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The article explores the history of the development of the highway system in Oregon and the career of Glenn Jackson, chairman of the Oregon Transportation Commission. Emphasis is given to topics such as Jackson's political leadership, the construction of a bridge over the Nestucca Estuary, and the need to increase tourism to Oregon's beaches. Other topics include the construction of a light rail system and the Glenn Jackson Bridge over the Columbia River.

The Ku Klux Klan, a racist, terrorist organization born after the Civil War, was rebooted following World War I. This resurgence was the high-water mark of classic White supremacy ideology in Oregon. By the end of the 1920s, the Klan's influence had died of self-inflicted wounds. The vehicles that would carry White supremacy activism into the next generations of Oregon life were inspired by international strains of anti-Jewish bigotry and competing claims of White Protestant religious destiny -- both conjoined with classic notions of nineteenth-century racism. The individuals, organizations, issues, and activities those forces introduced to Oregon culture and politics redefined what White supremacy ideology would look like in Oregon during the second half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the efforts by the government of Oregon to provide affordable housing and increased protection to tenants as of November 2019. Also cited are the approval by the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate of bills allowing middle housing and limit the maximum rent hikes per year, the amendment of the state's landlord tenant law, and the state's centralized land-use system.

The article examines the housing crisis in Oregon and the tools that can be used to solve the problem of lack of affordable housing in the state. Topics covered include role of the federal government in the housing market especially in sustaining the home-mortgage market, land-use planning system in Oregon under the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), evolution of housing conditions in Oregon since 1974 and policy and legal tools that can resolve the housing crisis.

Oregon Ballot Measure 97 was a contentious measure on the Oregon 2016 ballot that sought to raise taxes on corporations with sales over 25 million dollars within the state of Oregon. Predictably, there was a considerable amount of lobbying targeting elites and expansive campaigns targeting the public intending to promote or block the measure. Theoretically, this research applies the Narrative Policy Framework to describe these communications in terms of the active narratives within the discourse, assess their effect on the general public and their effect on the Measure 97 election outcome. Methodologically, we leverage qualitative interviews to describe the active narratives; next we assess the potential effects of those same narratives operationalized within a survey experiment administered to an online pool of census‐balanced respondents. We explore our findings through narrative congruence, character affect, and vote switching, as well as in light of the recent election results, where Measure 97 failed to pass. Our models are able to connect narrative effects, public opinion, and policy outcomes via the ballot measure process. We argue that while narrative has discernable effects, it is imperative that future scholarship also consider other factors when examining the role of policy narratives and policy outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) determined that greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) did not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2015, the agency recognized a coordinated effort of private landowners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and state and federal agencies that effectively reduced threats to the species. This effort exemplified an alternative model to species conservation that relies on voluntary conservation of private landowners to preclude government regulation. Through an in-depth case study of private landowner's voluntary sagegrouse conservation efforts in Lake County, Oregon, we explored features of these voluntary arrangements that motivate participating private landowners whose livelihoods depend on livestock production. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, we explored how private and public actors implemented sage-grouse conservation, landowner's production and conservation goals, and perceived foundations for participation. Qualitative analysis of interviews and documentation found that private landowner participation in voluntary arrangements was motivated by well-funded program offerings that were largely aligned with production goals and gave them a sense of control over their economic futures in the context of a potential ESA listing of sage-grouse. Subscription to these programs was largely facilitated by landowner and agency leadership operating as intermediaries. By aligning voluntary conservation offerings with economic and cultural contexts (e.g., using trusted intermediaries to deliver resources to landowners), voluntary arrangements may alleviate reliance on regulatory protections for species conservation where conservation and rural livelihoods intersect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the history of the abortion trials in Portland, Oregon with special attention to physician C.G. Glass, the role of women and sex, as well as district attorney John Manning. Other topics mentioned in this article include anti-abortion laws, the discussion about evolution and the start of life, as well as American Medical Association (AMA).

The article discusses the results of the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program in Oregon in relation to the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). Topics include the use of a lottery to enroll patients in the Medicaid program Oregon Health Plan Standard in relation to experimental design; the impact of the program on access to medical care and hospital use; and lack of change related to chronic disease risk, labor force participation, and use of social service programs.

Dorothy McCullough Lee, the first female mayor of Portland, Oregon, was elected to office in the midst of a post-World War II crime panic. Her career illuminates a key ideological shift that would later ground the rise of New Right women's politics. During the Progressive Era, women activists had advocated for social maternalism, which asserted that the state must care for its most vulnerable citizens materially as well as morally. In the postwar era, republican women would increasingly shift toward a new moral maternalism. Moral maternalism abandoned social welfare issues and focused instead on protecting America's most vulnerable citizens--women and children--from unsavory moral influences like communism and sexual immorality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the selection of politician Joseph Lane as actingpresident of United States in 1861 as a part of an attempt to spike 1860 national election by denying former president Abraham Lincoln's electoral college votes in New York. Topics include conflicts in the the northern and southern U.S., experiment of United States as a united nation, slave-labor in U.S., Embargo Act of 1807, abolitionist movement, resentment in the north towards Fugitive Slave laws, and American Civil War.

