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Evaluating Monitoring Systems in the European Social Fund Context: A Sociotec…
In contrast to the prevailing image of monitoring systems as technical systems, it is proposed that they should rather be conceived of as social endeavors at exchanging information. Drawing on the monitoring and evaluation framework of Cornford, Doukidis, and Forster, the concept of information agreement is suggested as a way of assessing the quality of monitoring systems in context. Preliminar…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 419-445
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Active Consent in Urban Elementary Schools: An Examination of Demographic Dif…
The consent process is an integral piece of research and evaluation studies, especially when conducted within a school setting. The challenge of reaching parents of students to obtain consent is an issue with which those conducting school-based studies grapple. The literature suggests that the success of the consent process can affect the representativeness of the sample. This study describes o…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 481-496
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Evaluating Retailer Behavior in Preventing Youth Access to Harmful Legal Prod…
This article reports results from a feasibility study of a community effort to reduce the availability of legal products that youth can use to get high. The study evaluated the potential of youth purchase attempts to detect actual changes in retail availability of harmful legal products. These results were triangulated with self-reports from retailers about their own policies and practices. Bef…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 497-515
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The Influence of ‘‘No Child Left Behind’’ Legislation on Drug Prevent…
This study examines prevention practices and perceptions in U.S. schools since passage of federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, using survey data from state education agencies (SEA) and a population-based sample of school districts. Only one third of U.S. public school districts rely on evidence-based prevention curriculum in middle schools. Funding from other sources and large size …
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 446-463
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An Approach for Addressing the Multiple Testing Problem in Social Policy Impa…
In social policy evaluations, the multiple testing problem occurs due to the many hypothesis tests that are typically conducted across multiple outcomes and subgroups, which can lead to spurious impact findings. This article discusses a framework for addressing this problem that balances Types I and II errors. The framework involves specifying confirmatory and exploratory analyses in study prot…
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- Vol. 33, No. 6, December 2009. pp. 519-538
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Development of a Medicaid Behavioral Health Case-Mix Model
Many Medicaid programs have either fully or partially carved out mental health services. The evaluation of carve-out plans requires a case-mix model that accounts for differing health status across Medicaid managed care plans. This article develops a diagnosis-based case-mix adjustment system specific to Medicaid behavioral health care. Several different model specifications are compared that u…
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- Vol. 33, No. 6, December 2009. pp. 539-567
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Evaluation of the CSEC Community Intervention Project (CCIP) in Five U.S. Cities
In response to the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) within five U.S. cities, the CSEC Community Intervention Project (CCIP) was created to enhance collaboration among nongovernmental organization (NGO) representatives, law enforcement officials and prosecutors in Chicago, Atlantic City, Denver, Washington, D.C., and San Diego. A total of 211 participants were surveyed during a …
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- Vol. 33, No. 6, December 2009. pp. 568-595
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A Spatial Model of Competitive Bidding for Government Grants: Why Efficiency …
With a view to improving public sector efficiency many governments now make public sector bodies competitively bid for funding. We model the bidding process as a game of spatial competition. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that in efficient equilibria many bidding groups will not be under competitive pressure. The model suggests that this is because their ideal projects are inherently v…
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- Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2008. Page 47-66
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- 09516298
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- Journal of Theoritical Politics
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Effort, intensity and position taking: reconsidering obstruction in the pre-c…
Effort is a crucial element of the legislative process — writing bills, forming coalitions, crafting strategies, and debating. We develop a model in which legislative decisions are the product of competitive effort by two teams, one trying to pass new legislation, and the other to block it. Teams choose effort levels based on preferences over the policy outcome, political rewards for ef…
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- Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2008. Page 67-92
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The Legislative Median and Partisan Policy
We show that the median legislator in the US House is unambiguously closer to the majority party median than to the minority party median. An important implication of this finding is that the median legislator is predisposed to support the majority party's policy agenda. Thus, in the event that the majority party organization exerts no influence over the legislative process, and in the ev…
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- Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2008. Page 5-29
