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26 Pol'y Stud. J. 6 (1998-1999)

handle is hein.journals/plyssjnl26 and id is 1 raw text is: Policy Studies Journal, 26:1 From the Editors We would like to use this space to draw your attention to the nature of the subject matter that is dealt with in the symposium contained in this issue. The articles in the symposium broach a topic that is critical to the current operation and to the future evolution of policy studies: the dialectic between behavioral and postmodern forms of policy analysis. Until fairly recently, this is not the sort of topic that normally would have been encouraged for submission to the Policy Studies Journal, in part because of its relative abstractness, but more importantly because it addresses subject matter that would have been unlikely to receive funding from external sources. Thus, this symposium, edited by Peter deLeon of the University of Colorado at Denver, represents two departures from much of the work published previously in PSJ symposia. First, it emphasizes the methodology of policy analysis research rather than having a thematic focus on a specific policy area. Second, it accentuates a point that we have addressed in this forum previously: The lack of external funding for symposium research need not pose a barrier to the successful publication of collected articles covering all aspects of the policy research agenda. As always, we continue to encourage those interested in editing future symposia to contact the Symposium Coordinator and the co-editors at your earliest opportunity. We will provide early and regular information and advice as your symposium ideas progress toward being realized in print. Information about whom to contact, and how to reach them, is available elsewhere in the front matter to this and other issues. We are very pleased with the quality of the individual articles that are submitted to PSJ. We also are committed to seeking out excellent papers from all sources. We look forward to seeing your own research, and encourage you to stimulate others to pursue this avenue of publication. Authors are strongly advised to follow the information contained in the Instructions to Contributors, which appears near the front of each issue. The Editorial Board welcomes to its membership Professor Mitchell F. Rice, of Texas A&M University. We look forward to working together closely with him and with all members of the Board in PSJ's future endeavors. In This Issue The articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics and methodologies. Several of them resonate with applications of the critical aspects of the methodology of policy analysis that are addressed in the symposium. Bruce A. Ellison applies the advocacy coalition framework to his case study examination of the Endangered Species Act. The study is contextualized within the broader framework of the frequent dominance of disputes over water policies in driving politics in the Western states. C. Cryss Brunner and Paul Schumaker adopt a predominantly postpositivist analytical framework to a case study that examines the interplay between gender and styles in which power is exercised by public school leaders. Their fundamental distinctions in managerial approaches and personal styles of 6