Public response to 9/11 in politics

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The politics of public health: a response to Epstein.

Conservatives are taking aim at the field of public health, targeting its efforts to understand and control environmental and social causes of disease. Richard Epstein and others contend that these efforts in fact undermine people's health and well-being by eroding people's incentives to create economic value. Public health, they argue, should stick to its traditional task--the struggle against...

politics matters: a response to recent commentaries

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

Complexity, Politics and Public Policy

This paper explores the meaning and role of emerging insights from the sciences of complexity in the study of politics and public policy. Considerable attention is devoted to the relevance of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to understanding important phenomena in politics and the realm of public policy. While traditional approaches to the study of these areas are not without merit, an understand...