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Bargaining in Committees of Representatives: The `Neutral' Voting Rule
Committees are often made up of representatives, each of them acting on behalf of a group of individuals or constituency of different size, who make decisions by means of a voting rule which specifies what vote configurations in the committee can pass a decision. This raises the question of the choice of an `adequate' (in a sense to be specified) voting rule, given the different sizes of …
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- Vol. 20, No.1, January 2008. Page 93-106
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Senate Elections With Independent Candidates
Assuming strict two-party competition, policy balancing models of the US senate imply that senators from the same state will often be from opposite parties and have great ideological divergence. We analyze the effect of independent candidates on these implications. Our theoretical model implies the two state senators will generally not be from opposite parties and will be closer in ideological …
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- Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2008. Page 31-46
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A Dynamic Model of Generalized Social Trust
How does generalized social trust — a Trustor's willingness to allow anonymous Trustees to make decisions affecting the Trustor's own welfare without an enforceable contract or guarantee, despite the Trustees' incentives to exploit or defraud — come to predominate in a community? This article is organized around a theoretical argument about the dynamics of generalized trust. This argu…
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- Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2008. Page 151-180
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Navigating the Legislative Divide: Polarization, Presidents, and Policymaking…
Polarization hallmarks contemporary Washington's political landscape. While an increasing literature examines the factors propelling this schism, theoretical work investigating its consequences has just begun. Building from a simple bargaining model in which an exogenous actor (e.g. the president) strategically allocates scarce `political capital' to induce changes in legislators' prefere…
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- Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2008. Page 201-220
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Uncertainty, Difficulty, and Complexity
In this article I clarify the often muddled distinctions between uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity and show that all three can enhance our understanding of institutional performance and design. To cope with uncertainty, institutions align incentives for information revelation; to handle difficult problems, institutions create incentives for diverse problem-solving approaches; and to…
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- Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2008. 115-149
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Getting a Poor Return: Courts, Justice and Governing Coalitions and the Audit…
Many years ago Robert Dahl (1957) argued that the courts are rarely out of alignment with the dominant national political coalition and more recent scholarship has built on this argument. However, despite this, it is still a prevalent belief that courts protect the minority against the power of the majority. This article analyzes these views by examining the influence of the national coal…
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- Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2008. Page 181-200
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To Punish the Guilty and Protect the Innocent: Comparing Truth Revelation Pro…
Any country in the aftermath of transition to democracy confronts the challenge of transitional justice, that is, the task of designing a system of procedures for holding perpetrators and collaborators of the ancien regime responsible for their past activity. Two important normative goals that transitional justice shares with any system of justice are avoiding false convictions (punishing the i…
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- Vol. 20, No. 2, April 2008. Page 221-245
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Arguments-Based Collective Choice
This article presents a model of collective choice when group decisions must be justified by arguments from first principles. Individuals may have preferences over both the actions chosen and the arguments used to justify them. Defining a notion of stability in the arguments made and actions supported within a group, I characterize the set of actions that can be justified as well as the argumen…
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- Vol. 20, No. 4, July 2008. Page 379-414
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QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting
Levine and Palfrey's QRE account of turnout in large elections raises the broader question of how much of a departure from standard rational choice theory is justified by the considerable repertoire of rational choice anomalies that has accumulated since Downs and Olson half a century ago. An alternative but more controversial unconventional view turns on what I call NSNX motivation to account …
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- Vol. 20, No. 4, July 2008. Page 443-460
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Still Converging? a Downsian Party System Without Polls
This article compares convergence of political parties when voters are voting strategically and when they are voting sincerely under low-information conditions. In order to examine this problem, I create a computational model of a party system, where parties are uncertain about the distribution of the electorate. In one condition of the model, voters vote sincerely; in another, voters vote stra…
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- Vol. 20, No. 4, July 2008. Page 461-476
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