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Realignment: Highways And Livability Policy In The Post-Interstate Era, 1978–2013, Michael R. Fein
Realignment: Highways And Livability Policy In The Post-Interstate Era, 1978–2013, Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
While federal policy makers have pursued “livable” communities since the late 1970s, they have rarely agreed on precisely what “livability” entailed and how best to achieve it. When U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Ray LaHood promised in 2009 to make livability the hallmark of an ambitious interagency partnership with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency—and, in the process, to undo long-standing patterns of auto-dependency—it appeared that LaHood was poised to shift American transportation policy in a bold new direction. And yet other policies, such as those that govern the alignment of highway …
Effectiveness Of Active Learning In The Arts And Sciences, David Mello, Colleen A. Less
Effectiveness Of Active Learning In The Arts And Sciences, David Mello, Colleen A. Less
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
No abstract provided.
The King’S Best Highway: The Lost History Of The Boston Post Road, The Route That Made America (Review), Michael R. Fein
The King’S Best Highway: The Lost History Of The Boston Post Road, The Route That Made America (Review), Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
No abstract provided.
Tunnel Vision: “Invisible” Highways And Boston’S “Big Dig” In The Age Of Privatization, Michael R. Fein
Tunnel Vision: “Invisible” Highways And Boston’S “Big Dig” In The Age Of Privatization, Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
While most analyses of late-twentieth-century highway policy suggest a shift toward open system design, bottom-up federalism, and the devolution of transportation governance, the history of Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project, informally known as the “Big Dig,” runs counter to this trend. Though the project emerged in the 1970s during a time of unprecedented citizen activism in transportation planning, ultimately the privatization of political power proved to be the Big Dig’s most important legacy for twenty-first-century urban highway projects.
The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How The United States Got Out Of The Mud (Review), Michael R. Fein
The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How The United States Got Out Of The Mud (Review), Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
No abstract provided.
A Political Turn: Highways And Mass Transit In American Mobility History, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
A Political Turn: Highways And Mass Transit In American Mobility History, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
Mark Rose’s Interstate: Express Highway Politics (1979) and Bruce Seely’s Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (1987) signaled the opening of U.S. highway politics as a field for sustained scholarly investigation. In Interstate, Rose examined the political competition among interest groups, such as truck operators, that produced the landmark 1956 highway legislation. Seely’s focus was the road engineers themselves, led by Thomas MacDonald, whose uncanny ability to present themselves as ‘apolitical’ experts paradoxically allowed them to dominate the highly politicized drafting of the main contours of American highway policy. Together these two texts opened a range of …
The Public Interest, Spectrum Markets And The American Experience With Radio Regulation: Historical And Comparative Lessons For The European Union, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
The Public Interest, Spectrum Markets And The American Experience With Radio Regulation: Historical And Comparative Lessons For The European Union, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
This chapter reflects on radio spectrum management in the United States, with the aim of identifying useful historical and comparative lessons for European Union policy makers as they contemplate the adoption of pan-European market mechanisms to allocate radio frequencies. It explores the history of American radio regulation and the impact of conflicting interpretations of that history on contemporary policy debates surrounding the liberalization of spectrum markets. The public interest theory of policy making has long been critiqued as inappropriate to spectrum management by economists following the lead of Ronald Coase. But the American experience with radio regulation suggests that economic …
No Place To Stand: The Incoherent Legal World Of J. K. Rowling, Kenneth Schneyer
No Place To Stand: The Incoherent Legal World Of J. K. Rowling, Kenneth Schneyer
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
It is astonishing, when one thinks of it, that a series of children's books is so crammed with law. Not one of the seven Harry Potter novels fails to explore difficult issues law, interpretation and especially the relationship of the state to the individual. From practically the first page of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (SS) we ponder issues of child custody, fosterage and adoption;1 before Harry even gets to Hogwarts we have heard about crime and punishment,2 legal control over the use of magic,3 monetary policy,4 and Wizarding government.5 Before the series is complete we have witnessed five …
New York State Road Networks And The Transformation Of American Federalism, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
New York State Road Networks And The Transformation Of American Federalism, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
Scholars have long recognized the central role American road building has played in the development of modern European highway networks. While the German autobahn and the Italian autostrade were pivotal in twentieth-century construction, Americans’ pioneering work in urban parkways and interstate highways also offered an appealing model. From the perspective of European transportation planners, Americans embraced road building with exceptional gusto. Little seemed to stand in the way of their engineers, whose actions – at least until the 1960s – appeared to perfectly mirror public desire.
Radio Regulation Revisited: Coase, The Fcc, And The Public Interest, David A. Moss, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
Radio Regulation Revisited: Coase, The Fcc, And The Public Interest, David A. Moss, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
It is now more than forty years since Ronald Coase’s seminal article on the Federal Communications Commission first appeared in the pages of the Journal of Law and Economics.1 The article remains important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it offered his first articulation of the Coase Theorem.2 Of even greater importance for our purposes, the article literally redefined the terms of debate over American broadcast regulation, in both historical and contemporary treatments of the subject. Focusing particularly on the development of radio regulation, Coase rejected the prevailing notion that the establishment of the Federal …
Hooting: Public And Popular Discourse About Sex Discrimination, Kenneth Schneyer
Hooting: Public And Popular Discourse About Sex Discrimination, Kenneth Schneyer
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
In recent years there have been a surprising number of legal attacks on the restaurant chain called Hooters. These attacks have all been based, one way or another, on a claim of sex discrimination in employment. Yet the attacks vary considerably: some are based on claims of sexual harassment, some on claims by private individuals that they have been discriminated against in hiring because they are male, still others on general claims that the chain is engaged in systemic sex discrimination. Many of these claims are concerned with the troubling boundaries of the bona fide occupational qualification, that uncomfortable defense …