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作者:Zielenbach, S
作者单位:United States Department of the Treasury
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作者:Melnick, RS
作者单位:Boston College
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作者:Leach, WD; Pelkey, NW; Sabatier, PA
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要:Public policymaking and implementation in the United States are increasingly handled through local, consensus-seeking partnerships involving most affected stakeholders. This paper formalizes the concept of a stakeholder partnership, and proposes techniques for using interviews, surveys, and documents to measure each of six evaluation criteria. Then the criteria are applied to 44 watershed partnerships in California and Washington. The data suggest that each criterion makes a unique contributio...
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作者:Lykens, KA; Jargowsky, PA
作者单位:University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Health Science Center; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:In the late 1980s, a series of federal laws were enacted which expanded Medicaid eligibility to more of the nation's children. States had a great amount of discretion in how fast and how far these expansions were implemented. As a result, there was great variation among the states hi defining who was eligible for the program. This variation provides a rare opportunity to disentangle the effect of Medicaid from a child's socioeconomic status. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey...
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作者:Kahn, ME
作者单位:Tufts University
摘要:Environmental regulation in the United States has increased pollution abatement expenditure as a percentage of gross national product from 1.7 percent in 1972 to an estimated 2.6 percent in the year 2000. This rise in regulation has coincided with demographic and economic changes that include rising educational levels, a growing minority population, an aging population, and decreasing employment in polluting industries. This paper examines whether these trends have contributed to increasing ag...
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作者:Friedman, LS
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:McGregor, EB Jr
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者:Zielenbach, S
作者单位:United States Department of the Treasury
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作者:McGregor, EB Jr
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者:Löfstedt, RE; Fischhoff, B; Fischhoff, IR
作者单位:University of London; King's College London; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University; Princeton University
摘要:Precautionary principles have been proposed as a fundamental element of sound risk management. Their advocates see them as guiding action in the face of uncertainty, encouraging the adoption of measures that reduce serious risks to health, safety, and the environment. Their opponents may reject the very idea of precautionary principles, find specific principles unacceptably vague or see them as clearly doing economic damage-either to society as a whole or to their own interests. This article t...