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Hawai'i is of special interest as a state because its history differs so greatly from that of the other United States and because its social and political institutions are unique. It is, for example, the only state that has no incorporated villages, towns, or cities, and it has the most centralized system of governance of any U. S. state.
This book addresses policy topics of importance to Hawai'i and other communities facing rapid growth, unsettling change, and a new economic environment. The authors describe the policy formation process characteristic of the island state, the formal institutional environment, and significant policy issues. The latter include social and ethnic dynamics, land use, housing, crime, natural resources, budgetary politics, and the situation of contemporary Hawai'ians. The chapters are tied together by the comparative, historical, and prospective approach that characterize each analysis, and by the interpretive comments of editors Smith and Pratt.
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Preface
Introduction
Zachary Smith and Richard Pratt
Part I: The Policy Environment
1. Policy Control: Institutionalized Centralization in the Fiftieth State
Norman Meller
2. The State Economy
David L. Hammes, Ronald A. Oliveira, and Marcia Sakai
3. Social Dynamics of the Aloha State: The Population of Hawai'i
Jeffrey L. Crane and Alton M. Okinaka
Part II: Policy Processes
4. Blood Runs Thick: Ethnicity as a Factor in Hawai'i's Politics
Dan Boylan
5. Policy in Hawai'i: The Budget
Deane Neubauer
6. Resolving Policy Conflicts in Hawai'i through Mediation
Peter S. Adler
Part III: Policy Issues
7. Environmental Quality in America's Tropical Paradise
Richard J. Tobin and Dean Higuchi
8. Dealing with Scarcity: Land Use and Planning
David L. Callies
9. The Politics of Housing in Hawai'i
Kem Lowry
10. Planning for Rapid Transit on Oahu: Another Great Planning Disaster?
Karl E. Kim
11. Tourism in Hawai'i: Economic Issues for the 1990s and Beyond
James Mak and Marcia Sakai
12. Crime and Justice in Hawai'i
A. Didrick Castberg
13. Education in Hawai'i: Balancing Equity and Progress
Thomas W. Bean and Jan Zulich
14. Hawai'i Labor: The Social Relations of Production
Edward D. Beechert
15. Kupa'a Aina: Native Hawaiian Nationalism in Hawai'i
Haunani-Kay Trask
Contributors
Index