Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Title
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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
(2006)The authors find evidence indicating that income, human capital, the youth dependency ratio, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with the penetration rates of computer and ... -
The Illusion of Precision and the Role of the Renminbi in Regional Interaction
(2006)The Chinese renminbi might not be as undervalued as many analysts claim. They find that the currency might even be slightly overvalued, although they concede that this is a small possibility. Changes in China's currency ... -
The Impact of State Government Fiscal Crises on Local Governments and Schools
(2004)This paper discusses budgetary problems facing state governments, and explores the relationship between state government fiscal conditions and potential impacts on municipal governments and school districts. It ... -
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 ... -
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies
(2010-09)The authors review the evidence based on youth development policies for adolescents, programs seeking to improve educational attainment and employment for in-school youth, and programs that try to "reconnect" those who are ... -
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. -
Inequality and Health: Is Housing Crowding the Link?
(2007)The authors propose a new mechanism through which income inequality can influence health. They argue that increased income inequality induces household crowding, which in turn leads to increased rates of infectious diseases. -
Information Costs, Policy Uncertainty, and Political Control: Federal Advisory Committees at the FDA
(2009-11)The authors investigate how the Food and Drug Administration uses advisory committees in the approval of drugs and medical devices. Such committees may share policy expertise or help legitimize agency positions. Advisory ... -
Institutionalizing Neutrally Competent Policy Analysis: Resources for Promoting Objectivity and Balance in Consolidating Democracies
(2004)The creation of institutions that foster objective policy analysis can be eased if the organizations emphasize resources that include reputations of neutral competence, independence, use of professional norms, ... -
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. -
Interpreting Interim Deviations from Cost Projections for Publicly Supported Energy Technologies
(2008)Widespread public funding of nascent energy technologies, combined with recent increases in costs the most heavily supported, has introduced a policy dilemma: should policymakers sustain these programs in anticipation cost ... -
Is University of Wisconsin Education Becoming More Elite? A Partial Answer
(2009)Family income does not affect whether the University of Wisconsin–Madison admits a student, an analysis of data from the university and census bureau finds, suggesting that family wealth does not privilege college freshmen ... -
Knowledge of Child Support Policy Rules: How Little We Know
(2005)People participating in a demonstration project on Wisconsin child support and welfare had little knowledge about child support policy rules. This research, one of the few that examine how much individuals know about ... -
Leadership and Reform: Mapping the Causal Pathways of Performance Information Use
(2009)The authors examine how leadership fosters performance data and influences the implementation of management reforms. They suggest that transformational leadership has a positive but indirect effect on the use of performance ... -
Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union
(2007)The authors identify distinctive and surprisingly effective innovations that have emerged in European Union governance. These innovations might inform the next round of efforts to render the institutions of European ... -
Learning under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management
(2005)This paper examines the nature of learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. It applies Koppenjan and Klijns (2004) framework for understanding network uncertainty to an extreme example: an ... -
The Legacy of Rodriguez: Three Decades of School Finance Reform in Texas
(2006)This paper explores the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Rodriquez ruling that said Texas's heavy reliance on the local property tax to fund public education did not violate the equal protection clause ... -
Living Costs and Taxes in Wisconsin
(2007)The author takes on the task of looking at how the cost of living, including taxes, affects migration to Wisconsin, especially the decisions of young, highly educated people to relocate in the Badger State. -
Local Air Quality and Climate Policy: Valuing Ancillary Benefits When the Debate is about Minimizing Costs
(2009-11-24)While air quality co-benefits have been prominently portrayed as a hedge against uncertainty in climate policy, this assessment finds that full inclusion of co-benefits depends on?rather than substitutes for?better valuation ...