ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00415.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Although recent scholarship on regulation has seen a significant increase in discussions of regulatory culture, little has been done to develop the theoretical implications of the concept. This article seeks to help focus discussions of regulatory culture by explicating the general nature of cultural analysis, relating it to traditional approaches to regulation, reviewing the sources of regulatory culture, and suggesting strategies for future research.SUMMARYCulture has become a central construct in recent studies of administrative regulation (e.g., Bell, 1985; Hawkins, 1984; Jasanoff, 1986; McGarity, 1985; Meidinger, 1985; Vogel, 1986). But the meaning and import of this development remain quite unclear. Culture has not traditionally played a significant role in regulatory discourse. Consequently, scholars and analysts picking up on the idea tend to use it in diffuse, inconsistent, and often simplistic ways.This paper is an effort to lend some focus to discussions of regulatory culture by developing a useful theoretical framework for comprehending it. That framework must be broad enough to encompass the complexities of regulatory activity, flexible enough to adapt to its continuous changes, and still focused enough to suggest particular lines of inquiry. In pursuing such a conception, this paper draws heavily on scholarship outside the substantive area of regulation, for culture has a long and instructive history as a primary construct in other fields of inquiry. At the same time, it attempts to tailor the concept of culture to regulatory arenas, and to offer examples from them where possible.

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00416.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper provides an overview of computer matching, one of the new forms of computer‐generated social control. Administrative and legislative developments encouraging the use of this technique are discussed. Trade‐offs between increasing regulatory effectiveness and efficiency, on the one hand, and the rights of individuals on the other are discussed. The paper concludes with a set of policy questions that are likely to inform the process of drawing the necessary bala

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00417.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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The McCarran‐Walter Act mandates the exclusion of nonimmigrant aliens from entry into the United States. Hundred of detentions and exclusions occur yearly under the Act, and Latin Americans appear to be disproportionately likely to be excluded.This article argues that the Act, a Cold War statute, ignores current political reality and American self‐interest. The exclusionary subsections provide no more protection from terrorists and other genuine internal security risks than is available from other statutes. But they reduce the exchange of people and ideas, including foreign policy issues; fuel a negative image abroad of America; and impermissibly burden the first amendment and equal protection rights of American citizens. This article proposes that the subsections in question be repealed and replaced with narrower statu

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00418.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Retention elections are that part of the merit selection plan designed to hold judges accountable to the public. While more than one scholar has concluded that votes cast in a retention election are often not informed evaluations of the judge's qualifications and/or conduct on the bench, the few existing systematic empirical studies have failed to explain why people vote for or against retention. This study fills part of this void by testing the hypothesis that political trust is a major cue in judicial retention voting. In contrast to most previous work which was either limited to the appellate level or to elections in a single state, the data set consists of 1,864 retention elections held from 1964 through 1984 for major trial court judges. The national trends in political trust in the last two decades are found to be reflected in the trends in the mean vote for retention.

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00419.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00420.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1987.tb00421.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY