Public Policy Advisor
A periodic series that examines such subjects as fiscal and tax policy, health and environmental issues, and education policy and offers commentary on current or emerging political, social, and policy issues.
- Crime and Public Policy in Michigan: A Profile of the Criminal Justice Crisis
by Saundra Shirley James, Guest Author
February 20 - Overview and Analysis of the Governor’s Recommended Budget for Michigan, Fiscal Year 1992–93
by Robert Kleine, Vice President and Senior Economist, and Frances Spring, Senior Consultant for Economic and Tax Policy
March 13 - Michigan Expenditures and Revenues: Comparisons with Other States, FY 1989–90
by Robert Kleine and Michael Shneider
March 20 - Assisted Suicide
by Frances Faverman, Senior Consultant for Health Policy
April 3 - A Nation in Decline: The Role of the Federal Budget Deficit
by Robert Kleine and Frances Spring
April 17 - Tax Expenditures: It’s Time to Change the Process
by Robert Kleine
April 24 - Environmental Protection Cost Could Skyrocket Due to Supreme Court Decision
by Steve Harrington, J.D., Senior Consultant for Natural Resources
July 10 - Cashing in on a Service Economy: Expanding the Tax Base
by Robert Kleine
July 17 - Overview and Analysis of the Michigan Budget, Fiscal Year 1992–93
by Robert Kleine and Frances Spring
September 4 - Ballot Proposals A and C: How Do You Spell Property Tax Relief?
by Robert Kleine and Frances Spring
October 23
Election Watch
A periodic publication of observation, speculation, and commentary about state and federal political and election-year matters. Examines key issues, the political fortunes and campaigns of candidates, and anticipates how election outcomes will affect future state public policy.
Written by Craig Ruff, President and Senior Consultant for Public Policy.
- Setting the Stage for the 1992 Elections
February 21 - State Legislative Reapportionment: Comments on the Special Master’s Plan
March 2 - Michigan’s Presidential Primary
March 20 - A Most Unconventional Year
June 12 - The Houses of Representatives
June 19 - The Primary Election
August 14 - Presidential Politics
September 25 - Elections for the United States Congress
October 2 - The Race to Control the Michigan House of Representatives
October 16 - Looking to November 3 and Beyond
October 23 - The 1992 Presidential Election
November 3 - Footnotes to the 1992 Elections
November 20
Michigan Roundup
A one-page summary of Michigan legislative activity and political news of significance to government operations, public policy, and voter attitudes. Published weekly during legislative sessions and intermittently during legislative recesses.
Health Policy Bulletin
A monthly publication that provides analysis of important health care issues under consideration by the legislature, executive branch, and professional associations.
Written by Frances L. Faverman and Peter Pratt, Ph.D., senior consultants for health policy.
- Federal Access to Care Proposal—The Republicans
January - Pursell on Health Care and A New Kind of Primary Care Physician?
February - A New Perspective on Tort Reform and Winners in Medical Progress
March - Changes in the Medicaid Program, 1980–81
April - CON Commission Appointees and More on the Blues
May - Democratic Task Force on Health Care
June - Nursing Home Beds
July - The New CON Commission and Alliance for Health Cost Data
August - Further CON Commission Activity
September - C. Everett Koop, M.D. and Administrative Costs in Health Care
October - National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform and Managed Competition
November - Open-Heart Surgery
December
Michigan Economic Bulletin
A monthly review of economic indicators, state revenue receipts, appropriations and tax developments, and sources of additional information. Each issue contains an article of special focus, and each quarter a special insert analyzes economic data for ea of the seven Michigan regions.
Written by Robert J. Kleine, Vice President and Senior Economist, and Frances Spring, Senior Consultant for Economic and Tax Policy.
- Tax Increases Among the States and No Consensus on Revenues and The 1992 Engler Agenda and Michigan Regional Economic Forecast
January - Michigan’s Labor Market: An Annual and Decade Review and Governor’s Budget Recommendations
February - Federal Tax Cut Plan and New Revenue Estimates and Inheritance and Income Tax Legislation and State Savings Bonds
March - Existing Property Tax Relief: Michigan’s Well-Kept Secret and Executive Orders and Headlee Tax Cut Initiative and Michigan Economic Forecast
April - Low-Wage Incomes and FY 1992 Budget Deficit Agreement
May - Effects of the Supreme Court Decision on Mail Order Taxes and Inheritance Tax and Budget Targets and Enterprise Zones
June - Ten-Year Trend in State Health-Related Spending and State Budget and Tax-Related Court Decisions and Regional Economic Forecast
July - Education Pays Off in Increased Earnings and Economic Forecast
September - Michigan’s Low and Middle Incomes Decline and Senate Moves Repeal Intangibles Tax and Supreme Court Negates Categorical Aid Elimination
October - Regional Economies: Did They Translate into Regional Votes? and School Finance/Property Tax Reform and Utility Cross-Subsidization
November - Average 1991 Pay in Michigan Metropolitan Areas and Court Rules on Tax Base Sharing and Economic Forecast
December
Michigan Commentary
A periodic publication that offers insight into current or emerging political, social, and policy issues.
- Governor John Engler’s First Year: An Assessment
by Gerald A. Faverman, Ph.D., Chairman and Senior Consultant for Public Policy, and David Kimball, Senior Consultant for Public Policy
January 3 - Are Hospitals Accountable to the Public? A Review of The Great White Lie
by Peter Pratt, Ph.D., Senior Consultant for Health Policy
January 23 - Representative Richard A. Young: A Profile
by David L. Kimball
February 7 - State “War” Threatens Department of Natural Resources
by William R. Rustem, Senior Vice President and Senior Consultant for Environmental Policy and Economic Development, and Steve Harrington, J.D., Consultant for Natural Resources
February 14 - Understanding the Mysterious Present
by Gerald A. Faverman, Ph.D. and David Kimball
March 23 - Americans and Guns: A Fatal Attraction
by Linda Headley, Senior Consultant for Education, and Gerald A. Faverman, Ph.D.
March 27 - Science Provides the Cornerstone for A State Environmental Agenda
by Steve Harrington, J.D.
June 5 - Small Business Market Reform: The Return of Risk Sharing?
by Peter Pratt, Ph.D.
June 12 - Transportation Funding and the Transportation Future
by Michael French Smith, Senior Consultant for Public Policy
July 24 - Digging Deeper into Hospital Cost Increases
by Peter Pratt, Ph.D.
August 7 - New Federal Storm Water Regulations: Michigan’s Failure to Act Will Have Serious Consequences
by Jack Bails, Affiliated Consultant
September 11 - Medicaid at the Crossroads
by Peter Pratt, Ph.D.
October 2 - Russell J. Harding: A Profile
by Steve Harrington
October 9 - Prescription Drug Costs: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
by Peter Pratt, Ph.D.
October 30 - Global Economic Trends and the Michigan Economy
by Robert Kleine, Vice President and Senior Economist
November 6 - Opposition Parties
by Craig Ruff
December 4
Public Opinion Monitor
A periodic publication that reports results from our own statewide polls of public opinion on issues of the day and analyzes the implications. Most include trend data on the governor’s and legislature’s approval ratings, economic confidence of the public, and respondents’ political party affiliation.
Survey and analysis under the direction of William Sederburg, PSC Vice President and Director of the PSC Public Opinion Research Institute.
- The Political Ramifications of Michigan’s Economy
May - The State of Public Opinion in Michigan: Setting the State for Election ’92
June - Cigarette Taxes and the 1992 Elections
Conducted for the American Lung Association of the Michigan Poll Committee
July