Environmental policy and equity: The case of superfund
- J. Hird
- Economics
- 1993
This article analyzes the equity implications of the EPA's Superfund program by examining the geographic distribution of sites, who pays for cleanup, and cleanup pace. Although the “polluter pays”…
The Costs and Benefits of Regulation: Review and Synthesis
Hahn and Hird provide the first comprehensive analysis of the costs and benefits offederal economic and social regulation. They assess several alternative methods of measuring the effects of…
Superfund expenditures and cleanup priorities: Distributive politics or the public interest?
- J. Hird
- Economics
- 1990
Using data on all final National Priorities List (NPL) sites, this study employs an integrated model of distributive and public interest politics to determine whether the overall pace of cleanup…
Superfund : the political economy of environmental risk
- J. Hird
- Political Science
- 1994
For the past dozen years the multibillion-dollar Federal hazardous waste clean-up programme, known as Superfund, has been mired in controversy. In addition to problems with Superfund financing,…
Policy Analysis for What? The Effectiveness of Nonpartisan Policy Research Organizations
- J. Hird
- Political Science
- 1 February 2005
For the past several decades, scholars have studied the role of policy research in decision making. Depending how “use” is measured, the results have indicated only modest or indirect impacts. This…
The Study and Use of Policy Research in State Legislatures
- J. Hird
- Political Science
- 1 October 2009
The literature on knowledge utilization generally reveals limited use of social science research in policymaking, and the proliferation of information sources and access suggests further erosion of…
Public policy's bibliography: The use of research in US regulatory impact analyses
- B. Desmarais, J. Hird
- Political Science
- 1 December 2014
Major US federal regulatory decisions are developed and justified using regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) mandated by executive order. We examine the scientific citation activity in RIAs, a unique…
The distribution of environmental quality: An empirical analysis
Objective. The relations among the distribution of environmental quality and the racial, political, and socioeconomic characteristics of affected communities are increasingly a topic of scholarly and…
Destination leadership and the issue of power
- B. Blichfeldt, J. Hird, P. Kvistgaard
- Business
- 23 July 2014
Purpose – Studies of destination management and leadership may over-emphasize unity and collaboration, thus producing romanticized accounts for such processes. This paper discusses destination…
Science Use in Regulatory Impact Analysis: The Effects of Political Attention and Controversy
- Mia Costa, B. Desmarais, J. Hird
- Political ScienceArXiv
- 1 December 2015
Examining scientific citation activity in all 101 economically significant RIAs from 2008-2012 suggests that scientific research plays an important role in the justification of regulations, especially those that are highly salient to the public and other policy actors.
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