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Volume 2, Issue 1 (1986)


Today much of public policy debate takes place in a social vacuum. This is so in part because policy issues are often rather arbitrarily assigned to particular and seemingly unconnected disciplines that put a premium on maintaining their separate baronies of intellectual hegemony, and in part because of our too-pervasive propensity to compartmentalize in order to simplify. One of the aims of the New England Journal of Public Policy is to invade, as it were, these baronies, to liberate the policy issues held hostage there and release them into a broader, more human context, one that accentuates the idea of connectedness as the hallmark of continuity in public affairs.

Thus the emphasis in this issue of the journal is on the concepts of place and community.

Front Matter

Editor's Note

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Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley

Articles

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De Facto New Federalism and New England: A Discussion
Kenneth Curtis, Chester Atkins, Richard Licht, David Walker, and Roger Porter

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My Life with the FBI
James Carroll

Book Review

Editors

Editor
Padraig O'Malley
Book Reviews
Shaun O'Connell
Copy Editor
Toni Jean Rosenberg