Public Sector Reports 1992

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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 (top)
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.

• January 10 and 17 and 24 and 30
• February 6 and 14 and 20 and 27
• March 6 and 12 and 19 and 26
• April 2 and 10 and 16 and 23 and 30
• May 7 and 14 and 21 and 28
• July 2 and 17
• October 1 and 8 and 15 and 22 and 29
• November 6 and 13 and 19
• December 4

Health Policy Bulletin (top)
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 (top)
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 (top)
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 (top)
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