Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Issue Date
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Fourth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
(1994)This report describes the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and data; the participating families and students; and outcomes after two years; and responses to earlier evaluations. It gives an update on the choice schools ... -
Fifth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
(1995)An update to a 1994 paper, this report describes the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and data; the participating families and students; outcomes after five years; and responses to earlier evaluations. -
Private and Public Education in Wisconsin
(1995)An update to a 1994 paper, this report describes the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and data; the participating families and students; outcomes after five years; and responses to earlier evaluations. -
Internationalization, Globalization and Policy Making: The Case of U.S. Agriculture
(2000)With agriculture as the context, the author looks at how globalization and internationalization affect U.S. domestic policy networks and communities. -
Globalization, Internationalization and Policy Networks in the U.S.
(2000)Scholars should pay more attention to how world events affect politics in the United States, especially with increasing globalization and internationalization. This paper looks at how globalization and internationalization ... -
Searching for a Way off Welfare: A Structural Competing Risk Model of AFDC Durations
(2000)The author's analysis considers how the search for a job or a marriage partner might affect participation in Aid to Families with Dependent Children. -
Lost in the Balance: How State Policies Affect the Fiscal Health of Cities
(2001)Fiscal problems in central cities, disparities with suburbs and how state governments cope are addressed in this examination of intergovernmental aid in California, New York and Wisconsin. The authors offer recommendations ... -
The Dual Motives of Interest Group Research
(2001)Scholars look at interest groups in two ways. Political science informs the first. It examines who makes up the groups and why they act, and determines the consequences of their actions. The second method is more ... -
Globalization, Internationalization and U.S. Interest Groups
(2001)The claims that globalization affects the balance of power among interest groups, increases the structural power of some interests, alters public policy preferences and may shift the site of decision-making should ... -
Thirty Years of Business and Politics
(2002)The author examines the state of research on the relationship between business and politics. -
Health Inequality between Black and White Women
(2002)The authors examine the inequality in health status between black and white women and to explore the extent to which such differences are associated with observed dissimilarities in characteristics such as insurance ... -
In the Shadows of Social Democracy? U.S. Unions in a Time of Adversity
(2002)The author suggests that the idealized European image of the social democratic labor union often does not exist, which means that American unions perhaps don't fall quite so short in contrast. -
Importing Cooperation
(2002)in the late 1990s, Wisconsin adapted an environmental governance model from the Netherlands and Bavaria to create Green Tier, a comprehensive approach to environmental protection that creates a new governance structure ... -
Spots and Leopards: The Capacity of Systems to Change; First Impression
(2002)A consideration of David Vogel's book National Styles of Regulation. -
Dolphins and Tuna, Shrimp and Turtles: An American Tale or Policymaking Goes Global?
(2003)The internationalization of what was once purely a matter of domestic policy and the domestication of what was once foreign policy leads to what might be regarded as a considerable expansion of policy networks or, more ... -
Policy Transfer Versus Varieties of Capitalism in Environmental Policy
(2003)This paper considers why interest in transfer policies from one country's government to another nation seems to be increasing. -
The Devil May Be in the Details: How the Characteristics of SCHIP Programs Affect Take-Up
(2003)The paper explores whether the specific design of a states Childrens Health Insurance Program has contributed to its success in meeting two objectivesnamely, whether the program has been successful in reducing the ... -
Universal Preschool: Much to Gain but Who Will Pay?
(2003)This paper explores ways to finance a preschool program that would be universally available to all 4-year-olds in the country. Experts say that 4-year-olds have much to gain from a stimulating and nurturing preschool ... -
Changing Regulatory Systems
(2003)Discussions about national regulatory styles tend to compare the United States to other nations, and differences are often portrayed as other nations being harmonious and mutually accommodating and the United States ... -
The Political Economy of School Choice
(2004)This analysis of the complex political economy of school choice, primarily as it has developed in Wisconsin, focuses on how various forms of choicemagnet and private contract schools, open enrollment, vouchers and ...