Introduction

 

This is the oldest of my research areas, starting from the time I received my Ph.D.  I studied with Tom Dye at Florida State specifically because he was such an innovator in the founding of the policy studies subfield of political science.  Substantively, I was interested in tax and spending policies, education policy, and the methodologies and methods of policy research.  The substantive driving interest for me revolved (and still revolves) around distributional issues and inequalities. 

 

 

 

Books

 

1988 -- The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies.

New York: St. Martins. Co-edited with Sheldon Danziger.

Recipient of a Policy Studies Organization Aaron Wildavsky

Book Award "for one of the best policy studies books

published since 1975."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986 -- Approaching Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction to

Policy and Program Research. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

 

 

 

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Papers

 

1987 -- “Politics and Distributional Impact Studies: The Dilemma of Economic Analysis in the Policy Making Process," in Sheldon Danziger and Kent E. Portney, eds. The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies. New York: Macmillan, Chapter 12.

 

1986 -- “The Perception of Health Risk and Opposition to Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting: Implications for Hazardous Waste Management and Policy from Survey Research," in John W. Frazier and Bart K. Epstein, eds. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 9, pp.114-123.

 

1983 -- “The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies: Who Gains and Who Loses from Governmental Policies?” Policy Studies Journal, Vol 12, No. 1, September. Coauthored with Sheldon H. Danziger.

 

1980 -- “State Tax Preference Orderings and Partisan Control of Government," Policy Studies Journal, Fall, pp. 54-62. Reprinted in W. Samuels and L. Wade, eds. Taxing and Spending Policy. Lexington, MA.: D.C. Heath.

 

1976 -- “Individual Equity and School Finance: Implications for Taxation and State Aid," Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall, pp. 224-241.