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| Evaluation done by decision-maker's own staff |
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| David Truman, The Governmental Process |
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| Laws Must be reauthorized--i.e. Patriot Act |
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| Catherine Reese, David Harding, Politics and Policy |
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| Arkansas WTW not successful |
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| Mother to present stats as a fictional conversation with his mother; some people say not professional enough |
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| Brian and Chris Howe get more money from gov. even though they are more affluent; knocks down the perception of how people on welfare are lazy--Lorena has a couple jobs children etc. |
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| A problem with Cost-benefit analysis |
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| How exactly do you determine all the numbers? |
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| Weak ties, second hand connections; people get hooked-up through second hand connections more so than close family friends etc. |
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| Andreas Diekman and Volunteers Dilemma |
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| Bystanders watch a person in distress |
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| Southwest Texas Sate University |
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| Social engineering: no focus on alcohol/tobacco/drugs |
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| Rather seeks family resiliency |
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| Alice S. Baum and Donald Burnes |
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| The Homeless need treatment |
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| interpretations, not raw findings |
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| find the rational way to solve the problem |
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| Creaming: most employable clients |
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| New traffic signals in Compton, CA |
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| TEA-21 pork; pork is not efficient but there is no incentive for the pork receivers to say no because they won't get anything otherwise |
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| Bill Clinton $865 million |
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| Christmas 97-98 money given to poor |
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| Ronald Coase paper published in 1930s |
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| Nobel Prize 1991; basically says that sometimes certain ideas are ahead of their respective time. Do something worthwhile |
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| Prisoners Dilemma illustrates the conflict |
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| Between self-interest and common good |
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| participant observation/ethnography |
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| Homelessness is a role people take on |
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| Rene Girard and Girardian economics: most economics look at cost benefit of something. Some look at not just money but environmental and social costs. And Girardian economics says that if we are all environmentalists it creates the same problems--need to use what is plentiful in the area. |
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| Census undercoutned homeless--she was the lady who personally knew more homeless people in wisconsisn then were actually accounted for. |
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| Studies the deinstitutionalization of mentally ill |
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| Pursue difference, not mimetic behavior |
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| Davenport, IA closed 2007 |
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| Personal development and environmental support |
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| St. Louis County WtW POWER program |
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| Rational choice theory/social exchange theory |
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| James E. Combs and Dan Nimmo |
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| analogized congress being like a sit com--seinfeld; people would be yelling at one another one day and nice the next etc. |
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| do more stuff to increase % it will be useful--ask more questions etc. |
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| Dr. David Bangsberg, JAMA '97 |
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| Need a health program for HIV+ homeless |
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| DElphi method: going to community leaders etc. and reassess |
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| Shelters encourage homelessness |
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| Joseph Gusfield, drunk driving accidents |
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| Have to drive to get alcohol |
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| Statistical analysis approach |
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| Test hypotheses using inferential statistics |
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| identify previous research |
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| McKinney HOmeless Assistance Act |
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| Robert Bibb and William Form |
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| GAO and Congressional Research Office |
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| Other than these, few federal policy researchers |
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| Garret Hardin, "the Tragedy of the Commons" |
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| Hartmut Esser explains 1989 Leipzig Mondays |
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| Threshholds for participation--how much is actually too much?? |
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| Social phenomena don't follow natural laws |
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| look at outcomes of program/policy |
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| women's lives always controlled |
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| "Down and out in Paris and London (1933)" Lunch example where a friend asks you to go out to eat but you don't have enough money and they think you do not want to go out with them etc. Lack of $$ affects character. |
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| Matt Ridley, "The orignis of virtue 1997 |
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| Tragedy is not inevitable |
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| Can't have residency restrictions for welfare--people choose where they live, not states. |
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| James D. Wright 60% not alcoholics |
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| homeless not of bad character |
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| should punish welfare applicants |
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| summarize books and articles |
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| Richard LaPiere, Social forces (1934) |
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| identified attitudes don't predict behavior |
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| Federal gov. can seize marijuana plants |
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| participant observation violates |
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| Abbott: borrowing a method |
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| often involves analogy too |
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| Abbott: to cultivate analogy |
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| must make rash connections--> be radical, crazy, and creative as possible |
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| The Logic of Collective Action |
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| Congress: the electoral process: congress and its memebers behave in a way to retain seats |
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| looking like a winner: people who look and act like winners get $$ and support |
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| Studied Trobriand Islanders 1915-1916 |
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| Free rider problem: no incentive to join interest group; thus, interest group politics does not represent the people |
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