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Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy

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Public Policy and Governance

Edited by Professor Evan Berman, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

This series brings together the best in international research on policy and governance issues. Authored and edited by experts in the field, these books present new and insightful research on a range of policy and governance issues across the globe. Topics covered include but are not limited to: policy analysis frameworks, healthcare policy, environmental/resource policy, local government policy, development policy, regional studies/policy, urban policy/planning, and social policy.

Titles include:

• Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia

  Evan Berman and Eko Prasoji

• Corruption, Accountability and Discretion

  Nancy S. Lind and Cara E. Rabe-Hemp

• The Experience of Democracy and Bureaucracy in South Korea

  Tobin Im

• Governmental Financial Resilience: International Perspectives on How Local Governments Face Austerity

  Ileana Steccolini, Martin Jones and Iris Saliterer

• The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Gated, Regulated and Governed

  Travis D. Jules

• Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow

  Jonathan Boston

• Asian Leadership in Policy and Governance

  Evan Berman and M. Shamsul Haque

• Different Paths to Curbing Corruption: Lessons from Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore

  Jon S. T. Quah

• Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector: What Did We Learn?

  Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

• New Steering Concepts in Public Management

  Sandra Groeneveld and Steven Van de Walle

• Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream?

  Jon S. T. Quah

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Public Policy and Governance

Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy

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Cara E. Rabe-Hemp

Illinois State University, USA

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Nancy S. Lind

Illinois State University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 2053-7697 (Series)

Contents

List of Tables

About the Contributors

Benjamin Bricker is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He holds a cross appointment in the SIU School of Law. He received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Illinois College of Law. His first book is Visions of Judicial Review: A Comparative Examination of Courts and Policy in Democracies (2016). Other work has appeared in Law & Policy, the Justice System Journal, and the European Journal of Legal Studies.

Kenneth Bryant Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at Tyler. He earned his BA in Political Science (with a minor concentration in African-American Studies) in 2008 from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; his Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 2014; and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 2017.

The primary motivation behind Dr Bryant’s research and teaching interests are re-examining well-worn conventional thought about historically marginalized communities, as well as exploring new questions on their behavior, attitudes, and development. He believes political scientists’ orthodoxy must refine its answers (or lack of answers) to questions regarding intersecting identities, and how racial, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and ethnic factors do (and will) impact American politics in the coming decades.

Ashley K. Farmer is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. Her work focuses on police–community relations and technology in policing, exploring how technology changes the dynamic between citizens and law enforcement. Current projects include studies on body-worn cameras and citizens filming the police. Her publications have appeared in journals including Race and Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, and Sociological Inquiry.

Christopher Donald Gjesfjeld, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Illinois State University. His research has focused on rural mothers’ lives and how they narrate their experiences regarding health care, mothering, and mental health. He was previously a clinical social worker working in both public inpatient and community mental health settings. He has published in the areas of maternal mental health, rural populations, and the social work application of Geographic Information Systems. Given his prior experience as a social worker, Gjesfjeld has also developed a growing interest in principles utilized in helping professions may be applied by teachers to promote student engagement and learning.

Gardenia Harris is an Associate Professor, Illinois State University, United States. Gardenia Harris received her BSW from Iowa State University, her MSW from the University of Iowa, and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gardenia also earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Coe College. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work where she teaches social welfare policy courses. Her research interests include racial disparities in the provision and outcomes of social services, the differential impact of child welfare policies on families of color, and prevention of HIV among middle-aged African American women. Dr Harris is co-author of a supplementary social welfare policy text book, Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy: Right versus Left.

Katharine Leigh is the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at the University Libraries, Ball State University. She holds a BA from Luther College, an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an MS in Political Science from Illinois State University. She has written several articles and book chapters, including chapters in Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America (2013), Privacy in the Digital Age: 21^st-Century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment (2015), and Today’s Economic Issues: Democrats and Republicans (2016).

Nancy S. Lind is a Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University, where she has taught for over 30 years. She has won University Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards and had edited/co-edited/coauthored over a dozen books as well as written several peer reviewed journal articles. Her specialties are Public Administration and Policy and American Politics.

John P. McHale (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2002) is a writer, producer, director, and Professor of Media Writing in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. McHale has written 10 feature scripts and is also the author of many books including Convergent Writing: Telling a Good Story Well (3rd ed.; 2016), Communicating for Change: Strategies of Social and Political Advocates (2004), coauthor of Saintly Sex: John Paul II, Gender, Sex & the Catholic Church (2014), Bush versus Kerry: A Functional Analysis of Campaign 2004 (2007), Campaign 2000: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Campaign Discourse (2003), The Primary Decision: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Primary Debates, 1948–2000 (2001), and has published a number of book chapters and academic articles on political discourse. McHale has been recognized over 20 times by festivals and screenplay competitions for his work as a screenwriter, documentary film producer, and director.

