Journal of Policy History
Donald Critchlow,
Editor
ISSN 0898-0306: Quarterly Publication
Visit the JPH web site: http://www.slu.edu/departments/jph/
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).