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Best paper, PAQ 2022

Congratulations to Barbara Patrick and Aaron C. Rollins on the selection of their paper, "Delivering Culturally Competent and Equitable Police Services Via Social Media: Assessing Two Way Dialogue between Police Agencies and Vulnerable Citizens" as the best paper published by PAQ in 2022. We are pleased to make this scholarship freely available here.

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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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PAQ Articles

Understanding Local Control in the Wake of State Adult-Use Cannabis Liberalization: A Content Analysis of State Statutes

Jeffrey Moyer & Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz
PAQ, Vol. 47 No. 3, 284-299 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.47.3.3

Much has been written about the unique Federalist aspects of cannabis legalization. However, there has been comparatively little published literature about evolving state-local relationships regarding the cannabis industry. In this paper, we examine the state-local relationship and ask: To what extent do local governments control the production, distribution, or use of recreational cannabis under the state statutes? Did state statutes empower or restrict local governments? How much variation exists among states? This study used content analysis of state statutes with an inductive approach to answer these questions. Our results in this paper speak both to the diversity in state structure related to local governments and the newer models of the local governmental role that have spread in recent decades. Some states empowered local voters and governments to decide the time, place, and manner of recreational cannabis, while other states with more centralized functions have instead chosen to empower state agencies with the exclusive authority to license and regulate legal cannabis market participants.

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