John C. Navarro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside in the Department of Criminal Justice. Navarro earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. His research interests include victimization, social ecology, public policies, and spatial analyses.

Cara E. Rabe-Hemp is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. She has won several University and college Research Awards and has co-edited and authored books and peer-reviewed articles in the areas of policing and public policy.

Michael T. Rossler, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. His research interests include police–citizen encounters, police recruitment and training, and police technology.

Sarah Sass is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at the University of Texas at Tyler, with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her main research areas regard mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of anxiety and depression, and increasing wellbeing in adults and adolescents. She often employs neuroscience and psychophysiological methods and works in interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty across fields such as education and engineering. Her work has been published in top-tier journals and is regularly presented at national and international conferences.

Amie M. Schuck is an Associate Professor of criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany. Her research focuses on how community factors impact family and individual outcomes such as violence and policing. Her interests specifically include how changes in community structure, such as participation opportunities and capacity, affect the developmental outcomes of residents. She was the co-investigator of a Chicago-based project designed to assess the impact of community participation on police-citizen problem-solving. She was also a co-investigator on the UIC initiative to develop a collaborative interdisciplinary center to study and prevent violence. She has published several articles including work on child maltreatment and policing in a variety of journals including Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, and American Journal of Community Psychology.

Andrea Silva is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Her research centers on American politics, with an emphasis on Immigration Politics in the United States, Latinx, and Racial and Ethnic politics. Her current research investigates the factors that influence state immigration policy on undocumented immigrants.

Robert Edward Sterken, Jr. is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler. Sterken has authored and edited books, articles, and chapters including his most recent book, “Teaching Barefoot in Burma” which shares stories and insights from his year as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Yangon University where he taught and did research on religion and politics. In 2018, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board selected Sterken for a Senior Fulbright Specialist award to China to study religion and the Chinese state. While in China, Sterken gave a series of public lectures on religion and the state at Jilin University and at the United States Consulate in Shenyang. At the University of Texas at Tyler, Sterken regularly teaches courses on Religion & Politics, Global Relations, and Asian Politics.

Mark A. Tallman is an Adjunct Professor at Colorado State University’s Centre for the Study of Homeland Security and a private security consultant. His professional experience includes security technology and weapons policy research, counterterrorism research, security and emergency planning, cultural and historic resource protection, and exercise planning. Tallman teaches at Colorado State University-Pueblo’s Centre for the Study of Homeland Security, and Centre for Cyber Security Education and Research. He has a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, an MA in Global Politics from Illinois State University, and a BA in International Relations from Northern Illinois University. He is a certified Business Continuity Planner, Range Safety Officer, and Wilderness 1st Responder. Tallman is the author of “Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution” (2019).

Jeruel Taylor obtained his master’s degree from Illinois State University. His final project explored the relationship between police agencies that acquire military equipment and the demographics of their counties. He currently resides in Nashville, TN and works for Project Return, a non-profit that focuses on employment and re-entry for returning citizens.

Maura I.Toro-Morn is a Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. Her scholarly areas of interest include the causes and consequences of migrations from a global perspective and gender specific qualities of contemporary migrations. Her scholarship historicizes Latino immigration to the Midwest and makes visible the experiences of women immigrants. Her work contributes to analyzing how gender and race systems of inequality intersect in the recruitment and deployment of Latina women workers.

Amentahru Wahlrab is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler. His research interests lie at the intersection of globalization, political economy, political violence, and political social theory. He is the coauthor, with Manfred B. Steger, of What is Global Studies? Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017) and coeditor, with Michael J. McNeal, of U.S. Approaches to the Arab Uprisings: International Relations and Democracy Promotion (I.B.Tauris, 2018). He is also the book review editor for the journal Populism published by Brill.

Elizabeth Wheat is an Associate Professor in Public and Environmental Affairs (Political Science) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She teaches courses in Environmental Policy and Law, Natural Resources, Global Politics, and Global Environmental Politics. Her research focuses on environmental law cases before the US Courts of Appeals and experiential learning in the classroom such as Model United Nations and mock trials. Elizabeth has received several teaching fellowships to further develop her research on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Professor Wheat’s fields of Interest include: environmental law, civil rights and liberties, environmental justice, international law, Model UN, and wildlife smuggling. She has a BA in Psychology from Alma College, a Master’s in Public Affairs in Comparative Environmental Policy from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Western Michigan University.

Joseph P. Zompetti, Illinois State University, USA. Zompetti’s teaching and research interests include political communication, rhetorical theory, and rhetorical criticism. His publications include essays about Antonio Gramsci and rhetoric in the Western Journal of Communication and Culture, Theory, and Critique. Recently, he also published the 2nd edition of his book, Divisive Discourse: The Extreme Rhetoric of Contemporary American Politics.