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18 Pol'y Persp. 4 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/plyps18 and id is 1 raw text is: 1.4079/pp.vl8io.9350 Editors' Note As Volume 18 of Policy Perspectives goes to print, a government shutdown re- mains imminent, workers in Japan fire feverishly to rebuild its North Coast and avert a full-on nuclear catastrophe, and American fighter jets scream over Libya as unrest sweeps through North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Crises like these will always steal much of our attention, and rightly so. But they do not replace the myriad policy issues that confront us. While we can't always control the dynamic, even capricious, nature of our national political agenda, we can always strive to deepen our knowledge of every issue that we know will shape our future. And that's the credo of the new Policy Perspectives: a commitment to expand our knowledge on issues of national importance. This year's staff is committed to de- veloping and promoting new ideas, and to examining more carefully the ones that have been around for years - the ones that have been bounced from wall to wall in the pinball machine that is the policy-making process. Policy Perspectives represents a commit- ment to do what we can as students, as academics, as leaders, and above all as concerned human beings to produce the best outcomes given problems we are loath to ignore. This volume marks our attempt to fulfill that commitment. The diverse collec- tion of articles show our commitment to breadth, as it follows policy issues both near and far. The articles commit to analytical depth, as they highlight some of the best re- search and analysis in the fields of public administration and public policy. And the authors commit to an intellectual candor - never shying away from an unpopular topic or conclusion. In addition, this year's journal comes out with a bold new look. Having under- gone a much-needed makeover, the journal better embodies the power and importance of the analysis that fills its new and larger pages. Form and function - as well as compel- ling, critical research - work in tandem to bring the sexy back to public policy. Volume 18 boasts six articles, four book reviews and, honoring an old journal tradition, an interview for the first time in four years. Kanika Metre's article, Using Mobile Banking Services to Improve Financial Access for the Poor: Lessons from Kenya, the Philippines, the United States, Haiti, and India pulls from case studies from countries all over the world to discuss how the pri- vate, public, and non-profit sectors can work together using mobile banking to meet the financial services needs of the poor. Nicole D. Rodriguez's The Asian Carp Threat to the Great Lakes: An Analy- sis ofAlternatives for Preventing Asian Carp Migration tackles a fishy problem that the US cannot take for granted. She evaluates three policy options to prevent the spread of Asian carp throughout US waterways before they destroy the Great Lakes.

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