Policy Debates in Comparative, International, and Development Education edited by John N. Hawkins and W. James Jacob. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-2306-2067-4.

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Shoko Yamada ◽  
Jing Liu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Policy Debates

Understanding rationales for collaboration in high-intensity policy conflicts

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Weible ◽  
Tanya Heikkila ◽  
Jonathan Pierce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Policy Actor ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Policy Conflicts

AbstractWhy people collaborate to achieve their political objectives is one enduring question in public policy. Although studies have explored this question in low-intensity policy conflicts, a few have examined collaboration in high-intensity policy conflicts. This study asks two questions: What are the rationales motivating policy actors to collaborate with each other in high-intensity policy conflicts? What policy actor attributes are associated with these rationales? This study uses questionnaire data collected in 2013 and 2014 of policy actors from New York, Colorado and Texas who are actively involved with hydraulic fracturing policy debates. The results show that professional competence is the most important rationale for collaborating, whereas shared beliefs are moderately important, and financial resources are not important. Policy actor attributes that are associated with different rationales include organisational affiliation and extreme policy positions. This article concludes with a discussion on advancing theoretical explanations of collaboration in high-intensity policy conflicts.

Mapping Public Housing: The Case of New York City

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvin Wyly ◽  
James DeFilippis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
Spatial Association ◽  
Housing Subsidy ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Policy Debates

In American popular discourse and policy debates, “public housing” conjures images of “the projects”—dysfunctional neighborhood imprints of a discredited welfare state. Yet this image, so important in justifying deconcentration, is a dangerous caricature of the diverse places where low–income public housing residents live, and it ignores a much larger public housing program—the $100 billion–plus annual mortgage interest tax concessions to (mostly) wealthy homeowners. in this article, we measure three spatial aspects of assisted housing, poverty, and wealth in New York City. First, local indicators of spatial association document a contingent link between assistance and poverty: vouchers are not consistently associated with poverty deconcentration. Second, spatial regressions confirm this result after controlling for racial segregation and spatial autocorrelation. Third, factor analyses and cluster classifications reveal a rich, complex neighborhood topography of poverty, wealth, and housing subsidy that defies the simplistic stereotypes of policy and popular discourse.

Reconsidering the Harvard Medical Practice Study Conclusions about the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Baker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Malpractice ◽  
The State ◽  
Substandard Care ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Medical Injury ◽  
Malpractice Claims ◽  
Practice Study ◽  
Medical Malpractice Claims

Over fifteen years after first reporting to the State of New York, the Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) continues to have a significant impact in medical malpractice policy debates. In those debates the HMPS has come to stand for four main propositions. First, “medical injury… accounts for more deaths than all other kinds of accidents combined” and “more than a quarter of those were caused by substandard care.” Second, the vast majority of people who are injured as result of substandard care do not file a claim. Third, “a substantial majority of malpractice claims filed are not based on provider carelessness or even iatrogenic injury.” Fourth, “whether negligence or a medical injury had occurred… bore little relation to the outcome of the claims.”Medical malpractice researchers have long known that the HMPS provides far stronger support for the first two of these propositions than for the last two; the HMPS was not designed or powered to reach strong conclusions about the validity of medical malpractice claims.

scholarly journals Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison, and Jörn Dosch. The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific. (Second edition). London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2012. 274 pages. Price not given.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
Uzma Zia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Transnational Actors

The updated edition of The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific provides a framework for understanding the complexities of global politics in this region. The book focuses on crucial aspects such as realism, liberalism, and critical theoretical views. It sheds light on refined interpretations and covers current important issues, including security, terrorism, and the role of transnational actors. The edition is a good collection of constructive and thought-provoking papers by three authors, and serves as a useful tool for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers with which to understand political policy debates.

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