The article discusses the development of the postmodern municipal building Portland Public Services Building, or the Portland Building, in Portland, Oregon designed by the American architect Michael Graves in late 1970s and early 1980s. The role that Portland politics played in the development of the Portland Building, including in regard to the Portland municipal government's budget for the building, is discussed. The Portland building's alleged reflection of power, including architectural critics' perspective in this regard, is discussed. An overview of the Portland architect Edward C. Wundram in devising an architectural competition to build a Portland municipal building, including the Portland City Council's role in acting as judges, is provided.

The past two decades have seen an impressive expansion of municipal engagement with climate change. Yet while interest has broadened, actions remain shallow. This is in part because climate policies fit uneasily into existing bureaucratic structures and practices. Effective climate programmes require adaptive and innovative responses that span departmental divisions. This challenges siloised municipal offices that are embedded in their own organisational cultures and technical practices. Understanding those challenges is crucial to understanding urban responses to climate change, but they remain critically understudied. This paper helps to fill that gap by looking at the experiences of two cities, Durban (KZN, South Africa) and Portland (OR, USA) as they attempt to put in place integrated responses to climate change. To do so, it brings together complementary critical perspectives drawn from the study of bureaucracies and complex institutions in sociology and geography. This hybrid critical framework is used to elaborate on both the organisational barriers that inhibit effective responses to climate change, and approaches that can be used to enable change and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As deliberative forums proliferate, scholars and practitioners need to establish a shared evaluative framework grounded in a theoretical definition of deliberation, applicable across contexts, and capable of yielding results comprehensible to public officials and key stakeholders. We present such a framework and illustrate its utility by evaluating the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), a public event that serves as both a critical case study and an important practical innovation in its own right. Our analysis shows that the CIR met a reasonable standard for democratic deliberation, and we pinpoint CIR features that both aided and detracted from its overall quality. We also show how we summarized these results to communicate our evaluation efficiently to the Oregon State Legislature. We conclude by making recommendations for future applications of our theoretical model and evaluative framework and offer practical suggestions for future deliberative forums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A constant and largely unquestioned characteristic of contemporary studies of urban movements is their conception of the activist 'subject'- the reflective agent or 'doer' who participates in, and shapes, urban movements. Whereas it has become increasingly common in other scholarly research to regard the subject as a contingent, context-specific outcome or creation, studies of urban movements have not been swayed. The latter, even as they proceed to conceptualize more and more of the urban scene in terms of malleable 'processes' rather than inert 'structures', have continued to regard the makeup of the activist subject as universal and invariable. This article, in contrast, proposes and explores a different approach. Through a review of the recent urban movements literature, a focused consideration of potentially complementary literatures, and a demonstrative case study, this article aims to show that it is possible and indeed worthwhile to examine how political subjects are contingently remade both prior to, and through, their active participation in contentious urban politics. The remaking of political subjects, it concludes, is often central to the formation and achievements of urban movements. Devoting increased attention to this process - alongside other, already-recognized political processes - could, therefore, promote a richer, more complex understanding of activism and the ever-changing city. Résumé Les études contemporaines sur les mouvements urbains partagent une caractéristique rarement remise en cause, à savoir leur conception du 'sujet' militant, individu agissant ou agent réfléchi qui participe à ces mouvements et les façonne. Alors que les autres domaines de recherches considèrent de plus en plus souvent le sujet comme un produit ou une création contingente propre au contexte, les études sur les mouvements urbains ont échappéà cette tendance. Même si elles se sont mises à conceptualiser la scène urbaine en termes de 'processus' malléables plus largement qu'en termes de 'structures' inertes, elles ont continuéà considérer le profil du sujet militant comme universel et invariable. Une approche différente est proposée et analysée ici. En examinant la littérature récente sur les mouvements urbains, ainsi que les publications susceptibles de les compléter et une étude de cas probante, cet article montre qu'il est possible, et assurément utile, d'étudier comment les sujets politiques sont recomposés en fonction des situations, à la fois avant et grâce à leur participation active à une politique urbaine controversée. En conclusion, la recomposition des sujets politiques est souvent essentielle à la formation et aux réussites des mouvements urbains. Accorder une attention accrue à ce processus - parallèlement à d'autres processus politiques déjà reconnus - pourrait donc favoriser une conception plus riche et plus complexe de l'activisme et de la ville en constante évolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the regional indicators of measuring civic governance and civic infrastructure, including the role that communities play in civic governance. Particular focus is given to what is referred to as the New Civic Index, which includes components of civic engagement, inclusiveness, leadership, participation, community vision, diversity and networking, to measure civic governance in Portland, Oregon. The role that the Greater Portland Pulse (GPP) project plays in promoting Portland civic infrastructure is discussed.

