Alvin H Mushkatel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin H Mushkatel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mushkatel |
| SIGNATURE | MUSHKATEL A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race, Ethnicity, and Household Characteristics of Section 8 Housing Clients and their Impact on Adjacent Housing Quality
The authors examine how assisted housing units with householders belonging to different racial/ethnic groups receiving Section 8 vouchers and certificates effect change in housing quality of adjacent structures. Rather than relying on traditional measures of housing value as surrogates of quality, an aggregate index of housing quality was obtained from data available in two Housing Condition Evaluation surveys conducted by the city of Phoenix in …
Does Locational Choice Matter
The authors examine the locational patterns of three subsidized housing programs—conventional project-based, section 8 assisted rental, and shelter plus care supported housing for the severely mentally ill and homeless—in Phoenix, Arizona. They demonstrate that these programs are reinforcing the existing concentrations of the three types of subsidized housing in some Phoenix neighborhoods. The findings for Phoenix suggest that voucher and certifi…
Environmental Policy, New Federalism and New Privatism
Public policies developed under the New Federalism of the 1970s and the new privatism of the 1980s have produced a variety of policy problems for states. This is particularly true in the area of environmental policy. This paper looks at environmental policymaking in the coastal zone giving particular attention to the conflicts between the desire to protect renewable resources and the need for economic growth in the coastal zone. These conflicts a…
Symposium on the Development of Nuclear Waste Policy
Intergovernmental Complexity in Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy
Local governments play a critical, albeit often overlooked, role in nuclear waste disposal policymaking. The centrality of local governments in the policymaking process rests on the simple fact that impacts will be borne disproportionately by local jurisdictions hosting and immediately adjacent to waste disposal sites. This article focuses on the capacity of local jurisdictions in Southern and rural Nevada to absorb and support an undertaking as …
Public Opposition To The Siting Of The High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
This paper examines several dimensions of public opposition to the proposed siting of the high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. In order to provide a context for the public's views of the repository in metropolitan Clark County, both governmental studies of the repository siting process are analyzed, as well as elements of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. This analysis suggests that one potentially key component of the public's oppo…
State Policymaking Under Duress
Minority Citizens in Disasters
The first study of its kind to address the issue of ethnic diversity, Minority Citizens in Disasters focuses on the responses of two minorities-blacks and Mexican-Americans-relative to whites in three disaster events: a propane car derailment, a nitric acid spill, and a flood. Ronald Perry and Alvin Mushkatel find that response to initial warnings is influenced by the source of the information-mass media, public authorities, or family and friends…
The Developer's Role in Coprovision, Cofinancing, and Coproduction of Urban Infrastructure and Services
Municipalities are increasingly shifting costs for urban infrastructure and services to private developers through the use of exactions. A complex system of conjoint arrangements has resulted in which a firm, in bargaining over the conditions of a development permit, may agree to provide and operate a water system, where the use of a facility with a city, or participate in a joint commercial venture with a local government. This exaction process …
Opinion Congruence and the Formulation of Seismic Safety Policies
This article examines key actors’and citizens’perceptions on several issues involving various actions designed to lessen the effects of a damaging earthquake as well as the degree of concern these groups have over the occurrence of such an event. The relationship discovered between key actors’and the public's attitudes on these issues indicates that several other studies of earthquake policy adoption which suggest that a lack of citizen awareness…
Disaster Management
This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation of evacuation warning systems to ensure citizen compliance with the directives of authorities and the permanent relocation of families threatened by hazards. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of constructing warning messages; to the citizen's interpretation of message content; the techniques of delivering warning m…
Diaster Management
Emergency Management and the Intergovernmental System
The literature focusing upon emergency management is diverse and growing. A few years ago, there was little research on policy and administration in this area. Increasingly, however, there is a realization that hazards administration requires an understanding of both the policy process and the intergovernmental system within which it operates.' The importance of these two processes for understanding and improving emergency management is evidenced…
Intergovernmental Implementation of Building Codes With Lateral Force Provisions
Building-code revisions and land-use planning are recognized as potential solutions to the threat posed by hazardous structures in seismically active regions. Their implementation, however, is problematic and several Impediments to action on building codes are analyzed. The authors recommend a system of incentives to overcome these barriers including federally subsidized insurance, low interest loans, and joint state-local policy ventures with te…
