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10 Pol'y Stud. J. 3 (1981-1982)

handle is hein.journals/plyssjnl10 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S NOTES Since 1972 the Policy Studies Journal has served as a focal point for political scientists interested in research into the causes and consequences of public policy. The Journal has been instrumental in bringing the study of public policy to the forefront of political science--in helping us to understand that politics is outcome as well as process. Over time the Journal has become more interdisciplinary-- expanding beyond political science to economics, public admin- istration, sociology, anthropology and geography. It has acquired a very respectable circulation for a professional journal--over 2500 individual and institutional subscribers. The Journal has published symposia on a wide variety of policy areas, from health, energy, crime, population, race and sex, civil liberty, and transportation, to technology, labor and employment, agriculture, and national defense. Most of the symposia have been published later in expanded, hardbound form by commercial publishers. The Journal has also published articles of general interest, comments from the field, and literature reviews. We can only hope that the Journal in the next ten years can play as influential a role in the development of policy studies as it has played in the last ten years. The success of the Policy Studies Journal can be attribu- ted largely to one person---the indefatigable, peripatetic, promoter of the Journal , and policy studies generally, Stuart Nagel. It is fortunate, indeed, that Stuart Nagel agreed in 1972 to serve as Secretary-Treasurer and Journal Coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization. While he would be the first to deny that the success of the Organiza- tion and the Journal is primarily attributable to him, those of us who have observed the growth in policy studies over the years can testify to his immense personal contribution. It is our intention to continue the Policy Studies Journal as a quarterly of social science theory and research relevant to public policy. Its interest will remain the des- cription and explanation of the causes and consequences of public policy. Each issue will include a symposium on a specific policy area and articles of general interest, com- ments from the field, and literature reviews. The Journal will be published by the Policy Studies Organization and the Policy Studies Program at Florida State University. The Policy Studies Organization also publishes the Policy Studies Review at the Center for Public Affairs of the University of Kansas, under the editorship of Dennis J. Palomo. It is 3