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24 Pol'y Stud. J. 6 (1996)

handle is hein.journals/plyssjnl24 and id is 1 raw text is: Policy Studies Journal, 24:1 From the Editors As announced in the prior issue, Don Hadwiger, formerly co-editor of PSJ, has undertaken the task of Symposium Coordinator of the Journal. We are pleased to report that Don's efforts have been quite productive. A number of new symposia have been proposed, and we are now in the midst of determining which proposals merit further consideration and making suggestions to the prospective symposium editors for changes and enhancements to their outlines. We wish to express the collective thanks of the PSJ editorial team to all those who have responded thus far to the call for symposium themes that was published in volume 23, number 4 of the Journal. That same call is repeated in the Notes, Information, and Announcements section of this issue, to reiterate our invitation to you to consider the prospect of putting together a collection of interrelated essays on an important aspect of public policy. Please provide as much information as possible regarding the specific thrust of each of the proposed essays, how they would be integrated around a common theme, and any prospective authors who may be known. In this issue, we inaugurate a new feature within the Reviews/Essays section: book notes, consisting of a set of brief summaries of a rather large number of recently-published books. We would encourage anyone with an interest in contributing to this section of the Journal to contact David Webber, Reviews/Essays Editor, at the Department of Political Science, 113 Professional Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211. In This Issue The five individually-contributed articles contained in this issue of the Policy Studies Journal provide a collectively diverse array of topics and research methodologies. Samuel R. Cook examines the Indian policy of the Reagan administration as an exemplar of the more extensive subsequent federal government administrative budget reductions throughout the 1980s, relying heavily on primary documentation from relevant actors. The chief irony of reduced federal support for Indian affairs was that economic dislocations during the 1980s allowed some tribes to gain control of their political and economic futures and to influence favorably the course of national policy on Indian matters. Barry N. Sweet's detailed analysis of the legal challenges that have arisen to presidential uses of military power since the Vietnam War comes to the sobering conclusion that neither the federal courts nor even Congress has been very successful in efforts to rein in executive-branch decisions to resort to military force. The courts have been particularly reluctant to challenge presidential power, or to intervene in what commonly is interpreted as a political decision, as Sweet documents in a detailed analysis of the legal reasoning employed in several key cases. The problems that arose with the emergence in 1996 of mad cow disease as a major policy dilemma in Great Britain and throughout the European Community resonates well with the issues addressed by Ardith Maney's and Eric Plutzer's comparison of attitudes toward food safety among members of the scientific community, members of the mass media, and national policymakers in the 6