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About the New England Journal of Public Policy
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The New England Journal of Public Policy is a semiannual publication of the John W. McCormack
Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston. It offers policy analysts,
academics, and the press in New England, the nation, and the world an arena in which they can
define problems and develop approaches to solving them.
The New England Journal of Public Policy, in its twentieth year, welcomes contributions from
scholars, policymakers, advocates, and professionals in a multitude of fields. Some share the
results of their research in a wide range of subjects; others recount firsthand experiences.
All furnish enlightening and provocative analyses of significant policy issues that affect
entire populations. Further, the journal surveys the relationship of values and culture and
examines the symbiosis between the two in the light of public policy.
One issue each year explores a single topic; for example, "AIDS" (Vol. 4, No. 1, 1988, 525
pages); "Homelessness: New England and Beyond" (Vol. 8, No. 1, 1992, 811 pages); "Whither
Education Reform?" (Vol. 13, No. 1, 1997, 208 pages). The other embraces a variety of topics,
among them articles that consider policy from a geographic and demographic perspective.
Padraig O'Malley, editor of the journal and a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School,
introduces each publication in his Editor's Note. In the following citation from the special
issue "Workforce Development," O'Malley expresses the significance of maintaining an accessible
and open forum for debate on the profound policy issues that determine the present and future
states of the region and the global community: "Our task is to find ways to encourage the
creative while minimizing its destructive impact, all the time aware that we fail as a society,
as a nation of societies, if we lose sight of the fact that the maximization of human worth is
the sine qua non of existence."
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