The States' Role in Land Use Policy
Historically, land use had been an exclusively local function. By the early 1960s, a “quiet revolution” broke the local government monopoly over zoning and land use, with a larger state role. Those states which passed land use legislation soon were faced with substantial political opposition, especially from rural dwellers and developers. When Congress considered national land use legislation in the early 1970s. these same interests united in eff…
Urban-Rural Class Conflict in Oregon Land-Use Planning
Eminent Domain
The outcome of land-use policies of two distinct nations with considerably different formal governmental structures are exploratively compared and found to be quite similar. In the United States we focus on the effects—on the poor and minorities residing in central cities—of the urban renewal program conceived at the national level but implemented in a decentralized way, with most authority remaining at the local level. In Israel we focus on the …
A Model of Citizen Response To Annexation
The Structure of Professional Education in Departments of Political Science
The organization of graduate programs has received increasing attention lately within political science. Teaching techniques, course requirements, class size, student representation in departmental decision-making processes have all been Investigated. This paper examines another aspect of graduate education, the effect of departmental structure on the learning process. We do not deal with the substance of a political science education, but rather…
Does Locational Choice Matter
The authors examine the locational patterns of three subsidized housing programs—conventional project-based, section 8 assisted rental, and shelter plus care supported housing for the severely mentally ill and homeless—in Phoenix, Arizona. They demonstrate that these programs are reinforcing the existing concentrations of the three types of subsidized housing in some Phoenix neighborhoods. The findings for Phoenix suggest that voucher and certifi…
Public Opposition To The Siting Of The High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
This paper examines several dimensions of public opposition to the proposed siting of the high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. In order to provide a context for the public's views of the repository in metropolitan Clark County, both governmental studies of the repository siting process are analyzed, as well as elements of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. This analysis suggests that one potentially key component of the public's oppo…
Urban-Rural Class Conflict in Oregon Land-Use Planning
Eminent Domain
The outcome of land-use policies of two distinct nations with considerably different formal governmental structures are exploratively compared and found to be quite similar. In the United States we focus on the effects—on the poor and minorities residing in central cities—of the urban renewal program conceived at the national level but implemented in a decentralized way, with most authority remaining at the local level. In Israel we focus on the …
Race, Ethnicity, and Household Characteristics of Section 8 Housing Clients and their Impact on Adjacent Housing Quality
The authors examine how assisted housing units with householders belonging to different racial/ethnic groups receiving Section 8 vouchers and certificates effect change in housing quality of adjacent structures. Rather than relying on traditional measures of housing value as surrogates of quality, an aggregate index of housing quality was obtained from data available in two Housing Condition Evaluation surveys conducted by the city of Phoenix in …
Symposium on the Development of Nuclear Waste Policy
Intergovernmental Complexity in Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy
Local governments play a critical, albeit often overlooked, role in nuclear waste disposal policymaking. The centrality of local governments in the policymaking process rests on the simple fact that impacts will be borne disproportionately by local jurisdictions hosting and immediately adjacent to waste disposal sites. This article focuses on the capacity of local jurisdictions in Southern and rural Nevada to absorb and support an undertaking as …
The Structure of Professional Education in Departments of Political Science
The organization of graduate programs has received increasing attention lately within political science. Teaching techniques, course requirements, class size, student representation in departmental decision-making processes have all been Investigated. This paper examines another aspect of graduate education, the effect of departmental structure on the learning process. We do not deal with the substance of a political science education, but rather…
A Model of Citizen Response To Annexation
Eminent Domain
The outcome of land-use policies of two distinct nations with considerably different formal governmental structures are exploratively compared and found to be quite similar. In the United States we focus on the effects—on the poor and minorities residing in central cities—of the urban renewal program conceived at the national level but implemented in a decentralized way, with most authority remaining at the local level. In Israel we focus on the …
Urban-Rural Class Conflict in Oregon Land-Use Planning
The States' Role in Land Use Policy
Historically, land use had been an exclusively local function. By the early 1960s, a “quiet revolution” broke the local government monopoly over zoning and land use, with a larger state role. Those states which passed land use legislation soon were faced with substantial political opposition, especially from rural dwellers and developers. When Congress considered national land use legislation in the early 1970s. these same interests united in eff…
