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Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs: Historical Perspectives on Risk Management
(Springer, 1980)Risk is a people problem, and people have been contending with it for a very long time indeed. I extract some lessons from this historical record and explore their implications for current and future practice of risk ... -
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 1991)Why do governments so often fail to adopt policies which economists consider to be efficiency-enhancing? Our answer to this question relies on uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses from reform. We ... -
Motor Voter or Motivated Voter?
(New Prospect, Inc., 1996)The Motor Voter law was supposed to dramatically increase turnout and give marginalized groups more voice in politics. Unfortunately, getting these groups to register doesn't do any good if you don't give them reason to vote. -
The Nuclear Weapons Complexes: Meeting the Conversion Challenge -- A Proposal for Expanded Action
(Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council., 1997)Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have undertaken a serious effort to convert their nuclear complexes to non-weapons work. However, it has been difficult to achieve significant progress toward ... -
The process of discovery
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Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966
(University of Chicago Press, 2000) -
A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
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Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
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Voters in the Crosshairs
(The American Prospect, 2001)New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate. -
The Power of Story in Social Movements
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Information as Influence: How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Scientific Assessments on Global Environmental Affairs
(John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University., 2002)The recognition that information matters in world affairs raises a number of questions as to when, how, and under what conditions it influences the behavior of policy actors. Despite the vast and growing array of institutions ... -
Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Seven Steps for Immediate Action
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Islamic Culture and Democracy: Testing the 'Clash of Civilizations' Thesis
(Brill, 2002-12-01)In seeking to understand the root causes of the events of 9/11 many accounts have turned to Samuel P; Huntington's provocative and controversial thesis of a 'clash of civilizations', arousing strong debate. Evidence from ... -
Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries: Linking Research, Assessment and Decision Making
(2003)The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical information to decision making. Managing boundaries between disciplines, across scales of geography ... -
The Economics of Reprocessing vs. Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
(2003)This report assesses the economics of reprocessing versus direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The breakeven uranium price at which reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from existing light-water reactors (LWRs) and recycling ... -
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A Progress Update
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Nuclear Threat Initiative., 2003)