While there are many empirical studies examining the effectiveness of smart growth policies, few of them study the perspective of developers, the major urban space producers in US cities. This article assesses the impacts of smart growth policies on home developers in the Portland bi-state metropolitan area by developing home developer location choice models. The study shows that home developers in the region are sensitive to most smart growth policies being implemented in the region, but they react to them differently across the border between Oregon and Washington due to their different land use planning systems. The findings suggest that smart growth policies impact single- and multifamily home developers’ location choices differently and that home developers exhibit strong spatial inertia in their location choice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction is presented to a special issue on women and citizenship in Oregon state history, noting issue articles on topics including first wave feminist Frances Fuller Victor, physician and suffragist Mary Thompson, and the role of women in the Portland, Oregon Jewish Council.

The article explores the history of citizenship among women in Oregon. Laws regarding the property rights of women and their economic status are discussed and connections between gender and race in relation to citizenship throughout Oregon's history are examined. Debates involving women's suffrage, a rise in political activism among women, and efforts to elect women to political office are discussed. The election of all-female city councils, the perpetuation of gender stereotypes and expectations, and the participation of women in progressive reform movements are also explored.

The article introduces a series of articles concerning democracy in 20th century Oregon, including one by Cheryl Gunselmen concerning the life of Oregon state librarian Cornelia Marvin Pierce, one by Kimberly Jensen about women and citizenship in Oregon state history, and another by Robert R. McCoy about Oregon politician Walter Pierce.

The article considers the neighborhood association system in Portland, Oregon, focusing particularly on the findings of the 2005 review of the thirty-five year system. The resulting five-year plan generated from the review focuses on encouraging political participation among the city's minorities and new immigrants. The article also considers subjects including the origins on the neighborhood association system, the City of Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement, volunteerism, community projects, land use issues, and programs designed to teach skills in civic leadership.

The article discusses the development of Oregon's minimum wage law, based on the information provided by Caroline Gleason, an undercover investigator for the Consumer's League of Oregon. A profile of Gleason is provided which explores her educational experiences, religious beliefs, and personal influences. Gleason's experience with the Catholic Women's League (CWL), which provided services to female workers in Portland, Oregon, is examined and her experience with social work and the Catholic church are also explored.

The article introduces a series of articles about the political history of the State of Oregon as part of a sesquicentennial series sponsored by the publication, with particular focus given to issues faced by urban and rural communities within the state. An essay about the legacy of town and country in Oregon by William G. Robbins, one tracing the development of cities in Oregon by Carl Abbott, and one about the creation of the minimum wage law in Oregon by Janice Dilg are discussed.

This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing in metropolitan areas around the United States. In this article, we evaluate the product of the concept-planning process from the standpoint of the extent to which environmental elements conducive to active living were included. We also analyze four issues in which challenges to the incorporation of active-living features surfaced: choices related to transportation facilities, the design and location of retail stores, the location of schools and parks, and the location of a new town center. Overall, the Damascus/Boring Concept Plan positions the area well to promote active living. Analyses of the challenges that emerged yielded lessons for advocates regarding ways to deal with conflicts between facilitating active living and local economic development and related tax-base concerns and between active-living elements and school-district planning autonomy as well as the need for advocates to have the capacity to present alternatives to the usual financial and design approaches taken by private- and public-sector investors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An individual's rate-of-time-preference is an important consideration for individuals deciding whether to support a public good, since the benefits of a public good often come in the future. Our study finds individual discount rates from a contingent valuation method (CVM) question where the time frame of the payment schedule is varied across surveys. We find discount rates similar to the rates found in the recent revealed preference and experimental literature of around 30%. Our CVM question addresses the preservation of additional open space adjacent to a large regional park at the urban fringe of Portland, Oregon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Oregon planning program in the U.S. According to the author, Measure 37 is now part and parcel of the program and as a political matter it is not likely to be exercised completely. He added that the program seeks to provide a participatory, coherent and enforceable planning policy applicable to all nonfederal lands in the state. Meanwhile, Measure 37 is an amendment to the program and it operates so that if a parcel of land has been in the hands of a family member before a particular land use regulation is enacted, the current owner may bring a monetary claim against the public body that imposed the land use regulation.

Proponents of all-mail elections argue that this type of election facilitates participation such that elevated levels of turnout occur. The research tests this assumption by analyzing 48 statewide elections from the state of Oregon. This analysis suggests that the all-mail format is a major stimulus to voter participation, second only to the impact of a presidential contest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the benefits of strategic planning and the use of the concept in the state of Oregon. How the process helps a state adjust to a major economic and social transformation; Aspects about policy makers including university faculty and students in the process which will bring new ideas to public debate.