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Full-Text Articles in Public Policy
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 December, The Politic, Inc.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 December, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic
No abstract provided.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 October, The Politic, Inc.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 October, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic
No abstract provided.
The Sargent Governorship: Leader And Legacy, Richard A. Hogarty
The Sargent Governorship: Leader And Legacy, Richard A. Hogarty
New England Journal of Public Policy
Following in the long line of succession of his predecessors, Francis W. Sargent served as the sixty-third governor of Massachusetts. A lifelong Republican, he was a man of character and sterling Yankee blue-blood lineage with the stature of a political independent. Grappling with a series of hot political issues and braving the passions and divisions spawned by the war in Vietnam, he was one of the ablest and most intriguing men ever to be governor. He worked hard at knowing his constituents and their concerns, but he did not always provide them with easy answers. Several new ideas were transformed …
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 April, The Politic, Inc.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 April, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic
No abstract provided.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 March, The Politic, Inc.
The Yale Political Quarterly 1999 March, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic
No abstract provided.
Tench Coxe And The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, 1787-1823, David B. Kopel
Tench Coxe And The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, 1787-1823, David B. Kopel
David B Kopel
Tench Coxe, a member of the second rank of this nation's Founders and a leading proponent of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, wrote prolifically about the right to keep and bear arms. In this Article, the authors trace Coxe's story, from his early writings in support of the Constitution, through his years of public service, to his political writings in opposition to the presidential campaigns of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The authors note that Coxe described the Second Amendment as guaranteeing an individual right, and believed that an individual right to bear arms was necessary for …
Performance Government In Maine: The Effort To Make State Government More Efficient, Responsive, And Accountable, Bruce Clary, Barton Wechsler
Performance Government In Maine: The Effort To Make State Government More Efficient, Responsive, And Accountable, Bruce Clary, Barton Wechsler
Maine Policy Review
Maine, like the federal government and many other states, has embarked upon a major initiative to change how government conducts its business. At the federal level this initiative has been called the National Performance Review. Spearheaded by Vice President Al Gore, its goal is nothing short of reinventing government so it performs better, costs less, and gets results. Today, many states have undertaken initiatives similar to the National Performance Review and the general term used to describe these activities is “performance government.” In Maine, a 1991 Special Commission on Governmental Restructuring marks the first time this concept was seriously talked …
Performance Government: A Roundtable Discussion
Performance Government: A Roundtable Discussion
Maine Policy Review
Many states have undertaken initiatives similar to the National Performance Review; the general term used to describe these activities is “performance government.” Although performance government may apply to a wide range of administrative changes, it most typically applies to three reform initiatives: strategic planning, performance budgeting and performance contracting. Maine has been reinventing its government systems to include each of these components. This roundtable discussion, co-facilitated and co-edited by Bruce Clary and Barton Wechsler, features eight individuals who have been helping to shape the reinvention of Maine state government: besides Clary and Wechsler, these include: Carolyn Ball, Charles Colgan, Merton …
Maine’S Dubious Odyssey Into The Funding Of Local Government, Peter Mills
Maine’S Dubious Odyssey Into The Funding Of Local Government, Peter Mills
Maine Policy Review
Despite recent reforms to Maine’s school funding, State Senator Peter Mills argues that the formula will not be truly “fixed” until the state addresses the municipal side of property tax inequities. To that end, he prescribes some tough medicine for Maine policymakers to relieve the disproportionate tax burden on the state’s service center communities. Among other things, he suggests we consider repealing some of the exemptions that exclude a quarter of all property from taxation; permitting service centers to adopt local option taxes; and injecting the state’s limited revenue sharing funds into just those municipalities with intolerable tax burdens that …