Diaster Management
Emergency Management and the Intergovernmental System
The literature focusing upon emergency management is diverse and growing. A few years ago, there was little research on policy and administration in this area. Increasingly, however, there is a realization that hazards administration requires an understanding of both the policy process and the intergovernmental system within which it operates.' The importance of these two processes for understanding and improving emergency management is evidenced…
Intergovernmental Implementation of Building Codes With Lateral Force Provisions
Building-code revisions and land-use planning are recognized as potential solutions to the threat posed by hazardous structures in seismically active regions. Their implementation, however, is problematic and several Impediments to action on building codes are analyzed. The authors recommend a system of incentives to overcome these barriers including federally subsidized insurance, low interest loans, and joint state-local policy ventures with te…
The Developer's Role in Coprovision, Cofinancing, and Coproduction of Urban Infrastructure and Services
Municipalities are increasingly shifting costs for urban infrastructure and services to private developers through the use of exactions. A complex system of conjoint arrangements has resulted in which a firm, in bargaining over the conditions of a development permit, may agree to provide and operate a water system, where the use of a facility with a city, or participate in a joint commercial venture with a local government. This exaction process …
Opinion Congruence and the Formulation of Seismic Safety Policies
This article examines key actors’and citizens’perceptions on several issues involving various actions designed to lessen the effects of a damaging earthquake as well as the degree of concern these groups have over the occurrence of such an event. The relationship discovered between key actors’and the public's attitudes on these issues indicates that several other studies of earthquake policy adoption which suggest that a lack of citizen awareness…
Disaster Management
This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation of evacuation warning systems to ensure citizen compliance with the directives of authorities and the permanent relocation of families threatened by hazards. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of constructing warning messages; to the citizen's interpretation of message content; the techniques of delivering warning m…
Minority Citizens in Disasters
The first study of its kind to address the issue of ethnic diversity, Minority Citizens in Disasters focuses on the responses of two minorities-blacks and Mexican-Americans-relative to whites in three disaster events: a propane car derailment, a nitric acid spill, and a flood. Ronald Perry and Alvin Mushkatel find that response to initial warnings is influenced by the source of the information-mass media, public authorities, or family and friends…
State Policymaking Under Duress
Symposium on the Development of Nuclear Waste Policy
Intergovernmental Complexity in Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy
Local governments play a critical, albeit often overlooked, role in nuclear waste disposal policymaking. The centrality of local governments in the policymaking process rests on the simple fact that impacts will be borne disproportionately by local jurisdictions hosting and immediately adjacent to waste disposal sites. This article focuses on the capacity of local jurisdictions in Southern and rural Nevada to absorb and support an undertaking as …
Public Opposition To The Siting Of The High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
This paper examines several dimensions of public opposition to the proposed siting of the high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. In order to provide a context for the public's views of the repository in metropolitan Clark County, both governmental studies of the repository siting process are analyzed, as well as elements of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. This analysis suggests that one potentially key component of the public's oppo…
Environmental Policy, New Federalism and New Privatism
Public policies developed under the New Federalism of the 1970s and the new privatism of the 1980s have produced a variety of policy problems for states. This is particularly true in the area of environmental policy. This paper looks at environmental policymaking in the coastal zone giving particular attention to the conflicts between the desire to protect renewable resources and the need for economic growth in the coastal zone. These conflicts a…
Does Locational Choice Matter
The authors examine the locational patterns of three subsidized housing programs—conventional project-based, section 8 assisted rental, and shelter plus care supported housing for the severely mentally ill and homeless—in Phoenix, Arizona. They demonstrate that these programs are reinforcing the existing concentrations of the three types of subsidized housing in some Phoenix neighborhoods. The findings for Phoenix suggest that voucher and certifi…
Race, Ethnicity, and Household Characteristics of Section 8 Housing Clients and their Impact on Adjacent Housing Quality
The authors examine how assisted housing units with householders belonging to different racial/ethnic groups receiving Section 8 vouchers and certificates effect change in housing quality of adjacent structures. Rather than relying on traditional measures of housing value as surrogates of quality, an aggregate index of housing quality was obtained from data available in two Housing Condition Evaluation surveys conducted by the city of Phoenix in …
Political science (16 works) · Business (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)