Local Officials React to State Policy Innovation Tying Revenue Sharing to Dashboards and Incentive Funding

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Ivacko ◽  
Debra Horner ◽  
Michael Q. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Local Officials

How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1029
Author(s):  
Darren Dochuk ◽  
Michael Nelson ◽  
John Lyman Mason
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
The South

State Policy Innovation and Systems Change

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha McGaughey ◽  
David Mank
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Systems Change ◽  
Policy Innovation

"Lien on Me": State Policy Innovation in Response to Paper Terrorism

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
Robert Chamberlain ◽  
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Innovation

Apartheid's ‘Testing Ground’: Urban ‘Native Policy’ and African Politics in Brakpan, South Africa, 1943–1948

1994 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Sapire
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
African Politics ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Central State ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Native Policy

Although studies of both state ‘urban native’ policy and African life on the Witwatersrand in the 1940s have increased in volume and sophistication over the last decade, these two themes have generally been treated discretely in the literature. While a regional focus has yielded a complex and differentiated picture of urban African politics and culture, studies of the state still tend to miss this complexity by focusing on the ‘view from above’, from the vantage point of central state institutions.This article draws together these two separate historiographical threads to examine state policy from the perspective of local state officials, those individuals most intimately concerned with day-to-day administration of urban African communities in the rapidly industrialising Witwatersrand of the 1940s. Through the narrative of a deep personal antagonism between an African politician in the Witwatersrand location of Brakpan and a white administrator, the article explores the intersection of two microcosms: the world of the Afrikaner intellectual, educated in the tradition of ‘volkekunde’ and thereby claiming expert knowledge of the African, and the real worlds of the Africans the expert claimed to know—themselves shaped by new, radical currents in the changing wartime urban context. Using the Brakpan case study, the article also shows that in contrast to the national government's fumbling indecision in the face of the urban crisis, it was the municipalities which agitated for state control over all Africans, tighter influx and efflux controls and the more efficient distribution of African labour between different economic sectors. In voicing their discontent with state policy and in their policy improvizations, local officials anticipated much in the apartheid order of the 1950s.

The Impact of Federal Incentives on State Policy Innovation

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Welch ◽  
Kay Thompson
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
The Impact

Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Frant ◽  
Frances Stokes Berry ◽  
William D. Berry
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
Event History ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Way

How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In response, the Berrys elaborate their original model and add alternative specifications.

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