bob Amland, University of Southern California
• Discussant: Laura I. Langbein, American University

Panel Title: 17.10 Political Influence on Bureaucracy: At Last Some Studies on Nonregulatory Agencies
Chair: William P. Browne, Central Michigan University

• Paper 1: Presidential Preferences and Policy Implementation: Fair Housing from Carter to Reagan Jim Twombly and Charles M. Lamb, SUNY-Buffalo
• Paper 2: Politics, Bureaucracy and Farm Credit Robert D. Wrinkle and J.L. Polinard, University of Texas-Pan American
• Paper 3: Variation in State Responses to Federal Political Controls: An Examination of the National School Lunch Program Robert P. Stoker and Susan L. Wiley, George Washington University
• Paper 4: Bureaucratic Decision Making in Tobacco Policy Craig J. Svoboda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Discussant: Marc Allen Eisner, Wesleyan University

Panel Title: 17.11 The Politics of Budget Policy
Chair: Paula S. Kearns, Michigan State University

• Paper 1: The Impact of Divided Government on State Spending Greg Hager, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Paper 2: The Item Reduction Veto: A Line-Item Veto that Makes a Difference Glenn Abney, Georgia State University and Thomas P. Lauth, University of Georgia
• Paper 3: Federal Deficits and the Boundaries of Democratic Politics James Curtis, Pennsylvania State University
• Paper 4: Institutional Explanations of Incremental Policy Change Fiona Ross, University of Pittsburgh
• Discussant: Richard Forgette, Miami University

Panel Title: 17.12 Policy Subsystems: Is the Concept Still Viable?
Chair: Joseph Stewart, Jr. University of Texas at Dallas

• Paper 1: Reservation Environmental Issues: Problems in Federal and Tribal Government Responses Lilias Jones, Colorado State University
• Paper 2: Who Makes Weapons Procurement Decisions? A Test of the Subgovernment Model of Policy-Making Lauren Holland and Tim Wilkinson, University of Utah
• Paper 3: Politics and the Management of Public Lands: A Policy Change Perspective Charles Davis, Colorado State University
• Discussant: James Anderson, Texas A&M University

Panel Title: 17.13 Manipulating the Environment: Economic Development Policies
Chair: Gary Mucciaroni, Temple University

• Paper 1: Structural Dependence and Economic Development Margery M. Ambrosius, Kansas State University
• Paper 2: Linking Politics with Policy: Vehicles to Reduce Inequality Laura Langer, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Paper 3: Minority Participation in the Enterprize Zone Program Sherri Leronda Wallace, Cornell University
• Paper 4: The Rise of Export Promotion Strategies in the States Renee J. Johnson, SUNY at Stony Brook
• Discussant: James Garand, Louisiana State University

Panel Title: 17.14 Politics in a Changing World: Regulating the Poor, a Twenty Year Retrospective
Chair: Robert R. Alford, City University of New York

• Presenter: Regulating the Poor: The Debate Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
• Discussant 1: Donna Shalala (invited)
• Discussant 2: Sanford F. Schram, Macalester College
• Discussant 3: Lawrence M. Mead, New York University

Panel Title: 17.15 Policy Networks in Europe and the United States: A Roundtable with Papers
Chair: Paul A. Sabatier, University of California, Davis

• Paper 1: Women's Local Domestic Violence Policy Networks in the U.S. Janet Boles, Marquette University
• Paper 2: Beyond Metaphor: Characteristic Explanations of Policy Networks Keith Dowding, London School of Economics
• Paper 3: Policy Analysis through Implementation Structures Benny Hjern, University of Umea
• Paper 4: Learning Processes in Swiss Environmental Policy Networks Peter Knoepfel and Ingrid Kiesling-Naf, Universite de Lausanne
• Paper 5: Policy Networks in San Francisco Bay/Delta Water Policy Paul A. Sabatier and Matthew Zafonte, University of California, Davis
• Discussant: Edella Schlager, University of Arizona

Panel Title: 17.16 Overcoming the Collective Action Problem in Environmental Regulation: A Roundtable with Papers
Chair: Evan Ringquist, Florida State University

• Paper 1: Cooperative versus Coercive Regulatory Mandates: A Comparative Study of Hazards Policy Mandates in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States Peter J. May, University of Washington
• Paper 2: Collective Act, Transaction Costs and Industrial Ecology Daniel A. Mazmanian, Claremont Graduate School and Daniel Press, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Paper 3: Clear Air, Transaction Costs and the Case of Clean Fuels Negotiated Rulemaking Edward Weber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Paper 4: The Normative Underpinnings of Environmental Analysis Christopher G. Marshall, University of Texas
• Paper 5: Collective Action and Political Coalition Formation Edella Schlager, University of Arizona