... policy mechanisms whose effect (whether explicitly intended or not) is to reduce the attention paid to a given problem, resulting in public inaction, not taking charge of a problem. It highlights the role in those dynamics of two factors: the scientific instruments attempting to quantify environmental...

...Magdalena Małecka Abstract The article introduces the concept of the imaginary of behavioral governing to capture the view on the role of behavioral research in governing behavior that is widely shared in the academic and public discussions about behavioral policy (nudging), including the recent...

... and generates trust by appealing to, and strengthening ties with, elite academic and policy actors. Ultimately, the article shows how scientific ideals and practices adopted by state actors are cast as democracy enhancing even as they produce elite closure and limit public participation. [email protected]...

...Robert B. Horwitz Reinhold Niebuhr, the liberal Protestant theologian, occupied a prominent position in American public life during the middle decades of the twentieth century. A pillar of the post – World War II establishment, Niebuhr lent religious legitimation to American foreign policy during...

... discourses of newborn screening advocacy. Drawing on public records from newborn screening policy hearings and secondarily on our own ethnographic data, we examine how parent advocacy narratives were carefully crafted in an attempt to produce an emotional response in policy makers. We argue that lifesaving...

...Sylvie Tissot Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the “integral veil” (or niqab , an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why...

...JC2 project:rendition was an art collaboration that investigated recent American military policies hidden from public view. The project was produced by JC 2 , a collective comprising the artists Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Carrie Moyer, and Carrie Yamaoka. 2010...

...—Crisis Early warning and Monitoring System file, box 1, DARPA DSOSSD 330-83-0138, Crisis Management Program Files, RG 330, National Archives II, College Park, MD. 5. International Public Policy Research Corporation, “R&D Status Report, 1 October 1980–31 December 1980,” 1. Technical Reports...

... Wall Street and all the rest. Tahrir Square? You bet. The Future problem I find in this appeal to “agency” is that it inadequately recognizes that, to be successful, local movements must change public policy. Doing so means paying attention to who decides public policy. The issue is not whether...

..., crisis of the shortage of medical and paramedical staff in public hospitals. . . . More fundamentally, this accumulation of crises in various parts of the healthcare system has revealed a paradigmatic crisis in our entire healthcare system, which has been further aggravated by austerity policies...

.... Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1973 . The social contract; and discourses , translated by G. D. H. Cole. London:Everyman's Library. Silvers, Anita. 1998 . Formal justice. In Disability, difference, discrimination: Perspectives on justice in bioethics and public policy , by Anita Silvers, David Wasserman...

..., on the relationship between extant and emerging social movements, on the cultural consequences of new energy projects and public policies, and on the thorny questions of whose vulnerability and security will matter as cities, nations, and international agencies face up to the challenge of global warming...

.... Museum of Anthropology, 6393 N.W. Marine Dr., Vancouver, B.C., CanadaV6T 1W5. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Images of the Indian and the arts of contemporary na- tive peoples; art versus artifact; museum exhibitions and policies; South Asia. RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS: Museums...

... generations are being systematically unfunded and disman- tled. In other words, the inadequate government response stemmed not only from incompetence but from policy. Public Culture 18:2  doi 10.1215/08992363-2006-001 Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 2 5 7 Public...

... in American public debate. Cronon observed that conservatives rely on a large, well-­organized net- work of organizations in which the ostensibly separate practices of policy forma- tion, lobbying, and expert evaluation are closely interconnected...

..., prompted by the abortive March First independence movement of 1919. On post-1919 conditions of publication, see Michael Robinson, “Colonial Publication Policy and the Korean Nationalist Movement,” in The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945, ed. Ramon...

... Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan , 1949-1986 . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Dale , Peter 1987 The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness . New York St. Martin's Press. Dominguez , Virginia R. 1986 “The Marketing of Heritage,” American...

... on the intersection of design research and public policy. DAC: Your first major task has been to entirely review the master plan for São Paulo. What role has design played in shaping this plan? FMF: First, let me frame this question in a historical perspective. During the 1970s, in Brazil, we lived...

... of Chicago Press. Spergel , Irving . 1984. “Violent Gangs in Chicago: In Search of Social Policy.” Social Service Review ( June ): 199 -226. Wilson , William Julius . 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... . Santa Fe, N.M. : School of Advanced Research Press . Bradol Jean-Hervé . 2006 . A new approach towards malnutrition . Messages 141 ( July ): 1 – 5 . Clarke John . 2004 . Dissolving the public realm? The logics and limits of neoliberalism . Journal of Public Policy 33...