Provides an overview of research focusing on several general strategies for reducing drinking-related problems, including controls on alcohol advertising and counter advertising; laws and regulations pertaining to minimum legal drinking age, and service to minors and drinking and driving. Concludes with a commentary on the potential effectiveness…

Describes UK's national skills agenda and the formulation and implementation of a skills policy at Queen's University Belfast (Ireland). (Contains 39 references.) (PKP)

A former employee of the World Bank discusses the logic behind multilateral development banks and how they operate, bank ideology and the nature of policy formation, educational and other reforms as loan conditions, the inability of development banks to enforce implementation of their policies in countries receiving loans, and whether the banks…

Used modified version of 1978 National Association of College and University Business Officers survey instrument to investigate intellectual-property policies at 38 (of 210) 4-year institutions of higher education in the 15 Southern Regional Education Board states. Finds, for example, that in the majority of institutions, top administrators are…

Discusses the role of psychologists and other social scientists in public policy and decision making. Describes four centers devoted to child and family policy established by the Bush Foundation. Includes several personal observations about the relationships between professionals, decision makers, and policy implementation. (EVL)

Explores what difference the tightness or looseness of language makes in a policy's actual implementation. Applies three policy language categories (philosophical, professional, and prescriptive) to several uses (purpose, evaluation, discretion, responsibility, and relationship) to explain the importance of wording battles to policymaking…

Analyzes the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) assignment of renewal expectancy to existing broadcast licensees within the framework of the Commission's ongoing inquiry into the comparative renewal process. Discusses and analyzes the rationales given by the Commission to justify its current policy. Finds only the criteria of excellent…

Offers a rationale for including counterplan arguments in non-policy debates. Discusses the nature and burdens of counterplan arguments in non-policy debate. Addresses whether non-policy debate should include counterplans and suggests ways in which the non-policy debate community might deal with this issue. (MS)

Provides an opportunity for Canadian Home Economics Association (CHEA) members to discuss and formulate a position on environmental issues that will present the position of the association. Indicates the need for home economists to have extensive dialogue and serious reflection regarding the mission of CHEA. (JOW)

Suggests that artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit properties that promise usefulness for policy researchers. Notes that ANNs have found extensive use in areas once reserved for multivariate statistical programs such as regression and multiple classification analysis and are developing an extensive community of advocates for processing text…

Home economists have a legitimate role in shaping public policy. Much has been said about how to influence the policy development process; this extends to the realm of analyzing policy that has already been developed. (JOW)

Examines the significance and uses (for a company) of a vision statement, how to set one, and what to include. Illustrates this by discussing the visions for Xerox Cooperation over the last 40 years, and John F. Kennedy's national vision of landing a man on the moon. (SR)

Discusses the problem of alcohol use and abuse by camp staff. Describes alcohol policies of two different camps. Camp Highlands allows responsible drinking but not intoxication. Camp Olympia requires total abstinence from alcohol. A policy that clearly expresses the camp's philosophy toward alcohol and spells out all expectations and results is…

Reviews paralysis of U.S. social policy. Notes that, although federal government has implemented new social programs, programs either are provided on condition of willingness to work or are modest in scope. Linking paralysis with literature on government ineffectuality, traces origins of ineffectuality of political/economic policies of past 20…

Presents five theoretical approaches to interactive policy making: (1) self-referentiality; (2) instrumental thinking; (3) communication as transmission versus construction; (4) the individual as the target of change; and (5) collectivist, liberal, and republican views of democracy. (SK)