May 2008

 

 

 

 
Publications
 

Professor Zoltan Acs wrote Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, which will be published by Edward Elgar Publishing (May 26, 2008).

Professor Kenneth J. Button wrote the chapter “Europe and Developments in the Transatlantic Air Market,” which was published in Blue Skies or Storm Clouds? edited by D. de Jong, B. Kaashoek, and W-J Zondag, and published by Aerlines Magazine Foundation.

Button also wrote “The Economics of Shopping Mall Security,” which appeared in the March 2008 Journal of Transportation Security, (vol. 1, no.2).

Current PhD Student Christina Checherita had her paper "Variations on Economic Convergence: The Case of the United States" accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Papers in Regional Science.

Affiliate Professor Frank Manheim's review of the book, Apollo's fire: igniting America's clean-energy economy, by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks (Island Press, 2008) was among the May 2008 Editor's Picks for CHOICE Reviews Online. Lead author Jay Inslee is a Congressman from Oregon writes about approaches to large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The review is available online.

Professor Jeremy D. Mayer wrote American Media Politics in Transition, which was published by McGraw Hill in 2008.

Mayer also wrote “Campaign Press Coverage: At the Speed of Light,” which appears in Campaigns on the Cutting Edge, edited by Richard J. Semiatin and published by Congressional Quarterly Press, February 2008.

Mayer’s peer-reviewed article “Politics at the Speed of Light: How the Internet Has Changed Media Coverage of Campaigns” was published in the spring 2008 Journal of Law and Politics (Japan, vol. 5).

Professor John N. Paden wrote Faith Politics in Nigeria: Nigeria as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World, published by the United States Institute of Peace Press, April 2008.

Professor Ramkishen S. Rajan coedited with Rajiv Kumar and Nicola Virgill (current School of Public Policy PhD student) New Dimensions of Economic Globalization: Surge of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Asia, which was published by World Scientific, summer 2008.

Professor Mark J. Rozell cowrote with Nina Kasniunas “Interest Groups and the Future of Campaigns,” which appears in Campaigns on the Cutting Edge, edited by Richard Semiatin and published by Congressional Quarterly Press, February 2008.

Rozell also cowrote with Mitchel A. Sollenberger “The Contemporary Presidency: Executive Privilege and the US Attorneys Firings,” which will appear in the June 2008 Presidential Studies Quarterly (vol. 38, no. 2).

The School of Public Policy’s winter 2008 magazine, Policy Impact, was reprinted in full in the May 2008 Review of Policy Research, a journal of the Policy Studies Organization published by Blackwell.