In the late 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted what the agency considered to be a "bold experiment" in…
Proponents argue that using technology to modernize the process of casting a ballot, especially the implementation of remote electronic…
John Rawls's "Law of Peoples" has come in for a good deal of critical discussion recently, and most political philosophers seem to find it…
Regulators need to rely on science to understand problems and predict the consequences of regulatory actions, but over-reliance on science…
This paper reviews lessons that can be learned from U.S. experiences with market-based environmental policies and from related research.…
At the end of WWII, U.S. occupation forces transformed Japan from an autocratic polity into a constitutional democracy. Part of the plan…
This paper employs experiments to examine the effects of social comparisons in ultimatum bargaining. We inform responders on the average…
When are decentralized public institutions most likely to succeed in promoting effective public good provision or the emergence of local…
Two central ideas in economic sociology are embeddedness and the social construction of economic institutions. Based on data from women’s…