Donald Critchlow,
Editor
ISSN 0898-0306:
Quarterly Publication
The
Journal of Policy History
provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars concerned with
the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies.
JPH encourages research into the formation and development
of public policy while encouraging the application of diverse methods
and theories to public policy and their politics within a historical
perspective. In addition to social scientists and historians, JPH
seeks to inform policy makers through a historical approach to public
policy. JPH
gives voice to scholars interested in understanding public policies
and their development through historical inquiry and interpretation.
JPH publishes historical studies of specific policy areas
and institutions, and explores continuities and shifts in policy
over time. JPH encourages interdisciplinary research into
the origins and development of public policy in the US and other
countries. Comparative historical approaches to the development
of public policies are welcomed.
Each
year the first issue is devoted to special topics including drug
control policy, the refugee/asylum dilemma, urban policy, equal
opportunity and affirmative action, and civil rights policy. This
issue is also published separately as a paperback (Issues in Policy
History) for course use.
About
the Editor:
Donald T. Critchlow is
founding editor of the Journal of Policy History. He is
the author of ten books including his most recent one, Intended
Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government
(NY. Oxford U. Press, 1997). He has been a guest scholar at the
Brookings Institution and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He received his Doctorate
in History from the University of California, Berkely.
Book Review
Editor:
David
B. Robertson
Department of Political Science
University of Missouri, St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St Louis, MO 63121
Dave
Robertson’s interests include American
national politics and policy, political history, political
economy, labor, and environmental policy. His most
recent book, The Constitution and America's Destiny (2005) explores the politics of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787. He is also the author of The
Development of American Public Policy: The Structure
of Policy
Restraint (with Dennis Judd) and of Capital,
Labor, and State: The Battle of American Labor Markets
from
the Civil War to the New Deal, and the editor
of Loss
of Confidence: Politics and Policy in the 1970s. He
has published articles on federalism and public
policy, program design, lesson-drawing, the new institutionalism,
James Madison, and labor market policies in the United
States and Great Britain. His article "Madison's
Opponents and Constitutional Design" won the American
Political Science Association’s 2006 Mary Parker
Follett Award for the Best Article in Politics and
History published in 2005. He edits CLIO, the newsletter
of the Politics and History section of the American
Political Science Association. Robertson is also the
political analyst for KSDK Television (NBC).
