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Robert J. Waste
Department of Public Policy and Administration
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Conference Papers

1998 Waste, Robert J., "Down-sized Budgets and Right-Sized Electorates: Mail Balloting and Efforts to Increase Voting Participation in American Cities," a paper delivered at the the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Ft. Worth, April 21-24, 1998.
1993 Waste, Robert J., "Urban Poverty and Urban Policies: A Look at the Conventional and Unconventional Wisdoms," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Indianapolis, April 21-24, 1993.
1992 Waste, Robert J., "Urban Poverty: What Do We Know? What Can We Do?" a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Cleveland, April 29-May 2, 1992.
1991 Waste, Robert J., "The Political Economy of Urban Reservations: Race- Neutral Policies & the Urban Underclass," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 17-20, 1991.
1990 Waste, Robert J., "Of the Things that Policymaking Isn't, Which Is It Most Like:? Agenda-Setting and the Baseball Analogy," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 1990.
1989 Waste, Robert J., "Federal-Local Policy in the 1990's," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Baltimore, March 15-18, 1989.This paper was nominated for Best Paper of the 1989 Annual Meeting.
1987a Waste, Robert J., "Innovation and the Making of Social Welfare Policy: The California Workfare Program," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3-6, 1987. This paper was a finalist for the Policy Studies Organization Award, Best Public Policy Paper of the Year (1987).
1987b Waste, Robert J., and Roger W. Caves, "New Federalism, Reaganomics and American Cities: A Research Note," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Anaheim, March, 1987.
1986 Waste, Robert J., and Roger W. Caves, "New Federalism, Reaganomics and Western Cities: The View of Municipal Officials," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 20-22, 1986, Eugene, Oregon.
1985 Waste, Robert J., "Pluralism in American Society: Four Major Variants," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April, 1985, Las Vegas, Nevada.
1984a Waste, Robert J., "The Politics of City Policymaking: A New Typology," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 12-14, 1984, Sacramento, California.
1984b Waste, Robert J., "The Life Cycle of City Policymaking: A New Typology," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, March 21-24, 1984, Portland, Oregon.


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