Nuts and Bolts Raymond Vernon Editor

The completion of the first year of publication offers the occasion for a review of where JPAM stands, and where it hopes to go.

From the first, as readers are aware, the Journal’s objective has been to provide practitioners and academics in the field of public policy analysis and management with a medium through which to define the problems and develop the approaches that may be common to the field. The object has been to encourage such communication across functional lines and across disciplines, in the hope of bringing economists a little closer to organizational theorists and education specialists a little closer to environmental analysts. Eventually, a common vocabulary, common concepts, and common hypotheses may begin to emerge, lending greater focus to the field.

The Journal received its first manuscript in August 1980. From then until the close of February 1982, 291 manuscripts were received. The disposition of the 291 manuscripts was as follows:

Rejected by internal review Rejected by referee recommendations Accepted Pending

143 101 24 23

At the end of February 1982, the backlog of accepted articles was insignificant.

Every effort has been made to facilitate the processing of the articles. Those that were rejected on the basis of an internal review could be turned around relatively rapidly. Those exposed to external review inevitably took a good deal longer. Still, as the table below indicates, of the articles that went through the exter- nal review process, 60% had been reviewed within 60 days and 85% within 90 days.

Inasmuch as the Journal hopes to serve as a vehicle for both practitioners and academics, the identity of the contributions is of some interest. Most of the manuscripts originated with authors

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Articles classified by time elapsed from receipt of articles to acceptance or rejection: August 1980-February 1982.

Rejected by internal review Accepted or rejected after referee reviewa

Days elapsed Number of Percent Days elapsed Number of Percent

10 days or less 97 68 30 days or less 16 13

articles articles

11 -20 days 26 18 31-60days 59 47 Over 20 days 20 14 61-90days 27 22

18 Total 143 100 Total 125 1 00

- - - __ 23 91 days or over

’Excludes 23 articles in the hands of referees at the close of February 1982.

associated with academic institutions. Nevertheless, 42 manu- scripts came from research or consulting firms and 30 from government agencies in the United States and abroad.

The quality of the Journal depends critically on the care with which articles are reviewed. In this first year, one of the outstand- ing aspects of the Journal’s operations has been the quality of the reviewers’ contributions. Reviewers have been recruited from a wide network and from all levels in the profession; they have included academics of all ranks, and practitioners in various specialized fields. To the reviewers, whose names are listed below, the editors express their profound appreciation.

Henry J. Aaron Richard P. Adelstein Graham T. Allison Stuart H. Altman Gregory R. Anrig Kenneth J. Arrow

Roy W. Bahl Marguerite Barnett Michael C. Barth Michael Beesley C. Fred Bergsten Jeffrey Berry David Blumenthal David Braybrooke Harvey E. Brazer David W. Breneman Harvey Brooks Lynn G. Browne

Charles J. Cicchetti Edward H. Clarke Robert C. Clarke Linda Cohen Wilbur J. Cohen James Connolly Philip J. Cook Richard Cooper Clement Cottingham Barbara H. Craig

J.C. Davies Alan M. Dershowitz I.M. Destler Denise DiPasquale Susan DeVos Jorge I. Dominquez Thomas Duzak

Richard P. Chapman Charles J . Christenson Benjamin Chinitz David T. Ellwood Christopher K. Clague

George C . Eads Christopher E. Edley, J r

Theodore J . Eismeier

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Gary R. Fauth Jamie Fay Elliot J . Feldman John A. Ferejohn Joel L. Fleishman Peter D . Fox Herbert Franklin Myrick A. Freeman, I11 Harry E. Frech Bernard Frieden Barry L. Friedman

John Lewis Gaddis Herbert Gintis Nathan Glazer David Goetze Rolf Goetze Victor P. Goldberg Clifford Goldman Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez John Graham Ted R. Greenwood Julian Gresser Joel B. Grossman Arnold Gurin

Robert Hale Erwin Hargrove Robert W. Hartman Leonard J . Hausman Robert H. Haveman Harry Hirsch Stanley Hoffmann William W. Hogan Matthew Holden, Jr . Robinson G. Hollister Harold Howe Robert B. Hudson

Robert Inman

Leroy P. Jones

Alfred E. Kahn John F. Kain Milton Katz Jacob Kauffman James A. Kelly David L. Kirp Michael W. Kirst Frank R. Kristoff

Robert E. Klitgaard F.T. Knickerbocker James R. Knickman William Kraskar John V. Krutilla

Helen S . Ladd David E.W. Laidler Peter M. Lange David Lax Henry Lee Herman (Dutch) Leonard Frank S . Levy Stephen H. Lewis Richard J . Light Steven A.Y. Lin Charles E. Lindblom Louis Loss Ira S . Lowry Louis Lowy Larry E. Lynn, Jr.

Thomas K. McCraw

Arthur Maass Paul W. MacAvoy Harald B. Malmgren Willard G . Manning, J r Julius Margolis Andrew W. Marshall Arnold Meltsner Ida C. Merriam John R. Meyer Martin Meyerson David Montgomery Mark H. Moore Robert Morris Donald Morrison Tom Muller Alicia H. Munell Jerome Murphy

Peter Navarro Dorothy W. Nelkin Gary Nelson Valerie Nelson Nicholas Nichols Roger G. No11 Joseph S . Nye, Jr .

Michael O’Hare

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Oliver Oldman Trevor O’Neill Gary Orren

Adele Palmer John L. Palmer Joseph A. Pechman Martin J. Peck M.J. Peterson Lisa Pettie Charles E. Phelps Don H. Pickerel1 Alexander Polikoff Karen Polinski Paul Portney John W. Pratt Garg Prem Don K. Price Jeffrey Prottas

Francine F. Rabinovitz Howard Raiffa Robert B. Reich Martin Rein Robert F. Reischauer Robert Repetto Andrew Reschovsky Douglas A. Rivers Alice M. Rivlin William Robinson Charles Rodgers Michael Roemer Stephen R. Rosenthal Peter Rossi Henry S. Rowen Geoffrey Rubbins Clifford Russell Milton Russell

Lester M. Salamon Thomas C. Schelling F.M. Scherer Allen Schick Benjamin Schimberg Arie Schinnar Richard L. Schott

Peter H. Schuck Charles L. Schultze Robert H. Scott James K. Sebenius Joseph Senturia Donald Shepard Joseph J. Stern George Sternlieb Richard R. Stewart Leanna Stiefel Donald E. Stokes Edith M. Stokey Ernst Stromsdorfer Stanley S. Surrey Lawrence E. Susskind

John Taylor Michael S. Teitelbaum James Tobin Robert Tollison Eva F. Travers William B. Tye

Richard H. Vietor W. Kip Viscusi Philip Viton

Michael Waltzer James Ware Donald Warwick David Weimer Martha W. Weinberg Robert C. Weinberg Harrison C. White William D. White William L. White Charles V. Willie James Q. Wilson Louis Winnick David Wise Charles Wolf, Jr. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr

Gary W. Yohe

Richard J . Zeckhauser